Create your own retreat at home and let your mind go on vacation. Take a long, hot bath. Give yourself a spa-style manicure. Steam your face over a pot of hot water and fragrant herbs. Whether you have an hour or a whole day, there are so many ways to relax and rejuvenate. And, unlike a weeklong trip to a luxury spa, treating yourself won’t break your bank.

“I find that 90 percent or more of the benefit from a spa treatment can be had at home too,” said Steve Capellini, author of “The Royal Treatment” and spa expert for Land’s End’s Coming Home catalog. “It doesn’t take very much in the way of expensive ingredients or equipment.”

Capellini recommends a few things to have on hand to re-create the spa experience: a thick, soft robe, a heavy blanket, a sheet, towels, a quart-sized bowl, cotton pads and swabs. Try to set them aside just for “spa” use. Part of the relaxation is to pretend you’re not at home — to make your home “a different space.”

To achieve this, Capellini suggests clearing the area — whether your bedroom or your bath — of distractions. Change the mood by lighting several aromatherapy candles. Nicole Barron of Vogue Day Spa and Wellness Center suggests listening to soothing music, drinking a glass of white wine and placing chamomile tea bags or cucumber slices over your eyes while taking a long, hot bath.

Following are some easy treatments you can do at home. If you prefer, premade aromatherapy treatments, masques and cleansers are available in every price range, and many are made in Maine. For more ideas, read “50 Simple Ways to Pamper Yourself” by Stephanie Tourles and “The Royal Treatment” by Steve Capellini.

Hydrotherapy bath

Surround your tub with aromatherapy candles and add 10 drops of your favorite essential oil — lavender and juniper have calming properties. Soak for 20 minutes and pat dry, allowing the oil to hold the moisture in your skin.

Herbal steam

In “50 Ways to Pamper Yourself,” Tourles suggests adding the following to 4 cups boiling water (if you’re using fresh ingredients, double the measure):

For normal or oily skin: 1 teaspoon each dried yarrow, sage, rosemary and peppermint.

For dry skin: 1 teaspoon each dried orange flowers and elder flowers, 2 teaspoons comfrey leaves.

For all skin types: 1 teaspoon each calendula, chamomile, raspberry leaves, peppermint and strawberry leaves.

Take the pot off the stove and allow to steep for five minutes. Make a tent over your head and the pot with a towel, leaving 10 to 12 inches between your head and the pot (if it’s too hot, wait a few more minutes). Breathe in the vapors and relax for 10 minutes.

Spa pedicure

Find a place to soak your feet and gather together bath salts, nail clippers, a gentle file, a cuticle tool, two hot towels and lotion. Soak your feet in hot water and bath salts for five minutes. Peppermint essential oil can be added if you like. While one foot soaks, push back the cuticles and clip and file the nails of the other. Repeat on the other foot, then dry the feet and wrap them in a hot, moist towel. After a few minutes, unwrap one foot at a time and give each a 10-minute massage with the lotion. Paint toenails if you’d like. These steps can also be used for a spa manicure.

At-home facial masque, from Gallagher’s Salon

Blend 1 cup strawberries, 1 teaspoon orange juice and 1 cup oatmeal in a blender until smooth. Apply to clean face and leave on 10-15 minutes. The fruit acids and oatmeal act as gentle exfoliants, which will leave the skin smooth and rosy.

Hydrotherapy bath and spa pedicure reprinted with permission from Land’s End Coming Home. Telephone: (800) 345-3696.