6 • Travel & Wellness
These easy ingredients can quickly transform your day and help you “travel.” By Becca Hensley
“When we pause, allow a gap and breathe deeply,
we can experience instant refreshment.
Suddenly, we slow down, and there’s the world,” wrote American Tibetan Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron. She might have been talking about the positive results of our current quarantine syndrome, as scores of people slow down, simplify, and re-evaluate the consequences of their former high-speed lifestyles. With most spas and beauty salons closed for business, a shift to effortless, unpretentious, all-natural beauty has been trending along with that pause—even in posts by celebrities as diverse as Kylie Jenner, Will Smith, Ariana Grande, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Follow their examples when you whip up these healing, DIY spa treatments with ordinary ingredients found in your kitchen cabinets. Recipes are courtesy of some of the world’s best spas. Here’s to—as Chodron said—“instant refreshment!”
