Situated just off the main drag, on Figueroa Street, Spa by Diane Loring is located inside the historic”Love House” a Victorian-styled masterpiece gracing the town since 1903. Like the building housing 71 Palm Restaurant, the Love House is now a California Historical Landmark.
The Spa offers numerous treatments including deliciously chocolate spa treatments in a divine setting. There is the Chocolate Mineral Buff ($75), which is an hour-long massage with the spa�s own chocolate aromatherapy oil, which is mixed with sea salts to exfoliate and hydrated the skin. The equally luscious Chocolate Contour Body Wrap ($75) begins with exfoliation. The body is then painted in Chocolate clay and wrapped in hot towels for fifteen minutes, then cleaned and then rubbed with hot chocolate oils for 35 minutes.
My visit included a one-hour deep tissue rub-down performed by Heather, one of the spa’s most skilled massage and skin specialist’s. The way she kneaded my sore muscles was a work of art. I felt like a slab of dough transformed into an rejuvenated pizza pie, with all the toppings. I felt so great after the massage that i wanted a glass of wine to go with the flow…