Category: Elmwood Spa Blog

Get the inside scoop on skin-care, makeup, fitness and nutrition tips from industry experts – all to get you feeling and looking younger and energized for spring!

Our Elmwood Spa Aestheticians recommend having regular facials—if not monthly, then at least every time the seasons change. More than just beauty treatments, facials involve deep cleansing, toning, exfoliation, steam and moisturizing. Here are her five top reasons why facials are a necessary part of your healthy skin routine.

Preparing food that both tastes good and is good for you is not a magic trick. A few simple meal planning and preparation tips will help you to produce healthy, delicious food that your family will love.

Jaki Scarcello, 59, had an intuition that her fifties was a significantly different time in her life, but she didn’t feel as if she had the tools or knowledge of how to deal with this transition. So she interviewed women between the ages of 45 to 102, whom she describes as having “sparkling eyes,” in five different countries, and captured what she learned from them in her book, Fifty& Fabulous! The Best Years of a Woman’s Life.

Serums are water-based products designed to penetrate deep into the skin. Every serum delivers a different result, and they’re designed with different skin types in mind.

Self-Care Tips
We asked Sue Langille, Manager of Massage Therapy at Elmwood Spa in Toronto, to look at some common computer related postures and provide some self-care tips. As some conditions may require specialized treatment, please be sure to ask your own massage therapist, physician or other health care provider whether these tips are appropriate for you.

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about spa hygiene
(but didn’t quite know how to ask)

Have you ever gone to a spa and wondered how safe it was for the aesthetician to be using those tweezers lying on the counter, but you didn’t want to step on her professional toes and ask?

Not sure whether to choose a Thai massage or a Siam treatment? Relax; your life just got simpler because the best of both worlds have been combined. The Royal Siam Massage, a regal spa treatment offers a full 105 minutes worth of table-based care for knotted limbs and stiff tendons. It features the energy-line bodywork of a Thai Massage combined with the stimulating heat of an herbal compress, body scrub, and Deep Siam pressure work.

From the mystic temples of Thailand, where the sweet smell of spices and herbs drift on warm breezes, to the wild reaches of the Australian Outback, where an Aboriginal population still follows a timeless culture, lies ancient knowledge of the healing power of the land and the elements; knowledge learned by the Spa Care Experts™ at Elmwood Spa and crafted into exclusive signature body treatments that promote the well-being of body, mind and spirit.

If you were to compare an ordinary glass of water with a glass of water from Elmwood Spa, the difference would be indiscernible. But the unseen qualities are what make our water so special. Water plays a huge role at Elmwood Spa; it is consumed, bathed in, cleansed with, and utilized during treatments. It is one of our defining features.

What are they, what do they do and why is it all so important? A flavonoid is a pigment in the skin that protects against oxidation and sunlight, such as ginko biloba, grapeseed extract, quecertin and rutin. You’ll also find plenty of flavonoids in tea (particularly the ElmLine teas), red wine, grapes, apples and onions, tomatoes, broccoli, apricots, oranges, pomegranates, cherries… and chocolate.

The nutritional value of the Açai berry is extraordinary. With twice the antioxidants of pomegranates and three times that of blueberries, loaded with vitamins and minerals and containing a healthy dose of Essential Fatty Acids, Omega 3,6 & 9, açai is being called the most nutritious fruit on earth.