La Sen Spa - Where serenity meets culture
La Sen Spa is one rare spa in Ho Chi Minh City that values
and promotes traditional Vietnamese body care techniques and products. All
skincare, hair care and body care products here are mainly natural and herbal
plants, freshly concocted or brewed on the spot, based on traditional recipes,
used by Vietnamese mothers and grandmothers in the old time, where lives of the
land were so much healthier and non-polluted with hundred toxic chemicals like
nowadays.
Located on Xuan Thuy Street, in Saigon most vibrant urban
area, La Sen spa warmly greets you with wooden swing gates, a charming garden
with banana trees and a lotus pond. Walking through the entrance to the
reception area; ones cannot help but notice an immediate sense of serenity. From
the indistinctive fragrance of lemongrass and lotus blooming in the air,
soothing meditation music from distances; refreshment made from tea and
pandan-leaves to the warmth and friendliness of staffs, it is definitely a
place where tranquillity oozes from every corner.
Key services offered include hair care, body care, massages
and facial care. Rooting for natural-made use and experience, with hair care, the
"Love your hair" package includes Vietnamese traditional herbal hair
wash, conditioner; rinse and hair mask. All are made fresh every session, from
organic ingredients such as Gleditsia fruit; lemon peel; pomelo skin;
lemongrass; and rosemary.
For tired muscles, one should try 70 to 90 minutes body
massages (depends on your time budget) with herbal poultices and home-made
ginger wine, which effectively helps to relax tight muscles; fills the body
with warm sensation while massages applied to release painful knots.
For those who want ultimate relaxation, " La Sen's
bliss" is the perfect indulgence. This four - hands massage sequence is a
form of aromatherapy oil massage; performed by two therapists simultaneously.
The massage movements are especially designed to imitate waves of oceans; which
are so continuously soothing and mesmerizing that the receiver would enter into
a meditative stillness. And that in turns will bring a holistic physical and
mental relaxation.
Passionate therapists who will guide
you through the session are experienced and well-trained. Through out
treatments, therapists will give you unique relaxing experience and positive
energy. This positive energy comes from their core values that is carried in
each individual therapist's heart:
"We all love what we do. It feels fulfilled to see
whoever comes to us with physical or emotional pain walking out happy and
better. And at La Sen; we are encouraged to be the best as we can be. So it is
a win-win situation for us and our clients" ( Nhân; La Sen therapist;
responded me with a giggled)
"With our mission and our passion for organic; herbal
treatment and healing through traditional spa experience; La Sen Spa is where
relaxation meets culture".
Stories | Posted date02/09/2017