If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to abandon those opaques, relocate your waist and do battle with a bikini. Action is essential; there is only so much a spray tan can do. It's detox time ladies.

Acupuncture
Devotees swear that this 5,000-year-old practice cures everything from bad skin to indigestion. New York acupuncturist and skin/digestive specialist Selma Rondon recently cured a patient's explosive hives in a day, after antihistamines didn't work.

Coffee
Doctors credit caffeine with reducing swelling and upping our fat-burning mechanisms when applied topically, which explains its presence in cellulite creams. It stimulates the circulation of blood and helps remove toxins and excess fluids. When blood circulates, natural metabolism is stimulated making your body burn fat naturally. Most day spas offer caffeine body wraps and or body scrubs.

Detox Bath
Aside from being relaxing, hot water increases blood flow and sweating and dilates the capillaries near the skin's surface; your body expels the bad stuff and drinks in any herbal oils and salts. Elemental Herbology's Detox Bathing Infusion enhances these effects with ingredients like grapefruit oil (a purifier and astringent) and rosemary oil (for circulation). It also makes our cut because of what it leaves out: parabens, sulfates, preservatives, and synthetic fragrances and colours.

Vegetable Fast
More nutritious than sugary juice fasts, the iZO Cleanze, an organic-vegetable juice diet, is a hush-hush favorite among lean beauties like Adriana Lima and Natasha Henstridge. The service delivers portable daily coolers of nutrient-packed liquids for custom-length fasts that incorporate ingredients like kidney-cleansing almond milk, fibrous green vegetables and purifying teas to clean the liver and boost immune function. Juicing for more than three days? Add light exercise, such as brisk walking, to counteract a slowing metabolism.