With busy schedules and endless to-do lists, taking time for yourself can feel like a luxury, but it’s essential for maintaining balance and well-being. What better way to recharge than by transforming your home into a serene spa experience? Whether you need to unwind after a long work week or simply treat yourself, an at-home spa day is an ideal opportunity to prioritize self-care.
In this article, we’ll share 6 creative and soothing ideas to help you create the ultimate self-care day right from the comfort of your home. Keep reading to learn how to relax, rejuvenate, and indulge in some much-needed “me time”.
6 Home Spa Ideas to Promote Relaxation
If you’d like to dedicate an entire day to yourself, here are 6 health-conscious ideas for an at-home spa experience:
1. Set the Mood: Light candles, diffuse essential oils, and prepare your space for a revitalizing experience.
Before anything, setting the mood for your at-home spa day is essential. Whether you have a wellness room or not, there are numerous ways to decorate your space for the ultimate relaxing experience. First, we recommend choosing a quiet, distraction-free room where you’ll host your self-care day. Find a well-lit room with multiple windows that let in the natural light, ensuring you stay away from harsher artificial lighting as much as possible. Tidy up the chosen space, ensuring it’s clutter-free, clean, and ready to be used. Next, you can enhance the environment with a few added items.
Here are 4 spa decor ideas we recommend to elevate your self-care day:
- Scented Candles: Have you ever been to a spa without candles? Candles are the perfect mood setter for a revitalizing experience—especially if you’re doing an at-home spa before jumping into bed. If you’d like to avoid using artificial light or simply want the room to smell better, invest in a few candles to liven up your at-home spa space. Use candles made from natural ingredients such as beeswax or soy wax and candles scented with essential oils instead of chemicals. Light a few candles and enjoy how it immediately makes you feel like you’re at a professional spa!
- Essential Oil Diffuser: Essential oils are naturally healing substances that promote relaxation and reduce anxiety. You can pair essential oils with a candle or two or solely use essential oils to make your spa space smell and feel remarkable. Invest in an essential oil diffuser, place a few drops of oil into the machine, and let the scent permeate your environment. Lavender, chamomile, ylang-ylang, jasmine, and sandalwood are a few favorite scents for relaxation, stress relief, and rest.
- Plants: Add plants to your space for an immediate mood booster. Research shows that plants can help lower cortisol (the stress hormone) and lead to overall improved mental health—they also make your space look like an inviting outdoor oasis! If you’re up to the challenge of keeping plants alive, we recommend snake plants, heart leaf philodendrons, English ivies, areca palms, or a golden pothos for your environment.
- Heated Towels: Throughout your at-home spa day, you’ll want the added experience of wrapping yourself in a warm towel. Throw a towel in the dryer for 10 minutes or purchase a towel warmer, and enjoy the relaxing benefits of a warmed towel at the end of your self-care day.
2. Hot & Cold Therapy: Unwind in the sauna and refresh in the frigid waters of a cold plunge tub.
What exudes relaxation more than a sauna? Heat therapy is a must-have during your at-home spa day. Saunas not only feel good but also provide numerous benefits. Consistently using a sauna can reduce stress, decrease inflammation, boost your immune system, and positively impact heart health. Spend 5–30 minutes in a sauna, depending on your experience. Drink water throughout the session and ensure you listen to your body if you need to step out at any time.
Do you want to add to the health benefits experienced by sauna users? Pair your sauna session with a quick cold plunge into icy waters. Cold plunging enhances mental clarity, increases your metabolism, improves muscle recovery, and more—making it the ideal addition to your at-home spa day. After a sauna session, enter the frigid waters for 2–5 minutes, repeating the hot and cold therapy cycle if your body feels up for it. Following this process, let your body gradually return to its average temperature—this is a great time to use a warmed towel, drink electrolytes, and read your favorite book!
3. Move Your Body: Do your favorite workout routine or challenge yourself to a yoga or pilates session.
A self-care day isn’t complete without a physically challenging workout. Add this home spa idea to your routine and immediately feel the benefits of moving your body. Whether you decide on a weightlifting routine or a more relaxing form of exercise like yoga, make sure to carve out time to see what your body can do. Exercising releases dopamine (the happy hormone in the brain), earning you a boosted mood, decreased symptoms of anxiety, and improved physical performance. Who could say no to that?
Since your spa day is at home, scroll through YouTube videos for at-home high-quality workout routines, yoga exercises, pilates sessions, and more. Choose a preferred workout that you’re excited about and that will push you past your comfort zone.
4. Soak Away Your Worries: Take a bath with Epson salt and wash away stress.
Another home spa idea is indulging in a hot bath. Light a few candles, turn on meditative music and run the bathwater for your at-home spa day. Pour 1–2 cups of Epson salt into your tub for a boosted experience. Epson salt is known to cleanse the skin, relieve body pain, regulate heartbeat, and promote relaxation. You’re in for a real treat if you have a jetted tub. Turn on the jets and enjoy the benefits of a DIY massage while you bathe.
5. Nourish Yourself: Dedicate time to making a healthy drink or meal.
Eating healthy is one way to care for your mind and body. During your at-home spa day, take the time to make a meal and a nutritious drink that nourishes you and promotes long-term wellness. Making a high-quality meal or drink slows you down enough to be present and forget about the day-to-day stressors. We recommend making drinks such as a turmeric latte, lemon ginger tea, or a healthy green smoothie.
When creating a healthy meal, include protein, vegetables, and healthy carbs and fats. Avoid processed foods and instead opt for whole foods chalked full of vitamins and essential nutrients. Foods like salmon, avocado, lentils, spinach, wild rice, broccoli, garlic, and apples are a few items that provide massive health benefits.
6. Pay Attention to Your Skin: To promote skin health, create a DIY face mask and dry brush your body.
Don’t neglect your skin health during your at-home spa day. Before hopping into the Epson salt bath or sauna we mentioned above, dry brush your body to remove dead skin cells and dirt build-up, increase circulation, and improve your body’s ability to sweat out toxins. Use light pressure and broad, circular, clockwise strokes when dry brushing. Use more pressure on thicker areas of the skin, like feet, and less pressure on thinner skin. Always brush upward toward your armpits and in a clockwise direction on your stomach.
End your home spa day with a face mask. Here’s an ingredient list for a face mask we recommend that nourishes the skin, reduces acne, and keeps your skin feeling fresh:
- 3 Tbs of Dried Oats
- 1 Tbs of Whole Milk
- 1 Tbs of Organic Honey
Follow these 5 steps to make and apply the face mask properly:
- Blend the oats and mix in the milk to create a paste.
- Add in the honey and cleanse your face of any makeup or dirt.
- Remove the mixture from the blender and apply to your face.
- Let the mixture dry for 15 minutes.
- Rinse your face with warm water and pat dry with a clean towel.
After you finish, sit on a comfortable couch or bed and read a book to unwind.
Tubzz Can Help You Create the Perfect At-Home Spa Experience
If you’d like to try one or more of these at-home spa ideas, Tubzz can help you do that. Our Utah-based tub and sauna dealership specializes in assisting individuals to curate luxurious experiences from the comfort of their own homes. We are a team of passionate wellness experts providing clients with state-of-the-art saunas, tubs, and customized wellness rooms. Tubzz is dedicated to helping you create the healthiest lifestyle possible with our personalized wellness products.
Whether you’d like to add an infrared sauna to your self-care day or desire to dedicate an entire room to your at-home spa experience, we’ve got you covered. Contact us to schedule a viewing of our showroom and learn how we can help you create the holistically healthy life you deserve.
