Wellness Spa in Ruaka

What the wellness rooms add

• Sauna and steam: dry heat and wet heat, separately or back to back, from KES 1,500.
• The Moroccan Hammam ritual: black soap, steam, a kessa glove scrub and a rhassoul clay wrap. KES 6,000.
• Three body scrubs: coffee, turmeric and raspberry, from KES 3,000.
• Massage: including a couples massage with two therapists in one room.
• Four wellness packages that bundle the heat, the scrub and the massage for less than booking them apart.

None of this replaces anything. Every treatment on our waxing, beauty and nail menu carries on as before, on the same menu and in the same booking. Add a Brazilian to a sauna and a scrub if you like. The booking page will total it up for you.

The four wellness packages

These are the reason most people come. Each one builds on the last, and the longer three cost less than booking the same treatments apart.

• The Glow Reset: steam bath, then a full body scrub. About 90 minutes, KES 4,500. The easiest way in, and the one to book if you have never done a heat treatment before.
• The Full Reset: sauna, steam bath and a full body scrub. About two hours, KES 5,500. Both kinds of heat before the scrub, so far more dead skin lifts away.
• Full Wellness Escape: sauna, steam bath, body scrub and a Swedish massage. About three hours, KES 8,000. Our most booked package, and the one clients describe as a day off rather than an appointment.
• The Ultimate Glow and Relax: steam bath, the full Moroccan Hammam ritual and a Swedish massage. Around three and a quarter hours, KES 10,000. The longest and most thorough thing we do.

Book a morning for the two longer ones. They are not treatments to squeeze into a lunch break, and you will not want to rush out afterwards.

Why heat before a scrub makes such a difference

This is the whole logic of the packages, and it is worth understanding before you choose one.

Heat opens the pores and softens the outermost layer of skin. A scrub on cold, dry skin lifts what is loose on the surface. The same scrub after fifteen minutes in a steam room lifts a great deal more, and it does it with less friction, so the skin is left smooth rather than scrubbed raw.

The same applies at the other end. A massage on warm muscle goes deeper with less pressure, which is why the Swedish massage at the close of the Full Wellness Escape feels like a different treatment to the same massage booked on its own.

If you only take one thing from this page: book the heat and the scrub together rather than on separate visits.

Who should take it gently

Heat treatments suit most people, but not everyone, and we would rather say so here than at the door.

• Pregnancy: we do not offer sauna or steam during pregnancy. A massage or a facial instead, and tell your therapist which trimester you are in.
• Heart conditions, low or high blood pressure: please check with your doctor first.
• Freshly waxed skin: leave at least 48 hours between a wax and any heat treatment. Open follicles plus heat is how people end up with irritation.
• Alcohol: not before a sauna or steam session. It dehydrates you and heat compounds it.
• Drink water before and after. We will hand you some either way.