Hollywood's 30 Best Beauty Secrets

Out of Town Spas
20) WHAT: The Ashram (Calabasas)

TITLE: Destination Deprivation
WHAT: A no-frills spa where guests rise at the crack of dawn to undertake a full day of hiking, yoga and other intensely exhausting workouts while subsisting on an organic, vegetarian diet. "The Ashram has been called many things but 'easy' has never been one of them," trills Ashram owner Catharina Hedberg.
CELEBRITY CLIENTELE: Renee Zellweger, Ashley Judd, Cindy Crawford -- and everyone else whose body you've envied.
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT: Julie Bowen (TV's Ed) wrote a story for Jane magazine last summer in which she raved about the spa that "kicked my ass."
SECRET WEAPON: A staff of 30 caters to a clientele of 13; a daily one-hour massage is part of the program.
BUT CAN YOU GET IN? If you can book about nine months ahead of time, part with $3,500 and understand that much of beauty is about suffering.
CONTACT INFO: 818-222-6900 or www.theashram.com

21) WHO: We Care (Palm Springs)

TITLE: Desert Detox
WHAT: Where Hollywood goes to "let it all go," We Care is the 18-year-old spa that provides a round-the-clock diet of juices and colonics. (That means a lot of fasting and even more "cleansing.")
CELEBRITY CLIENTELE: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Summer Phoenix, Gisele Bundchen, Christy Turlington, Gwen Stefani, Liv Tyler
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT: Ben Affleck talked about the place when he went on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show, bragging that Cindy Crawford was there at the same time he was.
SECRET WEAPON: "It's the synergetic action of cleaning out all the toxins [through colonics] and putting in all the nutrients [through the special enzyme and vegetable juices] that makes people look and feel amazing very quickly," says We Care owner Susan Lombardi.
BUT CAN YOU GET IN? Yes, just plan to book three weeks to a month ahead of time. (Prices range from $907 to $2500.)
CONTACT INFO: 760-251-2261 or www.wecarespa.com