The choice and use of a broom for a bath

A quality broom is an integral part of the sauna. It is made from both natural and synthetic materials. Every steam lover can choose the best product for himself. In this article, we will learn how to choose and use the right bath brooms.

A bath broom is a special massage device made of natural tree branches or synthetic materials. Using such an accessory, you can do a high-quality massage, which will have a beneficial effect on the mood and health of a person. There are many different types of brooms today.

The history of bath brooms began a long time ago. The fact is that since ancient times there was an opinion that natural tree branches are able to expel evil spirits from the dwelling. That is why many people tried to bring at least a couple of twigs into their home.

The tree branches ended up in the bathhouse after people realized that here it is possible to cope with many ailments, and if you use natural gifts and steam properly, you can even inhale the "benefits" along with the steam. Soon people began to rub the leaves from the branches into the body, and in order to quickly drive away the disease from themselves, they began to whip with brooms.

In the bathhouse, people are beaten with a broom for a reason. This procedure allows you to improve your health, cleanse the body of all that is superfluous. Let us analyze in detail why people in the bath are spanked with an artificial or natural massage device.

• Thanks to the blows of a properly prepared broom, the human body can easily and quickly get rid of a large amount of harmful substances. The general slagging, from which many people suffer today, is reduced.
• Active sweating during a massage against the backdrop of a steam room contributes to weight loss.
• The body's blood circulation is improved and accelerated. This is another important feature, especially for people with sedentary lifestyles.
• Through massage, a person's blood pressure can be stabilized.
• The annoying headaches and even migraines come to naught. Moreover, we are talking not only about the time a person is in the steam room, but also after leaving it.
• This massage helps to strengthen the human immune system.
• All functions of internal organs are improved, blood vessels, respiration and smell are put in order.

A broom in a bathhouse can bring not only a lot of benefits, but also a lot of harm. A person should be aware of everything when planning such a wellness massage.

To begin with, let's figure out what benefits the correct operation of a bath broom brings.

• These "tools" are able to assist in skin rejuvenation. With the right kind of massage with branches of a suitable tree, you can freshen up your appearance.
• Brooms demonstrate high efficiency if the goal is to fully cleanse your body from all sorts of toxins and toxic compounds.
• Bath brooms lead to the rapid removal of phlegm from the upper respiratory tract.
• With a properly implemented massage with the devices in question, you can get rid of muscle pains, from which many people currently suffer.
• If a person suffers from excessive muscle strain, massage with the device in question will make it possible to effectively remove it. Many people resort to bath massage for this very reason.
• A quality broom has a good effect on the kidneys and the diuretic system.
• Bath brooms can help relieve cold symptoms.
• Certain types of natural brooms can be used to cope with asthma attacks.

Unfortunately, massage with a bath broom can not only help, but also harm. This is especially true of those cases when people with certain contraindications resort to such a procedure. Let's get acquainted with their list.

• You can not resort to massage with a broom if a person suffers from gastric ulcer.
• Malignant and benign neoplasms are prohibited from massage.
• Bath massage can seriously aggravate the skin condition of people suffering from all sorts of rashes.
• In no case should you resort to this type of massage for those people who suffer from any chronic ailments, especially in moments of exacerbation.
• Allergy sufferers can face very bad consequences.
• Mental disorders are another good reason to refuse massage with a broom.
• It is undesirable to use a broom with active inflammatory processes that take place in the body.
• If the cardiovascular system of a person does not work well, you should completely refuse to visit the bathhouse.
• You should not go to the sauna and massage with a broom if you have high blood pressure or high body temperature.

Bath brooms are different. Some people are more fond of natural options from wood, while others prefer artificial reusable specimens. Each of the options has its own characteristics and characteristics.

First, let's look at the properties of natural brooms made from various types of wood.

• Birch. This type of tree is available in our country. Very good, high-quality brooms for a bath are made from it. Birch branches are characterized by high flexibility.

The skin after such a massage becomes very smooth and silky. Many people make birch brooms themselves, since they are the easiest to make.

• Oak. The next most popular and widespread type of broom for the steam room. Extremely useful, as a rule, it is composed of young branches. The device contains a lot of useful elements, tannins, essential oils, quercitrons, pentosans.

Thanks to such a rich filling, the oak broom is ideal for oily leather. Derma after exposure to oak branches becomes very smooth, tender.

