Charleston Spas to Refresh Your Mind and Body

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Feeling stressed in your day-to-day routine? Muscles tightening up to the point where you feel “locked up” in certain positions? Wish to simply do nothing and get treated like a Queen (or King) for a long period of time?

Sometimes you just want to scream: “I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!”

We know how it feels. You mustn’t let yourself get to the point where the pain is unbearable. There’s something you can do to “reset” your body and mind: visit the spa. If you’re in the Charleston area, here are the places you need to check out:

 

Earthling Day Spa

Located in Downtown Charleston, Earthling Day Spa offers massage therapy, facials, manicures, pedicures, waxing, and wedding packages. To make this place even better, reviews report you get tea, snacks, and everything else required (a robe, soap, towels, etc.) to bathe before and after a massage.

Sweet185

Sweet185 is a sugaring studio and organic boutique. Their website offers many esthetic services, like natural hair removal, facials, and body treatments. They compliment each treatment with sea sponges and other natural skin-care products, so you can enjoy nature’s organically grown gifts during your treatment.

Urban Nirvana

Urban Nirvana is a small, but very relaxing, day spa and salon with Asian-inspired decor. The moment you walk in the door, you will get a warm welcoming. During your treatment, you will likely receive more than you came for. Reviews tell stories of how they received extra tips and advice for their health during treatment. This doesn’t surprise us considering their blog is very active and full of helpful health suggestions and tricks.

Seeking Indigo

Seeking Indigo is a wellness center and urban oasis that invites you to explore, heal, and awaken yourself. You can connect with local vendors, businesses, and artisans; you’ll also find Charleston’s treasures, art, food, and more here. Healing treatments and routines include Pilates, yoga, detoxing, and massaging. Experience meditation, workshops, and more when you visit Seeking Indigo.

The Spa at Belmond Charleston Place

Even though Belmond is primarily a hotel, it offers all the benefits of a day spa. Guests can walk in and use the spa services without booking a room. The Spa at Belmond offers deep tissue massages of all types — including Swedish, deep tissue, and warm stone. Belmond also offers skin care nourishments, like oxygen treatments, facials, and detoxifications.

Take Care in Charleston

Even though the world can be a stressful place, you can find comfort and peace in Charleston. The day spas here provide a place for you to unwind, so you can settle down and enjoy the moment.

Take a spa break in Charleston. You deserve it. What’s your favorite place to relax and recharge in the city?

Top 5 Spas in Charleston

Charleston SpasIf you’re in Charleston for a consultation or breast reconstruction surgery, we recommend the following spas for a bit of pampering or relaxation.

The Spa at Charleston Place

With its beautiful views and airy rooms, The Spa at Charleston Place is one of our favorites. The massage therapy options themselves are incredible: Swedish, deep tissue, warm stone, reflexology, and Moroccan oil. Skin care treatments include a decadent 24-karat gold facial and a diamond facial. Peppermint rosemary body scrubs, spa manis and pedis, and yin and yang classes are only a few of the dozens of possibilities for pampering.

Treatments for men and children are available, and if you stay at the hotel, you have use of the state-of-the-art health club with salt-water pool and Jacuzzi.

Stella Nova

Stella Nova takes facials to the next level with their Rx Infusion facial, which provides results fast with medical-grade ingredients that reduce rosacea and fine lines. This facial includes a penetrating serum and soothing mask. The Micro Mini Peel helps combat aging and firms the skin, while the Purifying Complexion facial reduces blemishes and deep cleans pores. The Cure Carboxi-Express and O2 Awakening infuse pores with oxygen to detoxify the skin.

Full-body treatments include a head-to-toe massage and salt scrub, a lavender-scented body wrap, African Red Tea Body Cocktail, and a sweet, luxurious sugar scrub. If you’re visiting with friends, book the VIP Spa Suite to enjoy the butler service and choice of delicious food and drink while you’re being pampered.

Simply Your Spa

An intimate day spa and yoga studio, Simply Your Spa offers a variety of packages that give you the best of the best in spa services. The Simply Your Sampler includes a Swedish massage, Quick Results Facial, Express Manicure, and Express Pedicure. For the ultimate in spa, The Pleasure Seeker Package offers a Swedish massage, Herbology Body Treatment, Simply Your Signature Facial, and Sea Spa Manicure and Pedicure. The Ultimate Feet Treat Package pampers your feet with a shea butter reflexology foot massage, followed by a Sea Spa Pedicure.

Simply Your Spa also offers lash and brow tinting, spray tan, and yoga and Zumba classes, as well as professional skin care, makeup, and doggie bath products for sale. Men’s and couples’ packages are available, and Simply Your Spa caters to brides, grooms, and groups.

Urban Nirvana

With an invitation to come into your own, Urban Nirvana is a day spa with a difference: their treatments use luxurious products rarely seen anywhere else. In addition to prenatal and hot stone massages, they offer a spectacular hand and foot massage, a scalp and full-body massage with citrus extracts, a paraffin massage, a warm rubdown, and an aromatherapy massage with your choice of intoxicating scents such as oolong and mandarin.

Urban Nirvana’s reclined-seating hydrotherapy tub and seven-head Vichy Shower offer unsurpassed luxury and relaxation. Body treatments such as a seaweed detox, a coffee body mask, and cocoa shea-butter wrap are treats for the body, mind, and soul. A full-service salon provides hair care and waxing by seasoned professionals.

Seeking Indigo

Integrating holistic wellness and lifestyle, Seeking Indigo has a yoga studio, Pilates center, organic café, and detox center that offer biofeedback, yoga, massage, organic facials, and Ayurvedic treatments. In addition to reiki and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, the spa has unique treatments not seen anywhere else. The Charleston Hyperbaric Chamber delivers oxygen to the body at the cellular level and allows the body to heal itself. Seeking Indigo’s far infrared sauna heats you from the inside out, reducing blood pressure and detoxifying the body.

The spa also offers fashion from local designers ranging from vintage to modern, jewelry of all types, books, music, art, and exotic treasures for sale.

Which spas appeal to you, and why?