If your skin is suffering from the effects of pollution - and let's face it, living in Hong Kong, it probably is - and your mind is reeling at the environmental damage your lifestyle is helping to wreak, help is at hand.
I Love Green - a new spa and beauty boutique in Central - has not only committed itself to being environmentally friendly, it will also pamper you with organic beauty products and treatments.
Dawn Fok, a local distributor of skin-care brands and the owner of spa chain El Beaute, became aware of the harmful chemicals in most skin-care products and conceived the idea for I Love Green.
Inside what resembles a cute science-fiction-inspired pod - with the shop at the front and the spa at the back - brands such as Antipodes, 100% Pure, Fermes de Marie Beauty and j.f. Lazartigue are used to give customers a thorough pampering and send them back out into the world glowing and with their skin free of residual chemicals. Choose from a wide selection of facials, body treatments such as massages, wraps and scrubs, eye treatments, waxing and more.
Fok was determined her new venture would be as eco-friendly as possible. All materials in the store - from its wall paint, shelving, lighting and flooring to its shopping bags and towels - are environmentally friendly and, as far as possible, manufactured from renewable sources.
To celebrate its opening, members will enjoy a free upper back massage with every thermotherapy procedure (HK$400 for 25 minutes), 100 bonus points that can be used towards purchasing products or redeeming gifts, free product samples and the chance to win a HK$2,000 cash coupon on a weekly basis.