From relaxing treatments to intensive skincare, Ensemble has collated their festive beauty picks to help you feel your best before a big blowout. Ensemble co-founder and partnerships director Rebecca Wadey tried the new Sans Sauna Experience ($110) at Hana.
I love the contrast therapy at Hana (or any similar hot/cold treatment, either official or jumping, sweaty, into the ocean) but I’ve kind of avoided a standalone sauna in recent times as I don’t love breaking a sweat (see also: exercise). But I returned from the States a couple of months back absolutely broken from partying in the Texan heat and turned to the sauna to put me back together again.
The heat was similar to standing on a pavement in Austin, yet its detoxifying effect helped subdue the nasty cold I picked up on the plane. So I was back on the sauna buzz when I was invited to try the Sans sauna at Hana Parnell, a location I’d not yet visited but which has a brilliant selection of brands to shop including Raaie, Tronque, [Sans] Ceuticals, The Gut Cø and Cymbiotika.
The Sans Sauna Experience is a 60 minute self-service treatment which entails scrubbing your body with the Sans body exfoliator before having a shower to wash your hair before saturating it in a leave-in conditioning treatment and spritzing it with Shine Corrector. You then apply a face mask and jump in the sauna. The best part? When you step out to get your pre-prepared giant ice cube made of hyaluronic acid and step back in to give yourself the most wonderful cooling facial (and by way of removing the mask). Afterwards, you enjoy a final shower and then saturate yourself in the Sans Activator 7 Body Oil (one of my desert island beauty products) and pop an overnight face mask on before stepping out into the world shiny, aglow, refreshed and dewy. This is definitely a late afternoon treatment so you can sink into a deep sleep, allowing all that goodness to penetrate your skin. The next morning you wake up looking and feeling amazing.
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