Some of my favorite benefits of taking a bath: 1. It stimulates your parasympathetic nervous system A hot bath warms blood in the blood vessels, increasing body temperature. When it excites the heat-sensitive neurons and inhibits the cold-sensitive neurons in the body, this leads to the inhibition of the sympathetic nervous (commonly connected with fight and flight) and stimulates the parasympathetic nerves. This can help shift the body into a state of parasympathetic nervous system dominance, which is exactly where you can relax. This state can also help relax muscles too. The Pink Himalayan Salt, Dead Sea Salt, and Japanese Magnesium combination in holi (bath) not only restores skin’s radiance by unclogging pores, softening calluses, and also cleansing acne-prone skin, but these natural minerals are believed to reduce the feeling of stress and promote a sense of relaxation. 2. It can help with depression Baths can help with mental health and low mood states too. A German study tested the effects of thermal baths on 45 people suffering from depression. They concluded that regular bathing might be faster-acting than exercise for lifting your mood and that “baths seem to be a fast-acting, safe and easy accessible method leading to clinically relevant improvement in depressive disorder after two weeks”. 3. Helps the body with detoxification The magnesium in the holi (bath) is also critical for helping with detoxification within the body. It works by stimulating cellular activity so that toxins within the body get removed from the cell and then moved into the bloodstream, ready to flush them out. Magnesium also works well at pulling heavy metals from the body (like lead, mercury, and aluminum, which are in a ton of products that we come into contact with). 4. It can help with sleep A bath helps relax your muscles, calm your mind, and help prepare your body to shift into a sleep state more easily. A bath about 90 minutes before bed is thought to be the best sleep aid and the ideal bath temperature for encouraging sleep is around 40 degrees. Have you all tried holi (bath) yet? I would love to know your experience with it!