As a treat for my birthday I booked in to the new spa at the Roslin Beach Hotel, '
Roslin Retreat' whilst they had a 50% offer on for new bookings. Hooray.
After much deliberating over what to choose, I went for the Elemis Exotic Coconut Rub and Milk Ritual Wrap. Oh my goodness. It is so good.
If you have winter skin (who doesn't at the moment?!) then this is the perfect thing to get you all soft and ready for spring.
The treatment starts with you getting completely naked and putting on the tiniest paper underwear ever. EVER! in the history of paper underwear, this is absolutely the smallest. You do feel like a bit of an idiot but remember this lady has seen a million naked people so it's fine. FINE. Completely Fine. You lie on top of a foil sheet and underneath a nice cotton one.
Then you'll probably get a little knock on the door as they always check you're not dancing around the treatment room in your novelty paper knickers before they come in. Which you're not. Of course you're not. Who does that? *ahem*
Every Elemis treatment I've had has started with a little foot ritual where they put pressure on certain points of your feet using aromatherapy oils and you instantly start thinking you could probably just fall asleep right about now. That's always welcome. It lets your body know the next hour is all about good stuff.
The wrap starts with you being brushed all over with a body brush particularly on drier points like elbows, backs of arms and knees. The lady I had was a total genius at the taking half the sheet up and then the other half down thing so you're not completely exposed at any time. It's like modesty origami. The brushing is followed by a scrub and then oil being massaged into the skin. I'm pretty sure at this point the coconut powder was added and massaged in too. It exfoliates away all that dry, horrible winter skin. Then a warm Skin Nourishing Milk Bath by Elemis is poured all over you and you're wrapped up in the weird foil blanket to warm you up and help it all sink in to the skin.
Whilst you lay wonderfully cocooned and warm, your face is treated to a pressure point massage with lots of lovely smelling Elemis products and you sink into a state I like to call utter bliss. Mmm. You're warm, your face is being massaged, you smell amazing and the nice lady didn't crack a paper pant joke so all is well in the world.
This is followed by a de-stress scalp treatment which means your head being massaged for a good few minutes. Again, bliss.
Then, trying to muster some grace whilst wrapped in an enormous sheet of tin foil you attempt to get up into a sitting position and then off the bed. It's time to shower off all that goodness. You exchange your paper knickers for your own and return to the bed all dried off. A lovely layer of moisturiser is applied to the skin and then you are left to get dressed in your own time.
Your skin is left softer, smoother and happier looking.
The Exotic Coconut and Milk Ritual Wrap is perfect if you're looking to treat yourself or someone else soon. My skin feels so much better!
The
Roslin Beach Hotel is a really nice hotel just over the road from the sea. It would be a lovely place to come for the weekend to enjoy a spa treatment. It's also one of my favourite places for afternoon tea. The normal price for this treatment is £55. Find the full price list for the Roslin Retreat
here.
*This is
not a sponsored post or written in association with either Elemis or The Roslin Beach Hotel.