At Plum Natural Nail & Skin Spa, clients are liberated from their tweezers and razors by a variety of long-lasting hair removal services. Estheticians use professional-grade hard and soft wax to refine looks with arched brows, prepare bodies for bikinis, or wipe out ingrown underarm hair.

You also won't find dust flying off acrylics as a nail tech shapes them with a manicure drill, or catch a whiff of acetone evaporating into the air from open bottles of polish remover. Plum's technicians work with a carefully selected toolbox of organic and all-natural products free of parabens and phthalates, and they take care to minimize exposure to necessary chemicals.

Those products include Zoya's vegan polishes and Bella Lucce's small-batch body scrubs. Their equipment is subject to scrupulous hygiene practices—pedicure tubs are pipeless to make sure bacteria have nowhere to hide, tools that aren't disposable are sanitized in medical-grade autoclaves, and special acetone pumps prohibit evaporation. Thanks to these precautions, clients can clear their minds and relax by watching a movie on the flat-screen TV, surfing the free Wi-Fi, or simply sinking into the shiatsu massage chairs, never to be seen again.