Natalia Kulak

Atera, a new underground bathhouse and spa concept, is set to open in Glasgow city centre this September. Located beneath Oswald Street, close to Glasgow Central Station, Atera has been designed as a subterranean wellness destination bringing together thermal bathing, expert treatments, fitness, movement and recovery under one roof.

Hotels have spent a decade turning the bathroom into a design statement. Marble, brassware, rainfall showers and softly backlit mirrors now sell rooms before a guest has even arrived. Yet for anyone who actually needs to get ready in one, the hotel bathroom remains one of the most quietly frustrating spaces in hospitality.

As we pass the midpoint of the year, the treatment landscape is showing no signs of slowing. Our team has been exploring and discovering the latest launches across clinics, spas and aesthetic destinations, from regenerative collagen programmes and skin-boosting injectables to advanced IPL, scalp health protocols, body rituals and Ayurvedic therapies. What stands out is a clear move towards more intelligent, multi-layered results, with treatments combining science, technology, touch and wellbeing to meet a more discerning client demand. Whether focused on radiance, firmness, skin quality, hair health or emotional balance, these are the new treatments to know now.

NADclinic has launched its Optima Max supplement portfolio with new science-led formulas designed to support longevity, cellular health, skin, hair and whole-body wellbeing.

MISSHA has officially launched in the UK, bringing the Korean beauty brand to Boots stores nationwide and online. The launch marks the arrival of one of K-beauty's best-known hybrid beauty brands into the UK high street, as consumer demand for Korean skincare-makeup formulas continues to grow.

PICKI NIKI has launched in the UK, bringing its K-beauty inspired filtered showerhead concept to British bathrooms. Designed in Germany and developed with Korean filtration technology, the brand has been created around the idea of “water wellness”, positioning the shower as the first step in a skin and hair routine.

ghd has launched Sculpt, a styler the brand describes as its first interactive tool, built around new heat-adapt technology that measures the temperature of the hair rather than the plates. The launch coincides with ghd's 25th anniversary and is positioned as a reinvention of the styler category, with the central claim that it delivers styling results with zero damage to the hair's natural structure.

Patmos Aktis, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, has unveiled its renewed ANASA Wellness & Spa , following the resort's full renovation and repositioning under Marriott's The Luxury Collection. Set on Grikos Bay on the Greek island of Patmos, the spa reopens with a menu of new signature rituals, a three-brand product partnership and a seasonal wellness programme running through the summer.

Collagen has become the beauty industry's shorthand for youthful skin. But as clinics and clients chase firmness and volume, a type of structural protein is getting far less attention than it warrants: elastin. For years the skin longevity conversation has belonged to collagen. It is the language of supplements, injectables, radiofrequency, microneedling, exosomes, LED and lasers, and of almost every professional treatment that promises firmer, smoother skin. Collagen gives skin much of its strength and structure, and its decline is central to how ageing shows up on the face. But skin does more than hold itself up. It moves. It creases, stretches and settles back again thousands of times a day, and it has to return to where it started.

Kama Ayurveda has expanded its UK spa presence with the launch of a new wellness destination at Fairmont Cheshire, The Mere. The launch brings Kama Ayurveda's Ayurvedic spa rituals to the newly reopened Cheshire estate, which has entered a new chapter as Fairmont Hotels & Resorts' fourth UK property.