Organic Holistic Facials
Ipsum is a luxury COSMOS-certified organic skincare range, produced in Australia, made only with native plant oils and waxes and supercharged with potent Australian botanical extracts. 100% vegan and consciously created for best results for your skin - and for the planet.
Ipsum Revitalise Facial
1 hour £100
Includes specialist massage techniques, facial acupressure and facial reflexology for an inside-out glow. An holistic wellness skincare treatment to deep cleanse and refine skin texture and tone, while gently softening and releasing facial tension and draining the lymphatics to improve skin health for fresh revitalised results.
Ipsum Sculpting Radiance Facial
1 hour 30 minutes £130
The advanced Ipsum wellness skincare treatment, designed to carefully and effectively lift and soften the facial structure for transformative and rejuvenated results. Extended to feature unique gua sha techniques and soft facial cupping to lift and sculpt, while boosting the skin’s micro-circulation and stimulating the skin’s cellular regeneration and natural production of elastin and collagen. For naturally plumped and visibly radiant results.
Zone Facial Lift
1hour 30 minutes £130
Zone Face Lift is a life changing facial treatment on all levels and brings in the psychospiritual, Gua Sha, Facial Reflexology, Sculptural Facelifting Massage, organic Australian Ipsum active botanicals and Facial Cupping. A transformative journey for clients, ZFL techniques not only offer a work out for the skin to lift and sculpt facial muscles but considers the mind, body and soul. Renowned for reinvigorating the effects of as much as 10 years of ageing over a 12-week programme Zone Face Lift will leave you feeling blissed-out, with a fresh radiance and smoother, more sculpted face to match. For many women, ZFL eliminates the consideration of Botox and offers a natural alternative to dermal fillers.
Modern Facial Gua Sha Treatment
1 hour £100
Specific facial massage and Gua Sha "tooling" - can be integrated into cranial, neck and shoulder release treatments.
Mordern Gua Sha
Gua Sha treatments, pronounced ‘Gwa Sha,’ mean ‘scrape’ and ‘petechia’ or ‘redness of the skin.’ “Raising Sha” is the Traditional Chinese Medicine process of rubbing tools vigorously over the skin to bring blood to the surface. This careful ‘frictioning’ intentionally raises temporary petechiae and ecchymosis. It’s also known as coining, scraping, or spooning.
Gua Sha is an ancient medical practice still widely used in Asia but has been adapted to create Modern Facial Gua Sha. There’s no damage to the skin or bleeding, just a radiant, rosy glow and healthy skin.
Facial Gua Sha is a gentle massage technique adapted from TCM, using a tool to glide and softly rub or glide over the skin. Facial oil is applied to lubricate the skin to minimize tissue ‘pulling’ and to lift and exfoliate the skin. This technique creates the ‘microtrauma’ wherever there’s congestion. It’s very safe and causes no marks or bruising in skilled hands. There are some medical and medication contraindications that the practitioner would run through before treatment.
The most popular uses are to promote lymphatic drainage, smooth out lines and wrinkles, sculpt the jawline, and be a natural alternative to botox and fillers. However, it’s also a useful tool to release tight muscles, help with bruxism, tinnitus, sinus congestion, and headaches. Modern Gua Sha is for everyone - male or female - and has medical as well as aesthetic benefits…
When you combine Stone Medicine theory (crystals, geothermal effects) with Gua Sha, you get a deeper, more intense healing effect. But you can see the immediate benefits of improving blood flow within a few seconds of Gua Sha. Blood flow through tiny vessels beneath the skin brings oxygen and nutrients to the cells and helps remove waste products. This detoxifies and cleanses the skin at a cellular level, removing free radicals and other waste products. Without this, lymph function becomes blocked and slow. Lymph turns from a clear liquid to a cottage cheese-like consistency, and the effects on the skin can be inflammation, dryness, acne, pouches, puffiness, lines, and wrinkles. In a way, you’re cleaning the skin from the inside out at a cellular level.
Increasing the microcirculation with Gua Sha tools is a very effective way to purify the skin - producing often dramatic visible results - clearer, glowing, “lifted,” healthy-looking skin.
Many factors can impact the health of the skin: nutrition, exercise, and stress levels, hormones, aging, and menopause, but when the microcirculation slows down for any reason, a combination of self-care Gua Sha at home and professional Gua Sha treatments can quickly turn things around for lasting radiant skin. This treatment is ideal for a quick skin boost or combined with Zone Face Lift techniques and Facial Reflexology in a course of treatments to create lasting, sculpted, non-surgical natural facelift results.
The basic science behind Gua Sha effects:
Gua Sha is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects and can also help reduce headache pain. Studies have found that laser Doppler imaging can show improvements in pain, inflammation, and migraines after a Gua Sha treatment. This is because the treatment area’s microcirculation increases by four times in just 7.5 minutes, followed by a sustained increase for 25 minutes. This increased blood flow helps to reduce muscle pain and even pain in other parts of the body.
The microcirculation is like a network of tiny blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients to the cells in your body. It’s essential for keeping your tissues healthy and functioning properly. Gua Sha creates a mild irritation on the skin, which activates specific pain fibers in the nervous system. These fibers send messages to the brain through a pathway called the spino-thalamo-cortical pathway. This pathway filters the information from the spinal cord and sends it to the thalamus, which is like a sensory processing center above the brain stem. Finally, the information is sent to the cortex, where the brain interprets it and decides how to respond. Gua Sha activates parts of the brain that help to reduce pain, which is how your body naturally suppresses pain in stressful or traumatic situations.
Bespoke Treatment
2 hours £140
The ultimate personalised treatment including body massage, facial reflexology, facial sculpting, soft facial cupping and foot reflexology.
