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

Know your kind of water

Spring water- comes from an underground formation and must flow naturally to the earth surface e.g a well. Spring water is typically protected from micro-organisms sometimes found in surface water. Spring water is collected through a hole that tap the water in the earth and companies that supply such water must state it on their label.

Sparkling water- Is water that contains carbon dioxide.

Purified water- has been processed by reverse osmosis, distillation, or similar procedures that remove minerals and contaminants. The source need not be named and is often tap water.

Naturally sparkling water- is naturally carbonated and often comes from a spring. Bubbles lost during treatment or collection may be replaced with the same amount of carbon dioxide the water held originally.

Soda water and seltzer are not considered bottled water. The FDA regulates them as soft drinks, under rules less strict than those for bottled water, and some products may have added sugar, flavors or salts. They're often carbonated municipal water, sometimes with extra filtration.


Mineral Water- contains at least 250 parts per million of dissolved solids- usually calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, silica, and bicarbonates. minerals must occur naturally. Mineral water is typically spring water and can be sparkling or still. Mineral Water- each has it's own taste, originating from whichever rocks and earth it passes by. which one you would choose depends on whether you like it more or less fizzy.

Water labels can be very confusing, more like deceiving; an example is Aquafina Purified Drinking Water, it it one of America's top- selling bottled water brand with the favoring pictures of the deep blues and snow-capped mountains- telegraph idea of faraway glacial springs. Not the case with Aquafina, Aquafina is produced by the Pepsi Cola Company. According to Pepsi spokesman Larry Jabbosky, Aquafina water originates from 16 sources- mainly municipal water supplies Cheraw, S.C.; Detroit; Fresno, Calif.; and Munster, Ind. Aquafina is not water from the exotic region as it the graphic label shows.

Dasani Bottled water by Coca-cola; Pepsi competitor get its water from municipal sources, enhanced with a mix of minerals for a crisp taste.

Something else the labels on bottled water may not reveal is that a single brand of spring water can come from man sources,  an example; is Danon Natural Spring Water tapping from four springs, in Florida, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Quebec. Keep in mind different sources can produce different tasting water.


Still waters- only volcanic Natural Spring Water was excellent. A french import, which  comes from an area rich in volcanic rock. Many other water cost less and it's just as good.
All carbonated water are bottled in PET, and there's a subtle difference in the taste of seven different brands that were tested however, Vintage Old Original Seltzer Water and Canada Dry Original Seltzer were found to be very good. Both been less bitter than the others tested.

Water- Bottled water

On daily basis in our work places, in the gym, classroom, almost everywhere you find people carrying bottled water with them at all times, it's now a thing of "status quo healthier meter" among women. Every minute of the day, Americans spend more than $10,000 on water, something they don't need to do. In 1976, Americans drank 1.5 gallons of bottled water per person; In 1999, they drank 15.5 gallons and today the number has greatly increased.
Some of us would like to believe that all bottled waters taste the same, and does not have contaminant like those found in tap water- this is a horrific lie, bottled waters are not free of contaminant that may be found in tap water. "In fact, a four-year study of 103 bottled waters released last year by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group showed concerns. Among them: several waters had levels of chlorine by-products or arsenic that were above the threshold set by California, through within limits set by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this report, multiple samples of 39 bottled waters was taken to the laboratory to analyze the waters for harmful substances that can occur naturally or stem from treatment procedures or bottling"
Finding- "The major differences in taste were due to the type of plastic in the water's bottle. In most cases, water in clear PET plastic (usually bottles of 1.5 liters or smaller) tasted better than those in cloudy, softer HDPE plastic (usually 1-gallon bottles).
None of the waters that was tested harbored contaminants above current standards. That said, some occasionally had a bit more than would like to seen of one or more substances that shouldn't be prevalent in drinking water.

Plastic Bottled waters

Good drinking water should taste like nothing. However, nothing can still taste a little like something, and water usually taste clean, fresh, lively, and a bit crisp. Bottled water in PET plastic generally taste better than bottled water in HDPE plastic, and this is true within the same brand.  For example, Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, has a sweet, fruity plastic flavor when bottled in PET plastic( imagine the scent when blowing up a beach ball). Water in PET bottles cost more. When bottled in HDPE plastic, it tastes a bit like melted plastic (imagine the smell when you get a plastic container too close to the flame). Winn-Dixie's Prestige premium 100% spring water is the only bottled water in PVC plastic that generally has a good rating.
Different plastic water bottles impacts the taste of water because some plastics more easily can allow nearby odors into the water thereby affecting the taste. Also small amounts of plastic chemicals in plastic bottles could leach into the water especially it sitting in bottles for a long period of time. Even the process used in creating the plastic material used for making the bottles can affect the taste of bottled water.

Advantages and disadvantages of water bottled materials used:-
PET(also known as PETE)- short for polyethylene terephthalate, PET is a clear, strong plastic that leaves nothing more than a faint sweet or fruity plastic flavor. Labels for some brand packed in PET play up the "clear" taste of the water inside.

HDPE is  high-density polyethylene, the opaque, flexible material of milk containers. It's less expensive than PET but often imparts a slight melted-plastic taste to water. Taste may also be affected by excessive heat or flavors from foods stored nearby.

Glass:- Chemically glass is inert and has no effect on the taste of water in it, whatsoever. But it's heavy and breakable and is seldom used now days only for pricey mineral waters and water bottled for bars, restaurants, and hotels.

Polycarbonate is strong and rigid, it's used for compact discs as well as 5-gallon water cooler jugs. The three water cooler waters we sampled- Great Bear, Deer Park, and Poland spring did not have funny flavors. The water in polycarbonate bottles tasted better than same products in PET  or HDPE bottles. The Down side of polycarbonate bottles is that it sometimes leaches residue of worrisome chemical contaminant called bisphenol-A (Bisphenol-A (BPA) which is the building block of polycarbonate and can leach from there into water or food. BPA is a carcinogen and it mimics the hormone estrogen as seen in animal studies; in this study 8 out of 10 five-gallon polycarbonate jugs that were checked leached bisphenol-A into water-from 0.5 ppb to 11ppb. Judging from research, BPA can negatively affect pregnant women and their developing fetuses.
Some water bottle companies play up bottled water to be better than tap water - this is not an absolute truth.