Rave Reviews

Cosmopolitan Magazine

"Stars who need to escape for a few hours head for Skin Spa, L.A.'s poshest day spa. ... Film and television's biggest names [are assured] that their privacy will be guarded as they partake in some of the world's most luxurious beauty and relaxation therapies."

Bel Air Magazine

"Where Big Sur meets the occident...offering superb services in an aesthetic environment laced with heady incense and New Age music. Under the wonderful aroma of burning incense and fingers massaging my neck shoulders, I entered Nirvana.

Hollywood Reporter

-"Who would have expected L.A.'s most luxurious day spa to be tucked away in Encino? But Skin Spa blows away the competition for spa treatments and skincare. ... From top of the line skincare to womb-like treatment rooms that smell great, to an adept staff, you can't go wrong here."

Allure Magazine

"Today, this day spa is one of the most popular pamper palaces in Southern California."

"Perhaps the most exotic massage in L.A., Skin Spa's Spa a Trois is much more than a rub down. Don't be surprised if you can't get off the table, your body may have surrendered and turned to mush."

ELLE Magazine

"Skin Spa offers a sybaritic face, scalp and full-body massage that uses Monoi. Almost as relaxing as a day in Bora Bora."

"They call it the Radiant Facial, and that's no exaggeration. All the products are food-based and smell terrific, including their trademark pineapple-cornmeal scrub, which exfoliates and moisturizes.

My skin looks really clean when I left, and I did not feel like wearing anything but lipstick for the rest of the day."

Glamour Magazine

"Among the best day spas that cater to working women."

USA Today

The couples who spa together stay together

By Kelly Carter, USA TODAY

While marriages around them fall apart, several Hollywood couples have found a soothing way to keep their romance alive.

John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos are among the duos to check in to the couples suite at Skin Spa, a European day spa in Encino, Calif.

Couples' treatments are practically unheard of outside of destination spas.

"I have created more love affairs, stopped more divorces and made more people happy by having a venue for them to step into," boasts Skin Spa owner Jonathan Baker. "It pleases me to no extent to see people who really went on a date at Skin Spa."

Travolta and his wife recently requested the Spa Romantique II, a three-hour, $400 package that includes a salt glow, body shampoo, privacy soak, one-hour facial and CHI massage, an energy-based massage.

The Smiths enjoyed Spa for Two, a 90-minute, $250 treatment with a privacy soak, massage and stop at the mud bar.

The most popular couples treatment is Endless Courtship, Baker says, which the Stamoses took advantage of. The 2 1/2 -hour, $375 pampering session offers privacy soak, dry-brushing exfoliation, cornmeal-pineapple facial, radiance face mask and massage.

This service is highly requested because it is the only one where every stage takes place in the couple's suite, a candlelit room where pure aromatherapy blows through and a rose petal bath awaits clients.

"There's no difference between coming out of Skin Spa and a feel-good love story like Notting Hill," says Baker, who also is a producer and scriptwriter with a deal at Paramount.