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Mimi Barre's International Day Spa And Healing Center

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OUR MOTTO: "We do not strive for Customer Satisfaction." We aim for "CUSTOMER DELIGHT."

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WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT AT A DAY SPA?

Number one, you should feel special. From the minute that you walk through the door, you should feel the warm, friendly, nurturing ambiance. Your treatment is designed to improve your health through the release of stress and tension. Your body and soul should feel renewed, and if you had a facial, your skin should feel dewy and revived.

• Give the Gift of Health & Beauty. Gift Cards available In Person, By Phone, or On Line Facials, Massages, European Hydrotherapy

FAVORITE SPA PACKAGES

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• Massage a Trois. TM (Our Trade Marked specialty lessons) You and your partner will be treated to two hours of bliss. The first hour, you will receive a Swedish-American massage while your partner is encouraged to learn how to give a massage. Then the roles are switched. Afterwards you can use the Turkish Steam Room together. 2hrs. $140.

• NEW Redlands Orange Blossom. Orange Blossom Body Polishing, Vichy shower, Orange Bath, Paraffin hand treatment, and Orange Blossom one-hour Massage. Plus a Murad Vitamin C Firming Facial with Vitamin C Hand Lightening treatment and Orange Blossom lotion hand, neck, and shoulder massage. 3 hrs. $260 Take-home Gift Basket available. (The Redlands Specialty)

• Day at the Spa. Custom Spa Facial, Hydrotherapy Tub, One-Hour Swedish-American Massage, Paraffin Hand & Foot Treatment. 3 hrs. $205.

• Hawaiian Holiday. Mud, Mango-Papaya Body Buffing, Pineapple Wiki Wiki Facial, Coconut Hair conditioner, Vichy Rain Shower, Mango Massage, Hawaiian Paraffin Hand treatment. 2 hrs. $160.

• Deluxe Hawaiian Holiday. All the above plus Bubbling Waters tub and Take Home Gift Basket. 2 ½ hrs. $275 (The favorite Girly Gift Certificate)

• Mud, Tub, & Rub. Detoxifying Mud, New York Facial, Vichy Shower, Tub plus One-Hour Massage. 2 hrs. $146. (Judged to be “ the Total Body Indulgence”)

• Scrub, Tub, & Rub. Invigorating and exfoliating Body Buffing, Vichy, New York Facial in the Tub, plus One-Hour Massage. 2 hrs. $146.(Rated the “Total Spa Experience")

Featuring European HYDROTHERAPY

A one hundred-year-old Victorian cottage in Historic Downtown Redlands, International Day Spa is a quiet retreat where you can escape from the stress of everyday pressures and renew your body, mind, and spirit.

Founded by Mimi Barre, who has been"Making the world beautiful, one person at a time, since 1958” Customer satisfaction is easy.We strive for Customer DELIGHT!

WHY HYDRO?

International Day Spa grew out of my love of Spas, World Travel, Education, The Beauty Business, and fascination with water treatments.

At 6, while I was attending school in Cuba, my mother took me to a spa to soak in a private mineral bath. During a trip to Baden Baden Germany when I was 12 I discovered what “Taking the Waters” was all about and became fascinated with the Spa Life. I understood the healing powers of water.

While growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s, Daddy took me to hot springs. What I noticed was that the people were wonderfully healthy. In 1959 I visited spas in Japan where Hot Water bathing is a ritual. After a visit to a Turkish Hammam bath near Ephesus, I studied hydrotherapy in the Czech Republic at a host of famous spa towns. My little business joined the International Spa Association as only the second Day Spa to hold membership. I became a member of the International Society of Medical Hydrology in Germany. I was thrilled to be in the first graduating class in America for Kneipp Therapists. Spa going can become a healthy addiction, and I was a junkie. Monticatini and Saturnia, Italy, and the Spa Project at the Roman Baths in Spa, England, beckoned. With all this knowledge and experience filling my head, I couldn’t keep it all a secret, so I built International Day Spa in the European tradition. Now the people of Southern California can taste a bit of Europe with a mini vacation to our Spa. Mimi

Hydrotherapy History

When the Roman Empire ruled the world, Roman soldiers were garrisoned all over Europe. They came upon a source of natural hot mineral water in what is now Belgium. The weary (and probably filthy) soldiers found that when they soaked and bathed in the hot water their muscle aches disappeared. Their skin felt smoother, and their overall health improved. The soldiers named the spa Health Through Water, or Salus Per Aquam; shortened to SPA. Every culture has used natural hot springs for their curative powers. In Vichy, France, the water is medicinal. For centuries people have been plunged into the waters for healing. At the Vichy clinic, doctors contemplated how non-ambulatory patients could benefit from the waters. They devised a shower of 5 showerheads extended from the ceiling under which a patient on a gurney could be wheeled. Thus the Vichy Shower was created.

All the water for the treatments at International Day spa is softened and filtered by Morley Water Systems, but it has no magical properties. For your treatment, active products like Sea Algae or Mud will be applied to your body. The product will be removed with the Vichy Shower.8

MISSION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY SPA

Providing the uncompromisingly finest in skin and body care and enhancing the total well-being of the guest.

Enriching each team member through education, encouragement, and professional advancement.

Earning a reasonable return on investment while providing exceptional value.

Benefiting the community through education, involvement, and encouragement.

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• GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE

What inspired Mimi to build International Day Spa?

International Day Spa grew out of my love for Spas,World Travel, Education, The Beauty Business, and a Quest for “The Secret” of Beautiful Skin.

As a 3-year-old, I loved going to the Beauty Parlor with Mommy. At 6 my mother took me to a spa in Cuba to soak in a private mineral bath. In Baden Baden Germany when I was 12, I discovered what “Taking the Waters” was all about and became fascinated with the Spa Life. When I was 19, Japanese baths and massages introduced me to a different life style than we had in the west. And trips to Hot Water Cures all over the United States sparked in me a quest for health.

During the 1940s and 50s Glamour Days of Hollywood, I longed to learn “The Secret” of the Movie Stars’ beautiful skin. People “in the business” knew that ladies from Hungary mixed up strange concoctions in their kitchens and used them on the Movie Stars. I asked one of the Hungarian ladies for her “Secret,” but of course then she forgot how to speak English.

After my graduation from Hollywood High School, my quest for “The Secret” intensified. I graduated from Beauty School. I still didn’t know “The Secret.” In Tokyo, Paris and London I learned about beauty but still didn’t find “The Secret.” So off to Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo I went to study Dietetics. Still “The Secret” eluded me.

Marriage, children, study, more study came along, but no answer. Degrees in Art and English hung on the wall, but the answer wasn’t in my head. Owning a beauty shop, directing a beauty school, teaching High School English were all wonderful, but still I wanted to know “The Secret.” Then I met the eminent Dermatologist and Pharmacist, Dr. Howard Murad. He gave me a jar of cream and asked me to try it. The first day that I used the cream I realized that I had discovered “The Secret to Beautiful Skin.”

Since 1990 I have studied hydrotherapy, bodywork, and skin care in Turkey, the Czech Republic, China, Italy, England, Wales, and Russia. This explains the name, International Day Spa. I long to give each person the wonderful Spa experiences that I have enjoyed. Welcome to our World Class Day Spa.

To your health and beauty, Mimi Barre

Hours

Open 9 AM to 9 PM, seven days a week

Contact Info

• 909-793-9080 t
• 909-307-2788 f
• Relax@INTLdayspa.com
• WWW.INTLdayspa.com

Address

• 325 Cajon St
• Redlands, CA 92373