reviews

Healing Lifestyles & Spas,"Featuring: Rockhouse Hotel" November / December 2007
"At the Rockhouse Hotel in Negril, Jamaica, the Caribbean Ginger and Lemongrass Spicy Wrap, made with locally produced ginger, is an especially popular treatment. The treatment starts with a full-body stretch, followed by a skin brushing. The client is then spritzed with restorative waters before a warm, spicy scrub is applied using fast, circular, rhythmic motions. Special attention is paid to rough areas such as the feet, elbows, knees, and heels. The scrub is removed with warm wet towels, and the client rinses off in a Vichy shower. The treatment concludes with a restorative massage and another spritz of aromatic waters.

"Ginger is both invigorating and soothing, " says Linda Hall, a West Indies-based spa consultant who designed the treatments and formulated the products used at the Rockhouse Hotel Spa. "The stimulating and enlivening "zing " of ginger boosts circulation and lifts the spirits."