The world’s first day-spa owner invited clients to “experience the healing powers of this here tar pit,” which was bad news for the clientele but invaluable for modern-day archaeologists. Preserve well-being without becoming permanently preserved with today’s Groupon to Uptown Dermatology & SkinSpa. Choose between the following options:

• For $50, you get $100 worth of SpaBucks, good for massage, facial, or SkinSpa services.
• For $100, you get $250 worth of SpaBucks, good for massage, facial, or SkinSpa services.<p>

Two board-certified dermatologists lead Uptown Dermatology & SkinSpa’s staff in the ongoing struggle against blemishes and stress. Swedish massages ($65 for 60 minutes) employ a combination of gentle effleurage and firm petrissage strokes to eradicate muscle knots and increase the body’s ease of movement, allowing clients to do the twist on top of a moving blimp. Skin sheds weary old cells during the microdermabrasion treatment ($100), which exfoliates skin using an abrasive mechanical device. Noninvasive fractional laser resurfacing regulates skin texture and tone ($300 for hands; $800 for full face), and the glycolic chemical peel ($70), customized in strength according to each client’s skin type, can help smooth fine lines and wrinkles and treat areas that become over-pigmented or frequently spontaneously combust.