Preparation for Detox Baths is always the same – take in plenty of fluids preferably as a Cleansing Drink and/or chamomile/peppermint tea, and don’t bathe if you’ve eaten within an hour. As the water fills, dry skin brush your entire body.
Contra-indications for immersing your entire body in a bath are diabetes and high blood pressure. Diabetics should leave their legs out of the bath and people with high blood pressure or extremely low blood pressure should not take long baths. They’re better off with other kinds of hydrotherapy such as showering.
The ACV Detox Bath
You can use refined, regular grocery store apple cider vinegar for this to save money. ACV baths are excellent for excess acidosis, conditions of gout, arthritis, conditions arising after eating too much protein or kidney stress. ACV baths remove uric acid from the body and take a load off the kidneys, so they are especially good during liver and kidney management. Simply add a pint to a quart of ACV to a warm bath and soak for 20 minutes.
Oil/Salt Bath
This is fantastic for dry skin. Make a warm salted bath with one cup of Baking Soda and one cup of Sea Salt or Epsom Salts. As the tub fills, massage your body all over with pure, expeller-pressed sesame oil. The oil will open pores and relax veins, increasing metabolism so more toxins come to the surface. You can also add oil to the bath water itself. The salt encourages the body to release fluids and toxins, and cleanses the body of radiation.
Bentonite Clay Bath
Soak 2 pounds of bentonite clay overnight to hydrate it. Add it to a warm but not hot bath. Soak for at least 30 minutes. Only do this once a month or less as it may clog or seal pipes.
Medicinal Baths
Thyme Bath
Thyme is a good remedy for acute and chronic coughing, bronchitis, emphysema. Boil half pound of thyme in two quarts of water for 5 minutes and strain. Add the decoction to half a warm bath and sit in it, breathing very deeply in order to inhale as much steam as possible.
Bran Bath
For a full bath, use three pounds of wheat bran. Bring the bran to a boil quickly beofre adding it to the bath.
Bran baths have a soothing effect on inflammation since they reduce stimulation of the skin. Because they help form a protective, inflammation-resistant layer over the skin surface, tey are used to treat highly inflammatory skin diseases and hypersensitive skin troubled by eczema and hives.
Cold Half-Baths
Fill the tub halfway with cold water. Gradually get into the cold water, sit up in it, and stay in until you fllush. The water should come up to your waist but not the chest. At first your skin will get pale and goosebumpy, but after awhile it should become flushed, which is what you want. Splash your torso with the cold water.
Because this increases circulation in the lower half of the body, including the intestines, this is an excellent thing to do for constipation, prolapsed colon, hemrrhoids, estrogen dominance, cellulite. It strengthens the nervous system so is good therapy for any nervous system disorders.
Get out after 10-20 minutes and warm yourself up by toweling off vigorously. Really rub hard, massaging your body all over. Get under the covers or wrap up in a nice robe to finish warming up.