Home Spa Ideas: Create the Perfect At-Home Spa Day

It’s true, life sure does move at a fast pace. And when you’re spending your days rushing around between work, picking up the kids and taking care of everyone else in the family, it’s easy to forget that every now and then it’s important to take a little time out for yourself.

So what better way to unwind from the stresses of everyday life than by treating yourself to a spa day? Of course, as well as being expensive, dropping everything to spend a day at a health spa isn’t always practical. The solution? Create your very own spa day at home!

As part of our Mental Health Wellness collection, we’ve put together these handy home spa ideas that make it easy to enjoy the ultimate indulgent retreat without even having to leave the house. Ready to relax? Then let’s get started.

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Setting the Scene for Your Home Spa

Choose Your Space

First of all, don’t think you need a big house with a dedicated room for you to enjoy your DIY spa day. You can easily give your bathroom the home spa treatment with some lush plants, a wooden bath caddy and fresh new towels, or transform your bedroom into the ultimate relaxation haven by adding a soft throw or fresh bedding. If your spa at home is going to take place in the depths of winter, you can shrug off the shivers with a space heater, and in the middle of summer when it feels far too hot to chill, turn the temp down with a fan. Remember, the more relaxed your surroundings feel, the easier you’ll find it to unwind.

Create the Right Atmosphere

When considering at-home spa day ideas, your surroundings are far more important than your space. With a few tweaks to your bedroom or bathroom you can quickly turn it into an area that’s perfect for hitting the pause button on all those stresses and demands of daily life.

One of the biggest keys to achieving an authentic spa at home is getting the lighting right. Candles (either real or LED versions) are just the thing for adding a calming ambience, while tidying the room and clearing away the clutter will give you an instant mood boost. And when you’re trying to chill out, there’s nothing more distracting than a phone screen (well, apart from the kids!), so it’s worth parking the social media, news and apps for a few hours, allowing your eyes to feel every bit as relaxed as your body.

Really, the only thing we’d recommend using your phone for is some meditative music – and that leads us neatly on to…

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The Sensory Elements

These are the all-important textures, scents, sounds - and even sights - that set the scene and help turn your own home spa space into the ultimate relaxing retreat. Use scents like essential oils, diffusers and candles to help you unwind with every breath, then buy fresh towels that feel ultra soft against the skin, or even a cotton robe that matches the ones you wear whenever you visit a real spa. And because you want your eyes to feel as relaxed as your body, you can add some subtle illumination to your space with a lamp that provides soft lighting.

A big part of any spa getaway are the sounds that play during your treatments, so it’s worth creating a relaxing playlist to form a soothing soundtrack to your session. It doesn’t even have to be music, and you can always opt for the calming sounds of nature instead.

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Essential Products for Your Home Spa

Body Scrubs

Body scrubs gently exfoliate dead skin cells to reveal softer and brighter healthy skin underneath. They also help unclog pores and improve the general texture of your skin, and can even improve circulation! After using your body scrub you might also find it results in improved application of other products like moisturisers and fake tans, leading to better results.

Body Butter

After exfoliating, you can nourish your skin with body butter, which not only moisturises but also soothes your skin while forming a barrier against pollutants and harsh weather. Essential vitamins combine with fatty acids from natural butters and oils to provide nutrients which can result in anti-aging benefits like cell regeneration, skin improvement and skin elasticity to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Bath Salts

Bath salts are great for muscle relief, skin detoxification and stress reduction. The soothing salts combine with other ingredients like violet and sandalwood, so they not only relax your body but also your mind thanks to the scents that will rise up with the steam of your bath. As well as drawing out impurities, they’re also known to promote calmness, so they’re great for a pre-bedtime bath.

Body Lotions

Helping to hydrate your skin by locking in moisture, body lotion is great for improving dryness to give your softer, healthier-looking skin. As well as enhancing texture, it can also help you achieve a more even looking skin tone while preventing itchiness, flakiness or irritation caused by things like hot showers and shaving.

Face Care Products

Perfect for letting you glow with the flow, you can use face masks, oils, moisturisers and dedicated eye treatments to light up your complexion and help you recover from the rigours of everyday life. Anti-aging face care helps reduce fine lines and wrinkles, improving the overall texture of your skin while boosting hydration. Want to take your face-care to the next level? Why not consider investing in a red-light therapy mask? These work by stimulating collagen production, which can improve skin texture and tone. Want to learn more about these? Check out our guide to red light therapy masks and devices.

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Hair Treatments

Whether you’re looking for a deep-conditioning or a soothing scalp treatment, a hair mask allows you to apply it, wrap up your hair, then forget about it while you relax in the bath. Hair oils and serums strengthen strands and add shine, while reducing breakage and protecting against heat and UV rays. Similarly, hair conditioners help add back in the moisture that can be stripped away by shampoos while also shielding the hair from heat styling treatments. Speaking of which, once you’ve treated your hair to some well deserved TLC, you can get it looking better than ever with a new curling wand or set of hair straighteners.

