Spread the Love and Shop Local, Part 2
Hope everyone is enjoying a happy and healthy December. It is the most wonderful time of year, and/but also the busiest. January is that marked time when we all try to slow down and recover from some of the fun indulgences of the past month. With that, our mini gift guide continues with suggestions for gift certificates from wellness providers in JC - the small businesses that were hardest hit during the pandemic. Let us help them out – along with our lucky gift recipients!
Send along a skin salve to fight the trials of winter weather (dryness, redness, etc.) with a gift certificate to Walker’s Apothecary (264 Newark Ave., www.walkersapothecary.com). Shalea Walker is a renowned esthetician and makeup artist with over a decade of experience in the fields of beauty and skincare, tending to the skin of celebrities and regular folks alike looking to optimize our skincare routine. A custom facial in her beautiful spa delivers a moisturizing and warm glow to help us get through the cold winter months.
Getting stretched, assisted stretching – whatever you call it, it is a hot new wellness practice and it can be done at om.life Wellness Spa (18 Park View Ave. Suite 2A, https://www.om.life/fascial-stretch-therapy). Practitioner Cameron “Che” Wyckoff specializes in Fascial Stretch Therapy (FST). The stretching takes place on a treatment table with stabilizing straps. Che combines various techniques to release, relax and stress your muscle tissues and fibers. Benefits include increased range of motion and a decrease in pain, tightness and the possibility of injury. Other wellness services here include flotation therapy, cryotherapy, infrared sauna and massage.
Spas within gyms can be “meh” but that is not the case at all at BaseBody Spa (60 Columbus Drive, https://www.basebodyspa.com). The massages here are excellent and very well priced considering how good they are. Hour long Swedish,Sport, Deep Tissue, Pre-Natal and Aromatherapy massages all clock in under $100, and allow you access to the beautiful locker room (seriously) and sauna and steam at the gym. Plus, there are great massage add-ons, our fave being the Rose Oil hand or foot scrub. Another plus - Base owner Craig is a great person -always there for JC.