Body Wraps - they make you slimmer!

Are you looking for an all-natural way to enhance and moisten your skin? Want to decrease excess water weight from your body in a matter of hours? Then a body wrap might be exactly what you are looking for. Originally a body wrap was a treatment where bandages or plastic wrap was tightly wrapped around the body to cause quick weight loss through vasodilatation.

These days a body wrap is more likely to be treatment where you're slathered with a body mask made of algae, seaweed, mud, clay, lotion or cream, depending on the treatment, then wrapped for 20 minutes to keep you warm. Later the product is rinsed off. The body wrap usually ends with application of lotion. This treatment is sometimes called a body cocoon or body mask.

How Are Body Wraps Performed?

• Undress, except for underwear and bra.
• Measurements will be taken in numerous spots on your body.
• The professional will wrap your body in bandages soaked in solution or oils.
• Your body will be squeezed together by tightly wrapped Ace bandages of cloths.
• Perform light exercise to release toxins from the body.
• Unwrap and rinse solution.
• Measurements will be retaken to reveal the amount of inches you've lost.
• Drink plenty of water before, during and after the wrap to help rid the body of toxins.

What are the Benefits of a Body Wrap?

Body wraps are all-natural, most often containing a mixture of herbs and minerals designed to beautify the skin. Essential oils and sea salts may also be used in daily spa body wrap treatments, seeking to help tone and soften the skin, and help rid you of those unwanted inches. Body wraps that use algae, seaweed, mud or clay are detox treatments that help rid the body of toxins through metabolic stimulation. Body wraps using shea butter and rich lotions are hydrating treatments geared towards softening the skin. Results may be realized immediately. But toxins and interstitial fluids eventually re-accumulate, so regular body wraps may provide better long-term benefits.

Body scrubs may use salts and other natural ingredients to exfoliate and detoxify the skin. Body wraps use detoxifying organic materials such as mud or aloe vera to draw toxins from the body and soften skin. Most body scrubs use a blend of oils with fine and coarse grains, and are followed with the application of emollient lotions to further soften skin. Skin will feel soft and fine lines will lessen after just one treatment. Such deeply relaxing treatments are shown to decrease stress, thereby lowering blood pressure.   Since the skin is our largest organ, detoxification can have profound effects on our health and sense of well-being.

Body Wrap Cost: Body wraps typically cost between $100 and $300 (depending on your location) at most day spas. Body wraps are often performed as part of a larger body treatment that may include aromatherapy, mud baths, hot tubs, and saunas. Day spa body wraps can be less expensive when performed in conjunction with other body treatments or day spa therapies that may include facials, massages, or waxing.

So why not spoil yourself and book yourself in to get a body wrap. What have you got to loose except a few inches?

(Source: bestdietforme.com, cbsnews.com/stories)