Steam Rooms for Skin Care

Steam rooms are probably best known for their skin benefits. Regular steam bathers already know that not many things are better for your skin than taking regular steam baths.

Here are some reasons why steam rooms and saunas are good for your skin.

It's Hot In There!

From the moment you step inside a steam room or sauna, your built-in cooling system starts to kick into overdrive. Two of the many reactions that occur are…

1. An increase in blood circulation
2. An increase in sweat production

This is significant because your body maintains a certain temperature referred to as its basal body temperature (normally 98.6 F).

When you take a steam bath, your body increases sweat production to stay cool or maintain its basal temperature.

At first, your body is able to fend off the heat by increasing circulation and sweating.

When your body is no longer able to dissipate the heat, your body temperature starts to rise. Blood is then more forcefully shunted toward the surface of your skin and sweating increases.

This is where the magic happens for your skin…

While a shower rinses dirt off your body’s surface, the heavy sweating in a steam room rinses out your pores.

This removes dead skin and impurities and leaves your skin feeling squeaky clean and silky smooth!

A plain old shower or bath just doesn't compare.

Blood Circulation

The increase in blood circulation brings more oxygen and nutrients to your skin surface.

One way this benefits you is by enhancing collagen reproduction.

Collagen is partly responsible for your skin's strength and elasticity.

Now hopefully you can see how taking steam baths can improve the way your skin looks and feels. Heavy sweating combined with the increase in blood circulation deeply cleanses and rejuvenates your skin.

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