Plant-based wellness from spa treatments to nutrition - as well as a little wellbeing luxury to take home with you.
Veganism is one of the fastest growing lifestyle choices in the world. Its popularity risen year on year since 2012, and in 2018 the UK launched more vegan or plant based products than any other nation. At spas, where wellbeing is the central focus, respecting and embracing veganism and plant-based options has become a focal point for many destinations. It has led to new packages, experiences, treatments and menus that offer vegan choices.
For those who want to dip their pedicured toe into the world of vegan spa treatments, discover the benefits at one of these spa destinations.
At The Garden Spa in Cheshire guests find themselves enveloped into a world of modern wellness. Alongside sensory experiences including a salt inhalation room, aromatherapy steam room, infrared sauna, sauna, spa pool, heated loungers, ice fountain and waterfall shower, they offer treatments using vegan and paraben free skin care for facials, body therapies.
Alternatively, the PURE Spa collection, which has destinations across UK and Scottish cities, and was founded by Becky Woodhouse has won praise for its product line. The vegan skincare brand is designed for the needs of busy professionals. It is an oil-based range that encourages skin health and natural rejuvenation using active ingredients such as Vitamin E, Retinyl, Kukui Nut Oil and Omega 3, 6, 7 and 9.
At this boutique hotel in the heart of York, everything is done beautifully, from the style to the spa treatments. In a seductive space made for rest and relaxation, they deliver a collection of therapies using eco-luxury products from Pinks Boutique. The brand is known for its pure, vegan, organic, sustainably-led and ethically-sourced ingredients (Accredited by the Soil Association), which they fuse with beautiful details like local lavender.
Set within Guildford’s Holiday Inn, Natural Light is all about healing and meditation. In addition their exceptional energy healing and sound healing, therapist have a vast rage of knowledge to enhance and improve wellness. In their face and body treatments they use all vegan products, whether you're having a Gemology Facial or a Karma Total Relaxation Massage.
Tucked away in the Welsh countryside, Stradey Park Hotel and Spa is definitely somewhere you can completely relax and connect with the natural world. That sense of harmony with nature is enhanced through their spa sensory garden, as well as their treatments, which use a local, Welsh organic skincare range, complete with a vegan range which helps to rejuvenate the skin.
For those who want to keep to a vegan diet, there are a number of spas who take great pride in offering delicious menus using the power of plants.
Co-founded by Joy Jarvis, a lifelong devotee of vegetarianism, Glass House champions nutrition as a central part of sustainable wellbeing. As a result, their on-site restaurant is dedicated to a healthy vegan menu of seasonal fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains—local, fresh, and delivered daily.
It's not just in the spa environment that you can explore vegan skincare, but at home as well. Many of the most respected spa product lines, such as Temple Spa, The Natural Spa Factory and Elemis, amongst others, have introduced entirely vegan product lines to support spa and at home skin care.
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