Baking soda is available in every home. The product is used for cleaning dishes and sanitary ware, added to the dough to give it splendor, it is used in the treatment of inflammatory processes. Recently, information has appeared that soda baths contribute to weight loss. Let's find out if soda baths are useful for the body, and what contraindications are there to the procedure.
Soda baths - indications and contraindications
Benefits of Soda Bath
In the search for an answer to the question of how useful soda baths are, let us pay attention to the properties of this substance. Baking soda has the following effects:
- improves blood circulation, thus stimulating metabolic processes and contributing to the elimination of toxins;
- softens the epidermis, increasing the elasticity of the skin, eliminating dryness, eliminating the rash;
- removes fat from the surface of the skin, cleansing the epidermis.
But, contrary to popular belief, sap fat can not be soda. Take soda bath should be for stimulating blood circulation and removing excess fluid from the body. Thanks to this action of the substance, you can get rid of cellulite and somewhat reduce the waist and hips.
Especially useful are soda baths for skin diseases:
- seborrhea;
- dermatitis;
- dry eczema;
- mycoses;
- allergic redness and rashes.
In addition, water treatments with baking soda are beneficial for certain types of circulatory disorders and edema. The effectiveness of the procedure will be higher if you pre-perform several exercises, work out on the simulator or do a run. After all, with physical movements, the skin pores expand, and, therefore, become more susceptible to soda.
The procedure is organized as follows:
1. In a hot-water bath with a volume of 150-200 liters, 200 g of baking soda is dissolved. To enhance the effect in water, you can add:
- sea salt (500 g per bath);
- 5-10 drops of essential oil, in the first place, tea tree, rosemary, orange or lavender;
- chamomile broth;
- infusion of ginger (to increase vitality);
- lavender alcohol.
2. Within 10 minutes are in the bath in the sitting position. If it is necessary to get rid of fat deposits in the upper part of the body, then it is better to pour problem spots from the ladle.
3. At the end of the procedure, do not take a shower and wipe yourself with a towel.
After the soda bath should go to bed, in connection with which, it is better to perform the procedure immediately before night sleep. Usually a healthy person in order to lose a few pounds and eliminate the manifestations of cellulite, it is recommended to perform 10 procedures (procedure - day break - again procedure - day break, etc.) in compliance with all rules. You can repeat the course not earlier than in 2 months. Although some women claim that they manage to lose up to 10 kg per course, it is important to remember that soda baths are only an additional means for losing weight.
Harm to a soda bath
Like any procedure, soda baths bring not only good, but also harm. So water and soda can aggravate the wounds on the skin, burns. It is forbidden to use soda for such diseases and conditions as:
- colds and flu in the acute phase;
- diabetes;
- varicose veins ;
- high blood pressure;
- bronchial asthma;
- oncology;
- pregnancy.
In addition, there may be an individual allergic reaction to soda. Certainly, in this case water baths on a soda basis are forbidden!
Attention! Excessive infatuation with soda baths can lead to irritation on the skin and mucous membranes, epidermal scaling, edema of soft tissues.