Le Petite Retreat day spa in Larchmont Village has a variety of body and beauty treatments and specializes in dual treatments for couples. This is one of the outdoor (heated and air-conditioned) cabanas designed for two treatments at once. (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)
A copper tub for two at Le Petite Retreat in Larchmont Village. Copper is said to have healing properties (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)
Deanna Morales of Ontario applies therapeutic red clay mud to Loren Grayem of Bloomington at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A guest lets her nail polish dry after receiving the Essential Pedicure at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa in Corona can accomodate 1,200 patrons each day. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Attendant Haley Proulx applies a green body moisturizer to Tonie Alfonso of Long Beach inside the Grotto at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa. The Grotto is an underground granite cave room used for moisturizing the skin. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Brandon Janosco gives a Swedish massage to a client under the oaks at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Guests relax in the lounge pool, one of 19 pools at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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A swimmer exits Voda’s lap pool. The spa’s 40-degree cold plunge is at the far end. The West Hollywood facility also has a cocktail lounge and cafe. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Visitors can dry off next to a fireplace after a dip in the pool at Voda. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Scott Anderson removes a berries, honey and yogurt mask off Kellye Klotz at the Voda Spa in West Hollywood. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Massage therapist Salvador Gonzalez uses the Vichy showers on Chad Kenyon after receiving a Siberian wild berry body scrub at Voda Spa. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Chad Kenyon gets a platza treatment from Marisela Canales in a banya room, where the temperatures can reach 200 degrees. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The wet treatment room overlooks the pool at the Spa at Terranea in Palos Verdes. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Inside the 50,000-square-foot Terranea Spa. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Guests at the Terranea Spa are never far from the sound of crashing ocean waves. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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A woman relaxes by the fire pit overlooking the swimming pool and ocean at sunset at Terranea. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
