Body Wrap Products
Body Wraps come in a variety of forms and with many different products that help with the benefits of body wraps; such as, inch loss, skin tightening, weight loss (in some instances), diminished cellulite and some can even help with stretch marks.
Slimming Body Wraps are a great way to jump-start your new weight loss plan; as they help you to feel a bit tighter and your clothes are a bit looser. This gives us a bit of motivation to keep on the right track of eating better and maybe even exercising.
The best thing about body wraps when you are on a weight loss plan is that if you lose about five pounds and then get a body wrap, you will actually look like you lost more because body wraps help to tighten the excess skin as the weight is coming off! Cool, huh?
Let’s get back to the products for a minute. There are mineral body wraps, aloe vera, clay (red clay, black clay, green, white and blue clays), moor mud, essential oils and even cream products that contain ingredients to help rev up your circulation and metabolism. Best part (ok another best part!) is that they all work effectively to help trim and tone our bodies.
Detox Body Wraps
Detox Body wraps that use algae help to detoxify and help rid the body of toxins through metabolic stimulation. Clay products help to draw out the impurities with drying and tightening benefits. Mineral Body wraps help to put back many missing minerals in order to help our bodies detoxify and loss inches quickly. Using oils and moisturizing rich lotions are hydrating body wraps used for softening and healing the skin. There are even body wraps utilizing ingredients that are formulated to burn fat and help with weight loss.
Initially, a body wrap was an application of Ace bandages or saran wrap that was tightly wrapped around the body to enable rapid weight loss through vasodilation. Now, a body wrap is much more likely to be a treatment where you’re slathered with a body mask made of seaweed and potent botanical ingredients, and depending on the treatment, possibly wrapped afterwards to keep warm.
Soon thereafter, the product is rinsed off or removed, and the body wrap usually ends with application of a lotion or followed up with some a maintenance lubricant of some type. This treatment is sometimes also referred to as a body mask or body treatment.
Body Wrap Benefits
Body wraps that use algae and detox treatments help rid the body of toxins through metabolic stimulation. Body wraps using moisturizing rich lotions are hydrating treatments geared towards softening and healing the skin. Body wraps utilizing other ingredients are typically formulated to aide in weight loss.
Body wraps often begin with exfoliation through dry brushing or a salt scrub. You are typically clothed in whatever you will eventually be wrapped in – often plastic of some type, but sometimes towels or sheets. I think the most enjoyable method is when a massage therapist does the body wrap, because they naturally incorporate massage techniques as they apply the product. (An esthetician, on the other hand, is just simply rubbing product on the skin.) Once the product is applied to the skin, you’re wrapped to stay warm for usually 15-60 minutes. Often, the therapist will leave the room, but sometimes they will stay and continue the massage, if possible.
Slimming Body Wrap
When the time is up, you’re unwrapped and the body wrap is removed. For this reason, the wraps often take place in wet rooms, equipped with a shower or wet table. Its possible that you may either jump in the shower or the therapist will rinse you off with a hand held shower or a special rinse that feels fantastic. After that, you will dry off, and there’s usually an application of lotion of some sort to moisturize your skin. And now you get to see how your slimming body wrap done for you and your body, and how it will make you feel.
Below you can watch me preform a Slimming Body Wrap on Tyra Banks friend Maria, as she is trying to fit into her dress a little more with ease. As my friend Afsi Naim owner of LA SlimWrap preforms a body wrap on Tyra Banks. I hope you enjoy…
Relaxation Body Wraps
Today let’s take a quick peek at “relaxation” Body Wraps and what to expect. Don’t worry, in another article I will talk about the different products used for the body wraps. For now let’s just see if this is more to your liking instead of the “active” body wraps we talked about yesterday.
Even though most body wraps are offered in a spa, the relaxation body wrap is far more spa-like than the active type. No movement for the 60 minutes, just a quite, calming hour of skin softening, detox, diminished cellulite, inch loss and even sometimes weight loss from body wraps.
There are a few ways that relaxation body wraps are given. 1. You are slathered with either an oil or cream while standing and then you are wrapped in plastic wrap. Yes, normal every day plastic wrap…the kind you cover your leftovers with!
The plastic is applied firmly but not too tight as to be uncomfortable. This helps hold the product to the body and helps the body to produce heat and keep the client warm and allow the products to penetrate the body.
The client is then helped to either lie down on a massage table or in a comfortable lounge chair. The client will then be covered with blankets to heat up the body, but not to break a sweat.
Another way for the client to receive a relaxation body wrap is to lie down on a massage table and the oils and creams are applied while the client is receiving a massage. Kind of a double bang for our buck, when it comes to these types of body wraps! Once the massage therapists has applied all of the oils or cream, then the client is simply wrapped in a large plastic drop cloth (yessss, like the one we use to cover our furniture when we paint our house!) and then wrapped in what is called a mylar blanket and covered with more blankets snuggly to keep the heat in.
These types of body wraps are very relaxing and these are the body wraps people are most accustomed to in a spa setting.
Now you probably won’t see many of these relaxation body wraps advertised as an inch loss body wrap, but they can provide inch loss, as well as many other wonderful benefits.
Body Wraps That are Active have Great Benefits
Body Wraps are becoming more and more popular in salons and spas, I think it would be a great idea to acquaint yourself with a Body Wrap and knowing what to expect should you choose to try one.
Since there are a many different products for body wraps on the market today, there really are only a couple ways to enjoy the benefits of one. In this article we are going to talk about “active body wraps;” wherein you will be wrapped in elastic bandages that have been soaked in some sort of product or solution.
Once you are wrapped, you will then have plastic baggies placed over your hands and feet in order to catch any excess liquid that may drip from the body wraps. Then you will either be covered with a rain poncho or even a “sauna suit” in order to keep your body temperature from getting too cold.
After you are covered, and since this is an “active” body wrap, you will then be escorted to some sort of exercise equipment in order to move for about 60 minutes. Most places that have “active” Body Wraps use either a gazelle or a small trampoline for light exercise and have you alternate between the two machines every 20 minutes.
Because you are wrapped rather tightly in the solution soaked elastic bandages, it is important to move a bit so that you keep your circulation revved up and lymphatic system working to help the body wrap products do their job; which in the case of active body wraps is to lose inches.
It seems to be the norm that spas and salons who perform body wraps will measure you before and after the wrap if they are claiming to give you an inch loss body wrap. So, therefore, once you are unwrapped you will then be re-measured (if, of course, you were measured before the body wrap).
And wah-la a slimmer, new you thanks to body wraps!
Easy right, yes!…and effective. So that’s a little bit of information about “active” body wraps”. Tomorrow let’s chat about “Relaxation” body wraps.
