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Top spas to detox
Spa at home
Detox treatments and packages
Given up the vino? Chucked the fast food? Aiming for a new, purer you? Get through the headaches, blotchy skin and cravings phase by taking time off in a spa. Hide away for a day or two and return to your adoring public gaze when your skin has reached that glowing, healthy peak.
1 Stobo Castle, Peeblesshire
 Stobo Castle is relaxing, with friendly staff, and a wide range of treatments and activities. We've visited twice now and each time have been struck by how beautiful the place is - what better setting to relax and review your plans.
Stobo's therapists will help you plan out a personally tailored programme tailored to your needs, letting you make the most of your visit. Their Serailbad Mud Room is a good detox option: smother your face and body with nourishing organic mud and then relax as herb-scented steam and a warm shower send those toxins swirling down the drain. Braver souls may wish to try the Ionithermie Super Detox, an electrical treatment which stimulates the circulation and increases lymph drainage.
Read our review of Stobo Castle.
Perfect for: Creating a space in your life for decision making.
2 Stoke Park Club, Stoke Poges
 For an indulgent detox, if that isn't a complete contradiction in terms, visit Stoke Park Club's luxurious spa for a residential or day retreat. We loved the helpful staff and the fact that the spa isn't aligned to one particular product house - you can be sure that they've selected treatments they really value.
Their Detox and Revive day package sounds like a good bet if you've overindulged. An Aromatherapy Associates hydrotherapy bath includes a relaxing underwater massage to release tension, followed by a SPC Detoxifying ginger scrub. Finish with an invigorating SPC Warm Citrus Ritual massage and then relax in their atrium, watching the fish swim by in the spa's five metre tropical aquarium... bliss.
Read our review of Stoke Park Club.
Perfect for: Poor souls struggling through the morning after the night before.
3 Ragdale Hall Health Hydro, Melton Mowbray
 Ragdale is the original dedicated country-house spa retreat, and they offer Health Farm Holidays from 2 to 7 nights in length - the perfect opportunity for a detox. Choose from a huge range of treatments - the Clarins Spa Detox Body Wrap is an intensive deep-cleansing detox treatment, which boosts the circulation and helps eliminate impurities, or try the Decleor Moroccan Spice Earth Detox: a combination of aromatherapy massage and exfoliation for face and body. Holistic therapies are also on offer, along with health and beauty advice.
Read our review of Ragdale Hall.
Perfect for: Combining de-toxing with relaxing.
4 Bailiffscourt Hotel, Sussex
 If your body is a temple, there is no better place to worship than at the Temple spa at Bailiffscourt. Start your day in the long narrow pool which just tempts you to swim and swim, laze in the outdoor hot tub, and then waft off to the therapy rooms for treatments inspired by the Mediterranean. Their Serious Detox is a half day combination of treatments to cleanse and detoxify including exfoliation, a hot linen wrap and a rejuvenating massage. Finish your day with a long walk on nearby Climping beach. Realise that you have unwound, relaxed and flushed out both toxins and those nasty aggressive feelings that modern life induces.
Read our review of Bailiffscourt.
Perfect for: Anyone who wants to detox gently, without pain.
5 Tor Spa Retreat, Canterbury
 Embracing Ayurvedic philosophy, this friendly spa is a holistic heaven that offers both individual treatments that cleanse, purify, and balance, and day or retreat packages designed to get your body back to its best. For the ultimate detox, try their 'Kerala Panchakarma' package, which includes an Ayurvedic health consultation, an Ayurvedic treatment, and meals specially tailored to your needs. Yoga is also available with all day packages.
Read our review of Tor Spa.
Perfect for: Those with a gap between the Hatha Yoga session and picking up the organic veggies.
 Shy Spy is a big fan of Aromatherapy Associates Revive Body Wash, with its zingy bergamot, pink grapefruit and neroli scent. Their Revive range of uplifting, citrus-based products aim to help you "detox and wake up", and includes cellulite gel and a bath and shower oil along with the body wash.
Our Good Spa Spies loved the gorgeously-scented Aromatherapy Associates range - read their reviews in our Aromatherapy Associates Brand Spotlight.
The Green People Organic Spa range has high levels of active organic ingredients and all the product ingredients are clearly listed on their website - good news if you're avoiding chemical nasties as part of your detox as there's no hidden surprises here. We're talking serious organic pampering...
Treat yourself to a spa-style Sensuous Sugar Scrub at home - many spa detox breaks will include a scrub as they can improve the circulation of blood and lymph to the surface of the skin, helping to fight cellulite and improve your skin tone. This fresh-scented raw cane sugar scrub also contains shea butter and coconut, jojoba, rosehip, pomegranate, cranberry and avocado oils for an intense moisturising effect. Sensitive Spy was fondling her elbows for weeks after using this product.
Read our reviews of more Green People products in our Green People Brand Spotlight.
 Champneys offer Aqua Therapy Detox Treatment: a dead sea salt exfoliation followed by lymphatic drainage massage which promises to smooth the skin and reduce toxins in the body. Their Hip and Thigh Detoxifier is a combination of exfoliation, body brushing and drainage massage, targeting cellulite-prone areas of the body.
Brooklands Retreat and Health Spa's Midweek Detox Break promises to "cleanse your body and brighten your mind", including a Sea Salt Body Scrub, Algi Mud Body Treatment, Youthful You Facial, full body massage and hydrotherapy bath. Hairdressing is also included, leaving you ready to face the world once more!
You can relax in the Dorset countryside with one of Middle Piccadilly's Detox Breaks. Centred around a diet of freshly made juices, these 3, 4 or 5 day breaks include spa treatments to help the detox process. Try a Balaton Moor Bodywrap or a Thai Herbal Soak.
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See also:* Detox * What's the difference between a health spa and a health farm? * I want to lose weight
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