Sugar Sweet Treat – Ritz Travel Video duration – 5.51 minutes The Spa at Ritz Carlton Rose Hall, Jamaica Nirvana – Spa Travel Video There are few names more synonymous with luxury and pampering than Ritz Carlton. Look at this; you get to look at this every day… Yeah, I’m very privileged to work here. I have to tell you I’m jealous. It’s so pretty So what makes your Spa treatments a little different here in Jamaica? Saphie Reid Spa director at Ritz Carlton Spa at Rose Hall Ah we try to use products that are unique to our culture. We blend that in quite a bit, so most of our products on treatments that we provide, take some aspect of our culture into consideration. We have wonderful therapists so most or all of our guests who come in, for treatments, you know always commented on that, so that by far always you know outweighs everything else. So I’m really excited because today I get to experience first hand one of your spa treatments. Which one of the treatments will I be doing? Saphie Reid Well. Today we’ll be demonstrating the sugarcane body scrub. It’s actually one of our signature treatments and one of our frequently requested therapies. It’s actually made from white sand mixed with sugarcane. Why sugarcane? Saphie Reid Sugarcane actually the hotel was once a sugarcane plantation, most of this area was a sugarcane plantation. Sugarcane is a big thing in Jamaica so you know, as I mentioned before, we always try to pull something from our culture. Ingredients Sugarcane body scrub Here we have the crushed oyster shell with the white sand and the sugar cane. we’re gonna combine that with our honey, aloe and milk so I’m just gonna place it in our little bowl here and you have the honey, aloe and milk here, you can just feel it. Oh that smells good enough to eat. So we are gonna combine that. In Jamaica whenever our children they are sick and have cold, we use honey. Yes with a little lime and that will help them. We have the mango, papaya and the wild yam right here and naturally that is the dessert here in Jamaica that we eat when we cut our food self or when we blindly stuff in we can have a dark curry This is all the organic materials as well, isn’t it? Yes yes it is, it is When we combine that we have a foaming action So we just combine… Oh my goodness I can do this? Yes you can It’s all starting to just foam right up. Wow It’s turning almost into a kind of moussey texture. Yes we usually say a cornmeal look, you know when you have that you know, part? Aha a little bit like that, I know what you mean. Treatment sugarcane body scrub We’ll be starting with a loofa which is naturally grown here in Jamaica. The loofa helps to exfoliate the skin, get rid of the dead cells, after which we apply the sugarcane paste which has honey, aloe, milk as well as crushed oyster, sugar and sand. It’s going to exfoliate you, detoxify you; it’s going to increase blood circulation. When blood circulation is increased, oxygen is increased, which brings energy to the body. It also takes away carbon dioxide and toxins. After which you are going to go to the hydro therapy bath for about five minutes. Back on the bed you are going to do an afternoon massage. So you’re moisturized with honey spice and that’s made from wild yam, papaya and mango. Your treatment today is going to be relaxing. Your body will feel polished and renewed.