How to Wrap

How to Wrap Your Clients

The Get Acquainted Wrap is the complete instructions on introducing your clients to Body Wrapping and performing their first wrap.

This is a great time to learn about your client, their goals, and offer them a body wrap package for additional treatments for ultimate results.

How Many Wraps Will I Need?

You will need a series of wraps to see long lasting results. We recommend that you can be wrapped twice a week or three times a week as long as there is a day in between. Depending upon the amount of cellulite that has formed, your percentage of body fat etc.

How Long Does It Take?

A total of 1 ½ hours for the body wrap. Thirty minutes is spent measuring, wrapping up the body and then unwrapping and re-measuring. You must stay in the wraps for one hour to achieve the best inch loss. It is important to stay warm during the complete procedure also.

What Do I Wear?

During the wrap process ladies should wear panties and bra or a bathing suit. The clothing will get wet during the treatment so always bring an extra set to wear home. The wrap is most effective when it comes in contact with the bare skin.

• Give your client the client information and measurement chart to answers all the medical questions and sign the chart.
• Remove wraps from your warming oven, wearing your insulated gloves, (it is very important that the wraps are very hot when applied to the body this helps to open the pores of the skin) store wraps in a bucket and keep covered with a towel to keep them as hot as possible, while measuring and recording the measurements on the chart. It usually takes 12-15 wraps per body unless the client is very large then you would use 20 to 22 wraps.
• Measure your patron, and record on the measurement chart. See Correct Measuring & Recording Below. If you have sold your patron a series of wraps, measure exactly the same so make sure that on her last wrap that she is scheduled with the original wrap tech that she started with. If the patron insists on being measured every time, go ahead and measure her.

a.  Dry skin brush client all over her entire body. If she does not want you to do this procedure don’t insist. But she will receive better benefits if it is completed. Give her a dry skin brush brochure to read while wrapping her. Remember dry skin brushing removes all the dead skin cells from the surface of the skin, stimulates the sweat glands, opens the pores, but most important it brushes up the blood circulation and poor blood circulation is the indirect cause of cellulite. If the client feels uncomfortable with nudity give her a brush and tell her to dry skin brush thoroughly all over her entire body. Tell her to brush the area from the knee to the upper thigh very well for this is the area most prone to cellulite buildup. Hand her a bottle of Anti-Cellulite Gel. Tell her to apply it all over her complete body even under her panties and bra. This will help to treat those areas that you cannot reach with the wrap.

b.  Apply the Anti-Cellulite Gel all over the entire body. This is the cellulite treatment product included in your kit. If giving an herbal wrap (Aloe Vera) apply before. If performing a Sea Clay body wrap apply the gel after un-wrapping the client. After wrapping the legs, hips, and stomach, put the bottom half of the Sauna Suit on your patron, and the booties. Keep her warm while you are finishing the wrap.

• Keep a shower cap on hand to cover your client’s hair with, if she wants to have her neck and chin wrapped go ahead and wrap that area. Starting at the top of the head and wrap and bring to down under the chin and back around.
• If you have Toning Tables, position your client on the waist, tummy, hip, table first, then sandbag table circulation table. If she has never been on the Passive Exercise Equipment before, this will be an excellent opportunity to introduce her to the Toning Tables. If using the Sauna, put her into the sauna for 45 minutes. You can also use a treadmill or a cardio glide, or a bicycle.
• It is important to have a full length mirror in each body wrap room to enable the body wrap technician to be sure that she is measuring the client in the correct areas.
• The client will stay in the wraps for 60 minutes if just using heat lamps or exercise equipment. If using sauna type equipment she would stay 45 minutes. Escort your client back to the Body Wrap room. Unwrap and re-measure, note inches lost on her measurement chart, exclaim over inches lost and encourage her to continue with the wraps.
• Sell your patron a series of wraps; she can experience a wrap every other day as long as there is a day off in between wraps. Explain to her that if she has a lot of Cellulite and excess inches to lose, it will probably take at least 12 wraps to see results. Talk about purchasing a Home Care Treatment Kit or at the very least a Body Brush & Anti-Cellulite Gel. If she signs up for a 12 wrap treatment package give her a brush and a gel free for home care treatment. Schedule her next appointment!
• Give her some referral cards to pass out to friends.
• Encourage her to bring friends to be wrapped and to exercise with.
• Explain that the Body Wrap is a cleansing and detoxifying program, and that it works best when drinking at least 8-10 glasses of water a day following the wrap treatment.
• Give her a Cellulite Control Diet to take home.
• Make sure she has a “Rules to Follow to Keep Inches Off” list.
• Sell her a Contour Body Brush and an 8 oz. Anti-Cellulite Gel to continue her treatments at home. Or offer as an incentive and give away free with every body wrap package sold.

