This massage isn’t like anything you’ve experienced before.

You are rubbed down with lotion fortified with hemp oil and Cannabidol oil. If you’re extra sore, you may need a bit of a salve for sore muscles, containing hemp oil grown pesticide-free on a hemp farm in Colorado.

Nature’s Root, which might be the world’s first ever hemp spa, opened less than two months ago in Longmont.

No, this is not a marijuana spa, although hemp is the (less flashy) cousin of the plant. No, the products don’t get you high. They contain virtually no psychoactive ingredients.

But what hemp does do is nourishes the skin, acts as a natural SPF, is non-clogging but moisturizing and has unique healing properties — at least anecdotally. Some clients say it helps with eczema and other skin conditions. The seed can be used as an effective exfoliant.

Nature’s Root also says the CBD oils have deeper penetration of the muscle and the effects last longer than traditional massage oil.

Nature’s Root started with the Colorado Hemp Project, one of Colorado’s first legal hemp fields in Sterling, shortly after it became legalized in 2014. Back then, you couldn’t even buy hemp seed in the United States, so the project had to grow and develop that seed itself — and hand-harvest it, says Tracee Box, of Longmont, co-founder, with her husband and daughter.

“We had this harvest and all of this hemp stored in a barn, and we thought, ‘OK, now what do we do with all of this? There’s no industry in the U.S. So where do we begin?'” Box says.

Her background was in nutrition, and her daughter had worked as a massage therapist and esthetician, with experience formulating skin care products.

“It was a perfect fit,” Box says.

To be considered a full skin care line, Nature’s Root plans to offer at least 40 products, to be unveiled over the next two years. It currently offers a hemp-based face scrub, body scrub, chapstick, lotion, oils, soaps, salves and a lip scrub. A face mask, sunscreen, hand and body wash and face moisturizer are next for release. Then, you’ll be able to receive a hemp facial at the spa. Right now, facials are done with the local, organic iSun line.

Massages are already totally hemp.

Although you can find other brands of hemp-based lotions, lip balms and soaps, Box says she aims to be the world’s first full hemp skin care line.

“There has been a huge growth in the hemp body care industry over the last year. Massive. Because there’s now an opportunity, and many entrepreneurs are saying, ‘Hmm, I think this might be something special,'” Box says.

For her, hemp is miraculous.

“I believe there are a lot of really great products out there, and I would never dis one or the other, but what I know about hemp-based products is they are innately healing,” Box says.

As a nutritionist, she notes hemp’s “perfect balance” of omega-3s and -6s and high protein content.

“It provides abundant health qualities at the cellular level, both internally and externally on the skin,” Box says.

She thinks her new spa’s 70 percent client return rate in such a short period shows that something good is going on.

Nature’s Root also offers vegan options and is also 100 percent organic, from the product used to the material of the sheets and towels (soon to be all hemp).

In fact, nearly everything in the spa is made of hemp, from the clothes that the staff wears to rugs on the floor to the wood of the front desk. Tea in the waiting room: hemp. Hand soap in the bathroom? Of course.

The project’s hemp farming has continued to grow, now at several farms across the state and smaller co-op plots, including a handful in Boulder County. The project’s hoping to develop a 100-acre hemp farm with a greenhouse and open field in Berthoud soon.

Learn more at naturesroot.com.

Aimee Heckel: 303-473-1359, heckela@daily-camera.com or twitter.com-/aimeemay