Mount Pleasant, SC Spa and Massage

The Great Escape Spa Therapy has tailored their menu of treatments to promote whole-body rejuvenation and relaxation. Therapists enhance their seven massage techniques with extras including aromatherapy or soaks in a scented bath, while aestheticians blend botanicals and exfoliating chemical peels in their hour-long facials.

Cloud 9 Spa Therapy promotes overall wellness with therapies that target skin-deep ailments as well as ingrained stress. The spa’s extensive list of services encompasses exfoliating body treatments, lash and brow tinting, and tension-relieving massages, such as Swedish or deep tissue—all of which are aided by hot stones and towels. They beautify faces with microcurrent technologies or custom facials that utilize Dermalogica skincare products; before you scheduling a facial, take advantage of a complimentary phone consultation that is as comforting as a parent who takes the time to attend all of your first dates. When they’re not pampering patrons, the staffers are leading spa education classes. There, they teach patrons how to make soap or body scrubs from salt, sugar, and ground-up Legos.

Rather than relying on a set menu of facial peels, masques, and extractions, licensed aesthetician and massage therapist Kelly Haver customizes her skin-conditioning treatments to each client’s particular skin type. She does this by blending Dermalogica and Éminence products, which cleanse faces without exposing them to strange chemicals or funny-smelling walnuts. She also performs integrative therapeutic massages, applying long effleurage strokes and deep percussive kneading to specific areas as needed.

A team of therapists at The Loft Spa at The Great Escape perform massage and bodywork in a contemporary, loft-like space, adorned with soft watercolors and polished wood floors. They customize each Swedish, deep-tissue, or hot-stone massage with essential oil aromatherapy in scents such as lavender, rosemary, or sweet orange. They also partner up to open pickle jars and perform side-by-side massages, employing Swedish kneading massage techniques that encourage friends or couples to sigh simultaneously.

As a teenager, Andrew Browder enjoyed playing soccer and wrestling—at least until he began to suffer pain in his knees and feet. He ended up in the office of an orthopedic surgeon, who didn't seem to understand his ailments and couldn't offer a solution. A decade passed before Andrew made his first appointment with a rolfing therapist. Almost immediately, the pain he had been feeling for years began to dissipate and his posture improved.

At his own rolfing practice, Andrew treats patients with the same techniques that did so much for his own health. During sessions, he manipulates the body's connective tissues, gently realigning joints with a focus on the entire body as opposed to the source of symptoms. Patients often visit because of one particular issue, such as an injury or posture thrown askew by a childhood spent sailing the high seas, but Andrew's treatments seek to restore all-around balance.

At Glitz-N-Glamour Eyelash Bar & Spa, the staff believes that cosmetic treatments not only have the power to beautify but also to relax. Clients can recline as aestheticians clear the pores with skincare products from Dermalogica, creating a clean palette for a decorative application of MAC cosmetics or a marker mustache. The team also applies eyelash extensions, meticulously grooms nails, and kneads weary muscles with a variety of massage modalities.