When it comes to health, anything with the word “spa” sounds like a luxury intended for those with time and money to burn. Surely a spa treatment can’t compare in importance to doctor visits, nutritionists, or gym memberships.

A head spa is a beauty treatment that certainly contributes to luxurious hair and leaves one’s scalp healthy and clean, but how can this be better than washing your hair at home? Lying in a calm environment while someone else gently cleans your hair, massages your scalp, and applies soothing natural products just seems self indulgent.

But is it?

I would suggest that a head spa treatment, far from being an out of reach luxury that few can afford, is actually a worthwhile investment for anyone’s health. Whether your primary concern is beauty, toxins or stress, a hair and scalp spa treatment is a wonderful way to set your health on a new path.

Beauty: Head Spa Treatment For Better Hair

It’s obvious that the intent of a head spa treatment, first and foremost, is to improve hair. How can this help your overall health?

When you feel beautiful and confident, many other aspects of your health begin to fall into place. From posture to mood, your whole being is uplifted when you feel beautiful and young; and all of these things impact the functioning of your body’s vital systems. A head spa session will make you feel beautiful, and the benefits will spread throughout your body.

Posture is Related To Self Image

When your hair is not looking its best, you know it. You don’t want people to look at you closely enough to recognize your dandruff or oily residue; so you are more likely to slouch, to dress badly, to do whatever you can to avoid the attention of others.

Now imagine yourself after a head spa treatment. Your hair is soft and smooth and perfectly clean; it is easier to maintain, less tangled, and free of dandruff and oily buildup.

Wouldn’t you find it easier to pick a nice outfit if you knew your hair would stand up to scrutiny? Wouldn’t you want to stand up straighter, to look life in the eye, to stride confidently in the knowledge that you are looking your best?

Posture Greatly Impacts Health

When your confidence triggers you to stand up straight and tall, many other effects will materialize. Your back and neck will be better supported, causing pain to be reduced. Your organs will be repositioned, making digestion better and lymphatic drainage more rapid. Joints will move more freely and exercise will be easier and more natural when your confident posture corrects your stance.

Believe it or not, a head spa can provide the impetus to unlock all these benefits of good posture.

Detox: How Natural Scalp Treatment Ingredients Can Remove Toxins From Your Body

Over the years of a person’s life, many toxins enter their body. Some are excreted again, while some accumulate and continue to cause trouble–adding to feelings of ill health, brain fog and pain. Toxins in tissues add to systemic inflammation, which can exacerbate many conditions.

Massage Techniques To Eliminate Toxins

Massage is a time honored tradition for releasing toxins that are trapped in tissues. Parts of the body where blood circulation is slow and lymphatic movement is limited tend to be repositories of toxic residue, and massage is a great way to redistribute the lymph and blood within these tissues.

Scalp Treatments For Circulation

The scalp is actually a part of the body with a lot of blood flow, and yet it is often neglected by the average masseuse. A scalp massage, besides improving blood circulation and lymphatic drainage, also helps to open the sebaceous and sweat glands of the scalp–which play an integral role in the excretory system for eliminating toxins from the body.

Scalp massages can loosen and dislodge toxic buildups within and under the scalp, allowing the body to detoxify and eliminate wastes that might otherwise remain, causing inflammation and discomfort.

Relaxation: Scalp Massage And Cortisol

Cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone, is the enemy of many health goals, from weight loss to sleep to cognitive function. While cortisol is necessary for normal daily functions, it can become unbalanced, keeping the body in a state of perpetual stress. This can impede sleep, play havoc with appetite, interfere with fat burning and prevent muscle growth.

There are lots of remedies for high cortisol, from herbal supplements to meditation and exercise. What does scalp massage have to do with cortisol? How can a head spa help your body’s hormonal health?

Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Head Spas Heal More than Your Scalp

The vagus nerve is a vital neural pathway from your brain to the inner organs of your abdomen. Its signals can help to calm deep fears, reduce overall stress and add to feelings of well being. And how can one stimulate these effects of the vagus nerve?

You may be surprised to learn that massaging the ears, and the scalp surrounding the ears, is a proven method for stimulation of the vagus nerve.

Direct vagus nerve stimulation by way of scalp massage has been shown to help take recipients out of the fight or flight response.

Deep Clean for Deep Relaxation

Head spas are an underutilized resource to promote deep and genuine relaxation by stimulating the vagus nerve, counteracting the heightened state caused by anxiety and stress. A head spa doesn’t just lead to a healthy scalp; the effects go much deeper into the body, releasing the troubles that are holding you back from your best self.

Schedule a Head Spa Treatment As Part of a Total Health Reset

So if your hair is at the bottom of your list of health concerns, consider moving it higher on the list. Your exercise, your sleep, your weight loss, your confidence, your stress levels–all are related to the state of your hair and scalp.

A head spa treatment will revitalize your relationship with your body, giving you a new outlook on life, fresh self esteem and seemingly rinsing your troubles away. A head spa is a powerful symbolic and psychological reset, proving to yourself that you intend to chart a new course in your health journey–and the long term benefits of a head spa affirm these symbolic and subjective meanings.