• Pine. Pine varieties are less common, although they have many positive properties. A properly made coniferous massager has a tonic and strengthening effect, helps to get rid of a large number of diseases.

• Maple. Maple brooms can be found in many saunas. They are very popular because they provide a lot of benefits.

Maple gives off a pleasant aroma that helps to quickly relax a person.

• Walnut. Products made from hazel can be found in the Russian bathhouse not so often. Usually hazelnuts or hazel are used for their production.Brooms are collected from flexible hazel branches, which are in many ways similar to birch materials.

• Alder. Quality brooms are made from alder. The leaves of this tree are identical to those of birch. Alder brooms boast disinfecting properties, the ability to relieve inflammation. With the correct massage, such a "tool" can smooth out fine wrinkles. It is recommended to use alder brooms for people with oily skin prone to profuse perspiration.

• Aspen. Such a broom is a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. It is filled with essential oils, tannins. However, despite its good characteristics, an aspen broom is rarely seen in a Russian bath.

• Cherry. Such brooms are considered to be excellent tools for improving human health. In addition, they help restore the production of both male and female hormones.

• Wormwood. There are people who prefer to use brooms made from wormwood. Such a product has a slightly bitter aroma, and therefore is not suitable for everyone.

• Rowanberry. Disinfects the surrounding area in the steam room. Mountain ash foliage contains ingredients that can kill fungi and harmful bacteria. Such devices effectively cleanse the skin and cure colds. Mountain ash also contains a lot of vitamin C, essential oils and tannins. True, with too long storage of such a broom, all its useful properties gradually come to naught.

• Willow. Willow brooms, often of good size, are dense and lush. They are heavy, but flexible and not very rigid. Willow products are highly effective antibiotic agents capable of relieving inflammation. It is believed that massage with willow twigs can contribute to the rapid recovery of the body, effectively treats a sore back, and maintains the tone of the skin.

• Bird cherry. Bird cherry massage tools boast wonderful aromas. The branches of this tree are not very flexible, but they have a rich set of medicinal properties. They contain many phytoncides that easily cope with various microbes. In the bath, bird cherry brooms are rarely used because of their low bite.

• Herbal. Such massagers are made from nettle, mint, sweet clover, bamboo.

Herbs for making brooms are usually collected exclusively in ecologically clean areas. Such products can also be used together with ordinary brooms made of wood branches.

• Heather. Heather products are capable of antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effects. Many bath lovers in heather brooms are attracted by the fact that they can be used even if there are problems with the skin.

• From thuja. Thuja specimens boast excellent properties.

True, massage with a thuja broom may seem extreme to many people because of the specific sensations.

• Cedar. Cedar brooms give off very pleasant aromas. Most often found in Siberian baths.

However, the use of such a product is recommended only for people with low skin sensitivity.

Often in the bath they use not natural, but artificial brooms. They are made from synthetic materials.For example, silicone models are often found. These things are reusable.

Consider the difference between artificial products:

• in the bath, such a broom never leaves excess debris in the form of pieces of bark or fallen leaves;
• they do not need to be dried;
• such products last much longer than natural ones;
• artificial brooms have no useful properties, however, the healing qualities can be activated if you add essential oils to such a product;
• an artificial broom can create a very good heat;
• massage with such a device can turn out to be of no less quality and relaxing than with a natural accessory.

Similar products are divided according to the degree of hardness:

• black - brooms of this color have the toughest rods;
• white - less rigid products;
• yellow - characterized by medium hardness;
• dark green - softer than yellow;
• green is the softest option.

A broom for a bath must be chosen very carefully and responsibly. If you buy the wrong massage instrument, you will not be able to get the proper pleasure from using it.

• First of all, it is advisable to determine what kind of effect you want to get from the operation of the bath product. Different types of wood have a different composition, therefore they act on the human body in different ways. Choose the option that works best for you. If you expect only a relaxing effect from the massage, an artificial broom treated with essential oils is enough.
• Find a broom of the right hardness for you. Different types of wood have different flexibility and density. So, branches with needles may not suit everyone, but birch brooms are the most gentle. Choose the most comfortable product for you. This also applies to synthetic products. It is not recommended to buy black options if your skin is too delicate and sensitive.
• If you decide to purchase an exclusively natural version, try to bend it as carefully as possible. If you heard that several branches are cracked, it is better to refuse the purchase. It is unlikely that such a broom will be able to provide a quality massage.
• Smell the scent that the product gives off. It should be natural, pleasant, but not overly stable.
• Shake the broom by holding the handle. Too many leaves should not fall off the product.

