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Hardly an ecologically-minded institute for anti-aging, this medspa keeps a physician on hand for Botox and Restylane injections.

This intimate Kew Gardens spa is a local magnet for all-natural face and body treatments and thorough manicures.

This spa in Midtown's Little Seoul neighborhood showcases invigorating body scrubs and a relaxation "igloo" with putative healing powers.

At this hypercool salon and spa, the hair care and beauty treatments are as up-to-date as the awe-inspiring decor.

This luxe wine-centric spa opened in October 2008, becoming the fourth Vintothérapie spa in the world and the first to be located in an urban setting, rather than a European vineyard.

This full-service spa offers tropically-inspired treatment rooms complete with lifelike jungle murals and names like Island Paradise and Bamboo Forest.

Chopraheads relish ancient Ayurvedic treatments in this wellness lair under Midtown’s Dream hotel.

This spa specializes in customized ethnic skin care and spiritual enlightenment.

Homey, laid-back, and very friendly, De Novo excels at facials that are both relaxing and thorough.

Specializing in wavy locks, this subterranean salon is a pilgrimage site for girls with curls.

When there’s not a minute to spare, Midtowners duck into this venerable day spa for fast and surprisingly affordable services.

With eight treatment rooms as well as a next-door sun room, patio, and yoga studio, the holistic services offered here are vast.

Come for the targeted, customized massages, stay for the holistic facials, spiritual workshops and wet lounge.

This homey, second-floor spa is best known for its deep-cleansing Fresh Air Facial and decadent Chardonnay Massage.

Veteran esthetician Faina Shafir insists on a staff well-trained in clinical skin care at her small, spare European day spa.

At this modest Ayurvedic spa, ancient mind-body principles underlie personalized facials and restorative massages.

The scented potions and European spa techniques of this luxe spot harken back to a time before “green” and “medi” were spa buzzwords.

A compact duplex spa with waterfall-inspired accents and a deeply relaxing air.

This intimate spa in the basement of the Empire Hotel offers a full menu of body treatments, massages, facials, and acupuncture.

Celebs, clubbers, and couples order up steam-and-sauna cocktails at the spa that never sleeps.

Lather’s first U.S. spa incorporates its signature products into treatments like bamboo and yuzu body scrubs and lavender-lime pedicures.

Le Cachet offers the mother lode in holistic treatments and advanced therapeutic gadgetry.

Pampering, shmampering: Freshly mixed herbal masks combine with the latest in Western spa technology to offer results over R and R.

Top-notch treatments considered by some to be the most effective in town.

Top-notch treatments considered by some to be the most effective in town.