Sweating isn’t the only way to detox. Many spa products: facial scrubs, aromatherapy, body scrubs, facial masks, facial scrubs, bath tea blends and herbal tea blends can help do the job also.
Most people believe that you only start detoxing from the inside out. Yes, that’s true but you can start from the outside in. By removing dead skin, stimulating the outer skin layers down into the deeper areas through massage or bath salts or herbal detox baths, the entire body system is invigorated and prompted to move out toxins.
Drinking herbal teas before, during and after your bath can assist in getting out toxins. You’re detoxing from the inside (with the tea), from the inside TO the outside (with the removal of toxins) and from the outside in via your bath!
A massage before your detox bath also assists in moving out toxins. and is essential for pain relief. By stimulation lymph systems, release from muscle and tissues it it very beneficial in detoxification.
Regularly bathing is a spa bath is a good way to keep illness at bay. By strengthening your immune system, consistently removing toxins, your body already has a head start on fighting flu and colds during winter months. Using bath salts is a great way to help rid yourself of toxins and pain.
Until a few years ago, only the most savvy spa worshiper had probably even heard of detoxing with salts. Now, however, bath salts, aromatic bath salts, along with Epsom salts have become well known.
Salt has long been used as a purifier. Salt was, and still is in some cultures, used as a preservative. Now, however, it is used for detoxification and cleansing.
Containing many different minerals depending on its origin, salt’s healing properties have been extolled for centuries. Its exfoliating action not only strips dead skin cells but actually draws out toxins upon contact with the skin. When mixed with organic oils, which also have their own healing properties, salt promotes rejuvenation of the skin through many layers.
Bathing in itself is relaxing and healing, perhaps taking us back to our time in the womb…, who knows?
Tis the season for colds and flu which makes taking a hot detox bath even more important for overall health. Add some aromatic bath salts and organic oils to your next bath and see if you don’t instantly feel better!
What could be more romantic for Valentine’s Day than to gift your sweetie with detox bath products and organic facial care?
It’s not just for the ladies, either. Detox bath products are important for the guy in your life to use too. Doesn’t he deserve a good soak in a hot tub after a long day? Doesn’t his face need some moisturizing from organic facial care? Spa baths aren’t just for girls anymore. Guys appreciate a bath, too, especially in the winter.
Spa bath products make everybody feel better. They rev up your immune system which is important now that flu season is here. Tired muscles relax in a aromatic bath.
Why not give your sweetie ‘a bath’ for Valentine’s Day? He -or she - might really appreciate it!
A healthy body needs to rid itself of toxins. A beneficial treatment is a massage, followed by a detox bath using bath salts.
Massage stimulates the body physically, mentally and emotionally, assisting healing and enabling the body to heal itself. One of the ways that you can help your body is to follow a massage with a detox bath using aromatic bath salts and herbal remedies.
Following a massage, your body’s entire system is in a cleansing mode. Human touch itself is a basic need of life; our body actually responds to touch in beneficial ways. Direct stimulation of muscles helps carry toxins out of the body which is why, following a massage, you should drink plenty of water to flush your body.
The evening after a massage, you can continue the benefits by taking a detox bath in aromatic bath salts or sea salts. The action of the salts further stimulate the circulation which draws out toxins. Other remedies, such as a mustard bath, combined with the salts increases the effects of the bath salts. Epsom salts, which are very permeable through the skin, also serve to enhance the action of the bath or sea salts.
The scent of the aromatic bath salts - or the mustard bath - acts as an olfactory stimulation which relaxes you, assisting further in detoxing.
Help your body heal. Schedule a massage, then go home and soak in a good hot bath!
If you’ve done any reading at all on statistics of cancer worldwide, nations with the greatest intake of processed food have the highest rates of this disease.
