If you’ve had a stressful week and are thinking of a quick way to rejuvenate, you must consider taking a shower. Not a normal shower, but a healing shower. Immersion baths, Scottish showers, medicated bathtubs and sitz baths… Get set to rejuvenate your body both physically and mentally with
these exotic healing showers. Beauty experts say that some of the baths are specially designed to provide health benefits.
Says Reeta Thomas, beautician of a famous beauty salon in Chennai, “Scottish shower, which involves spraying the person with hot and cold water alternatively, helps in relieving the body from aches and pains. Similarly, Turkish Hammam bath is known for its healing effects and also improves blood circulation since it involves a steamy shower.”
Healing showers not just help in giving sheen to the skin but some showers like the sitz shower focus on specific problems like physical distress and menstrual pain too. Experts point out that some of these showers even provide mental balance and build the immunity.
Explains T. Emanuel, health expert, “With increasing stress levels owing to 24/7 work schedules and other factors, taking a healing shower may be the simplest and most effective way to rejuvenate and rid yourself of physical pain a sauna bath or a medicated shower is ideal especially after a strenuous workout session.”