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Salt Lake City's Best Day Spas


Everyone needs to relax and get pampered sometimes, and Salt Lake City's day spas are the perfect places for this. These day spas all specialize in utilizing ancient techniques and modern technologies to make sure that clients leave completely rejuvenated and looking their best. The Kura Door, a Japanese day spa in Salt Lake City, uses proven Eastern treatments to relax and revitalize muscles and minds. Avenues Day Spa, located in Salt Lake's historic Avenues District, provides a wide variety of massages, wraps, facials and other treatments designed to smoothen skin and help with relaxation. Salt Lake City is home to many other day spas worth visiting while in town, including Mirage Salon & Day Spa, Spa Vitoria, Aqua Vie Day Spa and Breathe Day Spa & Boutique.

Akasha Salon & Day Spa

331 E. 400 S., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.364.3330
Akasha Salon & Day Spa, located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, is a full service spa offering massages, facials, body wraps, waxing and tanning in addition to a full range of hair and makeup services. Akasha's custom element massages are noteworthy and combine essential oils in choices including fire, air, earth and water in addition to the Akasha signature blend of sandalwood, lavender, rosemary and patchouli. Body wraps are another one of Akasha's specialties and indulgent options such as the herbal garden cleanse and chai soy mud mask leave the skin with a soft, rosy glow. Akasha's variety of services offers something for every skin type in Salt Lake City and patrons will leave refreshed by the delightful options to improve and sustain a healthy complexion.

Aqua Vie Day Spa

3350 S. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.484.0574
Salt Lake City's Aqua Vie Day Spa, meaning "water of life," offers a variety of relaxing spa treatments that use mineral-rich seawater in order to improve health. Aqua Vie offers a unique line of body therapy wraps, done in either a Japanese ceramic heating blanket or Hydrotone Thermal steam. The Hydra-Quench Cocoon, designed to rebalance both physical and mental well being with a combination of 104 trace minerals and aromatherapy elements, is one of the spa's most popular. The spa also offers several baths and soaks that immerse the body in water infused with herbs and elements designed for relaxation and revitalization. At Salt Lake City's Aqua Vie Day Spa, treatments are designed to reflect the healing elements of seawater, and ancient traditions are combined with modern hydrotherapy to give clients soothing waves of relaxation.

Avenues Day Spa

455 E. 7th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.519.8181
Located in a restored brick mansion in Salt Lake City's historic avenues district, Avenues Day Spa provides a full range of spa treatments designed to relax and revitalize. Offering a variety of facials, massages, manicures and pedicures, Avenues also offers a large number of spa packages that combine various treatments designed for a particular need, such as Clarity, Bliss, and a Couples' Haven Spa Day. Before each facial, clients are given a complimentary skin consultation to determine which services will best fit their individual skin types and concerns. Avenues also gives clients in Salt Lake City the opportunity to indulge with body treatments that soothe the skin and purify by removing dead skin. A unique type of body wrap available at the salon is the Inch Loss Series, in which clients select either the Linen or Contour Wrap, both designed to smoothen skin and remove cellulite. A series of 12 treatments done four to five days apart can reduce the waistline by up to two sizes. Salt Lake City's Avenues Day Spa is designed to revitalize and improve health with its combination of traditional treatments and innovative body wraps.

Breathe Day Spa & Boutique

1155 E. Wilmington Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.466.4200
Voted the best day spa in Utah by City Weekly, Salt Lake City's Breathe Day Spa & Boutique is a soothing retreat experience. The spa combines both Eastern and Western techniques. The décor of the salon is based on the four elements of earth, fire, water and wood—the scent of essential oils designed for relaxation fills the air. A wide range of natural and herbal scrubs and treatments are available, including the Organic Blueberry Soy Sugar Scrub, an hour-long treatment that hydrates and exfoliates from head to toe. Breathe also offers Ayurvedic treatments, based on age-old East Indian methods of health and balance, designed to improve circulation and restore inner calm. Spa packages are also available and offer combinations of popular treatments as well as services designed for men and mothers-to-be. Salt Lake City's Breathe Day Spa offers relaxation for both men and women in a soothing natural environment.

Evolve Day Spa

1100 E 1592 South, Salt Lake City UT; Tel. 801.466.6777
A 1920's cottage-style Salt Lake City day spa complete with period furniture, a fireplace and mountain views and that caters to professionals and students with a holistic beauty approach.