Important Notes

1. Proper Holding

The wrap is held with rolled portion of the wrap away from the body. This is to give you better control of the wrap. 

2. Wrap Towards the Heart

Start your wrap at the left ankle and always wrap from the outside of the body towards the front of your client. This will ensure that blood circulation is not slowed down; also it is important to start from the bottom and work upwards. Always wrapping towards the heart.

3. Overlapping Wraps

Make sure the lower edge of the wrap crosses the middle of the previous wrap; this helps to eliminate bulges and avoids unnecessary lines when the wrap is removed.

4. Twist & Tuck Method

To secure each wrap firmly. Twist the end of the wrap starting about 2 inches before reaching     the end of the wrap. Twist and tuck into the previous wrap. When coming around with the wrap make sure that you cover the previous opening. This will save you time and you will be able to get the client out of the wrap safely and effectively.

5. Pressure Points

When wrapping the four pressure points use extreme caution!

a. Back of the knee joints

b. Inside top of the legs (groin)

c. Lower Back

d. Inside of elbows

6. Tips on Knee and Elbow

Start your wrap process in the middle of the previous wrap. Never start a wrap on the edge of a previous wrap.

7. Criss Crossing

When applying the wraps in all areas, (except the legs) employ the criss cross method (X). You will always be working on the area that is facing you. 

8. Wrap Tension

There are basically three wrap tensions.

1. Flesh setting wraps should be applied with light tension (not loose) just as a light pull as you are applying.

2. A firm wrap is used after your flesh setting, use medium to high tension, this compacts skin tissue to ensure a firm surface.

3. Pressure wraps are additional wraps to ensure results and eliminate bulges. Do not use this except for the top of the legs and the mid body.

Correct Measuring and Recording

This is important from the viewpoint that you are trying to capture the true “before” picture of your client. In order for these results to be true and correct, it is important that you limit any differences in the method that you use to measure your client. Changes in the stance of the client, the tension pull on the tape measurement and the actual location of the tape on the client’s body, can individually or together alter the measurement results. Therefore, it is important to keep the following points in mind.

Proper Measurement Stance

Make sure the client does not alter their stance by leaning over and looking down. Have you client stand straight, legs together, with their hands behind the head, elbows out. As measurements are being taken in 1/8 increment, one small change in their stance can change the measurement significantly. Do not take measurements with fingers between the tape measure and the client’s skin. Keep your fingers on the outside of the tape to ensure true measurements. Should you encounter a larger after measurement than the initial measurement you have probably made a measuring mistake either in the after measurement, the initial measurement or the measuring from the wrong end of the tape.

Uniform Tape Tension

Pulling the measuring tape tight on the same measurement point will produce a “smaller” measurement. To ensure that your measurements are true, develop your sense of tape tension. Proper tension on the measurement tape should be for the tape to lay on the skin so that it does not sag, yet not tight enough to cause the skin at the edge of the tape to buckle.

Using Ink Marks To Find Identical Points Of Measurement

Once the tape is on the client, make at least three marks along the top and bottom of the measuring tape. These marks should be placed on the skin to ensure that you can find the exact measurement spot in your final measurement process. Be sure to make them in several different areas along the tape measure to ensure that there is no confusion later.

Important

Measurements and Calculation Results

Measure in 1/8 increments to calculate the results of the wrap. Simply subtract the “after” result from the “before” measurement. Be careful, as same numbers are not as easy to subtract as they appear.

For example subtracting 34 3/8 from 35 2/8 is only 7/8 while it may appear at first glace to be 1 1/8. To find the total inch loss results add the numerators (the top number of the fraction) 1/8: measurements and divide the total by 8.

Example: 1/8 + 3/8 + 6/8 + 5/8 = 1 + 3 + 6 + 5 = 15 15/8

15 divided by 8 = 1.875 in.

Should you want to convert the decimal of 0.875 inches back to 1/8 in. simply multiply by 8.

0.875 x 8 = 7 or 7/8 of an inch

Therefore 1.875 inches can be converted to 1 7/8 inches if you desire.

During the measuring process you are attempting to capture the “after wrap” picture of the client. You must repeat the measurement procedure identically as you did with the before wrap picture.

As you measure mentally compare the after measurements to the initial measurements as you write them down. Should you encounter a larger measurement then the first measurement you have made a mistake in one of the measurements.

Once you learn the wrap process efficiently you should be able to measure and wrap up a body within 15 minutes.