How To Have Hydrotherapy At Home
    Only a few years ago, you had to go to a beauty spa for body treatments.  Now you can have your
    hydrotherapy at home: Just fill your tub, pick your product (anything from Dead Sea salts to
    Egyptian mud) and hop in.

    In fact, we’re all in a lather over bath products.  Entire stores devoted to skin- and body-care
    products are cropping up all over the country.  Goodebodies, The Body Shop, H2O Plus and Bath
    & Body Works are among the best-known national chains.  And more and more local skin-care
    salons and day spas (salons that offer the body-conditioning treatments that used to be available
    only at health spa resorts) are launching their own bath-product lines.

    This explosion of bubbles, salts, gels, foams and lotions, scented with everything from flowers to
    fruit, adds to the pleasure principle of bathing.  These products are best suited for women with
    normal skin, however; they aren’t really skin-treatment products per se.  But when familiar names
    in facial skin care launch bath products, you get the best of both worlds: safe, effective cleansing
    in a pleasurable format.

    For the sensuous showerer, gels may be the bath extravagance in a choice.  If you want to
    pamper yourself, gels bring out fragrance in a much nicer way than soaps.  Bath junkies may
    want to try another effective, yet pleasurable, skin treatment: VitaSpa, from the makers of VitaBath,
    one of the original bath treatments.  VitaSpa is actually an assortment of bath and after-bath
    products that combine skin conditioning with a fresh, invigorating fragrance.

    Kitchen-Cabinet Skin Soothers

    Fluffy bubbles and exotic scents can turn a bath into a sensual experience.  But if you want a good
    old-fashioned treatment for dry skin, look no further than your pantry.

    Plain oatmeal is a time-honored remedy that calms dryness by leaving a film on your skin that
    seals in water.  Think of it as an invisible shield to fend off irritation and the urge to scratch.  Plus,
    oatmeal is easy to use.  Simply fill an old nylon stocking with dry oatmeal, tie up the little bundle
    and throw it in the tub.  To get the film without the fuss, use a fine-milled oatmeal product like
    Aveeno.

    Baking soda, another home remedy for dry skin, sometimes relieves itching triggered by contact
    with water.

    No one knows exactly why baking soda works.  Some experts think baking soda might change
    water’s ion content so that less is absorbed into the skin’s outer layer.
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