Title: Bathing for Silky Skin
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To prepare your skin for an herbal bath, try brushing it beforehand with a dry, natural-bristle brush or loofah. Start lightly, using gradually increasing pressure and small, circular strokes. This action will remove dead surface skin, allowing the herbal essences to penetrate your skin better.

To create the most skin-loving bath, keep the water between 90ø and 95øF (roughly body temperature). If your bath is too hot, you run the risk of damaging your skin and dilating capillaries. A really hot bath also tends to be draining, making you feel sluggish and tired. (Very warm water forces your body to work harder to cool itself.) It can also rob your skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry and tight. Limit your bath to around fifteen minutes and take one no more than two times a week. If you bathe every day instead of showering, try to keep your baths to ten minutes to avoid drying your skin.

Always follow your bath with a dose of moisturizing lotion or oil (such as jojoba or sweet almond oil). Applied while your skin is still damp, it will seal in the moisture that your skin absorbed while you were soaking. ** Natural Health -- Dec 96 **

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