Amazing Bath Benefits You need to Know!
In the year of 2020, taking a “bath” isn’t the most popular when it comes to daily or weekly routines. Due to the hustle and bustle of every day life a shower is just more efficient and effective.
We don’t blame you, life gets busy. Self care seems like almost a task working into your weekly routine but trust us. Here are some convincing reasons on why adding bath time into your weekly self care ritual really counts.
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It's Brain food
Indulging in a warm bath feels good, especially after an exceptionally stressful day or week. Great news, melting away the stress with warm happy vibes actually last. The perfect bath boosts the creation of serotonin, the chemical that makes you feel happy, and is an important part of controlling your mood, how you react to stressful situations, and your overall brain health. Taking a bath leaves you calmed and happy helping you relax before bed or prepare for your day.
2. You’ll Sleep like a baby
We didn’t know this but with research a cooler body temperatures help you sleep better, which is why many sleep specialists recommend sleeping in a cool room or keeping the thermostat around 67 degrees at night. Randomly, a warm bath can actually help your body prompt this. When you soak in a warm bath your body temperature rises, but when you get out your body rapidly cools down, promoting the production and release of melatonin. So wrap yourself in a plush towel, give yourself a moisturizing massage with your fave body oil, and drive straight into bed. Just wait for the magic to happen!
3. your favorite Anti-inflammatory and Immune Booster
If you didn’t know, heat is known to boost blood circulation and get your lymph moving but it also soothes sore or tired muscles. It opens up blood vessels in the circulatory system and in your nasal passages, helping to relieve congestion and even headaches and muscle tension. We’ve all felt this feeling before especially in a steam room or steamy shower. With the addition of mineral salts like Epsom and Himalayan, you can create a deeply relaxing, healing and spa like experience right in your bathroom. The salts seep in your skin quickly, sinking into your muscles and body to mineralize you from the outside in. Bath soaks in Epsom salt is more effective than drinking electrolytes, so the next time you feel under the weather, enjoy one of these salt baths, asap.
4. Detoxify baby
Fun fact, Bathing helps your body detox quicker and more effectively. Pub Med mentions that “immersion bathing, but not shower bathing, exerts hyperthermic action that induces increased blood flow and metabolic waste elimination,” as well as stimulates your metabolism. Salts play a key role in this. Turn your bath into a pinkish brine by dissolving an entire two-pound bag of Himalayan salt in it for a powerful detox. Don’t worry, this is a normal detoxifying practice. This will help draw out toxins and deeply cleanse the skin, and it’s also believed to cleanse the body energetically. After, make sure to drink plenty of water afterward so the minerals have fluid to circulate and rehydrate the body.
5. Reduces Blood Pressure
Since heat from the water induces blood flow and circulation, baths are like giving your body a mini-workout. Alike to the calorie-burning effect of a sauna, when you relax with all four limbs submerged for 20-30 minutes. The University of Oregon published a study detailing this, saying that frequent hot baths “increased flow-mediated dilatation, reduced arterial stiffness, reduced mean arterial and diastolic blood pressure, and reduced carotid intima-media thickness.” These incredible benefits only give us more reason on to enjoy a weekly bath.
6. It’s a Calorie Burner
The same study concluded that those circulatory benefits and blood flow changes are “all on par or greater than what is typically observed in sedentary subjects with exercise training.” We’re not saying replace working out with a luxurious bath … but we are saying to use it in conjunction with it and see the amazing results. Remember, if your hectic day doesn’t allow ample time for a workout, enjoy a bath before bed and get in bed guilt-free knowing you did something good for your body.
So many fun fact about baths! De-stress and indulge in bath time and these amazing benefits. You deserve it!
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Enjoy!
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