What can you use on your face in a bath? How to arrange spa treatments in a bathhouse? Hair Mask
Oksana Timofeeva 02/5/2016 2142
A bathhouse or Finnish sauna (whichever you prefer) is a great way to relieve stress and tension at the end of a hard week. In addition, a trip to the bathhouse can be combined with spa treatments!
Girls (and it doesn’t matter if you turned 60 the other day!), I warmly advise: at least once a month, give yourself pleasure - spend a Saturday evening in the sauna. You don’t even have to invite your girlfriends for company - sit with them over a cup of coffee tomorrow, and dedicate today to yourself, your beloved! Take creams, scrubs, essential oils (basil, lemon or grapefruit to lift your mood) to the bathhouse and pamper your body, tired after a week of work.
Rules of behavior in the bathhouse
1. Don't eat a lot the night before
Before going to the bathhouse or sauna, watch what and how much you eat. At least an hour should pass between a heavy meal and a bath. Avoid drinking alcohol: alcohol speeds up the process of dehydration. Instead of strong drinks, drink water (before and after the steam room). It is also advisable to have a salty snack after finishing the session.
2. Wear as little as possible.
To achieve the maximum effect from couples procedures, it is advisable to allow the body to breathe. A swimsuit will obviously get in the way in this matter. After all, remember the last time you took a shower with your clothes on?
3. Bring an extra towel
If you wrap yourself in a towel before entering the steam room, bring at least one more to sit on.
4. Don’t forget about the shower before the bath
Before starting paired treatments, do not forget to wash off the dirt that has accumulated on your body during the day.
5. Don't rush to change clothes
Give your body time to “come to its senses” and adapt to changing temperatures. Cool down, and only then put on outerwear.
DIY spa treatments
Before entering the steam room, I advise you to apply a magnificent creamy mask, which can be quickly prepared on the spot (but it’s still better to prepare everything at home). Simply mix 300 g of cream (or sour cream) with 250 g of salt. And in the bath - lightly, with massage movements, beat into the skin. After 10-15 minutes, wash it off and your body will be satin.
Get out of the steam room and catch your breath. And take care of your face. To do this, apply it oatmeal mask, prepared from 0.5 cups of oatmeal and 0.5 cups of sour cream (you can, again, use heavy cream).
You don’t have to go to the steam room, but just lie down and relax
Did you apply it to your face? Now you can “dive” into the steam room again, and after 10-15 minutes, rinse off the mask with warm water.
Don't forget to pay attention to your hair. The ingredients may seem quite strange to you, but believe me, this the mask will make your hair shiny and silky.
Hair Mask
Mix 3 tbsp. mayonnaise with crushed garlic clove. Apply to clean hair and... forget about it until the end of the bathing process! Then wash off the mixture with shampoo and warm water - the effect will be no worse than that of imported balms and rinses. Considering the specific smell of the mask, it is best to choose shampoo with a pleasant fragrance.
Rest assured: flapping with a birch broom, a contrast shower, and the heat of a bath will relieve accumulated stress, drive away excess fat, make blood and lymph work, push aside the hated cellulite, in a word, return you to health, beauty and good mood!
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Anyone who has ever visited a Russian bathhouse and felt its healing steam will probably tell you that after visiting it, the bad mood disappeared, the aches in the joints disappeared, and other ailments that until recently literally poisoned life ceased to be felt. At the same time, there is an invariable desire for such pleasure to last as long as possible.
Since time immemorial, Russian people have gone to the bathhouse not only to take water procedures. For him, it was a place for ancient customs and rituals, as well as fortune telling. Why do people go to baths today? Let's try to understand this issue.
Traditional healer
Baths have existed for many centuries. And people prefer to wear them not only to take a good bath. This invention has many supporters. And all because bath procedures have healing properties that humanity has been familiar with since ancient times.
For example, Hippocrates often prescribed a steam room for his patients. He believed that toxins and poisons that accumulated in the body and poisoned it during illness would certainly leave the body due to increased sweating. It is worth saying that this ancient Greek doctor himself used the treatment methods he developed, which allowed him to live 110 years.
The healers of Ancient Rome also offered healing bath procedures to their patients. They rightly believed that water together with steam (both dry and wet) worked real miracles.
