Everyone deserves a home spa day. Here are 9 easy ideas that you can do to help you unwind from a long week.
9 Easy Ideas to Pamper Yourself For your At Home Spa Day
1. Candles
Start off your at home spa day by creating the mood. Certain smells like lavender and eucalyptus are great for relaxation. But you are not limited to just these two scents, choose any scent that feels good to you.
Candles are not the only way to create the mood. You can also use essential oil diffusers or wax melts. Diffusers are easy to use, you can pick one up at Target and you can combine multiple scents to personalize your home spa day.
Wax melts can also be found at Target. Wax melts are basically candles without wicks, that uses heat to release their smell. And now wax melts can be so unique. There are certain shops online that sells wax melts shaped like everyday things like food, which is the most popular one I see. These unique shaped wax melts can be a fun addition to your home spa day.
2. Music
Music is essential in setting the mood for you at home spa day. Like Bob Marley said “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Create a playlist with all your favorite songs, or you can play relaxing sounds. There are even songs with different hertz or frequencies that evoke certain feelings.
Nature sounds are also a great choice, things like rain sounds, ocean waves crashing or the natural sounds of animals are common themes for relaxing music.
Another great option to choose from are the lo-fi tracks that you can find on youtube or moving train sounds.
3. Draw a Bath
Every spa day has to include a bath. You can infuse your bath water with bath salts, epsom salt is great to help with muscle relaxation. Some epsom salt are scented with smells like lavender which also helps increase the feeling relaxation. You can also add flowers or bath bombs to make your bath feel more luxurious.
This can also be your chance to do the “everything” shower (you know what I’m talking about ladies).
Other items that can help your bath feel more luxurious are a bath tray, a waterproof seat for your tub and waterproof lights which can further elevate your mood.
4. Books or Audiobooks
While in the bath, this a great time to take out the book you have been meaning to read. But if holding a book while having wet hands sounds insane to you there is always the option of listening to an audiobook or your favorite podcast.
5. Skin Care
Make sure you incorporate your skin care during your at home spa day. This can be your everyday skincare but elevated. Add things you don’t normally do, this can be a face mask, facial steaming or a lip treatment.
Don’t just treat your face but treat your other body parts as well. This is a great time to use body scrubs, exfoliating the skin will get rid of the dead skin cells hanging around so that you can end your bath with softer skin. Skin scrubs can easily be made at home or they can be purchased from just about anywhere.
Another great product for your skin that you can make at home is whipped body butter. Whipped body butter provides the skin with extreme hydration, helps with skin elasticity and can help with common skin problems like eczema and keratosis pilaris. Here is the recipe if you would like to give it a try.
6. Soft Robe
Once you leave the bath there is no better feeling that getting into your nicest robe. Just the act of putting on a robe can make you feel more luxurious. Take out your softest robe or towel to elevate your at home spa day.
Don’t forget your comfy bath shoes as well! There is nothing worse than getting out of a warm bath to only walk on the cold hard floor.
An additional tip to elevate your experience is to get a bath towel warmer. These warmers can be found on Amazon and will gently warm your towel. You know that feeling when you put on clothes fresh from the dryer? This will give you that same feeling. Sometimes it’s the little things that can bring so much joy.
Also in this category I’d like to add changing into fresh pjs and bedsheet. We just did all that self care to renew yourself so stepping into fresh clothes is a must.
7. Drinks
Make your favorite drink to enjoy. Whether it’s a glass of wine or chamomile tea choose something that will get you in the right head space. If you prefer to take your drink into the bath but you don’t have any space for it, amazon provides some solutions for that too. You can get a bath tray to hold your drink or they even have a suction cup that holds drinks for you.
8. Manicure or Pedicure
Take care of your nails especially if they get neglected during the week. Use a foot spa to soak your feet and shape your nails.
9. Reflect
Reflect back on your week or month or year. Think about the things that you are grateful for. Think about the things that went right and what made you smile. Being grateful for what you have can help put life challenges into perspective. Be thankful that you can even create an at home spa day.
And if you have the mental space to, then think about things you can do to help create more of what you want in life. You have 1 life, make it count.
But if not, there is nothing wrong with laying in bed after all that self care and falling asleep to some cheesy hallmark movie.
That’s It
At home spa days can be real simple but still provide a feeling of luxury and rejuvenation. Pamper yourself as much as you can cause if you don’t take care of you no one will. Love yourself more.