Do you want to improve your physical and mental well-being? Consider a home improvement project that includes the installation of a steam shower in your main bathroom. Consider this: most high-end spas, wellness centers, fitness clubs, and gyms have elaborate steam showers for a reason. These showers help with both relaxation and productivity. Continue reading to learn how a steam shower can help you improve your health, peace, and productivity.
Here Are 11 Advantages of Having a Steam Shower
1: Detoxification
Steam showers cause your body to sweat. The sweating process removes chemicals and toxins that are accumulating in your body. The removal of these pollutants makes you feel healthier and more energetic.
2: Improved Circulation
The body’s overall blood flow gets increases when the temperature rises. The vasodilation process expands blood vessels and decreases vascular flow resistance.
3: Joint Pain and Stiffness
Suppose your muscles relax, then the tension in your cartilage and joints decreases. It’s like the feeling after exercising in the gym, but more pleasant!
4: Skin Care
Steam showers bathe you with moisturizing humidity, enhancing your overall skin tone, clarity, and appearance. Steam boosts your sweat production and also cleanses your skin. It eliminates dirt, dead cells of your skin, and dirt that accumulate on top that makes up your skin. It reduces the number of blackheads and other acne-causing lesions. Your skin retains moisture thanks to steam. Beautiful, youthful skin is the result! The combination of humidity and warmth allows pores to open up so that they can be able to absorb vitamins, oxygen, and essential minerals. The pores are also open, allowing your skin to breathe and sweat, which helps the body’s cooling system to work correctly.
5: A Better Shave
A steam shower softens hair, allowing for better results while reducing the chance of razor burn.
6: Respiratory System
Steam helps loosen mucus from your nose, which eases the irritation and congestion of your sinuses. Just taking a shower and inhaling the warm air will clear your chest and relax the respiratory tract.
7: Cardiovascular System
Steam boosts your body’s heart rate. The air you breathe increases because steam opens the airways in your lungs.
8: Metabolic and Weight Loss
Although it’s not an exercise program, it’s an excellent method to burn calories and shed weight. If the steam boosts the speed of your pulse, your cardiovascular system gets activated, increasing your metabolic rate.
9: Recovery from Exercise
Are you wondering why professional athletes rush to the steam bath or sauna after a tough training session? While you are working out, metabolic waste gets created within your muscle. It can cause feelings of fatigue and soreness. Steam showers help flush out metabolic toxins from your body. To get the best results, switch from cold to hot to start a pumping motion in your capillaries and muscles. The increase in blood flow can alleviate muscle pain and stiffness.
10: Stress Relief
Physical benefits can translate to positive mood and well-being. When muscles relax, your body, mind, and soul also relax. Relaxation in tension helps you to rest better. Additionally, it releases endorphins to your brain that aid in physical and mental relaxation.
11: Lower Utility Bills
Steam shower generators use less than a gallon of water per regular 20-minute steam bath and can lower electricity costs.
We’d love to assist you in transforming your main bathroom and adding a steam shower. To hire Ottawa Home Pros for your upcoming bathroom makeover in Ottawa, call (613) 288-9145 or email info@ottawahomepros.com.
