Ideal Bite

Local Spa Treatment

La Dolce Vida

10.12.2009

Submitted by jharper on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:00pm.

The Bite:

Looking to make your R&R a little sweeter? Give stress the boot with Vida Spa's new detoxifying Local Artisan Swedana treatment. Massage therapists rub you down with a blend of warmed paraben-free oils and locally grown herbs like fennel and basil, and then you relax in a cedar steam cabinet (your head pokes out the top). Next, you get a gentle, exfoliating dry brushing with local barley flour to keep out toxins, followed by tea in the low-VOC-painted lounge. Ciao, bella.

Why Care?:

Using paraben-free products keeps hormone-disrupting, synthetic preservatives off our bodies and ultimately out of waterways, and opting for locally grown ingredients cuts down on transport emissions.

We liked that the treatment was based on our Ayurvedic metabolic type (called a dosha - we're a Pitta) and the associated personality traits (doesn't like hot weather, enjoys fatty foods - check and check), and sipping Vida's tasty corresponding Pitta tea blend with cooling peppermint.

Wanna Try:

Vida Spa at The Pan Pacific Hotel Seattle, 900 Lenora St., Ste. 220 (206-264-8432). Local Artisan Swedana, $175/90 minutes.

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Cocktail Fact

The word paparazzi comes from the name of the character Paparazzo, the newspaper photographer in Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Seattle Biters use 6 ounces of paraben-free massage oil instead of conventional rubs, we'll keep the weight of more than 15 boxes of chocolate truffles in cancer-linked chems off our bodies and out of waterways.

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