Keeping Your Body Clean Detox:
 Normally, we take baths to make us clean. Here's how to do some serious, deep-down cleansing
- Make sure your bathroom is warm enough and start off with an empty bath. Using a few handfuls of damp sea salt, exfoliate your body from head to toe using big circular movements.
- Rinse this off, then towel dry well.
- Apply a mud or seaweed mask to your whole body for a great detox (don't worry if things start to get messy) and wrap yourself in a towel - preferably one you don;t mind getting filthy. Even better, get someone to wrap your body in a bin bag (obviously keeping your head well clear).
- Relax for 20 minutes
- Shower off the mask and then run a warm bath.
- Add more seaweed mixture or some green clay (which you'll fnd at many health food stores).
- Relax for 15 to 20 minutes
- Finish with a blast of cold water to boost your circulation.
Top 5 Tips For Bathing:
- Enhance the action of your bath with essential oils. Six drops in the water are enough to make a difference. Try grapefruit, Bergamot or lime to energize; clary sage, rosemary or patchouli to soothe your mind; and melissa, lavender or chamomile to send you to sleep.
- If you're using essential oils, put them in once you have finished running the water. Close the door and wait two to three minutes before you get in - this helps the oils evaporate into the air and maximises their powers.
- For the best beauty results, baths should be either long or short. Short baths (five to ten minutes) cleanse the skin without dehydration, while if you stay in the bath for over 20 minutes you'll start to rehydrate your skin from outside (the reasoin you go pruny).
- On the other hand, baths that last between 10 and 20 minutes should be avoided, as you actually lose water from the skin while you bathe. This can result in dehydration.
- Just a couple of words of warning: if you are allergic to seafood, skin seaweed baths. If you have sensitive skin, body brushing, slats, essential oils or bath foams are best avoided. If you have any heart or blood pressure problems avoid very hot or very cold baths or showers.
 Make Your Bath Treatments:
It's easy to whip up soothing bath treatments from the ingredients of your own kitchen.
1. Moisturising Body Treatment:
For a moisturising pre-bath body treat mix together the following ingredients: 1/2 cup finely ground almonds, 1 cup porridge oats / oatmeal, 1 mashed avocado. Rub the mixture into the body, leave for five minutes, shower off, then have a moisturising bath.
2. Super Scrub:
Create a super-powered body scrub with fruits containing fruit acids. These help dissolve dead skin cells, which can then be whisked away. Mix the following: 1 guava, 1 kiwi, handful of Dead Sea Salts, 2 tbsp honey. Apply to the body in circular motions.
3. Rich Bath Remedy:
For a rich moisturising bath blend use the following ingredients: 1 cup oatmeal, 3 cups powdered milk. Add the oatmeal to the milk in a muslin bag. Place this under the tap and run the water through it.
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