After a medical diagnosis, most patients look for alternative treatments or therapy. But for other people looking at their growing old skin and body (especially for a woman), it would be disturbing and alarming seeing wrinkles on their face or their sagging skin. There are lot of beauty salons offering various beauty treatments that could be gross, wacky, scary and creating goose bumps skin treatment for other people. The term SPA or balneotherapy (spa town or bathing place), is related with water treatment.
Waterfall, Carolus SPA in Aachen, Germany
1) Cupping and Fire Cupping Therapy
Back Cupping treatment
Fire cupping, originates from China
Fire Cupping
after cupping treatment, red marks on the skin result
Cupping therapy used by ancient Chinese to detoxify and treat common colds, bronchitis and pneumonia and also treat the back, neck shoulder and other muscle aches.It involves cups made of plastic, glass or bamboo and create a vacuum on the patient’s skin.
2) LED Red Light Treatment
LED Red Light Treatment
Red Light treatment
Red light therapy can treat many kind of diseases, such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, neonatal jaundice, wounds, sleep disorders and psychiatric disorders.
3) Mud-Bath Treatment
Volcano mud bath spa
Mud bath for nerves and joints treatment
Mud bath therapy is a treatment for muscle aches, arthritis, rheumatism, detoxify your body and enhance your skin.
4) Bee Treatment
Propolis in beehive
Beehive propolis raw shaving
Bee Propolis is produced by bees to protect their beehives, a sticky wax-like substance, gathered from different flower nectar. The bee propolis are used in dermatology purposes such as skin regeneration, skin ulcers, open wounds and lesions, enhance immunity and protect the liver too.
Bee-sting Venom Therapy
bee sting therapy
Bee Venom for agile joints
The bee sting therapy used for treating M.S., arthritis, rheumatism, phlebitis (inflammation of veins, usually in the legs and arms and thrombosis or blood clots.
5) Cracked-heel Treatments
Cracked heels treatment
Cracked-heels or Callus Heels
Cracked-heel Treatment, soaking feet in water and oatmeal, then peel with pumice stone
Pumice stone
Heel fissures or commonly known as cracked heels or callus heel, are cause by xerosis or dry skin, which is a common problem, specially women who wears ‘open sandals”. The severe cracked-heels are painful. Some treatment used are oil with moisturizing cream and rub with pumice stone to remove the “dead skin”. Some soak their feet in water with oatmeal to soften the callus.
6) Dead Skin Treatment or Fish Treatment
Fish Foot SPA
Fish SPA (Garra Rufa and Guide for Fish foot spa
Live fish therapy is now popular among SPA centers, where the clients usually soak their feet in a pool full of small fish, or even sit underwater so every dead skin in your body will be “clean up”. Then you can feel the nibbling and sucking fish in your flesh.
7) Hot Stone Therapy
Hot Stone therapy
Hot Stone therapy
The stone massage therapy is used by professional therapist, where they perform a massage to your body and plcae the hot smooth and flat stones on key points of your body. Some therapist used volcanic rock.
Slow Life Treatments
Slow Life Treatment,Six Sense
The Six Sense Slow Life Treatment is a soothing massage techniques to reduce the cellulite appearance, relive muscle aches, back pains, muscle cramps, and treat nervous systems. It also helps obesity problem, slow bowel movement and patients with prostate cancer.
Shirodhara Ayurveda Oil Therapy
Shirodhara Ayurveda Therapy
Shirodhara oil ayurveda therapy treats stressful mind and soul
The Shirodhara treatment is a kind of Ayurveda medicine performed by pouring gently on the client’s forehead (called the “third eye) with liquid or oil. These kind of is beneficial for people with stress, migraine, falling hair and many more cases related to hair problem. Also beneficial for people with paralysis, in comma and balancing the hormones.
Udvartana Body Scrub and Massage
Udvartana body scrub massage
Udvartana Massage therapy
9) Leech Treatment
Leech Therapy facial treatment
Leech Therapy for Psoriasis treatment
This blood-sucking leech are now used to help patients with skin diseases, eye disease, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, migraines, and many more.
10) Snake Massage Therapy
Snake massage treatment in a SPA in Israel
Snake Massage therapy
11) Nightingale Poop Facial Treatment or Geisha treatment
Nightingale poop facial treatment
Nightingale excrement facial treatment
The bird’s poops is now a popular facial treatment not only in Japan (they call it Geisha facial treatment), but now very popular in many parts of the world.
12) Snail Facial Treatment
Snail massage therapy
Snail facial massage
13) Tomato Facial Treatment
Tomato and Oats, Blackhead treatment facial scrub
Tomato and Lime
Tomato Juice extract
The tomato and lime, prevents blackheads and beneficial for oily skin. It also cure acne, and creates a smooth, soothing and clean face after using tomato extracts.
Cucumber Eye bags treatment
Cucumber for eyes
Cucumber slices for eye-bag treatment
Cucumber treats eye bags and dark circled eyes.
Avocado Facial Treatment
Avocado and honey face masks, best for dry skin
avocado and yogurt face mask
Avocado facial mask
Green Tea Treatment for Acne
Green Tea treatment for acne
Green Tea
14) Red Wine Treatment
Red wine facial mask
Red wine bath therapy
Red Wine leaf therapy
Beer Bath Therapy
Beer Bath therapy
Beer Bath Therapy
15) Milk Bath Therapy
Milk bath therapy with honey and rose petals
Milk bath tub
Milk and honey, open pores treatment
16) Seaweed Treatment
Detoxifying Seaweed cellulite treatment
Seaweed facial treatment
17) Bull Semen Hair Treatment
Bull Semen Hair SPA
Bull semen hair treatment
Head Lice Treatment
Head lice on the head
Listerine mouthwash, use to fight head lice
Olive Oil have many health benefits, also remedy for head lice treatment
Mayonnaise
Head lice infestations are very disturbing especially on children, when they begin to scratch their scalps, and create wounds and if not attended head lice will continue to multiply and cause wound infection on scalp. I found these “remedies” by moms who tried the treatment. When you apply Listerine mouthwash on the head, leave it for two hours , wrap with towel and rinse and comb the hair. Same procedure with the olive oil and mayonnaise. Mayonnaise when massage on the scalp it eliminates dandruff and make your hair healthy.
18) 24-K Gold Facial Treatment
Gold Facial treatment
Gold facial treatment
19) Chocolate Facial Treatment
Chocolate facial for cell repair
Chocolate Facial mask to make younger skin
20) Vampire Face Lift
Vampire Face lift, injecting patient’s own blood to stay looking younger
Vampire treatment, acne, scars treatment with blood collagen
Vampire Facelift (before and after treatment), using own blood for rejuvenating aging
Vampire face lift procedure is extracting the patient’s blood and inject on facial parts as botox treatment, eleminating wrinkles and make the skin younger looking.
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