Skincare plays a key role in the animal kingdom: monkeys remove friends' nagging gnats, dogs lick their wounds, and polar bears recover their camouflage after eating cherry popsicles by bleaching their upper lips. Pay tribute to ubiquitous beauty techniques with today's Groupon to Oasis Hair and Skin Care. Choose between two options:

• For $39, you get $80 worth of skincare services.
• For $60, you get a 60-minute microdermabrasion treatment (a $125 value).

Under the soft canopy light of this eco-friendly salon, specialists service skin shells with a variety of rawhide-rejuvenating techniques. Sun-damaged Sandras or Stephans can find solace in Oasis's 70-minute vitamin-C facial, which aims to exfoliate and cleanse skin while coaxing lazy collagen from its life of darkness and deceitful video-game playing ($85). Skilled aestheticians banish baneful bacteria from façades during the 70-minute acne-clarifying facial, which uses high-frequency anti-bacterial treatments to establish derma's dominion over inflammatory invaders ($85).

If you want to zap the evidence of clock ticks without actually destroying your means of knowing when Seinfeld is on, opt for Oasis's microdermabrasion treatment. The 60-minute service employs powerful dry exfoliation to buff away fine lines, wrinkles, acne, enlarged pores, and a number of other pelt pests, and it may include a peel or mask if appropriate.

As a green-certified salon, Oasis boasts an entirely nontoxic salon environment in which pampering practitioners stand on a bamboo floor and utilize natural skin- and haircare products. Following treatments, many materials are composted, recycled, and retired to a life of peaceful maraca playing.

Reviews

Ten Yelpers give Oasis Hair and Skin Care a 4.5-star average:

• My skin was radiant !!! – beverly b., 1/10/11
• I'd never had a facial before and I did extensive research before deciding to trust Oasis with my precious epidermis. I'm glad I did. – Nancy W., 8/6/10