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Imagine walking tall and straight, being slim and agile, having silky hair, and skin natural and glowing. Sounds like you’ve undergone an extreme makeover at the cosmetic surgery, but no, this can all be achieved in just a few trips to one of Thailand’s rejuvenating spas.

The potential benefits to your health from holistic spa therapy are immense. The ingenious combination of natural ingredients and specific treatments can dramatically improve vow body. 

There are remedies that replenish skin and hair, ease strain or pains in J the muscles, joints, bones,-and correct bad posture. There are &ous therapies that will clear your head and make you more alert, cleanse your stomach and help you shed some weight. Restoring your energy flow, spa therapies will make you look and feel younger.

A visit to a Thai spa can even help you to kick those addictive habits, like smoking and drinking alcohol, which are gradually ruining your health. After ridding the body of  toxins, look in the mirror and you won’t recognise the wholesome, fresh faced individual that you’ve become.

Essential Ingredients

Coconut, lime, pumpkin, papaya, and cucumber, flavoured with a hint of rosemary, mint, turmeric and ginger, all washed down with coffee and milk. Sounds like an exotic recipe to create some gastronomic delight, but these are actually just a handful of the abundant natural resources utilised in the health elixirs served up in Thai spas.

Whether ingested, applied to the skin or inhaled, these magical natural ingredients, which provide us with proteins, nutrients, vitamins and minerals, are the perfect menu for healthy living. Formulas gathered through tradition and modem expertise, their individual properties are known to benefit the body and mind in numerous ways. Certain ingredients are indigenous to the area and enhance the uniqueness of the Thai spa sensation.

Used in aromatherapy massage, steam baths, and skin care, therapeutic essential oils are extracted from natural sources like flowers, seeds, roots, grasses, nuts, and herbs. The medicinal effects are varied. For example, lemon grass aids breathing, while lavender relaxes and is useful against insomnia.

There is a growing trend for Thai spas to package their own line of spa products, incorporating the best local ingredients, for you to pamper yourself with inside the comfort of your own home.