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Tools & Accessories

If you ask us, it’s the little extras that make your home spa day feel truly authentic, and you can finish things off with a soft headband, warm washcloths and this cleansing body brush kit by Wahl that makes exfoliating effortless. Add in tools like a facial roller for contouring, or a face sauna to deeply cleanse and open up pores.

You can really take things to the next level by investing in a Shark DePuffi – this new beauty must-have provides exfoliation and deep hydration, while contrast therapy allows for professional glow and sculpting.

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Quick Home Spa Ideas (When You’re Short on Time)

Just because your calendar happens to be hectic, there’s always time to fit some home spa treatments and rituals into your routine. Here are some of our favourite quick home spa ideas that will beat the clock and calm your senses!

The 30-Minute Express Spa

Short on time but craving calm? This is the perfect time to enjoy an express spa – just the thing for those times when you have a quick half-hour in the morning before the kids get up for school, or when you get home from work after a hectic day. Here you can apply a face mask, soak your feet in warm water (this is a great opportunity to grab yourself a foot spa), and alleviate those stubborn knots and aches with a massager. It’s a great way of letting yourself fully switch off for half an hour to set yourself up at the start of the day or quickly unwind at the end of it. Oh, and don’t forget to put on some relaxing music and silence your phone – you’ll be amazed at how refreshed you can feel in 30 minutes!

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The Morning Ritual Spa

Set yourself up for a day at work with a quick routine that’s invigorating rather than relaxing – something that will energise you, get you feeling fully awake and all set for the day ahead. Kick things off with a shower – the perfect wake-up call – and an energising body wash. Sundae have a great collection of shower foams, and their cool mint option is sure to get you set for the day ahead. Once you’ve dried off you can complete the routine with an eye gel, facial mist, and of course a mug of freshly brewed coffee. Who knows, you might even look forward to that morning alarm so you can replay this ritual several times a week!

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The Evening Wind-Down Spa

It’s time to decompress after a busy day at work (or a day at home dealing with the kids!) with a spa routine that’s focussed on preparing your mind and body for bed. Enjoy a warm bath, then calm your senses with the scents of candles or diffusers for the perfect curtain call on the day. Finish things up with a new pillow, garnished with a spritz of pillow spray that helps lull you to sleep so you feel more refreshed in the morning. And don’t forget, it’s recommended that you abandon the screens between 30-60 minutes before bed, so instead of frantically swiping at those social media feeds after climbing under the duvet, why not read a book instead?

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The Weekend Morning Spa

The advantage of the weekend is that you have a little extra time to pamper yourself. If you have young children, why not ask your partner to take them out for a few hours, leaving you to some quality quiet time. Since you’re less pushed for time, you can take things a little slower. Kick things off with a coffee, enjoy a healthy yet indulgent breakfast (scrambled eggs and avocado on toast is always a winner), then put on your favourite relaxing songs or sounds and give yourself a manicure or pedicure with something from our nail care range.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You can easily give your bathroom a spa feel by concentrating on the atmosphere – begin by clearing the clutter to make it feel like a more relaxing space, then use candles instead of the ceiling light to bathe the room in a more calming illumination. Pop on a playlist of soothing music, add some essential oils to your bath water, as well as salts or foam to make your soak more luxurious. You can even add details like house plants, a bath caddy and new towels to give your bathroom a newer feel that will help it feel like a fresh, less familiar space.

Just because you see the word day in home spa day, there’s no need to take that literally. You can build your own ritual around any free time you have available – even 30 minutes is enough to lie down on the bed or in the bath with a face mask, calming music and a relaxing herbal detox tea. Look at your average week and find the times when you’re free of your usual responsibilities, then instead of using that time to sit and watch TV or scroll your social media pages, reserve a block of time for your own spa ritual.

As noted above, the best time is whenever you know you’re going to have some free, uninterrupted space in your calendar. This might be a quick 30 minutes in the morning before the kids get up for school, or maybe a couple of hours at the weekend. The main thing is to prepare and get in all your supplies you know where everything is and can begin your spa ritual as soon as the time becomes available.

Calm is calling

Now you know how to create your own spa at home, you can forget about saving up for that elusive health club membership and instead enjoy a personal retreat whenever you need a quick escape from the chaos of the day-to-day. To start you feeling more relaxed right away, we’ve got all the health and beauty essentials you’ll need right here in one place - all with fuss-free delivery right to your door. Looking for more content in our Mental Health Wellness series? Check out our Morning Routine Ideas which is sure to give you some healthy habits to live by!

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