What’s So Great About Bathing?
The Benefits of Taking a Bath and Mineral Bath Salts....
The Benefits of Taking a Bath and Mineral Bath Salts....
Water has been seen throughout the ages as cleansing, refreshing, healing, and as a sign of renewal and a source of life. Our bodies are 85% water and it makes up 9/10s of our blood, saliva, plasma, lymphatic fluid, synovial fluid in the joints, and cerebrospinal fluid. It carries hormones, proteins, and helps deliver chemical messengers and signals from our brain to the rest of our body. It flushes toxic wastes, makes our cells big and healthy, and helps lubricate our moving parts.
What’s In It?Water is a universal
solvent and it carries with it minerals that can be absorbed by the skin, which
is why adding salts and essential oils to your bath can be beneficial.
Additives like salt or oil can be absorbed into the skin and into the
bloodstream in as little as 2 to 15 minutes. The heat from water in a bath
opens our pores to help absorb minerals and aids in dilating blood vessels,
boosts circulation, and helps detoxify the body. The suspension of the body in
water also helps bring relief from gravity’s pull on our muscles and joints.Bathing is so
beneficial to our bodies that there have been types of therapy developed around
using water to help heal the body. Hydrotherapy is the use of water to treat
various ailments by using water’s physical properties such as temperature and
pressure.
It is a broad term and refers mainly to all forms of water therapy. It can help bring relief and aid to diseases such as arthritis, psoriasis, and fibromyalgia, improve circulation, and help reduce swelling, aches, pains, and improve many other conditions.A type of water therapy, Balneotherapy is the treatment of disease by using mineral waters externally and is typically used at spas in the form of hot or cold baths, hot tubs, saunas, or wet compresses. Similar to Balneotherapy, another form of therapy using water is Thalassotherapy. It is the same concept, but uses specifically sea water and salt from various seas. Hydrotherapy is becoming more popular nowadays as people are looking for natural ways to help heal the body and as spas are becoming more common.There are a lot of physical benefits of taking a bath, but there are also some psychological benefits as well.
As the water reduces tension on the body and relaxes muscles, the mind will also release stress and unwind. Baths have been shown to help people relieve stress, anxiety, sleep disorders, mild depression, and help people feel more positive overall.
Why Use Bath Salt?The types of salt used for bath salts are unlike regular table salt. Table salt has been bleached, iodized, and put through many other harsh steps that change its molecular structure and take out vital minerals, which is why this salt needs to be eaten in moderation as it can contribute tohealth problems. The right type of salt can be very beneficial to our bodies as it contains minerals we need that our bodies do not produce on their own. Salts used in bath salts or in Thalassotherapy (sea salt bath therapy) still contain all of their natural minerals that the body absorbs through water.
Of all the sea
salts, Celtic Sea salt contains the most minerals and has the lowest amount of
sodium. Once dissolved in water, it also has a very similar likeness to human
blood and body fluids, which make it better for your body to absorb.
Celtic Sea salt comes from the northern coast of France and is still harvested
using a 2000 year old Celtic farming method. Harvesters of the salt use wooden
rakes to scrape the layers of salt out of the sea and into piles. The reason
wood rakes are used is because metal can change the molecular structure of the
minerals contained in salt. This old Celtic farming method of using wooden
rakes ensures the purity and balance of the minerals in the salt.
So what is in Celtic
Sea salt that makes it so great for the body? A few of the types of minerals in
Celtic Sea salt are chloride, iron, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium,
zinc, copper, manganese, silicon, and fluoride. These trace minerals are important
to your body. They act as facilitators for biological reactions meaning they
help carry the brain’s messages throughout the nervous system, improve muscle
response, and help the body absorb the nutrients it gets from food.Sodium and Chloride
help regulate acidity in the body and sodium maintains pH balance in cellular
fluid. Both are necessary for osmosis and electrolyte balance. Iron is needed
for cell function and blood utilization. Magnesium aids in cell functionality
and is necessary for muscle contraction and absorption of amino acids.
Potassium helps stimulate nerve impulses and muscle contractions, stimulates
kidney and adrenal function, and is also important for biosynthesis of protein.
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