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Body wraps, a staple at spas, are considered an effective, all-natural way to enhance and moisten your skin, making it look softer.
     Wraps are designed to improve the texture and appearance of the skin by helping to rid the body of excess fluids and toxins. Benefits of body wraps may include detoxification, boosting of the lymphatic system and metabolism, body contouring, temporary inch-loss, skin tightening, and skin softening.
How Are Body Wraps Performed?
People undergoing body wrap treatments typically have their torso, legs, arms, and neck wrapped with elastic cloths (either dry when wrapped or pre-soaked with a body wrap mixture). The elastic cloths absorb and help remove excess body fluids and toxins. The cloths are wrapped snugly (though not too tightly), creating a thermal blanket that promotes sweating and aids in the shedding of unnecessary interstitial fluid (fluid located between the small spaces of body tissues).
Possible Benefits of Body Wraps
Body wraps are all-natural, most often containing a mixture of herbs and minerals designed to beautify the skin. Essential oils and sea salts may also be used in daily spa body wrap treatments, seeking to help tone and soften the skin, and help rid you of those unwanted inches. Results may be realized immediately. But toxins and interstitial fluids eventually re-accumulate, so regular body wraps may provide better long-term benefits.
More on Body Wraps:
Body scrubs may use salts and other natural ingredients to exfoliate and detoxify the skin.
Body wraps use detoxifying organic materials, such as mud or aloe vera, to draw toxins from the body and soften skin. Most body scrubs use a blend of oils with fine and coarse grains, and are followed with the application of emollient lotions to further soften skin. Skin will feel soft, and fine lines will lessen after just one treatment. Such deeply relaxing treatments are shown to decrease stress, thereby lowering blood pressure. Since the skin is our largest organ, detoxification can have profound effects on our health and sense of well-being.
Body Wrap Costs
Body wraps typically cost between $100 and $300, depending on your location, at most day spas. Body wraps are often performed as part of a larger body treatment that may include aromatherapy, mud baths, hot tubs, and saunas. Day spa body wraps can be less expensive when performed in conjunction with other body treatments or day spa therapies that may include facials, massages, or waxing.
How does Alure rate body wraps?
Keller says editors first look for those that promise "detoxifying," "firming," "tightening," or "slimming" effects. Then, they check for ingredients dermatologists and aestheticians have said have some kind of tightening effect, however temporary. That includes things such as seaweed, caffeine, and muds. To pick the best, it comes down to trial and error: Editors try them, to see if they feel as if they've lost any water weight, and if they're actually tighter and firmer -- and how long the effects last.
Do body wraps really work?

Are bodywraps just another weight loss gimmick or can bodywraps help you achieve weight loss and fitness goals?
The answer to that question depends a lot on you.
Assuming you've chosen body wraps that work by carefully evaluating the choices with the criteria I will be giving you, you need to look at your expectations.
Are you assuming that all you need is a good bodywrap to get results? Bodywraps can provide benefits but are you believing a stand-alone weight loss tool?
The answer is a resounding "no".
Even the very best body wrap works best when it is just one aspect of a total weight loss program involving exercise and diet. If you go into this idea of wrapping for weight loss thinking that it's a quick fix, I can tell you that you will be setting yourself up for disappointment.
Instead of asking yourself do body wraps really work, why not start with a more important question: am I willing to work to achieve my weight loss goals?
In this 7-part weight loss and fitness article, we will explore the most popular types of wraps as well as other important factors to look at in making your decision, assuming you've already answered the question above with a resounding yes, I'm willing to work

 The Basic Three in Wrapping:

* Mineral wraps
* Herbal body wraps
* Detoxing clay wraps

Mineral wraps usually contain a blend of minerals (these may contain electrolyte minerals, potassium, sodium, zinc) or a wider range of colloidal trace minerals.

I tried one of the popularly advertised mineral body wraps which involved constantly moving, while being wrapped from head to toe for an hour. I didn't find them fun and I lost only water weight, which quickly returned.

Since mineral wraps may likely contain minerals that are important to have in balance in the body, such as magnesium, potassium or sodium, there may be cautions for certain people.

Those with heart conditions or those who are on magnesium or potassium supplements should check with their doctor before doing a mineral wrap that contains these minerals.

Also, anyone on a sodium-restricted diet would want to check with their doctor because a certain portion of the minerals will get absorbed thru the skin and end up in your bloodstream.

However, some mineral solutions contain additional ingredients that may help with breaking down fat or detoxing so ask for ingredient list and explanation of properties in additional ingredients.

Herbal body wraps may range widely in both their purpose and their ingredients. There are herbs that help tone the skin and others that help detoxify, while yet others impart moisture and healing or may be helpful for skin conditions.

Detoxing clays are primarily known for exactly that - detoxing the body. Popular detoxing clays include bentonite, french green clay, clay from the sea or dead sea, red clay, etc.

Of these 3 popular types of body-wraps, I personally favor detoxifying clays but only if the clays and other ingredients are organic and pure. Choose herbal-wraps that add only organic herbs and use the purest detoxing clays.