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Luxury wellness: From £1 million crystal bathtubs to £76k water bottles, this is how the 1% do self-care

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Self-care' has become an important part of our daily routines. With more being spent on wellness holidays, pampering spa sessions and the occasional wellness splurge - $820 Censer Insence Burner anyone? - it's clear that for many, health and happiness comes first.

For a select few however, it's a case of money no object when it comes to self-care, with some individuals splashing out more on a wellness product than some people earn in a lifetime.

From expensive obsessions with crystals to million pound geek purchases, here is how the 1% treat themselves...

They have crystal collections which number into the hundreds

Dancer Jenna Dewan is known to be a big lover of crystals and even posted a video to YouTube about just how much she loves them. In the video, Dewan (who was wearing a crown made of crystals and two crystal necklaces) talked about how she believed “everyone should have a rose quartz” and explained that she even takes sea salt baths with her crystals - something she said “raises the whole vibration of the bath.” On top of that, she also added that she always has a small labradorite crystal in her pocket wherever she goes.

Many other celebrities are known to be big fans of crystals and for example, when Dakota Johnson invited Architectural Digest into her home parts of her crystal collection were revealed - which included several big pieces and a standing quartz.

They bathe in tubs worth over £1 million

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Tamara Ecclestone, eldest daughter of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, leads a pretty lavish lifestyle and nothing demonstrates this more than the decadent addition to her £47 million London home a few years back: a £1 million crystal bathtub believed to take crystal healing to another level.

When quizzed on her new bathroom feature - which reportedly involved a trip to the Amazon to source the crystal - Tamara told the Mail on Sunday, “It’s completely true. [The bathtub makers have] gone to find this crystal which will be turned into my bathtub. It’s costing £1 million because I’ve got to reinforce the floor and I’ve had to pay for everyone’s travel and the hauling back and polishing of the crystal.”

“But I spend a lot of time in the bath so it’s worth it,” she added.

While we have yet to see a photo of Ecclestone's healing tub, she did post a photo recently of what appears to be another of her lavish tubs: this one, in gold.

Elsewhere in the world, a bathtub worth £1.2 million was sold in Dubai in 2011, owing to the fact it was made from petrified Caijou wood, which is said to have healing properties. Over 120,000 hours alone were spent sourcing the wood to make it.

They spend £1.5 million on humidifiers

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Although the likes of Janet Jackson and Lady Gaga have now signed on for massive Las Vegas residencies, Celine Dion was one of the first to make Sin City her own. In the years she took to Caesars Palace’s stage on a regular basis, she insisted on having a gigantic humidifier installed to “protect [her] voice from the dry desert air”, as Wired reported.

While the rest of us would most likely look to Argos for such a purchase, Dion's humidifier (which was installed in Caesars Palace’s Colosseum Theater) is said to have cost as much as £1.5 million. Gotta look after those vocal chords.

They pay £1,000 an hour for personal training sessions

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Personal trainers don't come cheap, but London-based PT Fabrice "Le Physique" takes costings to the max. For an hour's fitness session, clients - who have included actor Matt LeBlanc, billionaire CEO Patrice Motsepe and a number of British Olympians - can expect to spend as much as £1,000.

Most of his clients visit “twice a week on average” he has said, which means for a year's worth of sessions, it could cost an average client as much as £96,000.

He also revealed that a particular client once asked him to train with her for four hours every day for two weeks - which might have set her back £56,000. Those willing to splash out can rest-assured that their workouts remain private - the location of Fabrice's studio is a closely guarded secret.

Over in Hollywood, celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson is said to charge as much as £11,400 for a six week programme by Livestrong. Kim Kardashian is believed to have been a client since she was 19 years old, and he has also worked with the likes of Kendall Jenner, Kate Beckinsale and Sylvester Stallone.

They inject vitamins directly into their bloodstream for £2,700

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Vitamin drips and injections are fast-becoming the newest luxury treatment and there’s a clinic in Marylebone - Vitamins Injections London - that specialises in them, offering everything from treatments to combat low energy and those boosting anti-ageing collagen production. Perhaps the most luxe is the Antioxidant Wellness Injection, which costs £300 for a single shot, and £2,700 for a course of twelve.

