Jasmine for a mother's love

NOT SINCE 1976, when Thailand adopted Mother’s Day every August 12 to honour Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday, has taking your mum to a spa been so popular. Giving her a day of regal pampering seems like the perfect way to repay her for all the love and devotion – even if it’s a tiny payback by comparison. 

Fortunately, spas these days make the experience as grand as possible with sessions involving shimmering gold leaf and fragrant flower petals. The Devarana Spa has a Jasmine Gold Ritual that’s a truly meaningful way to say, “I love you” to your beloved mum.

Jasmine is said to represent a mother’s unconditional love and nurturing care. Some say the flower’s delicate and fragrant white petals symbolise breast milk, and that it’s fully worthy of mothers because it’s a staple of many Buddhist rituals. This is why it’s a tradition to give your mother a jasmine bouquet on Mother’s Day.

Jasmine blooms year-round, issuing a unique fragrance that carries therapeutic benefits on the breeze. The scent itself is said to have calm the soul and eases depression – it’s a natural happiness boost. The extracted oil was used on the skin and hair in Ancient Egypt and China and continues to be used widely as base oil for massage. It can hide scars and stretch marks and increase the elasticity of the skin. 

The Devarana Spa, renowned for its expertise in tapping floral benefits, is celebrating Mother’s Day by blending aromatic jasmine oil with fresh jasmine blooms and pure gold in its Jasmine Gold Ritual.

The treatment starts with 30-minute Jasmine Bloom & Gold Body Scrub. It’s a good, solid shakedown with freshly ground rice and oatmeal, a sprinkle of jasmine petals and a few drops of jasmine oil. The rice and oatmeal remove dead skin cells and impurities in the surface, with the soft petals soothing their harshness. The oil eases the mood and delivers a fragrance so passionate that you’re in heavenly bliss. Almost immediately youre skin feels softer and suppler. And it smells great!

After a quick rinse, you’ll be royally pampered with a 60-minute Jasmine & Pure Gold Aromatic Oil Massage, with the oil generously brightened by glittering gold extract. 

The gold has a detoxifying effect, offers anti-oxidants and works as an anti-ageing agent while brightening the complexion. The jasmine oil gently assists in balancing the hormones. The body is returned to equilibrium, the skin’s vitality is restored, the muscles are relaxed, and stress vanishes. 

The 90-minute Jasmine Gold Ritual costs Bt3,400.

 

 

DUSIT DOES IT

>>The Jasmine Gold Ritual treatment is available at all Devarana Spa in Thailand through this month.

>>The main Devarana Spa is at the Dusit Thani Bangkok on Rama IV Road. Other branches are in Pattaya, Hua Hin and Chiang Mai.

>>Reservations are recommended at (02) 636 3596 or [email protected]. 

>>Learn more at www.DevaranaSpa.com.