During the fall and winter seasons I find myself more often taking a warm bath with a cup of tea or hot chocolate. I guess I’m not the only one?
It’s a perfect way not only to relax but also to create a little spa night and pamper yourself with some great beauty treatments.
In this post I’ll share my best tips on how to create the perfect beauty spa night at home.
The amazing thing is – if you do a full body care routine at home regularly, you don’t even have to go to beauty salons that often!
You can do this full body routine all at once, or divide it into several spa nights.
By the way, the products recommended in this post also make great gifts for women who love spa nights as well.
P.S. All the beauty brands mentioned in this post are cruelty-free!
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What Is Needed For a Spa Night At Home
For a relaxing spa experience at home and a full body care routine you will need a few essential spa products.
But first pick a night during the week when you can give a couple of ours just for yourself, and put your phone and laptop aside.
What To Do During a Spa Night
In order to have the perfect spa night, it’s important to give attention to all your 5 senses that are taste, smell, touch, sight and hearing.
What are the things that will please each of our senses?
Taste: a cup of your favorite tea or a glass of wine
Smell: a scented natural soy wax candle or a diffuser
Sundari Amrus Scented Soy Wax Candle
Touch: a warm bath with a full body care routine. And of course, let’s not forget about a soft bath towel and a fluffy robe
Sight: candles, luxurious body care products, and a fresh rose (or even a bouquet!) will create a perfect visual
Hearing: put on some relaxing music.
I always look up for something on YouTube under “spa music” or “relaxing music”.
This will help you to relax and calm the mind.
Photo by Nico
Spa Night Essentials
Body Care:
- Take a bath. Pour into water some nice bath oil and wash your body with a body wash
- Exfoliate the skin with a gentle sugar body polish to remove dead skin cells
- Moisturize the skin with a deeply hydrating body lotion or cream.
REN Clean Skincare Moroccan Rose Otto Firming Creme Riche
If you love deliciously scented body care products, I have a perfect post for you: 20 Body Care Products That Smell Amazingly Good.
Facial Skincare:
Since it’s a spa night, lets do a full skincare routine with Japanese 7-step skin layering technique!
P.S. Koreans have even more skin layering steps! If you would like to learn about Korean 10 skin layering technique and other Korean skincare secrets, check my post 8 Korean Beauty Secrets for Smooth & Flawless Skin.
So when it comes to the skin layering technique, you don’t necessarily have to use Japanese or Korean skincare products.
You can actually use products from your favorite skincare brand.
The truth is that many skincare lines have enough products for efficient skincare layering, but we tend to use only a moisturizer and a serum.
Another mistake is mixing different brands’ products in your skincare routine because this prevents us from experiencing the full potential of one skincare line.
I will demonstrate how the skin layering technique should look like using the Organic Pharmacy skincare products as an example.
Skin Layering Steps:
- Use an oil-based cleanser to remove dirt and makeup
- Wash your face with a water-based cleanser to remove the remaining oil and dirt
- Mist onto face some toner to balance the skin’s PH
- Apply a serum
- Use a night cream or other night treatment
- Gently pat some eye cream on the eye contour
- Follow with a sleeping mask. Don’t rinse off. You will wake up to a super hydrated an smooth skin!
By the way, if you love sheet masks, you can use one as well after applying a serum. Place the mask on your face and leave it for 10-20 mins.
LuLuLun Japanese Face Mask Sheet Set
Beauty tip: after this intensely moisturizing skincare routine don’t forget to sleep on your back only, so that all these wonderful products are not left on your pillow!
Sleeping on your back also minimizes fine lines and wrinkles on your face. However, if it’s hard for you to sleep all night on your back then you should use a silk pillowcase.
Slip Silk 100 % Mulberry Silk Pillowcase
Silk absorbs much less moisture from your skin and hair, and it contains 18 amino acids to help your skin retain moisture!
Quality silk is so soft and smooth, that the friction to the skin and hair is the lowest in all fibers, which means no more waking up to creases on your face and brittle hair ends.
Photo by Karolina Grabowska
Lip Care:
For a proper lip spa you need a gentle lip scrub and nourishing lip balm.
It’s always best if they don’t contain any toxic ingredients, lie this lip care set which includes a sugar lip scrub and a lip balm.
If you want an extra lip treatment, use a collagen lip mask after exfoliating lips.
Soon Skincare Strawberry Lip Mask with Collagen
These hydrogel lip patches are soaked in ultra-hydrating serum with Aloe Vera, fruit extracts and hydrolyzed collagen!
Hand Care:
Did you know that the way your hands look shows your real age?
That’s why it’s very important to take proper care of your hands and to have a regular hand treatment routine.
After gently exfoliating the hands with an exfoliator, use this Patchology Warm Up “Perfect Ten” Self-Warming Hand & Cuticle Mask.
This mask locks in your natural body heat to allow the coconut-infused formula inside the gloves to better penetrate the skin.
This mask will rejuvenate chapped hands and soften cuticles.
Use a deeply hydrating hand cream everyday.
Try this organic age defying hand cream with vitamin C, or this hand cream with retinol.
By the way, if you would like to learn more hand care tips, I have a post just for you: 7-Step Moisturizing & Anti-Aging Hand Care Routine.
Photo by Monika C
Foot Care:
You can do this procedure after bath, or do the first part before bath, and the second – after bath.
Foot care requires exfoliation of dead cells and intensive hydration.
You can use this Margaret Dabbs Fabulous Feet Kit that includes Intensive Hydrating Foot Lotion, Hydrating Foot Soak, Intensive Treatment Foot Oil and Exfoliating Foot Mousse.
- First pump a small amount of Foot Soak into a bowl of warm water and soak the feet for 5-10 minutes. Use daily for tired, over dry skin or weekly as a luxury treatment
- Apply a small amount of Exfoliating Foot Mousse onto hands and rub over wet feet. Use lukewarm water to rinse the feet and wash away the mousse
- Apply a small amount of Intensive Hydrating Foot Lotion all over the feet. Foot lotion should be used daily after shower or bath
- Spray Intensive Treatment Foot Oil all over the feet and massage into the skin and nails.
Another great and luxurious foot care option is these Patchology PoshPeel PediCure cotton socks.
They are enriched with Glycolic, Salicylic, Lactic and Citric Acids, that lift away dead skin whilst replenishing moisture, leaving skin silky-soft and supple.
Don’t forget to use Intensive Hydrating Foot Lotion everyday after shower and you’ll have baby-soft feet!
Hair Care:
- First of all, apply some organic coconut oil on your hair, and brush your hair and scalp around a 100 times.
This will give a great massage to your scalp thus encouraging new hair growth and increasing blood flow to the hair follicles.
If you don’t have a good hair brush, this professional RAINCRY Restore hair brush features reinforced boar bristles to deeply penetrate to the root area.
The flexible, pneumatic cushion helps to enhance vitality by gently messaging your scalp.
2. Wash your hair with shampoo.
Always use hair care products without parabens, sulphates, phthalates and mineral oil.
3. Apply conditioner
4. Apply hair mask
5. After bath, use scalp serum and hair serum.
By the way, if you’re interested in natural, organic and anti-thinning hair care routine, I have a very helpful article for you: PURA D’OR Natural & Organic Hair Care Routine.
That’s it! Your spa night is complete.
Now you can wrap yourself in a fluffy robe and make yourself a cup of hot chocolate. You deserve it!
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