In Rus' they also knew that bathing procedures bring health benefits. Our ancestors believed that a well-heated steam room could heal any patient, even the most seemingly hopeless one. For a long time in Rus', bath healing procedures have been used for diseases of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system. In the steam room they treated gout and colds, straightened joints and got rid of skin diseases. It was believed that there was no ailment from which a bath could not save.
Respiratory treatment
Often the only means to get rid of certain diseases are steam and hot air. That is why bath health procedures are recommended for the treatment of respiratory organs. During their implementation, hot steam gives off its heat to the person. At the same time, the lungs warm up, pathogenic microbes lose the ability not only to multiply in the body, but also to penetrate it.
In a Russian bath, a so-called heat stroke is created, which greatly enhances the healing effect. This phenomenon occurs at the moment when liquid is poured onto hot stones located in a steam oven. And if you add various healing infusions and decoctions to the water, you can get a wonderful opportunity to inhale healing vapors.
A visit to the bathhouse will help after an attack of bronchial asthma. It is recommended to use brooms made from tree branches densely covered with foliage. After all, it contains healing components that, evaporating, will clear the lungs of phlegm, produce a powerful anti-inflammatory effect and help disinfect the bronchi.
Strengthening the immune system
The use of bath procedures is a wonderful way to maintain human health. In order to feel cheerful and full of vital energy, we all need good immunity, which can be strengthened by hardening procedures.
Even in ancient times, people noticed that contrasting temperatures have a beneficial effect on human health. This has been confirmed by modern research. So, if a person, heated by a bath, immediately plunges into the snow or into an ice hole, then the body reacts to this by releasing a huge charge of energy. At the same time, a strong activation of vital forces occurs. Such bath procedures are useful for men and women with an inactive lifestyle. In addition, if carried out regularly, such hardening will increase the body’s immune strength, protecting it from colds and inflammatory diseases.
Weight loss
A woman of any age wants to be slim and beautiful. But we should not forget that a person’s appearance is largely influenced by his health. After all, many are dissatisfied with their brittle hair, poor skin condition, ugly complexion and excess weight. And these are the components of health.
Bath procedures will help you get rid of many problems. For women, the steam room is recommended as an effective means of losing excess weight. Hot water increases blood circulation, due to which the body is deeply cleansed and metabolic processes are enhanced.
Baths are repeated in courses with a break of 2-3 days. They should be continued until the desired result is achieved. In between visits to the steam room, it is recommended to drink at least two liters of apple juice daily, excluding coffee or sweet tea from your diet. It is worth saying that bath procedures for weight loss are so effective that they allow you to get rid of 300 to 400 g of excess weight in one session in the steam room.
There is another way to make your body beautiful. It involves taking a cool shower after spending five minutes in the steam room. Next, you should wrap yourself in a hot towel and return to the bath for another two minutes. This must be repeated at least 4-5 times. The contrasting effects of cold and heat will best destroy fat deposits under the skin, which will be eliminated from the body.
Skin care
Taking a bath or shower is sure, but the tap water in our homes contains chlorine, which has adverse effects on the skin. Bath water is a completely different matter. It's much softer and better. In addition, the beauty of this water lies in the atmosphere itself, saturated with the smell of oak and combined with clouds of steam and hot air.
However, water alone is clearly not enough for the skin. You need to perform this procedure with a bar of soap with the simple name “Bath”. This product does not have any special enchanting aromas, but it is most suitable for a steamed body due to the additives of natural extracts of medicinal herbs it contains.
Many women believe that bath procedures are harmful to the skin. And to prevent exposure to hot steam, they rub fatty creams into the body. However, this should not be done. A greasy cream will only clog the pores and prevent the skin from breathing normally. Bath air has the opposite effect. It cleanses the pores and therefore improves the appearance of the skin.
There is one old folk advice, using which you can get a feeling of unusual freshness. According to him, you should rub a little honey into the skin while simultaneously performing a massage or self-massage of the body. Despite its simplicity, this procedure is very effective. It will cleanse the pores, as well as nourish the skin and relieve irritation.
Nail and hand care
During bath procedures you can not only take a steam bath. Many women use this time to take care of their hands. Of course, it is difficult to take care of yourself in public baths. But the buildings near a village or country house can easily replace a small beauty salon.
