Rejuvenate and strengthen health will help a beer bath
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Today, there are many health procedures that help to strengthen health and improve immunity. Among all the variety can be identified beer bath. In cosmetology, this kind of procedure is used to rejuvenate the skin. Doctors note the content in the hop of important for human microelements - selenium, zinc, iron, copper, as well as B vitamins. In Japan, such a procedure is the most effective method that affects the acceleration of the regeneration of the whole organism.
Preparing such a bath is quite simple: in a filled with a warm (about 35 - 37 degrees) water bath add 20 liters of beer. Beer is best to take dark varieties, with a pleasant aroma. For such a procedure, the best option is "live beer", it does not contain preservatives and it is made according to a traditional recipe. Take a bath with beer you need about 15 - 20 minutes. The course consists of 5 or 10 sessions, which are held every day or every other day. To ensure the efficiency of the beer bath was higher, it is best to take it at least an hour and a half after the main bath.
Use of the beer bath:
- rejuvenation of cells and skin
- helps to cope with increased sweating, useful for oily skin, with acne
- beer couples close pores, which helps to reduce fat formation (acne disappears, acne, greasiness, irritation)
- regeneration processes are accelerated, the upper layers of the skin are renewed. Often a beer bath is prescribed for eczema and psoriasis
- minerals and trace elements that restrain in beer, relax the body, relieve fatigue, normalize the work of the nervous system
- a warm bath warms the joints well, promotes their strengthening, improves the resistance of the body
- lowers blood pressure, weight decreases
The beer and yeast cultures contained in this drink well tone the skin, after the bath, the upper dead skin particles are removed naturally, without the need to apply scrub or pilling, which is especially important for sensitive skin. Essential oils in beer have a beneficial effect on the skin - it becomes tender, soft, well moisturized. Beer vapors that enter the body by inhalation help to saturate the body with oxygen, while a relaxing and warming effect removes the body from traces of stress.
But, despite such a huge positive effect on the human body, beer baths have several contraindications. First of all, they are forbidden for diseases that occur in an acute form (urine-sexual, cardiovascular, renal failure, etc.). It is also forbidden to take any baths, not only beer, with various neoplasms in the body, both in benign and malignant, as well as in the acute stage of the tuberculosis process. This procedure is not recommended for women who are in a position. Be wary appoint a beer bath for infectious diseases, progressive glaucoma, intolerance of some components that are part of the beer.
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