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Guest lying back in the head spa basin during a warm-water scalp treatment at Flora Spa in Scottsdale

Head Spa

The treatment nobody stays awake for

Warm water, a black stone basin, and forty unhurried minutes of hands on your scalp. Your hair leaves cleaner than it has been in years. You leave several degrees calmer.

Private basin room

One guest at a time. Reclining chair, stone basin, dimmed light, no queue behind you.

Matched to your hair

Colour-treated, curly, fine, chemically straightened — the products change to suit it.

Washed, dried, done

You are blow-dried before you leave. Most guests go straight back to work.

What it is

And what is a head spa?

A head spa is a scalp treatment done lying down, with your head cradled in a black stone basin and warm water running continuously. Your hair is double-cleansed, the scalp is exfoliated and detoxed, and then comes the part everyone talks about — twenty unhurried minutes of fingertip massage across the scalp, temples, neck and shoulders.

Your scalp is skin, and it collects the same things the rest of your skin does: oil, dead cells, product residue, hard-water mineral. Left alone it dulls hair, irritates follicles and gets itchy in ways shampoo in the shower never quite fixes.

We start with an examination, then a double cleanse: the first wash lifts product and surface oil, the second reaches the scalp itself. From there it is exfoliation, a warm rinse under flowing water, a treatment mask matched to your hair type, and the part everyone talks about — a long fingertip massage across the scalp, temples, hairline, neck and shoulders.

The circulation it brings to the scalp is genuinely good for your hair. The reason people rebook is that almost nobody makes it to the end awake.

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A therapist’s hands working through wet hair under the warm-water fan at Flora Spa

The Head Spa Journey

Sixty minutes, six stages

Every head spa runs this way. Ninety minutes buys longer on stages three and four, and room for a mini facial while the mask sits.

01 · Consultation

Your therapist looks at your scalp and your hair before anything is opened — colour-treated, fine, curly, flaking, oily by day two — and picks the products for it. This is also where you choose your oil.

02 · Double cleanse

Two washes, because one is not enough. The first lifts product and surface oil; the second reaches the scalp itself and comes with the first few minutes of pressure work.

03 · Scalp massage

The part everyone talks about. Long fingertip work across the scalp, temples, hairline, neck and shoulders — unhurried, and the reason most guests do not make it to the end awake.

04 · Water therapy

You lie back into the black stone basin with warm water running continuously through your hair, rinsing out everything the exfoliation lifted. Nothing about it is like a shower.

05 · Conditioning

A treatment mask matched to what your hair actually needs, left to work while the neck and shoulder massage carries on.

06 · Finish

Rinsed, towel-dried and blow-dried at the chair. You leave with clean, dry hair, which is why most guests book this on a workday.

The benefits

Why people rebook it

  • Circulation to the follicle. Sustained scalp massage brings blood — and with it oxygen and nutrients — to the root, which is where healthy hair is actually made.
  • A scalp that is genuinely clean. Buildup you cannot reach standing in a shower comes off under flowing water with someone else's fingertips doing the work.
  • Less itch, less flake. Exfoliation plus the right treatment mask settles most dryness and irritation within a session or two.
  • Hair that behaves. Frizz drops, shine comes back, and roots stop going greasy by day two.
  • The nervous system part. Head, jaw and neck hold an enormous amount of stress. Forty minutes of this does something an hour of scrolling cannot.
Essential oils, dried lavender and a wooden scalp comb
A guest mid-treatment during a head spa

Add aromatherapy

Choose your oil at the start

Before your treatment begins, your therapist will bring out three or four essential oils and let you smell them. Pick whichever one your body reacts to — that reaction is usually right.

Lavender and chamomile if you want to be asleep by the second cleanse. Peppermint and rosemary if you have an afternoon ahead of you. Eucalyptus if your sinuses are the problem. Aroma costs $10 and it changes the whole session.

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Head spa questions

Your hair is washed, treated and blow-dried before you leave, so you walk out looking done. We do not style with heat tools beyond the dryer — if you have a specific set or blowout you need to protect, tell us when you book.

No, but say so at intake. We switch to sulphate-free, colour-safe products and keep the water temperature down. Same for keratin treatments, relaxers and extensions — mention extensions when you book so we can allow extra time.

Once a month suits most people. If you are dealing with active buildup, dandruff or an irritated scalp, every two weeks for the first month or two makes a bigger difference, then monthly to hold it.

Not at all. Shaved and thinning scalps benefit from exactly the same cleansing, exfoliation and circulation work — arguably more, since there is nothing between the treatment and the skin.

Yes. Ask for adjacent basins when you book and two therapists work at the same time, so you start and finish together. Each guest pays the standard price for the length they choose.

On a 90-minute head spa we can add a mini facial for $15 — cleanse, gentle exfoliation and a mask across the face while your hair treatment sits. It only fits in the 90-minute session, which is why it is not offered on the 60.

Your scalp has been waiting

Forty-five minutes, a warm basin, and someone else's hands doing the work.

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