5 Tips for Post-Holiday Detox

We’re all guilty of it: the infectious holiday spirit possesses us to eat too many desserts, overindulge in champagne, and spend one too many cold winter days on the couch watching movies with the family. And while all of that holiday relaxation and deliciousness is part of the fun of the season, when the reality of the New Year sets in, you may be feeling the need to detox.

We’ve compiled a list of five easy ways to get your body into detox mode. That way you can start the New Year off with a fresh and streamlined body and mindset.

• Fluids are amazing cleansing assets when it comes to preparing to detox your body for a new year. Kripalu yoga center has compiled recipes for both fresh vegetable broth and apple cucumber juice. Cucumbers help flush sugar from our systems and apples help to cleanse the liver. Vegetable broth is rich in minerals, ensuring that you’ll retain important nutrients while flushing out impurities.

• It’s a little known fact that a spa foot treatment isn’t just relaxing, it can also help draw out toxins through your largest organ, the skin. Based on the practice of reflexology, Stanley Ling offers an article with a more robust explanation for how foot detoxification can benefit your body over at his blog.

• Kathy over at Healthy. Happy. Life. has come up with a rejuvenating trick she calls skin brushing. You simply move a brush over your skin in circular motions to help increase slow, wintertime circulation, and gently slough off dead skin. The result: radiantly smooth skin.

• The Everything Yoga bloggers have a few of their own recommendations for ringing in the New Year with a clean slate. From specific yoga poses that help detoxify to suggestions for cleanses, you can pick and choose which tactic seems best suited for your lifestyle.

• Fit Fare offers up a quick and easy recipe for a detoxifying tea that can be consumed first thing in the morning to help your body purge toxins and purify. The ingredients can easily be found in your refrigerator, and the presence of a trusty lemon ensures liver support and vitamin C.

Don’t feel guilty about a little holiday overindulgence. Just correct your naughty behaviors by starting off a new year with a full-body detox using these easy tips. And don’t forget that you can detox from the outside in, using our line of products created especially to tackle your toxins.

‘Tis the season to start fresh!

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