Spending a day at a spa is a tranquil experience surpassed only by swimming in a pool filled with mashed potatoes or having a hand model slap you to sleep. Soothe the spuds out of your ears with today's Groupon at Salon Montage in Spruce Grove. Choose between the following options:

• For $29, you get an Aveda hair-spa treatment (a $65 value).
• For $99, you get a day-spa package (a $210 value) that includes:
  • A champagne lunch
  • Manicure
  • Aqua therapy salt scrub
  • Plant perfecting peel
    
    

Salon Montage soothes scalps and enriches epidermises with a variety of customized cures for hair, skin, and faces. A one-hour Aveda botanical therapy session undoes damage from hair's past-life traumas and treats tresses to specialized shampooing and cranial kneading. Hair gets a lathering in pomegranate oil and scalps get exfoliated with wintergreen-derived salicylic acids during mollifying head massages. After a complimentary makeup touch-up, hot towels or masks cloak heads, buying locks time to absorb the treatment's oils and to practice tentacle imitations before blow-drying blasts them into rejuvenated shape.

The day-spa package primes bodies for public display with more than three hours of full-body treatments, plus palate-pleasing lunchtime fare of sushi rolls, a veggie wrap, or a turkey wrap paired with sparkling juice or champagne. Following a consultation and soak, a one-hour Montage manicure beautifies hands with a customized session for each client's digits, including a salt scrub, skin-softening mask, paraffin treatment, and smoothing from a miniature zamboni. A 90-minute soothing aqua therapy full-body salt scrub sloughs the body smooth with natural minerals and sea salts enhanced by a personalized, perfumed Aveda Pure-Fume steam shower. Faces are encouraged to shed their roughened exteriors during the plant perfecting peel, a 30 per cent glycolic formula that warms skin for 30 minutes, opening pores using instant exfoliation and liquid skeleton keys without redness or irritation.