Massage Oils & Products: Pinpointing Muscle Groups for Massage

Video Transcript

"Hi! On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Jean Hurley from Siegels Day Spa in Cottonwood, Arizona and we’re giving you some tips and techniques for pinpointing muscle groups for a massage. A product that I like to use during this is one called body butter. Basically, it is a solid in the jar, but once touch it starts to melt like butter. That way it’s on your hands. The customer, the client is not all oily and greasy and slick and you get to have the slip that you need so you can identify the muscles, so you can feel the muscles for yourself without sliding all over skin tissue and being sloppy with it. It doesn’t take a lot of this product to work and it stays on your hands, again so the customer is not all oily. But in speaking of oil, a lot of massage therapist will use oil sparingly because it does make them pretty slick. There are lotions, lotions are thick, they do have a tendency to dry very quickly. It takes a lot of lotion to work into a massage but there are some that have actually been able to work pretty well. They do tend to dry with the air, they dry pretty quickly and you have to keep reapplying lotion. Body butter, you don’t have to do that and oil as well; oil does make you pretty slick. Another thing you can use on somebody who has actually some pain is one that is analgesic and that’s something that’s got a little bit of menthol and camphor in it that helps heat the muscle along with the stretching movements that you do for a massage. It’s sort of a way to heat the muscle so it will start relaxing and not reacting to the muscle pressure that you’re giving it during the massage. "