Thus, it is recommended to use bath procedures to rejuvenate the skin of the hands, which often looks unkempt and rough. In addition to moist and hot air, which expands the pores, it is necessary to use exfoliating and softening mixtures and compositions.
One of the simplest recommendations is oil wrap. To perform this procedure, you will need either a rich cream or vegetable oil. After applying the product to the skin, you should put on cotton gloves.
The same procedure is performed for nails. Only in this case it is necessary to add a pinch of salt to the vegetable oil. A mixture of milk and honey (1:1) applied to their skin will also add beauty to your hands.
One of the anti-aging remedies will be ordinary bath brooms. They are pre-soaked in water, into which they then dip their hands.
Feet care
Pleasant trips to the bathhouse can be combined with very useful procedures. And among them there are those that are aimed at foot care. Often all kinds of corns appear on our feet. Our feet also hurt from calluses formed from wearing uncomfortable shoes. The most suitable place to get rid of these growths is a bathhouse. Here the feet are superbly steamed, which allows you to remove the keratinized layers from their skin.
The bath will also help those who suffer from heel spurs, which cause discomfort when walking. To eliminate such deposits, it is recommended to apply a compress of lilac alcohol tincture to the sore spot.
Bath procedures will help get rid of excessive sweating. This process is accompanied by a not very pleasant smell coming from the feet. To get rid of the problem, after a bath you should wipe your feet and the skin between your toes with an ice cube. But it’s enough to pour cold water over the feet themselves. Foot baths with the infusion remaining after soaking an oak or birch broom are also recommended.
In case of overwork and muscle strain, pine solutions will help your legs. Baths made from them will relieve the skin and bruises.
Contraindications
Bath procedures are not useful for everyone and not always. There are also some restrictions regarding general well-being and health. So, there are diseases for which visiting the steam room is strictly prohibited, and one of them is hypertension, which has reached the second or third stage. After all, in the bathhouse the body temperature rises to 38-40 degrees, and after it the blood pressure rises. For hypertensive patients, such a condition can result not only in deterioration of the condition, but also in loss of consciousness, stroke, heart attack, renal failure, etc.
Doctors also prohibit those who suffer from certain cardiovascular diseases from taking a steam bath. After all, everyone knows that when visiting a steam room, the pulse quickens. And this indicates an increase in the load on the heart muscle. Thus, going to the bathhouse is prohibited for endocarditis, pericarditis and myocarditis. With such pathologies, sessions in the steam room sometimes end tragically. Hot air baths are also contraindicated for those who have had a heart attack. Caution is required from patients diagnosed with arrhythmia, angina pectoris, atherosclerosis of the coronary vessels and aorta.
What other contraindications do bath procedures have? For bursitis and other inflammatory diseases, you should seek advice from a doctor. The decision taken by a specialist will depend on the degree and severity of the disease.
A doctor’s recommendations regarding the possibility of visiting a steam room will be needed in case of anemia and infectious diseases. But there is a categorical ban on such trips for patients with asthma, dermatitis and eczema.
Falling asleep during bath procedures is also contraindicated. It will not bring health benefits and will significantly increase the load on the heart and blood vessels.
Why not sometimes pamper yourself and dedicate a few hours to a spa at home: completely relax and rejuvenate, recharge yourself in a great mood and surprise others with a cheerful, radiant appearance. We suggest setting up a spa salon at home, especially since it is not at all difficult.
Mandatory attributes of a spa at home
SPA treatment has the most beneficial effect on the body, creating a balance between harmony and healing. Each set of procedures is always beneficial for the soul and body, which every girl must afford, including at home. Each complex must include all subsequent stages to achieve the maximum beneficial effect.
Relaxation
Light scented candles in the bathroom. Turn on pleasant music or turn it off completely, whichever you feel more relaxed, put soft towels nearby. In case you get thirsty, you can prepare fruit water: cut up any fresh fruit, citrus fruits would be ideal, and fill them with cool water. Take your bath slowly; you can add sea salt, aromatic oils, herbal tea or milk to it - it will give your skin a special velvety feel. Gently massage your neck and head - you will immediately feel the fatigue and tension go away.