While browsing the book, Foods to Fight Cancer by Richard Beliveau, Ph.D and Denis Gingras, Ph.D (DK Books, 2007 ISBN# 978-0-7566-2867-3) a map showing the global distribution of cancer incidences tells all. North America, Europe, Australia, Eastern Europe (Hungary & the Czech Republic) are colored in bright red showing highest rates. Most favorable are the dark green areas: parts of western Africa, and Southeast Asian nations of India, Thailand, and China are lowest.
Industrialized nations, which consume greater amounts of processed foods containing artificial ingredients with no nutritional value, more meat and dairy, high sodium, sugar and chemical additives, are far more at risk for cancer. In regions which eat a diet made up of unprocessed natural foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts and soy, are far less likely to develop it.
The traditional Japanese diet, high in vegetables, fish, soy, with little consumption of meat, is today being replaced by Western fare. Presently in Asia there has been a tremendous increase in “Western diseases” because of the switch to industrialized eating
Michael Pollen pointed out in his book, A Guide to Food - An Eater’s Manifesto that humans today are eating a diet of “food-like substances,” meaning processed foods; fast food, sodas, canned, boxed, microwaveable, which rely on chemicals for taste. He stresses that we should read labels very carefully. We should stay away from packaged items with more than 5 ingredients, and from those made up of chemical compounds. “Don’t eat food with ingredients you can’t pronounce.” he cautions. The ideal diet should be what our bodies were designed to eat: mostly vegetables and only “what our grandmothers would recognize as food.” I take that one step further and reword it to what our great grandmothers would recognize as food.
Typical Western diets focus on quickly providing the body with fuel. Asian diets, on the other hand, use food to maintain health. The axiom “food is medicine” certainly applies here. After all, doesn’t what we eat affect our health?
It is interesting to note that Westerners also approach medicine differently than their Asian counterparts. Americans seek medical care to ‘treat’ illness which is directly related diet. In efforts to preserve health, people from Eastern countries are more likely to eat naturally and use ancient remedies, thus preventing illness.
Research indicates that risk factors for cancer are:
Poor dietary habits 30%
Smoking 30%
Hereditary factors 15%
Obesity & lack of exercise 5%
Work-place related exposure 5%
Infection 5%
Alcohol 3%
Pollution 2%
UV-ray exposure 2%
Drugs 1%
Other 1%
The top 2 factors are within everyone’s control; hereditary we can do nothing about. We can, however, choose what we eat or whether to smoke or the amount of exercise we get. A good detox regimen: a series of detox baths, followed by a detox diet and organic foods will help rid the body of toxins, reducing the chance of cancer.
Out of everything, the diet may be the easiest act to clean up and there is no better time than your next meal or trip to the grocery store.
The origin of the word ’spa’ comes from ’sanitas per agua’ (health through water). Long before facials and massages became synonymous with the word ’spa,’ bathing was the route to wellness of whole-body detoxification. Citizens of ancient Rome bathed daily. From the late 1700s to the present day, German physicians prescribed patients a ‘kur’ (cure or treatment) of one bath a day for 10-20 days. Thalassotherapy, introduced by the French, uses ocean water and seaweed.
Common annoying skin problems like acne and eczema have been linked to stress. When the panic ‘fight or flight’ hormones, cortisol and adrenalin are released, it weakens the body’s defense system. This leads to breakouts. You can, however, get relief. All you have to do is go through your bathroom door.
Signaling the body that it’s time to wind down, a nightly bath is a relaxing before-bed ritual. Create one with some favorite calming music and a relaxing scent. Gently exfoliate by rubbing some aromatic bath salts over your body. Once or twice a week, soak for at least 20 minutes in a detox bath. It will give your system time to release physical symptoms and toxins.
Regular relaxed bathing strengthens the immune system by assisting it to fight off illness. A ‘fake fever’ by bathing in hot water, increases body temperature kills and off germs. This is an helpful aid, especially during cold and flu season. Release toxins and relax in a good hot bath!
Our multitasking, workaholic culture can wreak havoc on our bodies. We’ve seen an increase in all sorts of chronic degenerative disease. Stress causes a serious energy depletion, sapping vitamins and minerals because the body secretes adrenalin and cortisol when you’re running at full tilt. These create disease in the body from heart disease, arthritis and a host of other immune-response conditions. Could it be that we need time to slow down?