Delivered intravenously, the injection is full of glutathione, which is claimed to have “detoxifying and disease preventing properties”. “Skin brightening, rejuvenation and anti-ageing properties” are also listed as the treatment's additional health benefits. By injecting the vitamins directly into the bloodstream, the clinic said that “99.9% of the antioxidant reaches the bloodstream” whereas oral supplements plateau at 15%.

Beloved by the likes of Rita Ora, Madonna and Charlize Theron, we tried one out for ourselves - Insider writer Emily Reynolds reviewed their Ultimate Shed and Shred injection, a treatment designed to help with weight loss. For those with a phobia of needles, the clinic has also released a set of Gluthathione Skin Patches which work in a similar way to nicotine patches, and cost £110 for a month's supply.

They stay hydrated with a £76k bottle of water

Want to drop thousands of pounds on a single bottle of water? A brand called Beverly Hills 90H20 sell a Luxury Collection Diamond Edition “water experience”, which will set you back £76k for the world’s “first sommelier-crafted water”.

(Yes, water sommelier is a job that actually exists.)

With H20 sourced from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, enriched with various minerals, there are only nine of them in the world and they come with a diamond-encrusted bottle cap.

The white gold cap is covered in 14 karat diamonds (600 white stones and 250 black) set in place by celebrity jeweller Mario Padilla. Sold with four Baccarat crystal tumblers, the one-year supply of Beverly Hills 90H20 Lifestyle Collection water includes a tasting with water sommelier Martin Riese (who will fly out to you wherever you are in the world). The entire package comes in a “custom secured presentation case” which is just as well; who wouldn't want to keep something with that kind of price tag under lock and key?

They spend £49,500 on a week-long wellness retreat

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The Bodyholiday is a wellness oasis located in St. Lucia that delivers tailored programmes to suit all, from the most avid yogi to those merely in need of a detox. At the most premium end of the scale, the 1% can stay at their luxe Villa Firefly residence for a week-long bespoke retreat with a group of friends - an experience which costs £49,500 for six people.

The package includes a private pool, yoga lawn, personal butler and chef to see to your daily needs.

Guests are also treated to a daily pampering session at the Wellness Centre, which boasts treatments from skincare brand Elemis, seawater-based treatments, infrared detoxes and an aloe vera-based body wrap to soothe sun-drenched skin.

Our writer Aimee Grant Cumberbatch tried out this luxe all-inclusive resort and reviewed it here.

They run up a £7.5k monthly holy water bill

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It’s important to stay hydrated, but Madonna’s choice of H2O comes with a little enlightenment on the side. It was reported in 2016 that the star spent $10k a month on cartons of blessed Kabbalah water, which has to go through a process called Quantum Resonance - a blessing which “restructures the intermolecular binding of spring water”.

“Madonna drinks a lot of water - that's one of her fitness secrets," a source told In Touch Weekly. "And Kabbalah water is the only stuff she will touch. She also makes sure she always has some to hand, and has it regularly shipped to wherever in the world she is staying at the time."

In fact, it turns out that Madonna reportedly went as far as filling her swimming pool with the stuff. Following director Guy Ritchie’s divorce from Madonna, Ritchie cancelled an order to fill their country home’s indoor pool with Kabbalah water which “could cost Mr Ritchie £10,000”, The Telegraph reported.

Madonna isn’t the only one whose hydration comes with a luxe price tag - Jeff Goldblum, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Naomi Campbell are allegedly big fans too.

They fend off spirits with a £37,700 personal ghost-busting kit

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Oscar-winner Lady Gaga is a magnet for awards right now, but there is one thing the singer is keen to repel: spirits. Indeed, she is said to have once spent £37.7k on an Electro-Magnetic Field Reader to “keep ghosts and other paranormal entities away while she performs on tour”, according to E!.

Not only that, but she even organised a seance to ward off a spirit she believed was haunting her. “She's been telling us all for months that she has a male spirit called Ryan who travels the world with her," a member of her crew revealed in 2010. "She's pretty terrified by this spirit, but more than anything he's annoying her as he won't leave her alone. He hasn't been doing anything too violent or scary but she's freaked out by his presence. She's a very spiritual person and in tune with the spiritual world but this is a step too far, even for her.”

The source continued, “She contacted a spirit medium and organised a seance so she could communicate with him and tell him to go away. She gathered all her friends over the weekend in Belfast, Ireland, and held the seance to find out what he wants. She's convinced she picked this up as a bad omen.”