Gentle cleansing
Prepare a coffee scrub in advance: mix 3-4 tablespoons of ground coffee with a spoon of olive oil, add a little of your favorite shower gel and, if desired, a spoon of honey and a few drops of aromatic oil. Apply the scrub all over your body, massage for a few minutes and rinse - your skin will become amazingly smooth. Instead of coffee, you can also take granulated sugar or small oatmeal.
Hydration and nutrition
Mix cosmetic clay with water, green tea or milk, apply to face and neck and leave for 10-15 minutes. Rinse with warm water and gently pat skin dry with a towel. You can put cucumber slices or tea bags on your eyes (they must first be brewed in boiling water for 2-3 minutes and cooled in the refrigerator). After the mask, apply cream to the skin and lightly massage your face.
Perfect skin
To warm your feet and make your skin soft and tender, an oatmeal mask with spices is great. Mix small oat flakes with warm water to a thick paste. Add a little cinnamon, red pepper, grated fresh ginger, a spoonful of honey and olive oil, and a few drops of orange oil. Cover your feet with the oat mixture. After this, wrap your hands in a towel soaked in hot water, close your eyes and relax for 10-15 minutes. Rinse off the mask with warm water, lubricate your hands and feet with cream and massage them thoroughly. If you don't want to make a mask, just soak your feet in warm water with the addition of aromatic oils.
SPA procedures for a bath or sauna
Visiting the bathhouse and sauna is a special ritual that helps you relax and recuperate. Such sessions are especially useful for appearance, since all cosmetic spa procedures in the bathhouse and sauna become even more effective. We offer several recipes for homemade spa cosmetics.
Fragrant steam
Inhaling steam in itself has a healing effect, and if you use essential oils and a decoction of medicinal plants, the benefits will increase significantly. To prepare the decoction, you need to boil 50 g of herb in 1 liter of water, leave for 15-20 minutes and add water to 3 liters. It’s quicker to prepare a mixture with essential oils: just add 8-10 drops of oil to 3 liters of water. The mixture should not have too strong a smell, otherwise you may feel dizzy. In the bathhouse, the broth can be splashed directly on the stones, and it is better to place water with essential oils in a flat container next to the stove in the sauna or the heater in the bathhouse. We offer several recipes with different herbs.
- Juniper has antiviral properties, helps against colds, strengthens the immune system. Cones are used for decoction at the rate of 50 g per 1 liter of water.
- Lavender and chamomile soothe, relax, and help with insomnia. Plant flowers are used for decoction.
- Mint helps with headaches and helps relieve tension after heavy exertion.
- Bergamot soothes the skin and increases its elasticity. For cosmetic procedures it is more convenient to use bergamot oil.
- Spruce and pine They have antimicrobial properties and help with diseases of the respiratory system. The needles of these trees are used for decoction.
Cleansing and exfoliation
After a session in the bathhouse or sauna, you can cleanse your skin with a simple and effective scrub: mix 3 tablespoons of honey with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon. Apply the mixture to the face and body, massage lightly, leave for 4-5 minutes and rinse with warm water. To cleanse areas with thicker skin (elbows, knees), you can add a tablespoon of granulated sugar or ground coffee to the scrub.
Hydration and nutrition
After applying the scrub, it is best to moisturize the skin with a mask. The most universal option is a mask made from fermented milk products and fruits, berries or vegetables. Mix cream, sour cream or kefir with fruits or berries, mashed into a paste (apples, bananas, strawberries, cucumbers are suitable). If desired, you can add a little honey, it will provide additional nutrition. Apply the mask to the face and body, leave for 10-15 minutes and rinse off.
Rest and peace
After all the procedures, dry the skin with a soft towel, wrap yourself in a cozy robe and brew aromatic herbal tea.
And now the best part. Just sit comfortably on the sofa with a cup of herbal tea or a glass of juice and read a book that has been waiting on the shelf for a long time, look through an art catalog or albums with old photographs. Prepare a light fruit salad. Let nothing bother you for the next hour or two.
We wish you a wonderful day!
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Everyone has known about the benefits of a sauna or steam bath for a long time. Some people do not like thermal procedures and visit such establishments only from time to time for health purposes. And someone is simply crazy about hot steam and, at every opportunity, books a room in the nearest sauna.