Many of you say “I don’t have the time.” Well, then you just have to make time. Why not treat yourself to a once a week spa: your detox bath session.
A detox bath itself is healing for your body. Aromatic bath salts added to your detox bath water will relax you. Using Himalayan salts to exfoliate and refresh your skin and chemical-free bath products will do a lot to help your body be healthy. Organic skin care is just another way of taking care of yourself.
So, send the kids off to the babysitter’s, or have your partner take them out for a while. Unplug the phone and brew a pot of your favorite organic herbal tea. Run yourself a hot bath, pour in a generous amount of Epsom salts, and Himalayan bath salts. Add some organic, aromatic bath oil like lavender. Light some of your favorite incense and a soy candle and ease in for an hour or so of pure bliss.
You probably won’t want to get out!
Most ailments of today can be caused and aggravated by stress. Cancer has been linked to stress. That is why in today’s fast-paced life, it is important for us to spend time de-stressing. De-stressing need not be expensive. If going to a spa regularly is too heavy on your pocket, why not try to de-stress at home? Here are some suggestions:
1. Spend a quiet moment preferably before bedtime to meditate. Turn off the television, don’t answer the phone, and put your mobile phone or pager on silent mode.
2. Take a warm bath. Fill your tub with water and sprinkle in natural bath salts. The bath salts will help your muscles relax.
3. Light some candles or burn some essential oils. Aromatherapy is known to release tension and bring beneficial effects to the body.
4. Get a massage. Have a loved one knead the stress away or, better yet, call a massage therapist who can do home visits.
We live in a world of toxins, which didn’t exist 50 or 100 years ago. Since the advent of plastics, that “miracle substance”, we can find few things that aren’t either entirely composed of them or partially so. Consequently, because of things like plastics, pollution, food additives, pesticides, synthetic ingredients in furnishings, personal care items, and cleaning products, we need to help our bodies get rid of toxins. This is where a good detox bath comes in.
Since ancient times, one of the most effective detox regimens has been the bath. Soaking in hot mineral springs or a bath containing aromatic bath salts, oils and herbs, was a favorite past time of the Romans, Chinese and other civilizations. Aromatic bath salts serve a two-fold purpose: their scent calms and relaxes the body and the salts, be it Dead Sea salts, Himalayan salts, Epsom salts or other natural bath salts, act as a detoxifying agent. This helps the body rid itself of toxins, stave off illness and muscle strain and fatigue. If you remove dead skin with an exfoliating natural scrub, the results are even better.
Most people don’t realize that when you take a hot detox bath, you can even either prevent or lessen the effects of an oncoming illness. A hot detox bath does the same thing as a fever does: kills germs inside the body by raising the overall temperature. That’s what a fever is for! It is the body’s defense system against illness.
One of my favorite combinations is mixing Epsom salts with bath salts. Epsom salts are wonderful! We think of them only when we’ve sprained or strained something. They have two other great benefits: they will help you sleep after their detoxing properties in your bath, and they are a natural skin softener.
So, the next time you get that scratchy feeling in your throat, or have been around too many people who’re sick - and don’t want to come down with something, get in a hot tub for an hour or two with some bath salts. Your body will probably thank you!
During the cold months of winter people commonly suffer from dry skin. Dry skin is a pesky problem. Many times drug-store moisturizers don’t offer relief from the itchiness and chapping that often accompany dry skin. But there is hope for the millions of people that are affected by dry skin every winter. Ridding the body of dead, scaly skin helps relieve the symptoms of dry skin.
Skin exfoliating can be achieved several different ways. However, using a salt scrub is one of the fastest methods of getting rid of dead dry skin. Sufferers may try using a salt scrub each time they take a shower. It is important to note that a thorough salt scrubbing should always be followed by the application of a moisturizing lotion.