Given that she won an Oscar for Best Song recently, it seems like Ryan has finally moved on.

They drop £293,000 on flowers for themselves

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There are few things guaranteed to brighten one's day than a massive bouquet of flowers, as a few 1 per centers know all too well. In the case of singer Sir Elton John, it was revealed he once spent as much as £293,000 on flowers over a 20-month period - roughly £14,650 a month.

And he is not alone. A number of celebs like to splash out when it comes to florals - take the Kardashians for example. They regularly turn to celebrity florists, such as the Four Seasons' artistic director Jeff Leatham, who sells a bouquet of roses on his site for as much as £840.

Leathem's bespoke Christmas trees for Kris Jenner are also estimated to cost as much as £120,000.

Then there is model Kate Moss, known client of such luxury London florists as Vic Brotherson of Scarlet and Violet, as well as floral legend Darren Baxter - one of Gucci's go-to guys.

They spend over £8,440 on a single jar of moisturiser

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Shiseido has long-been celebrated as one of the best skincare brands in the world and back in 2012, they launched an ultra limited edition face cream from their luxury Cle de Peau Beaute line called ‘La Creme’. Priced at £8,440, only three were ever made, and with jars desgined from platinum and crystal, they became coveted collectors’ items.

In fact, according to The Telegraph, the 50-gram jar cost more per gram than gold: La Creme cost £169 per gram whereas gold at the time cost £33 per gram.

Then there are the treatments of facialist Dr. Barbara Sturm, who uses her clients' blood to design them bespoke creams. The bizarre blood cream reportedly costs as much as £1,200 and Victoria Beckham revealed recently she was trialling it herself.

They tuck into £1,900 wheels of cheese and £800 wedges

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Unless you’re lactose intolerant, there’s nothing a good cheese night can’t fix and Chrissy Teigen seems to understand this better than most. For Christmas last year, her husband John Legend bought her her “lifetime dream” - a “cheese wheel to dump pasta and risotto in for years to come”. According to Huffington Post, her gigantic wheel of cheese could have put her back the Teigen-Legend clan as much as £1,900.

However, the most expensive cheese in the world at the moment is one that will probably have you scratching your head: pule, a Serbian donkey cheese. Crafted in Belgrade on Zasavica Farm, the cheese costs as much as £800 per kilo owing to the fact that donkeys need to be milked by hand and produce very little milk, and celebrity fan Novak Djokovic was reported to have purchased the entire 2013 output from the farm that makes it.

They spend millions on their 'treat yourself' moment

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If you’ve ever watched Parks and Rec, one of the show’s most memorable moments is when Ben Wyatt indulges himself and buys a Batman costume as a form of self-care. Recently in Geneva, one person followed in his footsteps (and then some) in buying a £14 million Bugatti which has been unofficially named the Batmobile. Called La Voiture Noire, the jet black car is decked out with a 16 cylinder engine, six exhaust pipes and designed with “extraordinary technology, aesthetics and extreme luxury” according to Bugatti president Stephan Winkelmann.

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This isn’t the first time someone has indulged their inner geek with their own Bruce Wayne ride. Justin Bieber’s custom Cadillac is something that would make poor Ben Wyatt green with envy. It turns out that the singer owns a car known as the ‘Batillac’, which was customised for him by Ryan Friedlinghaus - a.k.a. the car king from Pimp My Ride. According to E!, it features a bat logo on the grill and a striking matte black polish.

They brighten up their day with a glitter budget in the thousands

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If something makes you happy, then by all means, follow in Kesha’s lead and splash out. The singer, who has a glitter obsession, revealed that at one point she was spending literally thousands on the decorative dust and even she admitted it was “pretty exorbitant”.

“[My glitter budget is] probably more like a few thousand every month,” she told Vanity Fair.

“When you’re around me, you’re going to get glitter on you. It infuriates a lot of people who hang out with me. They get glitter on them and it won’t come off for days and it ruins their game. But I think it’s incredible,” she continued.

“I am shooting glitter from glitter guns [on tour] and out of every orifice in my body. It’s really a big part of what I do. It’s my goal to cover the planet in glitter and take the f*ck over. I can’t do that if I don’t have a sh*t-ton of glitter,” she finished.