Sea salt is an environmentally friendly, natural remedy rich in minerals. This is what makes salt so useful for the human body. Salt, extracted from sea water, is used in medical, preventive and health-improving purposes. Taking a bath with sea salt is the basis of all modern spa procedures.
How to turn water into salt?
The practice of extracting salt from the seas dates back more than 4000 years and is widely used throughout the world. Pioneers in this area were Europeans. Residents of the Mediterranean have not just become the founders of spa resorts. The most common way of extracting salt from the sea is natural evaporation. For this purpose, special shallow water bodies. They are filled with sea water, and under direct sunlight there is a gradual evaporation of water, in place of which sea salt remains, used in the future for baths and various procedures.
Miracle salt
The main substance of which the sea salt consists is sodium chloride. But not everyone knows that besides this salt is rich in minerals such as magnesium, calcium, potassium, iodine and bromine. Let's look at the benefits of these minerals for the human body:
- Sodium and potassium. Participate in cellular metabolism, maintain acid-base and water balance.
- Magnesium. It improves metabolism, slows down the aging of cells.
- Calcium. Participates in neuromuscular transmission, blood functions.
- Iodine. It is part of the thyroid hormones, without which normal growth and development of the body is not possible.
- Bromine. Affects the processes of regulation of the central nervous system.
Taking a bath with sea salt has a visible and significant benefit to the human body, which manifests itself in the following:
- improve the protective properties of the skin;
- pain in the muscles and joints decreases;
- relaxation of the body, stress and fatigue relief;
- strengthening the nervous system;
- improvement of sleep and sleep;
- elimination of excess fluid;
- mineral body saturation through the skin;
- increase the elasticity of the skin, its softening and cleansing.
How to use sea salt?
Baths with sea salt can be taken as an episodic, for relaxation and enjoyment, and special courses aimed at solving any problems. In the latter case, there are certain tips to which you should listen:
- Water should not be hot, the optimum temperature will be 35-37 degrees.
- Duration of reception should not exceed 20 minutes. Required a quiet rest after the end of the procedure, so it is optimal to take a bath before going to bed.
- It is better to take a bath, after washing the body, to facilitate the absorption of substances in the skin.
- The course of baths usually consists of 10 procedures. They are held with a break of 1-2 days. This is the optimal interval.
Depending on the purpose, the use of salt with the addition of essential oils is allowed. So, for example, sea salt with lavender is used for relaxation, normalization of blood pressure. A sea salt with rose oil is used to relieve muscle pain, improve the condition of the skin. Salt with needle extracts has an immunostimulating effect,
We can not say that taking a bath with sea salt has its contra-indications. They include:
- critical days and other bleeding;
- high body temperature;
- exacerbation of chronic diseases;
- oncology;
- pregnancy (especially the 1st and 3rd trimesters);
- postoperative period;
- various blood diseases.