If you have long been looking for a gentle way to rejuvenate without harmful chemicals or surgical intervention, then you can try using your next trip to the bathhouse to achieve your goal.
How do steam treatments work on the skin?
Skin is the largest human organ. It performs many functions, not only protective. Among them are the removal of waste and toxins, excess salts and other harmful waste substances, as well as the regulation of heat exchange. In addition, oxygen and nutrients also reach the cells through the skin. But only if its condition is normal and it is well cleaned.
What happens when a person enters a steam room? After just 5-7 minutes, the skin warms up to a temperature of about 40 degrees. This is basically not harmful, and even useful:
- pores open;
- blood vessels dilate;
- sweat secretion is stimulated;
- Metabolic processes, lymph outflow are activated, and fat breakdown begins.
Interesting!
In normal condition, the human epidermis contains only 10% moisture - this is very little; at the slightest negative factor, the skin will begin to... After visiting the bathhouse, the epidermis is 70% saturated with moisture - this is why the skin becomes so elastic and smooth. But this effect, unfortunately, is short-lived. After a few hours, or at most a day, the epidermis will again be dehydrated. Therefore, in order to achieve a lasting effect, you need to visit the bathhouse at least once a week, and not once every six months from time to time.
In addition, when steaming, the body's work is activated. The skin becomes more sensitive, it begins to breathe. Not taking advantage of such a moment without applying an additional nourishing and restorative agent to it is simply a sin. You can be sure that it will penetrate to the deepest skin and subcutaneous layers and work with maximum efficiency. But – you need to choose this product correctly and prepare the skin for its application.
Cosmetic treatments for the steam room
Baths and saunas are traditional methods of cleansing and healing the body. Therefore, it is also better to use natural products for skin care. It's worth taking with you:
Masks made from these components can be applied to cleansed skin without makeup, either before entering the steam room, or immediately after leaving it.
You can also do this: before the steam room, apply a cleansing mask to your face, leave the steam room, rinse it off and apply the following, nourishing or moisturizing mask:
- A mask made of honey and salt is suitable as a cleansing mask. For nutrition, you can combine yogurt and yeast, or yolk and yeast.
- Any product is suitable for normal skin. For example, combine sour cream, honey and egg yolk and apply it all to the face and neck for a quarter of an hour.
- To make it, combine sour cream, olive oil and honey or yolk.
Don't forget about the skin of your body - it also needs cleansing and care. It's time after visiting the steam room to stimulate lymphatic drainage and get rid of. A homemade scrub made from ground coffee with the addition of honey or salt will help with this. It is applied after leaving the steam room to problem areas and rubbed in in a circular motion. After a quarter of an hour, the scrub can be washed off in the shower, a mixture of honey and sour cream applied to the body and entered the steam room again. You will see how tightened, soft and velvety your skin will become.
Advice! If you plan to make several complex masks or scrubs, it is better to prepare them at home in advance and take them with you in plastic or glass jars. And in the bathhouse you can fully enjoy relaxation and care for your face and body.
Skin care after a bath
The most important rule is to take a shower after visiting the bathhouse. The fact is that when heated, the skin begins to actively release salts and toxins through the pores. As it cools, the pores will narrow and again draw in released harmful substances if they are not removed. This is why a shower is necessary.
If you have done any cosmetic procedures in the bathhouse, used scrubs or applied masks, then slight redness may occur on the skin. This is a normal phenomenon that will go away on its own in a few hours, or at most in a day. All that is required of you now to avoid global irritation is:
- do not go out into the open sun for several hours;
- do not visit for at least a day;
- do not use scrubs with exfoliating particles;
- Do not rub your face and body intensively.
It is also not advisable to use decorative cosmetics - let the skin breathe a little and recover naturally.
Which sauna is better?
If you are impressed by the effect of saunas and steam baths on the skin of your face and body, then you will have to make a choice where to go for wellness treatments this coming weekend. Today you can easily find such steam room options:
- Russian bath;
- Turkish bath;
- Finnish sauna.
What are their differences and features is a broad question that should be devoted to a separate article.
Since ancient times, the Slavs were treated for illnesses and ailments in the bathhouse. In addition to its direct purpose, The bathhouse serves as a medical and beauty salon. Regular trips to the bathhouse rid the body of toxins and help cells improve the regeneration process. Today you will find out what are the procedures in the bathhouse will help you become both beautiful and healthy.
