Articles by Spafinder

Tweaking your daily menu to incorporate small portions of protein can pay off.

Couples massages, the best way to relax and to get closer to your other half, find out how sharing this treatment with your partner can help boost intimacy.

Medical evidence indicates that chronic inflammation has been linked to many diseases, such as certain cancers, heart disease, bone loss, arthritis, and more.

Cryotherapy, which exposes the body to subzero temperatures, has been in the news again. It is said to lead to faster healing – but does it really work? And is this treatment worth the pain and expense?

Charlotte Watts discusses how spending time in mindful states has shown to actively change the ways our brains are wired and how we respond to challenges and the world around us.

Say no to faddy carb-free diets and instead embrace the food group, for a healthy, balanced nutrition plan – all year round. Here’s what we think!

In 2016, edible collagen has been the darling of beauty editors, its benefits touted in publications from Allure to Vogue. But do hydrolyzed collagen drinks and powders really help your skin look younger? And are they a lasting trend or just smart marketing that repackages that old standby, gelatin, into a trendy supplement?

Here are seven easy ways to use your Spafinder Wellness 365 gift voucher, if you’re the lucky recipient of a one this Christmas, here’s how your voucher can be as relaxing as the wellness experience you choose.

Jessica Alba’s romantic hair and makeup turned heads at the 5th Annual Baby2Baby Gala, which serves children living in poverty in Los Angeles and across the country. (The non-profit has distributed over 27 million essential items, including 13 million diapers, to children in need.) To recreate Jessica’s regal and romantic makeup look, learn the dreamy […]

Nutritionist Charlotte Watts explains the term Adrenal Fatigue, how to identify the signs and find a balance to manage through it.

Creating a healthier work environment is far from a novel concept, its roots in Western corporate culture reaching back as far as Boeing’s pacesetting non-smoking-workplace policies of the 1980s, and the early-1970s craze for executive gyms and mandated annual physical fitness tests for upper management employees. This new mindset, pioneering in its time, was well […]

Cruise ship spas came on board in the early ’80s with operators like Cunard that brought the iconic Golden Door spa in Escondido, California, aboard its flagship, the QE2, to provide fitness, spa services, and programming, and the innovative company Steiner Leisure Limited heading up hair and beauty services. It was an experiment at first—evidenced […]

Two life-size cardboard cutouts of fresh-faced and stylishly coiffed South Korean boy band stars welcome guests at the entrance of Nature Republic’s downtown Los Angeles store. But Nature Republic is not a music shop, or even a clothing brand. It’s a major South Korean skin care and cosmetics line, one of many that is grabbing […]

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi Back in 2007 Spafinder named “spa real estate” a top trend, after tracking the rise of a new breed of residence that essentially let people live at a luxury spa. The concept was pioneered by high-profile destination spas, like Canyon Ranch Living, which launched […]

Ours is a world where every kind of “wellness” imaginable is explored and promoted, whether physical, mental, spiritual, environmental or workplace. But meaningful conversations about, and approaches to improve, sexual wellbeing have been seriously left out of the equation. On the one hand we live in a sex-saturated world: bombarded with hyper-sexualized images and impossible […]

“Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me.” – The Beach Boys, 1962 It’s hardly breaking news that surf culture has been established as the apex of cool. The worship of surfing “style” took off in the ‘60s when the Beach Boys harmonized about a world where “everybody’d be surfin’ […]

When wellness travel’s evolution is discussed, it’s often represented as a series of consecutive “waves,“ with the first wave all about Zen-like spa pampering, stress reduction and yoga, and the ascendant wave about out-in-nature and high adventure experiences. But it’s not a case of the more extreme adventure trend replacing the Zen trend: more high-adrenaline […]

Parents are learning that to raise healthy children in the 21st century means more than just teaching them to eat their vegetables or look both ways before crossing the street. The poor diets, technological obsessions, and ubiquitous stressors that plague adult life offer no immunity to the young. Playtime is being threatened by busy schedules; […]

Many return home from luxury spa treatments describing themselves as revitalized or reinvigorated, but for those who experience the ancient Mexican practice of Temazcal another word often comes to mind: reborn. Dating back to Mayan and Aztec cultures, Temazcal roughly translates to “house of steam,” yet these simple adobe huts are far more than just […]

Spafinder has been affiliated with the Spa Industry and Wellness for decades. The annual Global Spa and Wellness Trends Report is a valuable resource for both industry professionals and Spa and Wellness devotees. What follows is a section by section recap of the 2016 report. “Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a […]