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Hydrotherapy for Skin Care: Is It Effective?

 by Sheron Hopkins
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Water is one of the best elements placed at our disposal, as from this single source comes many benefits. With water, thirsts are quenched, food is cooked, living things live, and dirt is washed. But little do we know that for a long time now, water has also been used to serve therapeutic purposes.


This is what we know today as hydrotherapy and the reason why we know it is because this method of skin care and rejuvenation has been popularized by our modern spas and skin clinics. Practically, not even water was able to escape the plethora of skin treatments available for the postmodern consumer today.

Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy, in ancient times has been long the practice of usually royalty in the great civilizations of Rome, Egypt, and Greece. Egyptian royalty was said to have immersed themselves in a pool of water mixed with essential oils and healing minerals. The same thing is true with the Greeks and Romans who built public baths for the people to use. The use of water to regulate rather abnormal blood circulation is also a practice tested and tried through generations of therapists in this area. At present, hydrotherapy is used to cure illnesses such as arthritis and burns, among humans, and improve neurological and orthopedic conditions, among animals.

Hydrotherapy comes in three methods of application. These are compressing, steaming, and misting. Compressing for skin care makes use of folded clothes soaked in water and these applied to the skin. Water temperatures depend on the skin type a person has. Thus, consultation with a dermatologist comes first before going into this kind of treatment. Usually, for oily skin, cool temperatures are required; as to dry skin, warm compresses are the common lot.

Steaming, as the name suggests, makes use of gas or water in its gaseous state. The face is oftentimes what's targeted in this type of treatment and can be used as often as one wants so as to get the intended results of hydrotherapy. Some would do the face-over-the-pot method, but this is definitely not advisable, as it dries the skin.

Misting may sound like steaming, but this is used more in hydrating the skin to make it look more fresh than usual. When misting is used with a moisturizer, it can soften rather thick-skinned parts of the skin and even erase lines on the forehead and under the eyes. Misting simply restores to the skin its natural moisture, making it look young and fresh, and is especially for warm climates. Misting can be done not only to the face, but to the arms, legs, and shoulders, as well. It can also be used with essential oils and minerals.

Gleaned from above, hydrotherapy has indeed gone far from the Roman public baths and Egyptian royal baths of ancient times. And it is definitely going a long way for anyone who will immerse themselves in its benefits.    
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