When it comes to detoxes, it’s no longer about a quick fix. These days, we’re opting for more sustainable lifestyle changes instead – ones we’ll *actually* stick with. Here are the top 3 detox practices we do every week to feel amazing.
1. Face rolling: the lymphatic drainage essential
If you’ve scrolled through any beauty guru’s Instagram feed lately, you would know two things about a Rose Quartz Face Roller: 1. It looks damn good in a photo, and 2. Its beauty benefits go far deeper than skin level.
Lymphatic drainage is where the face roller works its magic to help:
Boost immunity
Eliminate toxins
Reduce inflammation
Minimise oedema (this is just the fancy term for fluid retention)
Improve digestion
Release toxins withheld in the fascia (the baddies that can cause cellulite!)
How to detox using a face roller:
- Do one side of your face at a time. After cleansing, start at the chin and roll upwards towards the ears. Then roll from the bottom of the nose, upwards and outwards along the cheekbone.
- Using the small end of roller, roll from the inner to the outer eye. Repeat this whole sequence on the other side of your face.
- Roll upward from your eyebrows to the top of the forehead. Then roll from the middle of the forehead outwards on both sides.
2. Love your liver: The detoxing powerhouse
Essentially the processing plant for all toxins in the body, your liver is the key to health. It churns through chemical toxins in the body until they are less “reactive” and ready for elimination.
Top 3 foods for liver support:
1. Dandelion Root Tea 1-2 cups a day
- Helps liver cells produce bile – a substance that breaks down fat
- ‘Keeps you regular’ as reduced bile is known to slow bowel function
- Promotes hepatic healing helping the liver clear toxins effectively
2. Beetroot
Enjoy as a juice, with studies showing 250mL per day may help. Or include a serving or two of cooked or fresh beetroot into your day.
- Nitrates (a natural antioxidant compound) in beetroot reduce oxidative stress caused by liver toxins
- Helps activate important liver enzymes
- Reduces liver inflammation and is known as an effective blood cleanser
3. Cruciferous vegetables (such as broccoli, cauliflower, or brussel sprouts) 1-2 cups a day
- Contain ‘glucosinolates’ which help produce liver detoxification enzymes
- Packed with sulphur compounds that help detox heavy metals
- Supports liver detoxification, important for toxin elimination
3. The tamarind sleep-tox
While we know detoxing is good for, well, everything… have you ever considered what kind of detox would benefit sleep?
Let us introduce to you a little area of the brain known as the pineal gland, which for all intents and purposes, helps you sleep! Fluoride from things such as tap water and toothpaste can build up in the body and hinder the pineal gland’s production of melatonin, your sleep hormone.
Studies show that tamarind may support fluoride excretion from the body. Adding just 1 tsp of our SLEEP DETOX Tamarind Powder to a cup of water twice a week, ideally on consecutive days, can help you detox your way to a good night’s sleep.
