Let’s
discover
what benefits and pleasures can beer bring us, if we use it not only for
drinking. Beer
wellness can be a nice and original tip for a holiday or weekend trip.
Beer… it is one of the most popular beverages ever. At
the beginning, it was a meal. Later drink. In Czech cuisine it is used also as
ingredient for cooking and baking and lately it has found another use:
bath,
wellness and
spa. You can
find some
holiday tips and packages in
our
e-shop.
Beer bath – to refresh, peel,
nourish and soften your skin and relax entirely
It
is essential and most popular procedure of whole beer wellness possibilities.
What does it really is? Take warm water, mix it with specially brewed bath beer
and mix it together. In good spas they add also fresh living yeast
(similar to those used for baking bread), husk (fermented grain) and dried
herbs for nice smell. After you dip into the bath, warm water start to warm-up your skin and open your pores and slight
perspiration cleans your skin.
Added malt works as peeling agent. Yeasts nourish your skin by many of B vitamins, proteins, saccharides and
contribute to skin softening
and regeneration. To
increase psychic relaxation it is recommended to calm down and drink a pint of
local beer.
This
procedure takes about 20 minutes
and it is recommended to repose
after it in relaxation room for another 20 minutes. This is important to calm the body and relax muscles.
Your refreshed skin continues in absorption
of healing substances from what rests on it after the bath. It
is also recommended not to shower after the bath at least for several hours.
Hops bath – to relax and get
rid of stress, nervousness, and insomnia
This
bath is about comfortably warm water with added hops. This herb is used to give
beer its characteristic bitterness that is significant especially for Pils
beers. Water in this case helps to release all healing substances. Hops contain
also aromatic oils that have relaxing
and antibiotic effects on your body. It usually takes about 20
minutes.
Malt wrap – to relief pain,
repose muscles and get rid of dermatologic problems
During
this procedure, warm malt will be put on your body and you will be wrapped.
During following 20 minutes your body will get two types of healing effects.
First is physical. It
consist of warming effect
on your problematic parts. Most often it is used for neck, loins, shoulders and
arms. It helps to relief pain and
stiffness. Usually any warming wrap is used as preparation for
massage.
Second effect is more chemical.
Healing and health beneficial
substances are absorbed through your skin to your body. Those substances are especially vitamins and proteins.
This effect is provably positive for
patients with dermatologic problems like dry skin, eczema or
psoriasis.
Massage – to relax muscles and
smoothen and nourish your skin
This
is one big topic. To keep it short, massage gives you mental and physical relaxation. In
good combination with other beer wellness procedures and other beer cosmetic
they intensify absorption of healing
substances contained in beer ingredients, smoothen and strengthen skin and
make you feel better.
Some
breweries offer also their own beer cosmetics. You can choose from variety of
creams, peelings, shampoos, massage oils or soaps.
“Hopped wort” (in Czech called “Mladina”) to strengthen your
immunity
This
magic substance is actually a half made product of
beer brewing process. Firstly you get sugars and taste from fermented corn.
This tasty sweet liquid
is boiled with added hops. Hopped wort has no alcohol,
but it is full intensively
charged by vitamins.
It is recommend for drinking cures
with positive effect on digestion,
strengthening liver and
kidneys and improves immunity functions.
Beer spa – physical and mental
relaxation, optimisation of hypertension and younger skin
What
should we understand by “spa”? Contrary to wellness it has two main
differences. It has long lasting healing effects and it is designed by
medicals. In West
Bohemia, you can also take advantage of healing effects of natural
mineral water!
This
unique combination of beer bath
and special mineral water to drink
and to bath in intensify healing effects. In the Czech Republic,
there is only one place that can offer this. If you are interested which, check
Real Beer Spa product.
Beer ingredients in food –
healthy and tasty nutrition
What
wellness would it be, if you wouldn’t take
care also of your
stomach, right? In good establishments you can taste special “beer” meals that are great with or made from beer, eventually
they contain some
ingredients used during beer preparation, for example malt.
So
have a great relaxing time during your beer wellness or spa procedures and
“dobrou chut” (Czech version of bon apetit). And if you like, explore beer wellness packages ready for you.
