Baking soda has been shown to have antifungal properties and may help reduce irritating germs. It may also soften the skin and reduce itchiness. Epsom salt baths are normally safe, even for children. However, oral consumption of Epsom salt may be dangerous for pregnant women, children, and people with kidney conditions.
More research is needed to prove the benefits and detoxifying effects of Epsom salt baths. However, people who use Epsom salt baths for detoxification believe in their benefits, such as relaxation, pain relief, and softening the skin. Warm baths can help to reduce stress and promote better sleep. Adding Epsom salt can be a part of a healthy relaxation routine.
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Share on Pinterest An Epsom salt bath can help soothe and soften the skin and may help with pain relief for those with arthritis. We definitely would like to get rid these, if only we could. Cellular chemistry produces a lot of molecules, with many fates. Technically these are toxins because they are biologically produced and they would be harmful in abnormal concentrations … but they are normal products of biology, and so most of them are either safely excreted, or actually re-used and re-cycled.
As in the rest of nature, not much in cellular chemistry is wasted. Why does osmosis even come up for this topic? I guess they visualize toxins being sucked out of the body through the skin. But even if those nasty toxins are in there and need out-sucking, that is not how osmosis works.
Many people get osmosis bass-ackwards: they believe it refers to the movement of things floating in water across a membrane, but that is wrong by definition.
You can demonstrate this clearly by soaking a potato in salty water. Poor little potato. Or cats. And so, by definition, Epsom salts baths cannot suck the toxins out of anyone or anything or suck magnesium ions into anyone or anything. A reader spelled out a couple of other commonly paired ideas about how Epsom salts baths might detoxify:. This is one of the most obviously ridiculous of all ideas about detox.
No one has ever cured anything but stress in a steam room. A sweat lodge has never saved anyone from any kind of poisoning. Ionic attraction is just some icing on this quackery cake. Ionic bonding is electrostatic stickiness, the atomic scale equivalent of rubbing a balloon and then sticking it to your hair. Sweat glands are a lot bigger than ions. To an ion, a gland might as well be a giant train station. Detoxing by ionic attraction is pure marketing bafflegab , found only on websites like SacredHeartHolisticHealing.
You do dehydrate significantly by sweating in a bath, of course 21 … but Epsom salts do not boost that see last section. The top layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, consists of dead, dry cells stuffed with a kind of embalming substance, keratin, a fibrous protein.
Plus we have glands that coat the skin in waterproofing oils! When those oils wash off, the dead skin cells can soak up a little water and swell a bit, like soaked beans. Skin pruning is actually an active process for improving grip in wet conditions.
What is waterproof is osmosis-proof by definition. The skin is an effective barrier to diffusion of water molecules and therefore of osmosis. This is not to say that nothing gets past the skin, just not much, and definitely not water.
The human integument is able to resist the penetration of many molecules. Alcohol molecules, for instance, maybe. Contrary to the Danish myth. As amusingly shown by Danish researchers in late It would be interesting to see what happens with ethanol, for instance. Ask your friends: most of them will guess that some alcohol probably does get through the skin — maybe not enough to get drunk or booze baths would be a more popular practice , but some. The skin is not a perfect barrier to all substances in all ways, which is obvious because of medicinal patches and creams, allergic reactions, and contact poisons.
Some things do indeed get past that fibrous, fatty outer layer to interact with the living cells beneath, or even into the interstitial fluids and blood stream. How do they do it?
Size might matter. If molecules are small enough, they can slip through the skin like a small fish through a loose net. The magnesium is small enough to get through, case closed. Ha ha, just kidding! As in sex, so too in chemistry: size is not the only thing that matters. Water molecules are also extremely tiny — just 18 Daltons — but recall from above that the skin is specifically structured to keep those teensy molecules out.
And there are other ways to ban molecules. For instance, cells in the living layer of the skin take an active role in managing the passage of some substances. And still more complexity: magnesium ions have some special properties that might be highly relevant to their absorption. Bizarrely, they may swell dramatically when wet, like tapioca! In fact, this has been the conventional wisdom for some time, and one of the main reasons that many experts have dismissed the possibility of magnesium absorption.