The Kura Door

1136 E. 3rd Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.364.2400
Salt Lake City's holistic Japanese day spa, The Kura Door, provides ancient Eastern relaxation practices in order to provide the modern consumer with a revitalizing day spa experience. Begin a journey at The Kura Door by lounging in a soft cotton kimono and sipping hot green tea before entering the traditional Japanese ofuro bath, enhanced with herbal elements. Signature massages at the spa include the Samurai, a deep-tissue massage designed to improve flexibility and the Japanese Stone Massage, in which summer or winter essential oils are applied to alternately hot and cool stones rubbed over the body. The Kura Door also specializes in body wraps and offers ten treatments including the Volcanic Ash Ritual, a 60-minute treatment in which the body is painted with strokes of volcanic ash and China clay in order to detoxify the skin. Salt Lake City's Kura Door Day Spa is a natural escape—all products used are 100% organic and everything from the kimono to the bamboo floor is made from natural materials.

Mirage Salon & Day Spa

5445 S. 900 E., Murray, Utah; Tel. 801.281.4114
Located a few miles outside of downtown Salt Lake City in Murray's Sports Mall, Mirage Salon & Day Spa offers a full range of treatments to relax and revitalize. Enjoy a 90-minute hot stone massage with optional aromatherapy, get a facelift with the multi-vitamin repair treatment or end the day with a paraffin spa pedicure. The spa also offers a signature HydroPac wrap, which allows the body to sweat out impurities while wrapped in a thermal blanket with ultimate results including softer, more exfoliated skin. Mirage Salon & Day Spa has it all and offers Salt Lake City residents the option to design their own spa packages for a special occasion or simply walk-in for a relaxing facial after a long day.

Sanctuary Day Spa & Salon

36 S. State, Salt Lake City UT; Tel. 801.533.2720
A Salt Lake City day spa that is as warm and inviting as a favorite pair of slippers complete with complimentary tea service.

Shirodhara Day Spa

2122 Fort Union Blvd., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.943.3840
Located in a renovated cottage, Salt Lake City's Shirodhara Day Spa is a retreat from the outside world, beginning with stepping through French doors into the beautifully decorated salon. Owner Eva Mileski has received the Aesthetician of the Year Award from the International Association of Aestheticians and has designed the salon to offer professional services at reasonable rates. Signature treatments include the Austrian Moor Mud mask, a full-body mud wrap to soothe and rejuvenate skin and the Shirodhara Facial Treatment, based on an age-old Indian practice involving the pouring of hot oil. A large number of treatments also cater specifically to male clients. Salt Lake City's Shirodhara Day Spa offers sea scrubs, mud wraps and a variety of facials and hair design treatments that replenish patrons with minerals and relaxation techniques.

The Spa Club

6981 S Park Centre Dr., Salt Lake City UT; Tel. 801.255.3655
A conveniently located Salt Lake City day spa that is the perfect place for a midday respite.

Spa Vitoria

5445 S. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.274.9501
The Mountain West's first medical day spa, Salt Lake City's Spa Vitoria, is designed to provide a holistic approach both pre- and post-cosmetic surgery treatments in addition to the surgeries themselves. The spa offers a wide range of skin care and relaxing facials, manicures, BOTOX®, laser peels, massages and hair transplants. Clients are able to choose services based on their needs and packages range from a full facelift to the Lunch Time Quick Exfoliating Peel, a quick revitalizing treatment that lasts under an hour. Treatments specially designed for teenagers are also available and treat acne and younger or oily skin. Spa Vitoria is part of a unique new trend of medical day spas, in which cosmetic surgery and spa treatments are housed in a single facility, so Salt Lake City residents have the opportunity to utilize one or both types of services in order to give themselves a lift.

Xscape Day Spa & Salon

6151 S. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah; Tel. 801.272.7546
Xscape Day Spa & Salon is truly a sweet escape and while many day spas provide primarily herbal treatments, Xscape combines natural elements with massages and wraps that will satisfy any sweet tooth. Located in downtown Salt Lake City, Xscape offers a delicious selection of body wrap treatments, including the Chocolate Truffle Body Treatment and Cinnamon Mud Wrap, which turn the body into virtual desserts. Xscape also prides itself on having an impressive variety of facial treatments for skin of all ages and types, including treatments for sun damage, wrinkles, oily skin types and pore reduction. For a finishing touch after a day at the spa, Xscape offers a full range of waxing services, manicures, pedicures and a full range of hair color and styling services. To get a body as deliciously enticing as dessert, Salt Lake City's Xscape Day Spa provides delectable and sugary spa treatments without the calories.
— Salt Lake City day spas by Laura Hayes