Popular full body day spa service helps hydrate dry skin, burns calories
In today’s busy world, the majority of people don’t drink enough water or apply enough topical moisturizer, leaving skin rough and dry. Dry skin over long periods of time leads to premature signs of aging including wrinkles and stress lines.
Planet Beach Contempo Spas has a space-age remedy to this age-old problem. The Hydration Station is a full-body, automatic spa service that moisturizes the entire body and over time greatly diminishes wrinkles and other signs of aging.
Hydration Station at Planet Beach Contempo SpaThe Hydration Station has become one of the most popular services at Contempo Spas because people look and feel so much better when they use it. Few people drink enough water and their skin is thirsty for moisture. This service provides the surface of the skin with warm, topical, soothing moisture that creams and body lotions can’t always accomplish.
The Hydration Station looks like a full-body pod. Customers lay inside the pod for 20-minute sessions. The station uses infrared heat and nutrient-rich steam similar to a sauna, opening pores and hydrating the body from head to toe. The service deeply moisturizes skin, increases skin elasticity and collagen, cleans pores and improves skin tone and texture.
Planet Beach Contempo Spa is an automated day spa that provides unlimited access to spa services for an affordable monthly fee. The Hydration Station is one of several popular spa services that customers use including spray tanning, massages, LED facials and red light therapy. Automated day spas are increasing in popularity because they cost a fraction of what traditional day spas charge and deliver the same or better results.
Check it out. Often, customers don’t realize how dry their skin is until they try a few sessions in the Hydration Station. Large bottles of body lotion won’t give the same results. Once you see how your skin looks and feels with the right amount of moisture, you’ll see why this spa service is so popular.
Teeth whitening service is in high demand at Planet Beach Contempo Spas
Study after study shows it — when people look at us, the first thing they notice is our smile — and sometimes our eyes. Smiling is healthy and often makes us less stressed, more attractive and can even help us live longer.
Smiles are contagious and smiling is the human expression that connects us. Bright, white teeth give us confidence – and Planet Beach Contempo Spa owners return customers.
Who doesn’t like to smile? People are insecure about the color of their teeth. Yellowed teeth have become a social stigma and people worried about their teeth often feel less attractive and have higher stress levels.
Although teeth whitening has been around for several years, new products are making it a trend among men and women of every age. Most consumers choose between inexpensive and often less effective over-the-counter teeth whitening or expensive cosmetic dentistry. Day spas are now offering professional teeth whitening that offers the results of expensive dental work at a fraction of the price, and Planet Beach Contempo Spas meets this growing trend with the Whiter Image Teeth Whitening system.
With Whiter Image, customers can whiten their teeth by four to six shades in just one session. The system uses premium grade LED lights, peroxide and heat, and the process carries no medical risks or side 
effects. Access to Whiter Image service is part of Contempo Spa’s affordable monthly membership fee and is scheduled by appointment.
Teeth whitening is fast becoming a standard day spa treatment and Planet Beach Contempo Spas are well positioned to take advantage of the growth in demand. People want to look — and feel — their best.
This is only one of the many health and wellness services available at our spas.
It’s a great way to burn up to 500 calories in a 30-minute session.
Laying down inside a SlimCapsule feels a bit like entering a compact, Space Age-style sauna. Just like a traditional sauna, the device heats up the body’s core temperature so it will burn calories, not only while you are inside the heated “pod” but for several hours afterwards.
Unlike a traditional sauna, a SlimCapsule covers your body only and leaves your head comfortably out, making it possible to stay inside for longer than a traditional sauna allows for.
The SlimCapsule is a new – and immensely popular — service offered by many of the Planet Beach Contempo Spa franchises. It’s appropriate for anyone who wants to lose weight or reduce cellulite. It also can benefit people with injuries or physical limitations that complicate workouts and exercise.
Here’s how it works. The body is tucked inside the capsule and heated with LED bulbs and heating elements. The head sticks outside the unit, while a fan blows cool air on the face. Before getting into the SlimCapsule, you apply lotion and oil to your “trouble areas.” These two products help break down cellulite. You also wear a zip-up suit that helps your body reach top temperatures.
The first SlimCapsule sessions get you to about 150 degrees. The temperature is increased in following sessions until your body core reaches 175 degrees, which is tolerable because your head is outside the station. Sessions in the capsule last from 20-30 minutes.
Is it too hot? Customers say absolutely not because the cooling fan is very effective. You do work up a sweat and your core temperature rises, but that just means your body is burning calories. Built-in massage, ionizing air and aromatherapy, plus relaxing music, combine for an immensely relaxing experience.
