There are several key points to consider as you go about searching for and selecting a staple massage cream for your massage therapy or bodywork practice. Most professional practitioners of healthy touch tend to keep a fairly large stock of at least one staple massage cream on hand, so they need not worry about running out when there are still clients to serve.
Perhaps the first and most important quality of your staple massage cream should be its ability to enhance your hands-on techniques, working with each movement or stroke to make for the best-possible massage or bodywork experience for the client. To determine what kind of massage cream will be able to optimize the work you do, you must first have a good handle on the nature of your massage therapy or bodywork sessions.
This means knowing whether you tend to perform more deep and spot-oriented work, or if you are more likely to spend the bulk of each sessions on lighter, longer gliding strokes. Of course, many massage therapists and bodyworkers might say they do a bit of both in the majority of client sessions.
If you feel your work tends to lean more toward deep, spot-oriented techniques, then you may want to attempt to find a massage cream that offers slightly more friction than glide. On the other hand, if you spend more time in sessions doing larger, more gliding techniques, then you may want to find a staple massage cream with a bit more glide than friction.
If you are one of the massage
therapists or bodyworkers who tends to do an equal amount of both deep and more gliding techniques, then your staple massage cream should be able to switch back and forth fairly seamlessly between friction and glide. The fact that massage creams can do both is what tends to make this versatile type of lubricant so incredibly popular among professional massage therapists and bodyworkers.
Probably the next most important point to consider when selecting your staple massage cream is what kinds of ingredients that massage cream contains. This is particularly critical for those practitioners who are strongly opposed to using any kind of synthetic ingredients in their practices. For example, quite a few massage therapists and bodyworkers may wish to steer clear of parabens. If this is the case, you will need to search for a massage cream that does not use such ingredients.
An extension of this consideration may be the need for a staple massage cream that is manufactured using eco-friendly methods. Do your homework to find out how the ingredients in the massage cream are grown and harvested or otherwise processed. In addition, find out if the packaging that surrounds the massage cream is made from recyclable materials and is recyclable itself.
Other considerations as you seek your go-to massage cream may be whether or not the massage cream contains any scent and whether it provides additional benefits, such as moisturizing or pain relief.
--Brandi Schlossberg
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