The world's first day-spa owner invited clients to "experience the healing powers of this here tar pit," which was bad news for his clientele but invaluable for modern-day archaeologists. Preserve well-being without becoming permanently preserved with today's Groupon: for $40, you get a couple's hydrotherapy tub treatment (an $80 total value) at Spa Cantik and Salon on Devonshire Drive North.
Emboldened with amorous red walls, soft candlelight, and luxurious claw-foot tubs, Spa Cantik and Salon eases achy muscles into a variety of hydrotherapy treatments that indulge epidermises with milk, tea, mineral salts, and essential oils. Whole milk and honey go hand-in-hand with the couple's Mandi Susu bath. As an old-fashioned elixir for youthful radiance, this binary bath combines bee's nectar and oatmeal in an oil-free milk soak that froths around delicate bodies for 30 minutes before African forastero chocolate spice or island coconut is soothed into the skin during the post-bath moisturizing treatment. Simmer alongside your beloved in the Wasabi bath treatment and coo compulsively as organic ginger, mustard, and Epsom salts stimulate circulation, sweat glands, and loosen phlegm so you can better understand the sweet nothings or government secrets he or she has been whispering in their sleep.
Spa Cantik
Most businesses rest on a foundation of steel or concrete, but owner Karen Legendre founded Spa Cantik on a single word—a word she learned while traveling through Indonesia: Chant’ tik. Defined as ‘beautiful, lovely, enchanting,’ Spa Cantik doubly mirrors its definition. The luxurious spa is decorated in rich earth-toned colors, towering framed mirrors, and antique furniture. But the décor is not the only embodiment of Chan’ tik; traditional spa and salon services, such as haircuts, nail care, and facials, become VIP excursions in the hands of the attentive staff. And exotic treatments such as Javanese Lulur body treatments—once practiced in Indonesian palaces— and wasabi and organic ginger baths, share the essence of Chan’ tik with every guest.
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