When you're in need of some pampering and relaxation, Alexandria, Virginia, boasts some fabulous day spas. They offer a full range of treatments to make you feel fully rejuvenated. Here are four of the city's best spas. more Fountains Day Spa Established in 1980, Fountains Day Spa is located on South Washington Street in Old Town Alexandria. The historic townhouse is like a home away from home. They specialize in creating personalized massage and skin care treatments that are customized to your preferences to provide you with a one of a kind spa experience. Packages are offered for women, men, and couples. Massage treatments include Swedish, deep tissue, therapeutic, aromatherapy, hot stone, and pregnancy massage. You can also choose hand and foot treatments like reflexology, hand and foot exfoliation, and sole relaxation foot massage. Indulge yourself with body treatments such as a body polish, a Black Baltic mud wrap, a healing greens body wrap, or a hot chocolate body wrap. Fountains also offers facials, waxing, tinting, electrolysis, and more. Sugar House Day Spa Sugar House Day Spa on North Alfred Street is set in an elegant three-story house that is a relaxing oasis for your mind, body, and spirit. They provide a full spa service for men and women with skin and body treatments, hair design, pedicure and manicure treatments, makeup, waxing, and more. A range of packages offer combinations of treatments. In addition to some of the regular massage treatments, you can opt for a sinus relief massage and medi-cupping therapeutic massage. Refresh your skin with a microdermabrasion treatment or a power peel. Aerolase laser treatment can be used for hair removal, spider vein and skin discoloration treatment, and skin rejuvenation. You could complete your day by having semi-permanent makeup applied. Aida Spa Located on King Street, Aida Spa is owned by Aida Fekir, who gained her certification from the internationally renowned Maison de Beaute Carita in Paris, France. She has traveled the world learning both ancient and modern beauty and anti-aging techniques to provide you with unique and specialized services. Body massages include lava stone therapy, tension relief, and the raindrop technique that provides a healthy balance to the body. You could also be pampered with luxurious Oriental body treatments like Hanakasumi body exfoliation, Sensations Orientales, or the Customized Sensorial Escape. Other treatments include manicures, pedicures, waxing, and ear candling. Pure Aesthetica Pure Aesthetica is located on Mount Vernon Avenue and is dedicated to helping clients feel beautiful on the outside and promoting well-being on the inside. Along with other massage treatments, you could be indulged with Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy, which uses fluid movement of the therapist's feet and body weight to achieve superior relaxation. Other services include facials using microdermabrasion, LED, microcurrent, and oxygen infusion techniques; purifying foot soaks; BOTOX treatments; and Reiki healing, which is a Japanese technique used to boost your innate energy to promote health and well-being. Brow and lash treatments are also available. A session of treatments at these day spas will leave you feeling relaxed and rejuvenated and ready to take on the rigors of life with new energy. image via pixabay
