Personal Cleansing Tips

There are many different reasons people have for cleansing their bodies, ranging from personal to health reasons. There are a wide variety of ways to cleanse yourself, ranging from changing your diet for a fixed period of time to falling into certain routines that expel toxins from the body to ingesting something that will help your body rid itself of those toxins quickly. It all depends on what type of cleanse you want to do.

Diet Cleanses

There are a number of different diets which you can do to cleanse your body of toxins and make you feel healthier and stronger. One consists of eating only raw, uncooked food for a week, which means you're limited to eating only salads with a specific type of dressing that doesn't use cooked products, sushi without rice and fruit smoothies, which don't use ice cream or milk that has been homogenized. Another diet is the lemonade cleanse in which you only drink a lemonade and syrup mixture for three to 10 days, which allows your body to naturally dispel the toxins that have been building up inside of it over extended periods of time. These cleanses are trying on your body and psyche but can be life-changing experiences both mentally and physically.

Sweating

Sweating is the most common and natural way your body cleanses itself so sweating out these toxins en mass is an important aspect of cleansing. By running long distances or working out in a hot environment, your body will naturally expel and release many of these toxins via the sweat glands and pores. Sitting in steam rooms or hot saunas also helps this process. Think of this as a natural, daily cleanse of the body, via the sweat. However, it's important to not dehydrate yourself too much, as this can be counterproductive to your health and the whole cleansing process. The constant ingesting of water is the most important part of just about any cleanse.

Store-Bought Cleanses

Many different products offer liquid and pill-form cleansing supplements to aid your body in expelling toxins from different areas of your body. The liquid form products are often sold to clean out people's urine so they can successfully pass drug tests, as this will cleanse your body of specific toxins in an efficient and fast way. Other pill form cleanses, like those meant to help cleanse the colon and expel impacted fecal matter, are sold in health food stores and on the Internet. While some of these store-bought cleanses do work well for people, few if any of them have been approved by the FDA and are considered to generally do what they say they are going to do. So before using any of these cleanses you buy in the store, research and check them out first.