Greetings dear reader!
A visit to the steam room has a beneficial effect on the entire body as a whole, activating rejuvenation processes and improving a person’s appearance.
Bathhouses and steam rooms have certain rules for visiting for maximum pleasure and benefit, and not everyone is suitable for bathhouse procedures.
- The head in the steam room should be covered with a special cap or scarf to protect the hair from drying out and subsequent breakage.
- All metal jewelry must be removed to avoid burns.
- For shoes, light flip-flops or flip-flops would be ideal.
To avoid exposing your skin to sudden temperature changes, it is better to pour warm water over yourself before going into the steam room. Also, for the first time, it is better to steam on the lower step of the shelf, gradually adapting the body to the high temperatures in the steam room.
How you feel is the best indicator of how much time you need for the steam room, especially on your first visit.
As soon as the sensations become uncomfortable, it’s time to leave the steam room.
Immediately after leaving it, you need to douse yourself with water to wash off the sweat, which removes secretions and cleanses the skin.
Steam room
Each subsequent visit to the steam room is longer, the temperatures are higher. Now you can take a steam bath on the high steps of the regiment.
The steam room is a place for relaxation; you should not waste your pleasure on chatting, physical activity or cosmetic procedures.
All this should be left for later, but here it is necessary to let the body relax and calm down. This is an excellent procedure for cleansing and restoring strength in the body.
Tonic supplements
With the help of oils and herbal decoctions, you can enhance the healing and tonic effect of steam.
Decoctions
Raspberry, pine, eucalyptus and some other decoctions are perfect.
Before use, they need to be strained and diluted with plenty of water, and then boldly pour them over hot stones.
Oils
With oils everything is a little different.
They do not water the stones, but soak a small board and place it near the stones or drip a few drops directly onto the shelves.
- For cheerfulness and mood, use lavender, jasmine, grapefruit and fir.
- For relaxation, calm and stress relief, tangerine, lemon or ylang-ylang oils are ideal.
- To heal wounds and disinfect them, chamomile, cedar, peppermint, eucalyptus or juniper oil are needed.
Aromatherapy
Using diluted kvass or beer, the steam is given a bready aroma, which cleanses and completely heals the entire body.
Whisk
The best bath procedure is to steam with a broom. It heals, tones, and rejuvenates.
It is impossible to imagine a Russian bathhouse without a fragrant and steamed broom. First, they stroke the skin, then begin to lightly pat, gradually increasing the intensity and force of the blows.
For those who fight against cellulite and fat deposits, and also just want to improve their body health, a broom is the best helper.
Nettles and several types of trees are used for brooms.
- A birch broom will help relieve muscle pain, cleanse the skin and lungs, and heal wounds.
- You can treat oily skin, regulate blood pressure and nerves with the help of an oak broom.
- Linden relieves headaches, helps in the treatment of pulmonary diseases and stimulates kidney function.
- Juniper and fir branches promote blood circulation and sweating, relieve respiratory tract diseases, and help with neuralgia.
- Nettle helps cope with joint pain, inflammation and helps reduce blood pressure.
Cosmetic procedures in the bath
For cosmetic procedures, folk remedies are the most ideal.
It is better to prepare masks and scrubs from honey, salt, clay, kefir or sour cream, oils and berries.
Each procedure must be alternated with a steam procedure, but you must enter the steam room with absolutely clean skin each time.
You need to start with cleansing with a scrub after your first visit to the steam room.
The procedure lasts about 15 minutes, everything is washed off under running water.
After subsequent steaming, masks should be made, first nourishing, then toning and healing.
When the trips to the steam room are completed, it’s the turn of the hair.
A pre-prepared mask is applied to the scalp, then to the roots and lengths. After ten minutes, rinse thoroughly with a suitable shampoo.
To truly relax your body and soul, heal and rejuvenate your body, you need to go to the bathhouse weekly.
This should become a good and kind tradition for many years.
Bathhouse is useful for everyone!!!
Also, my dear parents, such baths are very useful for our children, since they are the same as everyone else, and the delights of the bath are beneficial for their bodies.