Guide: Body Scrub Treatments
Fight desert-dry winter skin with the best body scrub treatments.
November 14, 2011

Skin as canvas at The Spa at Green Valley Ranch
Aquae Sulis Spa
This Roman temple-inspired sanctuary’s cascading waterfalls and ritual rooms offer a modernday center for beauty and wellness. Lose yourself in paradise with Wine Down, featuring a grape-seed sugar scrub and wine and honey body masque, followed by a Bacchus body oil massage. 110 minutes, $225. JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa, 702-869-7807; jwlasvegasresort.com
The Bathhouse
The spa’s Yummy Mocha Java Sculpting Treatment has aromatherapy, a scrub, and a wrap. Choose either chocolate or cappuccino for the sugar scrub, followed by a skin-smoothing organic mocha java masque enriched with green tea and aloe vera, and finished with a slimming cappuccino cream. 80 minutes, $205. THEhotel at Mandalay Bay, 877-632-9636; mandalaybay.com
Drift Spa & Hammam
For him, the Ultimate Unwind soothes muscles with a Muscle Soother salt scrub combined with a therapeutic sports oil massage. For her, the Rockin’ Desert Quench washes away worries with agave nectar, followed by a high-desert body buff for gentle exfoliation, and finished off with an organic desert aloe wrap. And together? There’s always the coed hammam. 80 minutes, $200. Palms Place Hotel & Spa, 702-944-3219; palms.com
The Mirage Spa
Let your dry skin be rejuvenated with the Blueberry Bliss full-body scrub followed by a soy-based slimming wrap. Or boost your immune system with the Signature Birch Detoxifying Wrap infused with vitamins, minerals, and protein with a touch of mineral crème. 50 minutes, $160. The Mirage Hotel & Casino, 702-791-7472; mirage.com
Sahra Spa & Hammam
Escape the bright lights of the Strip inside this modern haven. The Red Flower bathing ritual lavishes the body with a reviving scrub of lemon, coffee, blossom, and olive stone that exfoliates from head to toe. A soothing soak in the Moroccan mint tea silt purifier follows. 50 minutes, $150. The Cosmopolitan, 702-698-7171; cosmopolitanlasvegas.com
Spa & Salon Vdara
Enjoy guilt-free indulgence at this eco-friendly spa, which offers a delicious Espresso Mud Body Scrub pick-me-up. This holistic scrub for all skin types has sweet, earthy notes of coffee Arabica, Indian sarsaparilla, and black silt clay to exfoliate and remove impurities. 110 minutes, $300. Vdara Hotel & Spa, 702-590-2474; vdara.com
The Spa at Wynn
Experience the mysteries of the Orient with a treatment inspired by ancient Japanese beauty rituals. The Sake and Rice treatment features rice oil, an açai scrub, and lychee lotion as part of its full-body exfoliation, followed by a soothing massage to help realign energy flow and calm the body. 80 minutes, $280. Wynn Las Vegas, 702-770-3900; wynnlasvegas.com
The Spa at Green Valley Ranch
The Hydra Quench Cocoon begins with a full-body exfoliating scrub to detoxify the body, which is then re-mineralized with a special treatment blanket. The transformation is completed with an application of antiaging body cream. 80 minutes, $200. Green Valley Ranch, 702-617-7570; greenvalleyranchresort.com
The Spa at Lakeside
This Summerlin spa offers 25-minute salt glow and sugar scrubs that refresh the body and scrub away impurities leaving only soft, radiant skin. The scrub comes in several scents, including a mango and tangerine salt glow with vitamin C and antioxidants, and a lavender and rosemary one that is relaxing and anti-inflammatory. 25 minutes, $50. 2620 Regatta Dr., 702-254-8568; spaatlakeside.com
—XICHELLE MONTES
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORTS















