Hydro-therapy

     Frivolous Jacuzzi $165.00 Begin your Frivolous experience with a 20 minute soak followed by the full body application of select oils, algaes, muds, or herbs. This bit of Frivolity also includes a soothing vitamin infused eye pack and a 10 minute facial massage performed in hydro. After their removal, we apply our secret aloe based gel and wrap you snugly for 20 minutes of meditation. We followed with a light rub down of Rabideau's Body Lotion to replenish and nourish your beautiful skin. Relax! You're going far, far away.

Pamper Me Jacuzzi $55.00 Soak away your frustrations with our stress reducing potion in the warm pampering waters while gentle hands massage your neck and shoulders for a few minutes and follow with a cold eye compress. Then you're misted with liquid mineral, you recline and a moisturizer is applied for about 10 -15 minutes. Now, you're truly refreshed!

Milk & Honey Bath Potion $59.00 We begin with dry brushing briskly from head to toe. This technique loosens dead skin cells and stimulates circulation for better absorption of quality ingredients. Slip into our  nice, warm, milky potion of skin loving ingredients. Enjoy! Soak for 15 minutes with low lighting and soft music. You'll float away in our secret recipe which features milk and honey among other essential skin exfoliating and tightening ingredients. Rose petals will float around you, caressing your skin ever so gently. Next, your therapist will polish your back in the soak. Afterwards we massage in Rabideau's goat milk, honey, and shea butter lotion to give a smooth relaxing finish. Precede this bath with a full body sugar polish for only $20.00 more.

Spicy Detoxifier $35.00 Remove yeast and viruses from your system with this natural detoxifying soak 5-7 times a week. Dawn has used this one on more than one occasion for relief. You'll feel great! After your soak you lie comfortably for 1 hour with soft music as your body perspires, releasing the poisons from your body. We follow with our application of Skin Essential nutrients to nourish and soothe your skin. It is necessary to drink large amounts of water anytime you detoxify. You must remain on the premises for 15 minutes post procedure.

Revitalizing Herbal Bath $45.00 Soak in our herbal infusion customized when you sign in to meet your specific concerns.

Herbal Detoxifier $75.00 Soak in our herbal infusion for the gentle release of unwanted toxins as your served tea and you relax to soft music for 30 minutes. We finish with the 30 minute Swedish Massage applying our secret skin nourishing gel or lotion. For those interested in our Detox Boot Camp, we offer some food suggestions along with a strict program that helps get your skin, internal and external body into a healthy and fit condition.

Customized ancient herbal soaks and baths are available as of September 1, 2005 in our luxurious party suite.

History...Way Back When...

Bathing has no doubt been part of the history of mankind since our earliest ancestors first sank their toes into the local watering hole. From the Egyptians to the Greeks, the act of bathing held social and religious significance, with bathing reaching its zenith under the Romans. Indeed, in typical Roman fashion, bathing was taken to a very grand scale.

Taking to the baths was a normal part of Roman life. Magnificent palaces were built to soak in the waters. As the empire fell, bathing practices continued, despite Christians who labeled the Roman method of bathing as a pagan practice. In medieval Germany, France and England, public baths continued to exist with the same lustful force that propelled the baths of the Romans. Public baths eventually became so decadent, they were nothing more than houses of prostitution.

While bathing started a slow decline in Europe, the Middle East picked up the slack with the Turkish bath. Although without the wanton excess of the Europeans. Turkish baths were often near mosques, and used by the religious before going to prayers. The ritual started with the bather entering a salon area. When the "tella" or attendant appeared, the bather was led to a much warmer room to remove their clothes. Then the bather would be led to yet a third room full of hot steam. There, the bather would be lathered up and then rinsed off for the final act of a deep massage. After that, the bather is sent on to the final step to recuperate in a cooler room before shuffling out the door.

When the Crusades went into force, French and English knights came in contact with the wonders of the Turkish bath, and put their own spin on it. In England, as a ritual for initiation, a knight would be soaked from head to toe. Towards the end of the middle ages, the rich were able to afford their own personal tubs, and would often entertain friends there in style.

The plagues of the 16th Century put a real damper on bathing. Except for Nostradamus and a few other enlightened souls, bathing was considered a health hazard, and to be avoided at all costs. There was a belief that a thin layer of oil covered the body protecting the body from the plague and other diseases. Bathing would remove that protective layer, leaving the pores open to all sorts of horrible germs and bacteria. As a result of the relaxed bathing rules, perfume sales soared. Despite being stuffed into costumes of velvet, silk, and lace, men and women wouldn't bathe. Instead, they would douse themselves with anything that smelled good. Orange-flower water, rose petals, and cinnamon were used to fight off unpleasant personal odors. So serious were people about staying away from water, that the Palace of Versailles had been built without plumbing. Such practices were not unusual, and it wasn't until the 19th century that bathing finally had its full and rightful comeback.

The Industrial Revolution, with its gift of running water for everyone, brought the joy of a personal bath home to the masses. Eventually, with standardize measurements and mass production, the bath itself became a five-foot ceramic shell that remained a stationary part of the bathroom, with a sink and toilet included in the same room.

Today, the public is once again finding the pleasures of the bath. Whirlpool tubs are common, as are hot tubs and saunas. Thankfully, the backward thinking that a bath is dangerous has been proven by medical science to be false, and instead has been proven to be beneficial.

Our bodies are made of water. We need it to survive. We can't escape it. As children, we might have screamed and fled in terror away from the bath, but once seated in the water with a cloud of bubbles surrounding us and a few rubber duckies to keep us company, we would quickly settle down and relax. The gentle flow of the water enveloped us, and all thoughts of fleeing in terror were gone.