Skin Cleansing: An Essential Part of Body Detoxification
The skin is one of the main detoxifying organs in the body. As such, your body detoxification system must include skin cleansing to maximize the skins ability to eliminate toxins.
Why detoxify the skin, you might ask. Well, it is because presence of toxins in the skin has undesirable effects.
Exposure to pollution and use of synthetic skin care products contribute to skin toxicity. Harmful chemicals may enter the circulatory system and produce more toxins in the body. The bad effects of these chemicals may not be felt instantly because the liver can detoxify them. What if your liver is damaged? Skin detoxification is recommended to those who have malfunctioning kidneys because they lack the means for full body detox.
Skin detox offers a lot of benefits besides getting rid of toxins and excess fluid from the body. It increases the amount of oxygen for use by the body, which in turn reduces congestion in the lymph and removes toxic heavy metals from the skin. The heat treatments involved in skin detox help reduce blood pressure and trigger sweating. The more you sweat, the more efficient your body becomes in eliminating salt, phosphatesm uric acid, urea, and lactic acid. The other benefits of skin detox include maintenance of the hair and skin's natural Ph, improved metabolism, better immune defense, pain relief, and relaxation of the body.
The following are practical tips to help you detoxify your skin and keep it healthy.
* Use natural soaps and skin care products.
* Avoid wearing clothes made of synthetic fibers. Instead, wear those made of natural fibers such as wool and cotton, which can absorb toxins better than synthetic fibers.
* Try sauna. It can eliminate fat-soluble toxins from your body. According to studies, about 20 percent of 16 toxic
substances are reduced in the body after sauna. Even after four months after sauna, the body still continues to flush out toxins.
* Have a cleansing bath. A lot of people lead stressful lives, and who couldn't use a relaxing bath nowadays? Plus, you can use your bathtub at home to remove toxins from your body. Soak your whole body for half an hour in warm water mixed with baking soda, salt, powdered ginger, and hydrogen peroxide. The baking soda neutralizes the acids in the toxins, while the ginger and salt wash out toxins from the skin.
*Use a dry skin brush or loofah sponge when you take a bath. This will remove dead skin cells and oils that clog the pores. It is important to unclog the pores to release toxins from the skin more easily, making body detoxification a more efficient process..