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These latest spa treatments serve up skin-boosting benefits with trendy ingredients that are good enough to eat.

Paradise Body Wrap with Goji Berry 
Spadyssey
Antioxidant-rich goji berry is a nutrient-packed “superfood” much-touted for its anti-aging powers. Spadyssey’s seventy-five-minute treatment is customized to each individual’s skin type and includes an exfoliating scrub and nourish-ing wrap, created with goji berries and other all-natural ingredients.  $95.
75 Dorrance Street, Providence, 273-9777, spadyssey.com

Thai Lemon Grass Body Wrap
Tranquility Day Spa
After exfoliating the skin with a green tea and crushed rice body scrub, spa owner Elizabeth Denbow massages clients with a cream of Thai lemon grass, silk and honey to soften and hydrate. A mineral-rich clay mask of sea kelp and green tea draws out impurities to complete the ninety-minute treatment. $99.
9 George Street, North Providence, 233-4544, tranquilitydayspa.biz

Chocolate and Strawberry Body Indulgence 
DaVinci Spa
DaVinci serves up antioxidant benefits in the form of a chocolate chip scrub and creamy chocolate “pudding” of cocoa butter, shea but-ter, honey and cocoa bean for an anti-inflammatory, hydrating treat. The fifty-five-minute session is capped off by a massage of strawberry lotion. $95.
2740 South County Trail, East Greenwich, 886-0999, davincispa.com

“Scotch Beach” Espresso Body Treatment 
Koru Eco Spa
Owner Lauren von Bernuth creates her  espresso scrub with beans from the island’s Juice ’n Java coffee bar for an invigorating treatment that stimulates circulation and opens pores—the earthy scent is added aromatherapy. The eighty-minute
experience ends with a purifying clay mask. $150.
232 Water Street, Block Island, 466-2308, koruecospa.com

Pomegranate Lime Manicure 
Elan Salon Day Spa
Pomegranate is increasingly popular for its healing, anti-aging powers. At Elan, a freshly scented exfoliating scrub of pomegranate and lime contains antioxidants and vitamin C to promote the regeneration of skin cells and knock a few years off of hands. The treatment finishes with a pomegranate lotion massage. $20.
99 Bald Hill Road, Cranston, 463-6749, elandayspa.com