A high-quality bath broom of natural origin does not have to be bought ready-made in the store. Many people harvest this device with their own hands. The process is simple and does not require any special knowledge / tools.

If you want to build a good homemade broom, it is important to collect natural material for this in time.

Let's consider in what time frame it is best to cut different rods:

• birch is best harvested during Trinity;
• nettles - during its flowering;
• oak - from June to September;
• linden - during early spring;
• it is advisable to prune eucalyptus in the period from mid-summer to the first days of September;
• coniferous branches are recommended to be harvested before the end of October.

If you are going to make a herbal broom, then you should know that suitable medicinal varieties of herbs are allowed to be collected at the time of their budding, in the first stages of flowering. It is at this moment that the most essential oils are concentrated in plants. Only such components will make an effective, healing and relaxing massager for a bathhouse. Despite the fact that it is extremely simple to build brooms from different branches on your own, it is still recommended to prepare raw materials of the same type.

Before starting to tie the prepared wood rods, it is necessary to allow the leaves that grow from them to wilt slightly. For this purpose, the branches are freely laid in the shade for several hours. After that, you can proceed to the knitting procedure. For the purpose of bundling, the tips of the branches, which will be in the area of ​​the handle, are freed from all unnecessary leaves, twigs and other details.

After that, the twigs will need to be spread out in 25-30 pieces so that the denser ones are located in the center, and the thin ones are on the outside. You will need to lay the rods with a bend inward.

The made broom for a bath must be properly dried. This is one of the most important steps. If you do not dry the branches or do it incorrectly, then the resulting device will not demonstrate all its positive properties. Twigs and shoots are thoroughly dried, allocating the driest place in the house for them.

Before sending all the brooms for further storage, they will need to be carefully tied to a rope for a day under the influence of a weight.

A massage instrument for a steam room must be properly stored so that it does not lose its useful properties. There are several of the most popular storage methods.

• The best solution is to keep the broom dry and cool, in a separate room. Here, the products should be kept suspended. For such purposes, you can select the attic.
• It is allowed to keep the dried sheaf of branches in a place where it is dark and cool (so you can keep the branches in winter). In the future, it will be possible to gradually harvest new brooms from the collected raw materials as needed.
• Made massagers are allowed to be kept in a haystack or in the hayloftoverlaid with layers of hay.
• It is allowed to wrap brooms in paper sheets or plastic wrap. A win-win solution if you need to store items in large volumes.
• You can also resort to freezing. True, freshly frozen brooms can be conveniently placed only in a very spacious and capacious freezer, which is not in every house or apartment.

In the apartment, you can allocate a place on the balcony or loggia, in a separate closet. Of course, we are talking only about glazed areas.

Bath brooms should be used in accordance with all the rules.

• Before heading to the steam room, you need to prepare a broom in advance. To do this, you need to steam it. If you neglect this stage, the massage will turn out to be too painful and will not give the person the proper pleasure.
• Products made from synthetic raw materials are reusable, but accessories of natural origin will need to be replaced with new ones after 5-6 times of use in a steam room.
• When visiting the bathhouse and spending time on hygiene procedures, a person should make sure that the branches and foliage of the broom do not dry out. They should always be moistened with water.
• The liquid in which the natural or artificial massager was previously steamed should not be simply poured out. It is better to spill it on the hot stones in the oven.

Consider a few useful recommendations for the manufacture and operation of bath brooms.

• After visiting the bath, an artificial broom can be stored by wrapping it in a plastic bag or putting it in a cardboard box.
• If the natural broom was previously stored in the refrigerator, it does not need to be soaked. It is enough to let it thaw and warm up at room temperature.
• No need to brew natural products with boiling water. From this, the broom will lose all healing properties.
• The ideal length of branches with leaves is 40-50 cm. It is worth remembering this when making a massager yourself.
• The shop broom must be free of rot or mold. The buyer should pay attention to this.
• Massage with a nettle or coniferous broom should be done more carefully. Such products, if tapped too hard, can cause a lot of pain.

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