Benefits of bathing with warm water

• Helps to calm and relieve stress after a hectic day plus it helps you sleep better.
• It helps to open the skin pores thereby helping slush off dead skin tissues on the skin surface.
• Hot water helps to relieve internal bruising, muscle and joint pain.
• It’s proven to help in reducing menstrual cramping in women.
• It helps to De-congest the respiratory system clogs and flu like symptoms- a sinus relieve.
• It helps to relieve allergies caused by pollen on clothing and body from the environment.
• De-congest & nose Allergy Recipe: Boil water; add it to a ceramic bowl. Add orange oil and eucalyptus oil to De-congest sinus and mucus clogging your air way. Place a towel over your head. Put your face over the bowl not too close to avoid burning yourself. keep your face over the steam for 10mins- you will feel a difference in your air way. *This recipe will open up your skin pores so you will need to close your pores after wards with a splash of mild cold water.

Disadvantages of showering with warm water:

1. It can dry out the skin and hair thereby causing it to become ashy, scaly and itchy. It could cause eczema in some people.
2. It causes the skin to wrinkle faster. 
3. It can cause a burn.
4. It could also cause hyper pigmentation of the skin in some people.
5. Hot water could make you more tired. Reduce fertility and sperm counts in men; in the old times it was used as contraceptive for men who didn’t want any baby.
6. Because warm water is a relaxant it can become addictive to take long shower meaning longer exposure to water contaminants if you don’t have a filter although the benefits of taking warm water may outweigh the fears of water contaminants such as chlorine invading your skin and hair. More water consumption- won’t help you conserve water as much as you would when using cold water.
7. It takes more electricity to heat up water therefore high water bills- so to reduce your water bills turn it down a notch or switch out into bathing with cold water.

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Author: Onyinye A