This week I was blessed to go to a Korean Spa for the first time. Part of the day's bliss was enjoying a body scrub. After sitting in the heated pool for about 30 minutes to soften my skin, a lovely Korean woman invited me onto a table, much like a massage table, and scrubbed my body from head to toe, followed by pouring hot water over me. It's pretty shocking to see the amount of dead skin that gets exfoliated.
This procedure reminds me of the body scrub recommended in macrobiotics which is an equally wonderful way of achieving the same results: clear, soft, radiant, smooth, youthful skin; better circulation; and removal of toxins from the body.
How do you do it?
Get a large bowl or a bucket of hot water, as hot as you can tolerate, and dunk a washcloth into it. Squeeze out the excess water, and scrub your body from head to toe. When the washcloth cools down, put it back in the water and repeat squeezing it out and rubbing your body. A good body scrub takes about 15-20 minutes and should make your skin a little bit pink.
When you do this daily (or twice daily), it helps to move any stagnated energy through your body.
A body scrub in the morning will help wake you up and energize you for the day, and one in the evening will help you relax and fall asleep more easily.
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Hi Leslie - would you be willing to let us (or me) know which Korean spa you went to? Sounds good to try for a 1st timer.
Thanks, Stephanie F.
It sounds like a relaxing treatment to have done!
The place I went to was in Tacoma. I have heard there is one here in Honolulu, but I haven't been yet.
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