That’s not all. Like a traditional dry-heat sauna, the SlimCapsule helps decrease stress and reduce muscle aches and pains.
Benefits include reducing fine lines and wrinkles, improving moisture and reducing imperfections
Before and After Red Light Therapy
Red light therapy is a healing strategy that makes use of red tinted light in order to stimulate the body’s natural defense systems and bring relief from various ailments. It’s popularity has boomed with Planet Beach’s Contempo Spa visitors because it produces fast results for people with a variety of skin issues.
Planet Beach’s Lumiere facial has been popular since its introduction and now we are adding full-body red-light beds. In some cases, it is even possible to convert UV-therapy beds to red light therapy.
Red light therapy uses heat and concentrated light to stimulate circulation, boost collagen production and enhance skin’s natural ability to heal. For Contempo Spa members, it can produce dramatic results in just a few visits. The Lumiere facial and full body red light beds have become the most sought-after services at Planet Beach Contempo Spas as a result.
It is non-invasive treatment and does not contain ultraviolet rays. Waves from the infrared spectrum to penetrate skin tissue to a depth of up to 10 millimeters. This extra energy helps skin cells increase production of new collagen and enhance turnover of collagen and elastin fibers – key components for skin renewal.
Red light acne therapy helps teens with skin problems, by helping to clear out clogged pores. Facial red light therapy helps with nervous tics. In the same way natural sunlight helps with mild depression, red light sessions can improve moods and diminish depression in the winter months. If that were not enough, there are even claims that the stimulation of ATP in the body can help with various forms of sexual dysfunction in both men and women.
Adding the full-body option the range of health and wellness services already available cements Planet Beach Contempo Spas as an industry leader and innovator. The benefits of the red light therapy bulbs include reducing fine lines and wrinkles, improving moisture and reducing imperfections.
Have you tried red light therapy?
Growing franchise company turns 15 as its Contempo Spa concept catches fire
When Stephen Smith opened the first Planet Beach in April 1995, he truly wanted to revolutionize the tanning industry. His goal: to help people achieve that sense of rested well-being that only comes from a day at the beach. So he took his experience in gym management and opened his “Electric Beach” in the Uptown district of
Stephen Smith
New Orleans. The concept took off but the name needed some tweaking. After much thought, it was officially changed to Planet Beach on April 1, 1996, and the beach with attitude began to expand across the country.
Fifteen years later, Planet Beach is in the top fifth percentile of all U.S. franchise companies based on number of locations. “As far as growth, it has been a wild ride,” Smith says.
But truly the most revolutionizing change came in 2005, when Smith repositioned the company and expanded services, launching the Contempo Spa concept. Such forward-thinking helped the system overcome its most tricky challenge to date, the negative press about tanning.
“Our biggest change over the last 15 years was our response to the tanning industry crisis,” he says. “A lot of tanning salon companies never came to the realization that this is real, that overexposure is bad and the best thing to do is just face that reality, change and manage your business accordingly.”
Smith saw the shift as an opportunity. Recognizing that some customers do benefit from moderate UV therapy, Planet Beach also anticipated huge consumer demand for other health and wellness services and expanded into a one-stop spa with an impressive roster of options.
Now, he says Planet Beach’s web traffic is four times the amount generated by Hollywood Tan, a competitor that does not offer the Contempo Spa’s unique automated approach to wellness and relaxation services.
“We are now Planet Beach Contempo Spa, and that has made a huge difference in our same store sales,” Smith says. “It has made us more appealing to a broader market out there and rather than being viewed as a company that isn’t concerned about skin cancer, we are now viewed as a company that is very concerned about skin care and overexposure. And that positioning has worked very well for our brand.”
So well that Planet Beach Contempo Spa is about to embark on a new adventure in honor of its birthday, a custom product line created specifically for sunless tanning. Planet Beach is set to unveil the perfect combination of products to help its customers maintain that coveted glow. pbGLOW™ will hit the shelves in May.
Since the beginning, the goal of Planet Beach has been to instill a sense of mental and physical renewal for all of the guests who walk through the door. And changes at Planet Beach Contempo Spas always keep that goal.
“It is kind of like the Marines,” Smith says. “You adapt and overcome.”
The system’s ability to change and meet new needs is great not only for its members but also its local owners. Wellness is not a passing fad, and people need affordable options to help them lead the lives they deserve.