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Hot water can help relieve stress and soothe muscles after a long and tiring day at work. Soaking in a warm bath with a little essential oil is considered the best way to help relax the mind. In addition, a hot bath also helps to massage the shoulders, neck, and back while making it easier for the body to fall asleep.
1. Take a hot bath
Bathing not only helps to clean the body but also brings many health benefits to the body. Each person has a different choice of bathing time during the day, for example, some people usually shower when they wake up in the morning, while some people choose to shower right after coming home from work or some people choose to shower first. According to researchers, morning is considered as the best time of the day to take a shower and taking a shower in the morning can improve work efficiency. Moreover, bathing in the morning also helps stimulate creative thinking and helps you start your day effectively.
However, studies also show that the second time to shower during the day is a warm bath before going to bed at night. This will help the body have a way to reduce stress after a long tiring day and also help improve the condition of oily skin.
When taking a hot bath to relieve stress, you need to pay attention to do it slowly in order from the ankles to the top of the knees, waist, arms.... Then soak in hot water will help improve blood circulation and remove toxins from the body through sweat glands. With moderate water pressure on the skin, it has a massage effect, reducing swelling, and dispelling fatigue.
The water temperature when bathing is recommended by researchers at a safe level of about 44 degrees Celsius. With this temperature, the lipid layer of the epidermis will not be eroded and the skin will be better moisturized. Bathing at a higher water temperature can damage, dry, and crack the skin. However, warm water used to wash your face will have a lower heat level because the facial epidermis is thinner and more susceptible to damage than other areas of the body. In case, if you regularly bathe and wash your face with too hot water, it can make your skin thinner every day, increase the likelihood of sunburn and increase the risk of skin cancer.
Tắm nước ấm trước khi ngủ giúp bạn giảm stress và ngủ ngon hơn
2. The unexpected benefits of taking a hot bath
If you regularly shower in the morning, taking a hot bath will bring a number of benefits to the body:
Solves problems related to cold hands and feet. Especially in weak women when the weather changes, it is easy to catch colds due to signs of poor blood circulation. If you take a hot bath in the morning, it can help the body circulate blood to the surface of the skin better. Reduce stress and anxiety. When the daily work that requires you to face and solve makes you always feel pressured, taking a hot shower in the morning can help eliminate anxiety and can solve some problems. Because hot baths help increase blood flow to the brain, nerve cells work better and the body strengthens resistance effectively. Eliminate the feeling of fatigue of the body in the morning. Some people still feel tired after a night. Therefore, bathing in the morning will help the body reduce fatigue. At the same time, it helps to improve the central nervous system and stimulate the adrenal glands to help the body work efficiently. After bathing, you will find yourself active and become more energetic to start the day full of energy. Avoid catching colds. If you often get colds, try taking an early morning shower with hot water. Studies on the benefits of hot baths show that taking a bath early in the morning will help the body produce more white blood cells to help strengthen the body's resistance. Improves oily skin and acne. If you have oily skin and the oil appears a lot in the morning, taking a hot bath in the morning helps balance and regulate the oil in your skin, and at the same time reduces excessive oil secretion and causes acne. Purify toxins from the body. Every day we absorb quite a lot of toxins into the body. So, taking a hot shower in the morning can help promote blood circulation and stimulate lymphatic production to help flush toxins out of the body.
On the contrary, if bathing in the evening, taking a hot bath will bring a number of benefits to the body:
Helps the body relax, minimizing muscle tension and fatigue. After a hard working day, you come home with a tired state, a hot bath will help your body release stress, relax your nerves and give you a deeper and better sleep. Reduce inflammation. For those who do heavy manual work, which causes the body to be overworked, sometimes the improper movement causes muscle pain and joint pain to increase. After a hard day's work, a hot bath combined with the right amount of essential oils can help relax muscles, improve blood circulation, and quickly reduce body pain. Helps to clean the skin while removing toxins from the skin. For those with oily skin, washing your face with hot water can help cells quickly shed and pores to open wider after washing your face. In contrast, people with dry skin should not wash with hot water because hot water can wash away the lipid layer on the skin, making the skin drier. Reduce headaches. A hot bath can help relax the nerves and at the same time blood is better circulated to the brain, helping to overcome cerebral ischemia, quickly reducing headaches, bringing a pleasant feeling.
Tắm nước nóng là cách giảm stress sau ngày dài mệt mỏi
3. A few notes when taking a hot bath
Hot showers can reduce male fertility. In a study done over a period of about 3 years, it was found that sperm count and quality decreased due to high temperature bathing. Therefore, men using hot water bath regularly can make sperm not as healthy as expected. If you and your partner are trying to have a baby, you should limit bathing with hot water so as not to affect the quality of sperm.
Fainting is not common in hot showers. However, experts have also noted that people with high blood pressure may be prone to dizziness, blurred vision and fainting when immersed in a hot tub for 30 minutes or more.
A lot of hot showers can make breasts worse. Hot water can make the breasts sag and less smooth and firm. However, if you combine a hot bath and a breast massage, it can make your breasts always full of life.
Taking a hot bath before going to bed helps the body to relax and get a deeper and better sleep. However, you also need to pay attention to the water temperature and bathing time to ensure the safety of your body's health.
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