Baths with baking soda - harm or benefit?
Overweight, poor skin condition, cellulite - these problems often worry modern women. But to cope with them will help only a set of measures, one of the items which can act as a baking soda bath. According to reviews, baths with the addition of baking soda can improve the condition of the skin and help in losing weight. In addition, the procedure is quite pleasant, it improves mood and helps to combat stress.
Is it really true and what do you need to know when taking such a bath?
Losing weight - truth or myth?
One of the most interesting effects of baking soda baths for women is to help them lose weight, as the reviews on the Internet say. Such a procedure reduces volumes, so in problem areas you can remove several centimeters. Due to the ability to deeply clean the layers of the skin, the effect of weight loss is complemented by anti-cellulite action.
Is it really true? Our answer is no!
Be sure to watch the following video. According to doctors' reviews, such procedures are only harmful and do not contribute to weight loss:
You will achieve much better results with physical activity, massage, contrast showers and whirlpool massage. And the revision of the diet will contribute to your more rapid transformation.
The harms
As fluid is rapidly eliminated from the body, the blood thickens. This can lead to blood clots and an increased risk of strokes and heart attacks.
No hot baths! Water temperature - 35-37 degrees, otherwise it is possible:
- hypertension;
- malfunction of the heart rhythm;
- Oncological diseases.
Doctors agree that the soda baths bring only harm, no positive effect can be achieved.
Contraindications
Looking at the recipes for different baking soda baths, it is also worth thinking about a visit to the doctor to make sure that these procedures will not harm you. Of course, the doctor's negative answer is the most likely.
In any case, soda baths are under no circumstances prescribed for:
- serious heart disease;
- varicose veins;
- gynecological problems.
- Pustular skin lesions;
- pregnancy;
- diabetes;
- high fever;
- respiratory diseases.
If there are contraindications, procedures with baking soda can be performed only locally, for example, in the form of foot baths in order to soften the hard skin of the heels.
Reviews
If you have read the article to this point, then, despite the assurance that baths with baking soda are harmful, you are interested in what reviews there are about baking soda baths.
What do the reviews say?
Note, all of this happens without the addition of baking soda!
- When a person is immersed in a warm bath, The skin begins to evaporate and its pores open. Due to the activation of sweating, toxins, impurities and harmful substances begin to be eliminated from the body.
- Due to the ability of baking soda to cleanse the skin deep enough, such a bath by adding essential oils Affects the areas with cellulite and contributes to their smoothing.
- Positive effect on the skin by adding to the bath sea salt. With such a bath you can soothe inflammation of the skin, relieve allergic irritations, increase elasticity and smoothness.
- The ability to calm the nerves. A person immersed in water relaxes and calms down after a hard day. The procedure is recommended for overstimulation or severe anxiety.
- Losing weight. After taking a bath with baking soda, the effect will be more noticeable, but only for a short period of time, because baking soda removes water from the body. But not fat! Therefore, it is not advisable to take such a bath. You will get only a short-term effect, which will also harm your health.
If for 1.5 hours before taking baths you will not eat and lie for about 20 minutes during the procedures, you are guaranteed to lose weight, because all that time you will not gain calories, but you will expend energy!
Recipe
The standard procedure is as follows: you prepare a solution of soda in a small amount of water, fill the bathtub with hot water, dissolve the soda solution in it, sit waist-deep in water, wait for the necessary time and, without rinsing, soaking the skin with a towel, go under a blanket for 1 hour.
Attention! Hot water, as we wrote above, contributes to various complications. We recommend refraining from hot baths.
To prepare a baking soda bath with the addition of sea salt you will need about 300-350 grams of soda and 500-1000 grams of salt. The effect of such a bath will be achieved only due to the sea salt, so there is no point in adding soda. And given the contraindications and lack of effect, you can only harm yourself.
At the end of the article, we want to remind you once again that it is not recommended to take baking soda baths. It is much easier to harm the body than to restore it! Much more effective and useful will be taking a bath with sea salt.
If you want to lose weight, we recommend anti-cellulite bath recipes that include essential oils orange, juniper, lavender, orange, and lemon. Add 2-3 drops each of several of the above oils to the water. For a more persistent and rapid effect, you can simultaneously perform a light body massage. It is not necessary to rinse the body after the procedure.
Recommended reading: bath with sea salt. Read and use it to your health!
Thank you for this article! Now I definitely will not take baths with baking soda. And who is spreading rumors about the benefits? I will still have to reconsider my diet and add exercise - after all, these are the healthiest and most proven methods of weight loss.