So … now is the case closed? Wet magnesium gets too fat for absorption? Still no! It turns out this rabbit hole goes way deeper than any rabbit would ever care to burrow. The conventional wisdom about Mg ion swelling has been challenged by some recent research. Biology and chemistry is mind-bogglingly complex and the details are truly, madly, deeply non-guessable.
This section is all about one odd experiment 32 that involves a number of strange rituals performed on skin samples, like gluing hair follicles shut with super glue. It almost answers the tricky scientific question of whether magnesium ions can be absorbed through the skin, but it still falls short. It does convincingly show that magnesium ions can diffuse through the stratum corneum, and that hair follicles probably facilitate that movement, but it does not establish that they do so in clinically meaningful numbers, especially in the conditions of a typical Epsom salts bath.
These chemists had complicated chemistry reasons to believe that damp magnesium ions actually do not swell up too much to fit through the atomic-scale cracks in the stratum corneum, 33 so they set out to test it. They tested absorption on patches of skin harvested from patients who got tummy tucks. Donate it to science! The main features of their experiment:. They tested 5, 15, and minute exposures of two concentrations of magnesium solution, medium and strong, corresponding to ocean water and the Dead Sea respectively.
Note that these concentrations are much greater than the concentration of salt in a typical Epsom salt bath. Which matters. Their key findings:. Magnesium ions diffusing through the stratum corneum. The brighter the warm-toned pixels here, the more magnesium. Not even an extremely educated guess. There are just too many ways the messy details of biology might surprise us. This quote from a book by Dr. Kenneth B. Regularly bathing in hot water to which Epsom salts have been added can help draw out toxins from the skin.
That anyone would mistake it for authoritative is rather depressing. Fortunately, not all my mail is so depressingly gullible. Hat tip to reader Bryan B. I love it when readers do that. This lotion had rather a lot of magnesium in it. And soldiers were not poisoned by the magnesium. But it is pretty noteworthy evidence that absorption is minimal or nil when putting high concentrations of Mg on the skin.
That information is not necessarily correct, but it is certainly more authoritative and worth bearing in mind, than the opinion of Dr. In , Rosemary Waring, a British biochemist at the University of Birmingham, did a nice science experiment with Epsom salts.
She found them to be higher after the baths! No therapeutic effects of Epsom salt were studied or claimed — she just studied absorption, and did not try to make any more of it, showing the restraint of a pro. What could be simpler? I was so interested in these results although still a bit skeptical that I contacted Dr.
Waring by email. Every member of this widely distributed angry mob read this article only just far enough to get angry enough about my skepticism to send an email. Many of them claimed to have read the whole thing, but apparently they missed Dr.
And, shocker, none of them seemed to be aware of the potential problems with Dr. That pun was simply unavoidable. Also, Dr. She assumed, like most people, that the heat of a bath probably increases the permeability of the skin. Enough of it sure does. But probably not bath heat. Speaking of studies that get thrown in my face, someone haughtily hurled this one at me as if it was the last word, absolute proof that a hot bath boosts magnesium absorption.
A experiment showed that brief, intense heating of the skin can dramatically increase its permeability. With more heat, dramatically more molecules could cross the duration of exposure had less effect. Skin permeability was increased by a few multiples in the low end of the range, all the way up to three orders of magnitude at the most extreme temperatures.
The mechanism is fascinating: enough heat can basically burn microscopic holes in the surface of the skin, creating artificial pores. At lower temperatures, the increased permeability is due to messing with the stratum corneum lipid and keratin structures, making them a less effective barrier. The effect studied mostly depends on actually damaging the skin. It is conceivable that permeability starts increasing at lower temperatures with longer exposures … but sixty degrees lower?
For the duration of a bath? Probably not for most substances. Also, not all substances will respond the same way to heat. How else could magnesium sulfate possibly get into the bloodstream? If it does, as Dr. Reader Adrian J. Is it possible that the salt diffuses across the epithelium in the anus if the rectum relaxes to some degree in the warm water?
Live a little: click that footnote! But I find myself uncomfortably wondering … just how much do I relax in a hot bath? That much? And how much salt could diffuse across that more permeable but much smaller membrane?
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