The Dead Sea Spa | Skin Care & Day Spa | Salt Lake City's Woman Only Spa — Local services in Salt Lake City

I’ve been a regular customer there for almost 5 years now. All I can say is: natural sugar wax! Try it for your bikini and you’ll never do it with the synthetic wax (everywhere else) again.

I’ve been waxing my body since I was 16 so I’ve had many estheticians. Ertifa is the only one who does sugar waxing (aka “sugaring” or “oriental wax”) at the salon (and apparently in SLC since I just looked and no one else is offering sugar wax for Brazilian). She is a master esthetician. This technique is unique and very difficult to master. It is a Middle Eastern traditional method for hair removal. Contrary to other wax, it is in and of itself super hygienic. No double dipping issue since there is no dipping. The wax naturally contains vinegar and lemon which keep everything sanitized. Additionally Ertifa makes her own wax and keeps it in individual containers so that no contamination can occur (contrary to other big wax batch). Before I discovered sugar wax, I was going to regular salon (for about 10 years). I’ve always had lots of red spots and zits after waxing. Some even burned me with the hot wax. I had my skin peeling, skin irritation and infection. This simply can’t happen with sugar wax because it’s at body temperature and contains absolutely no chemicals (it’s sugar+ water+lemon+vinegar = boil it to make a caramel). Ertifa warms the wax in her hands before applying it on skin and that’s it! Even though I’ve been waxing for years and years, my skin is super sensitive and only Ertifa has been able to improve my skin health while being waxed. (Bonus: when you get sugar wax it’s as if you receive a gentle sugar scrub, it exfoliates).

Now about the salon. I’m an LGBTQIA advocate. I know what’s discrimination. The spa is women only because the women working there are Muslim and do not wear the hijab while working. However if a man comes in unexpectedly, the women working there will have to cover their head immediately. That’s not discrimination for the men. Just a women choice. At most a problem of sign outside the door with a nice and courteous message that could say “Dear men, for religious consideration regarding women working here without their headscarf, we ask you kindly to not come inside. We are sorry for any inconvenience. The Dead Sea spa.” Make it a nice panel out the door and on the website and done!

About the “look” of the salon. Yes, the decor is not all design and trendy. It doesn’t fit my taste. But it’s not my home. It’s their home place, their women spa. The owner is free to make it look the way she wants, with all the cultural artifacts she wishes. This is not IKEA. No one is asking you to buy the furniture. I go there for my body, to get wax and massage and pedicure. I receive an amazing service with one of the kindest woman I have ever met (Ertifa). That’s it.

To finish, some reviews critic the cleanliness of this place. Well, I think it’s ironic because they don’t know what they expose themselves to with other salons and the infections they can get with synthetic wax. This place is clean. Cluttered but clean. Always has clean towels, clean bathroom, clean floors. Yes it’s not all white and fancy but it’s not a hospital or a hotel, you’re not sleeping...

I don't have anything bad or good to say. I'll just share my experience. The salon is clean, with parking and I was greeted immediately. From what I remember, there are rooms with curtains not doors, so outside noise will be heard. I had henna, which was the most expensive henna I've ever had. I asked about my options prior to starting but was never told the cost or design details. As she drew, she talked and kept me engaged. No complaints because the conversation was interesting. As a result, I have a long, not intricate henna drawing and because of its size, I was charged the highest price. There is a 20% service charge on ALL services. It called a tip but tips are voluntary, this is not. While my henna is drying another employee and I are talking. As we are talking, another employee gives the hand across the throat sign indicating for her to stop talking so I will leave. I saw this and got up to go. I just paid $90 plus "tip" for mediocre henna and I can't sit in the EMPTY salon while it dries? Has any service provider wanted you to leave an empty salon, hours before closing with expensive and incomplete services AND a mandatory 20% "tip"? They have long term customers but this is my experience and I would not return. Update: there is one thing I HATE it's a liar. I was NOT told prices beforehand and I walked all the way to the back and saw rooms on both sides of the hall. The bathroom had a door. I sat in an open room where nails are done and the reflecology is in the hall leading to the rooms. Look at the photos they provided. This will confirm my statement.I could see who came and went in the salon. And "tip" was forced. She said my price plus 20%. When I pushed back it became 10%. You can see from other reviews there is a 20% "tip". Telling people how much to tip is tacky. You simple ask of they want to add a tip to the bill. Sometimes an owner's response is worse than the review. I did not give them a bad review i shared my experience, which is accurate, their response isn't.update again. The woman has sent me text messages about my review. I provided my number to make an appointment not to be harassed about my review. I've never seen...

I came here to get a particular bar of soap, that I had googled about before coming in. That’s the only way I found out about this joint in the first place. On their website, the bar of soap was listed for $8. I was prepared to spend $10-15. I wasn’t prepared for what happened when I actually arrived— it took forever and a bunch of small talk with one employee and the manager before I actually got the price check on the soap which I was very upfront about why I walked in in the first place since I was not there for an appointment. The manager (or so it seemed) took forever to tell me the bar of soap was $25 (?!?!) and then she proceeded to take it out of the package with her bare grubby hands, contaminating the product I wished to purchase, and said, “but we can’t sell it to you in its original packaging, we can only sell it to you like this” holding the product as if it was still valuable after she degraded it right before my eyes. No I don’t want to buy contaminated soap with your weird rules and weird energy and changing price on me.. however I continued to be polite because I can understand some folks aren’t all there. But when I couldn’t make up my mind on whether or not I wanted to let myself be price gouged by some random spa in SLC without even knowing whether or not it was a trustworthy place … that’s when the manager pulled out her attitude on me. It felt like an immediate switch from the fake friendliness to a “get out of here you’re wasting my time.” I would have never stopped in if you guys didn’t have the soap listed for sale on your website. The energy was dark weird and unfriendly. They were definitely trying to pull one on me in terms of squeezing dollars out of me. The energy was weird from the manager though the employee was trying her best to be sweet despite the energy just being so uninviting there. I will definitely not be booking any treatments here and will be looking to buy my Arabic soaps from the local African shops in salt...