Beer spa is not only Beer bath

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.

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