Homemade bath: recipes to strengthen your immunity
The immune system is our first barrier against all the attacks that the body can suffer. To give it a little boost, bathing is an ally of choice. Discover how to support your immune system by reducing stress!
What are the effects of stress on the immune system?
The immune system is our body's natural defense mechanism, it is what protects us from bacteria, germs and viruses that we absorb in spite of ourselves. If our body functions properly, it is largely thanks to the immune system which protects us from attacks coming from both the outside and the inside.
Stress weakens the immune system's ability to fight the enemy and makes its victims more prone to infections. When chronic, stress can trigger many diseases by weakening our immune system. To avoid all types of stress as much as possible and fight against aches and pains , there are many methods that have proven their worth. Among them, meditation, physical activity, adopting a balanced diet or even hydrotherapy. Since stress first manifests itself in muscle tension and fatigue, a relaxing bath proves to be a great asset in reducing daily stress. The feeling of well-being born from the combination of hot water which stimulates the production of endorphins with the anti-stress products that can be added: salts, essential oils, milks, etc.
Bathing: the anti-stress solution that immunity loves
What if you strengthened your immune system by relaxing in a bath? There's nothing like a hot bath to relax and strengthen your immune system. Bathing is above all a special moment to take care of yourself. Thanks to the high temperature of the water, fatigue, stress and tension disappear as if by magic!
Reduce stress with a milk bath
The milk bath provides relaxation and well-being, important parameters for reducing stress and strengthening immunity. The soothing effect of milk combined with that of water offers a pure moment of relaxation. At the end of the day, the milk bath allows you to release accumulated tension and give yourself a moment just for yourself.
In addition to acting on stress, the milk bath offers a delicate caress to your skin. A milk bath can effectively relieve irritation and itching and exfoliate the skin thanks to the lactic acid it contains. Indeed, the lactic acid in milk eliminates dead cells to leave the skin smooth and clean. The milk bath also comes to the aid of dry skin to restore its suppleness and elasticity. Milk has moisturizing properties and prevents the skin from drying out. It is not for nothing that it is said that Cleopatra's beauty secret lay in her daily baths of donkey milk. Cleopatra would immerse her queenly body for hours in a bath of donkey milk, benefiting from the nutritional benefits of the milk.
Donkey milk, oat milk, goat milk, powdered milk or even coconut milk, there are many solutions to benefit from the benefits of milk on the skin and on stress.
Among them, Collosol Milk Water occupies a special place. Pour 3 caps of Collosol Milk Water into hot bath water and let yourself be intoxicated by its sweet orange blossom scent. Thanks to its many soothing and sedative virtues, orange blossom is the anti-stress flower par excellence. Its calming powers are also used to relieve sleep disorders. Also, Collosol Milk Water provides your skin with its daily dose of hydration.
How to boost your immunity with essential oils
In a homemade milk bath, a few drops of essential oils with relaxing properties, such as eucalyptus, chamomile or mint, can help you relax and strengthen your immunity.
• Organic lavender essential oil: the soothing and relaxing effect of this essential oil gives it a special place in your beauty kit. Little extra: it makes the skin soft!
• Organic rose essential oil: thanks to the geranyl acetate it contains, rose essential oil is a powerful sedative. When inhaled, by steam in the bath, it calms stress and soothes tension.
Our 3 bath recipes to boost immunity
Soak in the hot water of the bathtub for ten minutes and enjoy the relaxing benefits of the following baths:
Honey Milk Bath Recipe
Ingredients :
• 3 caps of Collosol Milk Water;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• 1/2 cup baking soda.
In water at 37°C, add the 3 caps of Collosol Milk Water and half a cup of baking soda. Before getting into the bath, let the spoons of honey melt while stirring the bath water.
Lavender Epsom Salt Bath Recipe
Ingredients :
• 4 teaspoons of Epsom salts;
• 3 drops of lavender essential oil;
• a large spoonful of liquid soap.
While the water is running, mix the lavender with the liquid soap. The liquid soap is a neutral base that allows the essential oil to mix with the water. Pour it all into the bathtub and add the Epsom salts.
Flower Milk Bath Recipe
Ingredients :
• 3 caps of Collosol Milk Water;
• 1 handful of chamomile flowers;
• 1 handful of dried rose petals;
Just like the Queen of Egypt, make your bath a relaxing and moisturizing beauty ritual. Let the Collosol Milk Water infuse with the chamomile flowers and dried rose flowers for about 3 minutes before adding to the mixture. Anti-stress action guaranteed!
