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Opened shortly after 9/11 by Hungarian-born Laszlo Friedman, Le Cachet offers a virtual catalog of holistic and high-tech spa treatments for men and women. With white walls, glossy wood floors, and steel and crystal light fixtures, the front room packs in four Jacuzzi pedicure chairs, a manicure station, and a mini salon that offers cuts, color using low-peroxide dyes, Japanese straightening, and ethnic hairstyling. But it’s in the space’s nether regions—down a long hallway and inside ten brick-walled treatment rooms—where the more exclusive services take place. Two private showers boast adjoining clay-tile steam rooms aromatized with fresh pine branches. Hair removal, massage, and a slew of wraps—Dead Sea mud, chocolate, herb, and seaweed—happen here, too. But the most complex body service has to be the RejuveThermal Cocoon, which has clients lay inside a giant podlike machine and get steamed, oxygenated, and blasted with pure micronized seaweed in order to detoxify and rejuvenate tired skin cells. The spa also specializes in high-tech facials that focus on damaged, aging, or acne-prone skin; head esthetician Julia Friedman may employ tools like the Jet Peel pure oxygen and saline machine or the non-toxic Crystal Peel microdermabrasion system. Le Cachet uses only spa-grade skincare products—Eminence, OLOS, G. M. Collin—and graciously sells them at near-wholesale prices. — Sarah Walker

Each treatment room is equipped with its own CD player, and clients are encouraged to bring their own music.

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Le Cachet offers monthly specials on selected packages and services, which are listed on their website.