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Treat Your Back Like Your Face With The Back Facial

By Morgan Bilodeau · Published April 5, 2021 · Updated February 10, 2025

If you’re a skincare enthusiast like us, facials are most likely incorporated into your monthly skincare routine. We understand the value and importance of a good skincare routine everyday and we are constantly looking for ways to perfect it.

Treat Your Back Like Your Face With The Back Facial - Joanna Vargas

If you’re a skincare enthusiast like us, facials are most likely incorporated into your monthly skincare routine. We understand the value and importance of a good skincare routine everyday and we are constantly looking for ways to perfect it. But, we all know that we can't fully take care of our face just by our at home skincare routine, so we book a facial monthly to professionally treat what we can not control.


Why wouldn't we do the same with our body? Our body should be treated the same way as our face. You wash your body everyday and clean it. But after a while there can be product build up that can irritate your skin. Some of us may even experience bacne (back acne) which can be very hard to control. You can use all the products you want but you sometimes just need to take it one step further. That’s where we step in! 


We offer Back Facials at both Joanna Vargas Salons, and it’s the perfect glow-up for spring. Joanna crafted a game-changing facial for your back to give your body the same anti-aging, skin smoothing and perfecting benefits you enjoy for your face. Plus, collagen production is stimulated for cumulative anti-aging benefits. Win win! Experience a luxury setting, and our famous skin-loving techniques.

 

This 'facial for your back' features a diamond-tipped wand to exfoliate the back and shoulders, extractions, a customized mask for your skin type, and medical-grade oxygen to plump and hydrate skin, leaving your back soft and glowing with a noticeably renewed radiance.

Hear it from the Pros:

“The back facial is really good for clients because it's an area that you often can’t reach and maybe you have congestion or you need exfoliation. Since this is an area you can’t reach, nor can you see, when you come in for a back facial we work on cleansing it, exfoliating it, doing further extractions, and anything else that needs to be taken care of.  Your back needs hydration because sometimes it’s an area that can get rough texture. A lot of times for clients, they're wearing sports bras and various tight fitting garments. Oil and dirt get trapped in the back so we can really work on keeping your back nice and clear. When the summer comes it's really good.” - Master Esthetician, Sarah Karaopolis 


“We start with a little bit of toner on the back and then we do full body microdermabrasion so we remove all the dead skin before starting extractions. After the microdermabrasion we cleanse with a cleanser and we put your back under clarifying steam. The steam opens all the pores. While the steam is on we apply our Exfoliating Mask, then we perform the extractions. We remove black heads and big pimples. You’d be surprised at how many black heads are on the back! After, we apply a mask depending on your skin type. Your back can be either really congested or dry. Once we remove the mask we use oxygen. We infuse the oxygen serum with 98% pure oxygen which can deeply penetrate the skin. Lastly we apply a hydrating cream to leave you glowing.” -Master Esthetician, Valentina “Stella” Lisi

 

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