Pleasure and life quality, esthetics and health. Those concepts are becoming increasingly entrenched in today’s society. And in order to meet demanding customers’ needs, spas are popping up everywhere under the sun.

A number of ancestral, naturist and cosmetic techniques aimed at achieving mental and physical health have been retaken under new concepts and ways of using spas.

If you travel to the Mexican Caribbean to enjoy a few days at a spa, or just to make use of a spa at the hotel you’re staying in, we suggest you to devote a whole day to it. If you’re looking for something else, there are lodging plans cut out for de-intoxication and stress relief, coupled with all-out dietary plans, meditation and, of course, the most sophisticated spa treatments, workouts and all-inclusive programs to breathe new life into you and make you get your moxie back.

TEMAZCAL MOISTENING TREATMENTS: Technique applied by the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations that consists of a kind of steam sauna. The steam stems from the pouring of plant infusions over hot rocks and scrubbing the body gently with aromatic and medicinal herbs.

SAUNA AND STEAM: Used to make sweat ooze out, activate the blood torrent and de-intoxicate.

TALASOTHERAPY: Immersion in water, oils, algae and marine salts at high temps.

FLOATING: Rare technique consisting of floating in saltwater at body temperature.

BODY WRAPPINGS: Used to slim down, exfoliate, nurture and de-intoxicate body skin based on the following natural resources: Exfoliating agents: Based on the use of mineral salts, essential oils and algae to scrub the body with in a bid to scrape all dead cells and toxics off the skin, tune up and improve blood torrents, as well as skin oxygenation.

Paraffin wax: Used to smoothen the skin as customers are wrapped in lukewarm paraffin wax.

Mud: Used to de-intoxicate, relax and stimulate blood torrents by applying mineral-laden mud combined with oils and water. These services could be available in your hotel, yet you’re advised to find them at a specialized spa.

FACIAL WRAPPINGS: A version of the body wrappings applied on the face, adding such benefits as natural nutrition and hydration of the skin.

MASSAGES SHIATSU: It guarantees a rebalance of corporal energy. It’s a finger-pressing massage on specific points.

REDUCTIVE: Used to smoothen body fat. It’s very dynamic and is used as part of other treatments for slimming down.

THERAPEUTIC: Basically applied on the backbone area.

SWEDISH: The most common of all, applied with essential fruit and seed oils to relax muscles and drive strain off.

REFLEXOLOGY: Massage and energetic activation of feet and hands to soothe minor pains and aches, as well as to drive strain away.

VICHY: Massage using jet stream hoses to stimulate blood torrents. There are different types of massage available in all five-star hotels. Check in yours.

AROMATHERAPY: Applied in combination with any other treatment. Based on natural oils of leaves, flowers and fruits.

Some hotels offering spa services or specialized in a particular treatment are: Aventura & Spa Palace Riviera Maya Puerto Aventuras Copacabana Beach Resort Puerto Aventuras Playacar Palace Playacar Sandos Caracol Beach Resort & Spa Playa del Carmen Sunscape Puerto Aventuras Puerto Aventuras Xpu-Ha Palace Puerto Aventuras Casa Del Secreto Playa del Carmen Catalonia Riviera Maya Puerto Aventuras Club Maeva Tulum Resorts Puerto Aventuras Deseo Playa del Carmen Dreams Tulum Resort & Spa Tulum El Dorado Royale Playa del Carmen Gran Bahia Principe Akumal Akumal Gran Porto Real Playa del Carmen Grand Palladium Colonial Resort & Spa Akumal Hidden Beach Resort Akumal Iberostar Paraiso Beach Playa del Carmen

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