Home Spa
Home Spa elements can bring our bath and body experience to the therapy level, with multiple healing effects:
- increase the circulation throughout the body
- soften connective tissue, increase collagen, improve flexibility and decrease joint pain
- relieve muscle pain, spasms and cramps
- stimulate the skin detoxification
- reduce nervous stress
- stimulate the immune system
- stimulate vital organ chemistry
- assist the healing of rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis..
- helps all-natural rejuvenation
Spas and swimming pools help to ease arthritis and other chronic pains by decreasing swelling and relieving pressure on joints and muscles, says the Arthritis foundation. See the Water Therapy page for more info
Bath and Body facilities like: Jacuzzi Spas, Whirlpool Baths, Hot Tubs or Swimming Pools can be installed:
- indoor - for a home spa experience, or
- outdoor - for fun and fitness
Showers and bathtubs are our closest and handiest source of negative ions at home.
The daily use of them cleans and balances our body energy.
Water jets at various heights and bubbles add the massage element to the bath or shower, increasing the relaxation effect.
Water massage therapy can help you relax by increasing blood flow to tense areas (i.e. shoulders, back and neck); increased blood flow relaxes muscles and removes build-up of waste products caused by tension.
Soaking in the warm, soothing waters of a hot tub does not only help with physical ailments. Spas have also been known to improve their owners' quality of life by rejuvenating those who are "stressed out"
Head for a hot tub. When muscles are tight and stiff the day after a workout, nothing beats a hot bath "You don't want to take a bath right after you train, but I'd recommend it several hours afterward," says D'Anne Kleinsmith, M.D. The reason: Heat increases circulation, promoting inflammation. But if you wait a while before taking your bath, you'll get a more soothing effect and less inflammatory action.
Bath products
What kind of ingredients are you using?
Be sure the products you use are natural, fresh and high quality! Chemical alternatives, not only lack a healing effect but once absorbed by the skin they can affect your health:
Most people are surprised to learn that the government neither conducts nor requires safety testing of chemicals that go into health and beauty products. A panel funded and advised by the cosmetic industry determined that cosmetic companies can continue to add reproductive toxins known as phthalates to cosmetics marketed to women of childbearing age.
- Are Your Beauty Products Killing You?
- Group links nail polish to birth defects
- Does Your Bathroom Pass the Harmful Ingredients Test?
Bath Salts
Masada's Dead Sea Salt Bath: the riches of the Dead
Sea, the herbs of the earth, and the aromatic essences of plants and
trees are combined to bring a new form of natural therapy to your health.
All three of these natural wonders are now recognized by medical science
as effective therapeutic treatment. These sea salts can be used in
your own home bath.
The Dead Sea, known for centuries as nature's best spa, was revered by Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba for its unique therapeutic qualities - relaxing the mind and body while nourishing and smoothing the skin.
Dead
Sea bath salts
Himalayan Crystal Salt Bath
As described in the book
Water and Salt, The Essence of Life
The cleansing effect of a 30-minute Himalayan ("sole",
as explained in the book) salt bath equal to that of a 3-day fast.
The toxins are eliminated into the water, while the vital minerals
contained in this salt are absorbed by the skin. The effect is the
balance of the alkaline/ acid level of the Natural
Himalayan salt
Other natural homa spa products based on plants
and minerals or sea salts are specifically conceived
to help wash the bacteria and toxins out of your body to allow
your body to detoxify itself.
"The Herbal Home Spa
Building your own home spa:
The "Bathing Spaces
"For
centuries, baths have been regarded as havens for rest and relaxation.
This is a book of inspiration and art of some truly unique bathrooms.
The author has carefully selected and photographed bathrooms that promote
the bathroom as a place to relax and free the mind of the worries of
the upcoming day.
The book shows how to transform
your bathroom into a luxurious bathing space.
Traditional and modern - and in all shapes and sizes - you'll find
inspiring spaces you can create in your own home that are not only
functional, but are also rooms you will enjoy spending time in."
More
than just a place to wash, The Japanese Bath
The idea of taking time and care with one's bath in Japan is as important
as taking time and care with the cooking and serving of a meal. There
is also a ritual to taking a Japanese bath, a prescribed order of rinsing,
washing, and soaking that is passed down from one generation to the
next.
What kind of water do your use for bathing?
Did you know that: one half of our daily chlorine exposure is from showering?
Not
only is chlorine absorbed through the skin, it also vaporizes in the
shower, and it's inhaled into the lungs and transferred directly into
your blood system. People who drink water containing chlorine have
been found to have a higher risk of bladder cancer by researchers.
Since the water we generally use for bathing or shower comes from our drinking water source, you can use a whole house water filtration system, a shower filter, or just a combo pack... Read more on Water filters
