Inaccessible to the hands, back musculature often falls prey to freeloading "kick me" signs and hitchhiking parrots. Liberate a beleaguered back with today's Groupon: for $49, you get your choice of a Dead Sea salt scrub or dual-action body brushing plus a warm essential-oil massage at Monique's Skin Care Center in Poway (a $156 value).
Monique's Skin Care Center houses soothing services conducted with an abundance of professional products from Sothy's French line, Epicuren, and Dermalogica. During the 25-minute scrub, salt siphoned from legendary waters exfoliates exteriors, revealing a luminous scroll of underskin that is then rinsed, swaddled in terry cloth, and ferried away for the massage. The dual-action dry brushes help circulation while facilitating a thorough, bristly exfoliation.
The relaxing, 30-minute body massage turns epidermal deserts into lush oases as a stress-plundering plume of scents such as lavender, patchouli, and sage perfume the air, wafting away worries more efficiently than shots of chamomile concentrate.
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The Groupon Guide to: Custom Bear Build-'em-Ups
Due to modern advances in prosthetics and adorability, a new service has arisen to offer custom plush animal companions imbued with the creativity of their designer. There are a number of perks to creating your own custom child-companion, which could be made by a number of companies (Custom Bear Build-'em-Ups, Cuddle-Craft Plush Farm, Fuzzy-Hut Friend Factory), rather than purchasing an "off the rack" bear from a traditional bear store:
- Customized stuffings range from the more affordable sawdust and hay to the pricier-but-worth-it lint from celebrity dryers.
- Expressive lifelike eyes come in blue, hazel, or secret-camera.
- Allows your children to play god by mismatching different animal heads and bodies at the patent-pending Abomination Station®.
- Little known fact—Disney has never sued anyone for infringing on its copyrighted characters.
- Does your teen think he's too tough for a teddy bear? Well, what about one that's holding a football?
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