During the cold winter months, a hot bath can be both warming and relaxing. Bathing has many benefits, in addition to cleansing and fatigue, it can also soothe the blood, improve sleep, and increase the skin’s metabolism. However – if you bathe in the wrong way, it can affect your health. So – the following several bathing misunderstandings, you must not commit again. Misunderstanding 1: hot water bath for a long time Winter weather is cold, we all like to comfortably soak in hot water, can not leave. But this is not a good habit. Soaking time is too long, the skin surface will lose oil protection, thus producing dry itching and other symptoms, but also cause skin wrinkles, dehydration and so on. In addition, a long bath people easily fatigued, easy to cause heart ischemia, hypoxia, resulting in coronary artery spasm, thrombosis, and even induce serious arrhythmia and sudden death. Suggestions: 20 minutes in the tub, shower 5 minutes or so. Myth 2: the higher the temperature of the bath water, the better Cold weather, many people like to use very hot water bath, and even think that the hotter the temperature of the water the more you can improve the body heat, but the bath water temperature is too high will make your skin suffer! It can destroy the oils on the surface of your skin, causing capillaries to dilate and exacerbating the dryness of your skin. At the same time, too high a temperature will also increase the burden on the heart, because the skin blood vessels throughout the body significantly dilated, so that a large amount of blood flow to the skin throughout the body, will make the heart ischemia and lack of oxygen. Recommendation: bathing water temperature and body temperature close to the appropriate. Myth 3: the use of cleaning ability of the bath liquid winter skin is already dry and fragile, if the use of cleaning ability of the bath liquid, will aggravate the damage to the skin’s protective layer, aggravate skin problems. Winter bath time is advisable to choose a mild nature of the bathing products, to avoid the stimulation of the skin. Suggestion: Choose a bath solution with little alkaline, neutral is best. After bathing, it is best to apply a layer of skin care products can be emollient, moisturizing. Myth 4: too frequent bath Many people think that the more frequent the bath, the cleaner the body will be. But with the advent of winter, the skin has become more and more dry and fragile, itchy skin is also easy to stare at these “hard to bathe family”. Bathing too often will be the skin surface secretion of oil and normal parasitic in the skin surface of the protective flora wash off, easy to hurt the skin stratum corneum, which leads to itchy skin, the skin’s resistance will be weakened, but easy to get sick. Hard scrubbing will also cause the already fragile epidermis damaged, bacteria, fungi take advantage of the situation, resulting in skin infections. Suggestions: winter bath times to 1 ~ 2 times a week is appropriate. Misunderstanding 5: bath closed windows and doors Many people like to close the windows and doors in winter bath, lest the cold air outside sneak in. But if you use gas water heater bath, this behavior is very easy to lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. Suggestion: Do not close the doors and windows tightly when bathing. If you use gas water heaters at home, family members bathing more than half an hour must go to see, in order to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. Tips on how to bathe the most healthy First of all, two hours after a meal, or an hour or so before the next meal is appropriate to bathe, strenuous exercise and alcohol can not be immediately after the bath. Secondly, don’t wash your hair first. Most people bathe first wash their hair, in fact, this is wrong. Winter temperatures are low, take off your clothes into the bathroom, the blood will be concentrated in the viscera and head, immediately wash your head, may lead to poor blood flow in the head, long-term, may induce cerebrovascular disease. The correct order should be: face When you enter the shower, the hot water will be opened, will produce steam, and the human body’s pores will be dilated by heat, so if you do not wash your face at this time, the face of the accumulation of the day’s dirt, will take advantage of the opening of the pore door, sneak into your pores. Bathing Once your face is clean, it’s time to clean your body. The temperature of the water should be close to your body temperature. If the water temperature is too high, it will make the whole body epidermal vasodilatation, cardiovascular blood flow is reduced, prone to hypoxia; and the water temperature is too low will make the skin pores closed, is not conducive to the removal of dirt, but also will make the body heat volatile out, after the bath feeling limb weakness. Wash hair Hair in the dense steam to be moisturized, the first hair in the water fully wet coated with shampoo, put the hair on top of the rubbing for a few moments, rinse with water, remember to rinse, and then evenly smeared with baked oil cream or conditioner, gently massage for three to five minutes, with a wide-toothed comb comb smooth, and finally washed.