Body Treatments in Tampa: Sugar Scrub, Self Tanning, and Scalp Care
When did you last do anything for the skin that is not on your face?
You have a routine for your face. Cleanser, serum, whatever your esthetician told you to use. Then there is everything else, which gets whatever soap is in the shower and a lotion you grabbed at Publix. You notice the gap in a fitting room mirror, usually about two weeks before something you have to get dressed for.
In Tampa that is a year round problem instead of a seasonal one. There is no winter to hide behind. Your arms, shoulders, legs, and back are on display in October the same as they are in June, and chlorine, salt water, sunscreen, and humidity are working on them the whole time.
Full Body Sugar Scrub
The choice of sugar over salt is deliberate, and it changes what the treatment does for you. Sugar granules are round and water soluble, so they dissolve as the treatment goes and the exfoliation gets gentler rather than harsher. Sugar is also a humectant, meaning it pulls moisture into the skin instead of drawing it out the way salt does. And sugar carries natural glycolic acid, a mild AHA, so a light chemical exfoliation happens alongside the physical one.
What that adds up to is a full body treatment that works on rough, dry, or sensitive skin without leaving it stripped. Dead surface cells come off, texture smooths, and the body lotion you have been using starts absorbing instead of sitting on top of a layer that was blocking it.
If you wax with us, this is also the most effective thing you can do about ingrown hairs. Keeping the surface clear between appointments is what stops them from forming in the first place.
Venetian Glow Self Tanning
The reason most people avoid self tanning is one word, and the word is orange. It is a real risk with the wrong formula on the wrong skin, and once it happens you are living with it for a week.
The Venetian formula is built specifically to prevent that. It uses cool violet and brown undertones that neutralize the yellow tones responsible for the orange cast, which produces a deeper olive bronze instead. It works across a wide range of skin tones rather than flattering only a narrow one.
The other reason to consider it is where you live. Florida gives you more sun exposure than almost anywhere else in the country, and every hour you spend earning a tan is an hour of cumulative damage to your skin. This is the same color without that trade. Color develops over the following day and holds for about a week.
Applied by someone who does this professionally, you also avoid the streaked ankles, the stained palms, and the patch on your back you cannot reach.
Awaken Scalp Elixir Treatment
Your scalp is skin. It is the only skin on your body sitting under a layer of hair, and it is the one place nobody thinks to exfoliate.
Meanwhile it collects more than anywhere else. Dry shampoo, styling product, sunscreen that migrates up from your face, chlorine, salt water, and sweat all accumulate at the root and settle around the follicle. The treatment clears that buildup, stimulates circulation at the scalp, and helps with flaking and oil balance, which creates a healthier environment for the hair growing out of it.
The part clients do not expect is how it feels. Most of us hold tension in the scalp and the base of the skull without noticing, and sixty five dollars of someone working on your head turns out to be one of the better hours in a week.
If You Book More Than One, the Order Matters
Scrub first, then tan. Exfoliating clears the dead surface layer so the color goes on evenly and holds longer. Do it the other way around and you scrub off the tan you just paid for. The same goes for waxing, which should happen before the tan and not after.
Nobody tells you this when you book online somewhere. We will tell you when you call, because getting the sequence right is most of the difference between a good result and a wasted appointment.
Pia Esthetics has been on Bay to Bay Boulevard in South Tampa since 2004. Explore our body treatments and book what fits.