Seasonal spa treatments

Acqualina Resort & Spa in Florida uses local citrus in its Orange Blossom treatment. Photo: iStockphoto

Food lovers have been abuzz about the farm-to-table movement for some time, but kitchens aren’t the only ones capitalizing on seasonal ingredients. These days, hotel spas take local luxuries to the extreme.

Corbu Spa & Salon, situated in Cambridge’s The Charles Hotel, was named for Le Corbusier. Its menu nods to the Swiss-born French architect and designer with a lineup of French-influenced spa treatments using just-plucked ingredients from the hotel garden, including its facials or hot herbal massage.

Nature-driven, oceanfront Spa Montage at Montage Laguna Beach emphasizes soothing indigenous botanicals, such as scrubs made from local lemon, grapefruit, herbs and plants, such as mustard and thyme, all of which grow in abundance in the area.

Spa Aiyana at Carmel Valley Ranch is tucked amid lavender fields and rolling hills, and some of its services use honey collected from an on-site apiary. A standout:the Bee Beautiful, a ritual that starts with an application of warm lavender oil and a honey-calendula body buff. After you’re wrapped in a warm cocoon, it’s on to a facial massage and honey-aloe purifying mask.

Local citrus informs the luxurious Orange Blossom—a foot ritual, salt and oil scrub, deep muscle message, warm poultice pressure point message and scalp massage—at ESPA at Acqualina Resort & Spa, Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.

At Auberge du Soleil, Northern California, “From the Vineyard” treatments bank on the benefits of grapes, be it a rosehip and grapeseed body mask or a crushed grapeseed body exfoliation. Meanwhile, “From the Garden” therapies use herbs and flowers that grow that grow abundantly in Napa’sgardens and hillsides, and “From the Grove” services use local olive oil in anti-wrinkle preparations.

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