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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Gemma Cairney

Sweat out your angst with an old-school face steam

Steam power: and with a facial sauna you don’t even need to leave your home.
Steam power: and with a facial sauna you don’t even need to leave your home. Photograph: Jutta Klee/Getty Images

The crossover to 2019 has been a big one. It enabled reminiscing and reflecting, as well as looking at lots of pictures of fantastic and mad times along the way.

In our digital era, we see our faces a lot and trying to work out what you think of your face can be confusing. On some days mine will be puffy and tired with all the tears and giggles that spout out of it. Other days it’ll look bright and optimistic. I see flickers of feelings in my face. I know how I felt in the moment of every picture. I don’t hide things easily so I pledge to look after my skin, plunging it into cold and sweating out angst in a good old-school face steam.

Now it’s a very 80s suggestion, but I’ve got a Facial Sauna and I adore it! A bit of kit that requires you to breathe deeply and viscerally ‘sweat it all out’ feels like a lovely thing to do! That, and the fact that once purchased you don’t need to buy anything else, just fill it with water. The benefits range from pore cleansing to congestion clearing. You can add oils to suit and, best of all, you don’t have to leave the house.

Rio Facial Sauna, £24.99, argos.co.uk

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