Russian bath: body treatments
After a stormy New Year’s Eve, the bathhouse will restore health. This place is just made for SPA treatments. Here you can get rid of fatigue, make your skin smooth as silk, tone up the body, and even lose weight! WDay.ru has chosen the most effective bath procedures.
Mix two tablespoons of warm sesame oil with one teaspoon of dried chamomile flowers and add two drops each of sandalwood and lavender oils. Apply the mixture in a circular motion from the center of the face to the periphery in an upward motion, gently massaging for a minute.
Then roll a cotton towel into a “tube”, soak it in hot water and wring it out. Place the towel over your face so that the center of the towel is on the chin and the ends “frame” the face on both sides. Lie there for a while, inhaling the scent of lavender and sandalwood.
When the towel starts to cool, use it to cleanse your face. Then rinse thoroughly with warm water and rub the skin with toner to remove any oil residues. Now you can apply the cream.
Going to the steam room
How to choose a broom: birch is an excellent antiseptic, a broom from this tree will help you recover from physical exertion, speed up the treatment of bronchitis, heal wounds and abrasions (put a broom to your face and it will help get rid of inflammation on the skin). An oak broom will have an anti-inflammatory effect. Linden is recommended for headaches and edema. Fir and juniper brooms are effective in preventing respiratory diseases.
After the New Year’s feast, the best choice would be a birch, mountain ash or tansy broom. They will help to relax and tone the body.
Nourishing décolleté mask
The body warms up better if you take a steam bath while lying down.
Mash a ripe banana, mix it with two tablespoons of cottage cheese, a tablespoon of heavy cream and egg yolk until creamy.
Apply it on the décolleté and leave it on for 30 minutes. Then rinse with warm water and rinse with cool.
After such a mask, the skin will be more elastic and hydrated. Also, massage with frozen milk cubes perfectly tones the skin in the décolleté area.
To prepare them, pour the milk into ice cube trays and place in the freezer beforehand. Do not forget that the delicate skin of the breast can only be massaged with light movements.
Aromatherapy in the steam room
It is good to use essential oils in the steam room. Dilute 5-7 drops in a liter of warm water and spray on the fireplace and on the walls. Citrus oils and mint will give you vigor, rose oil will help relieve stress, and eucalyptus will relieve colds.
After the bath
Be sure to take skin moisturizers to the sauna, because after steam rooms it is very important to restore the skin’s hydrobalance.