Technological, natural, vintage and progressive: Today the most varied trends are mixed in the most varied fields. From this crucible of fashion and cultures there is a longing that has kept humans: search and find eternal youth and wine has been rapidly incorporated in this world. We present some establishments offering wine therapy services.
Different cultures around the world and throughout the ages have created potions, elixirs and establishments of the most varied origins, seeking therapies for relaxation, beauty and youth. Roman Baths or Turkish, makeup and milk baths, painful and pleasurable treatments, all means to the same end.
A few years ago, perhaps chasing this utopia, two French, Mathilde and Bertrand Thomas Cathiard, opened the first establishment of vinoterapia around Bordeaux in France. A modern Roman bath of the century, where wine is the protagonist.
Wine therapy, as it was called, consists of a series of body treatments that promise to improve the quality of life and physical beauty.
While there is evidence that moderate wine consumption has a protective effect in the prevention of cancer and heart attacks due to the amount this food has polyphenols, ie stilbene, another benefit of the grape, are antioxidants which provides essential in the human diet, and which play a preventive role, as they not only eliminate the oxidative stress responsible metabolites but act as anti-inflammatory.
And the antioxidant potential exceeds even that of vitamin E. Moreover, polyphenols involved in the process of atherogenesis (multifactorial disease process and extraordinary complexity, which essentially consists of two interrelated phenomena: aterosis and sclerosis) and prevent oxidation of lipoproteins of atherosclerotic plaque deposited in the arteries, thereby reducing coronary risk.
The wine is rich in vitamins A, C and E, since the grape is particularly beneficial for the skin, giving it elasticity and firmness youth.
Ultimately, treatments based on grapes and wine are very healthy for humans. Mendoza Mendoza pioneered pioneer in Latin America in this kind of beauty treatments, and three establishments offer this therapy for several years: the Kaua Club Spa at Park Hyatt, Cavas Wine Club Loge and Tapestry.
Kaua Club Spa Park Hyatt Mendoza offers its exclusive wine therapy Wine Mendoza Shine Mask and Body of Grapes Hotel since opening five years ago. In treatments different types of grapes, musts, wines or oils derived from grapes, which have the power, among others, to help keep the body young thanks to the wine antioxidants are used.
The most characteristic is the “Brightness Mendoza wine” where creams are applied based on crushed grapes and grape seeds. To the supervisor of Kaua Club Spa, Victoria Abona, is an exfoliating body treatment while leaving a deep hydration of the skin. Being what characterizes us in our spa with Thai massage is one of the favorite people services.
Particularly wine therapy treatment is the most requested by women than by men, taking its rise in the grape season in Harvest. On the other hand, the value of Brightness Mendoza wine is 70 pesos, pointing Abona.
Other establishments in the province that offers these treatments is Loge Cavas Wine Spa, which has a full menu of exclusive treatments in the heart of Mendoza vineyards since September 2005.
According Chuit Cecilia Diaz, director of the establishment, our treatments combine the latest scientific findings using vines and seeds extracts. Rich in polyphenols, these extracts fight free radicals, mainly responsible for skin aging.
Methods offered are varied and the duration of the entire sequence is two and a half hours. It begins with an exfoliation Malbec grape seed, continues with a relaxing bath of red wine Bonarda, continues with the application of a Nourishing Mask Torrontés Wine and ends with a Relieving massage for 45 minutes. The price of the entire sequence is 320 pesos per person.
Also, invite you to experience other services, facials, aromatherapy as the Spa for Couples, a unique experience that includes a fresh fruit cocktail, exfoliation with Malbec for two, followed by a simultaneously relieving massage that lasts approximate half an hour at a cost of 795 pesos per couple.
For Cecilia, who prefer these treatments based on wine are women 30 to 70 years and all required procedures are alike.
The Club Tapestry, on the other hand, offers some based on wine as the Andean Massage with stones and wine Tapestry therapies; Massage cream Tapestry with wine and oil seeds; a facelift with mud, grape seeds and bulbs for nutrition and antiaging body, treatment with thermal mud and derived from grapes. Beauty treatments range between 92 and 105 pesos and lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
Ursula Kilian, Tapestry Club manager, told Areadelvino.com that we began to provide service for about a year and a half ago, we incorporated more and more related to wine therapy and improve them with our therapists and physiotherapists treatments. All products containing wine or derivatives thereof, which retard aging of the skin cell renewal and collagen stimulation, thanks to the polyphenols and vitamins which have.
Also he assured us that usually women are the first to want to try these treatments and then they are joined by their husbands. In general we receive many marriages or couples from 30 to 65 years, so the field is wide followers. For example, right now are staying three marriages of friends Puerto Rico that evening they and they undertake all treatments combined with wet Spa baths that make up the house, sauna, jacuzzi and Scottish showers.
Therapies wine certainly add another tourist proposal for the province are increasingly requested and these new ventures are introducing a grape in new markets. Source: Wine Area
