January 2016 archive

Spa Detoxification

detox spaThere are many popular detox methods available to people today, including specialized diets, holistic medicine and desert sweat tents. One popular method of detoxification is spa treatment. A day, or even a few days at the spa, can do a lot to help detoxify your body. There are many detoxifying elements that go into a spa day, including ingesting substances that flush toxins out, using heat to assist the body in purging toxins and releasing toxins through therapeutic massages. These methods help bring the body back to a balanced, naturally functioning state.

Drawing out toxins by ingesting natural substances is a practice found in beauty spas. The focus on purging the body of toxic elements is important to the purification processes that day spas aim for. Spas serve their clients tea, water and other detoxifying fluids that assist in the body’s release of toxins. It is important to stay hydrated while at the spa, not only because the temperature is high, but because the toxins being released need to be flushed from the system with fluid. Detoxifying fluids such as dandelion tea, which is GI cleansing, is often served at spas.

Drawing out toxins with heat is another useful method of detoxification used by spas. Heat plays an important role in detoxifying during spa treatment. Saunas are popular spa features, which place an individual in an intensely heated room to open their pores and help them sweat out toxins. Steam rooms are similar but they incorporate moisture into the heat, which filters out toxins from the skin. Hot tubs and whirlpools are obviously heated, as are rooms that massages take place in. Some massages even feature heated stones that are placed directly onto the skin.

And lastly, massage therapy is an important detoxification element. Massages penetrate deep into the muscle tissue, which releases a variety of toxins that have become stuck in the muscle and fat cells. Massage therapists always tell their clients to do a lot of hydrating after they receive a massage to flush out the toxins that have been loosened up.