Homemade Detox and Drainage Flavored Waters

Homemade Detox and Drainage Flavored Waters

Flavored Draining Detox Water: 4 DIY Recipes

Have you ever wondered how to prepare a homemade draining detox to purify and refresh yourself naturally? Flavored draining waters, or detox water, are fresh and purifying drinks flavored with fruit, herbs, and spices, effective for draining and purifying the body, eliminating toxins and excess fluids while providing antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Preparing them is very simple: let's see together 4 quick and refreshing recipes for DIY flavored draining detox waters, to fight water retention, cellulite, and bloating.

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What Are Flavored Draining Waters?

Detox water, or draining water, is water generally flavored with fruit, spices, or herbs with draining and slimming effects, which help the body eliminate toxins and purify thanks to the extraction of the beneficial active ingredients of the ingredients used through infusion and maceration in water.

Draining waters, as well as draining herbal teas, have a significant effect on the body, as they are diuretic, beneficial against cellulite and water retention, but also tasty and refreshing, excellent in summer to quench thirst and stimulate the body and the lymphatic system in the disposal of liquids and sweating, therefore essential in a draining diet.

Flavored Draining Waters: Benefits

Detox flavored draining waters are an excellent source of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and important nutrients that help drain and eliminate toxins and excess fluids from the body, purifying the body and hydrating the body and skin.

Depending on the ingredients used inside them, flavored draining waters can combine a slimming, anti-cellulite, sweat-inducing effect, help in digestion and against abdominal bloating, counteract water retention, improve circulation and the functioning of the lymphatic system, as well as purify the liver and activate the kidneys, the main organs responsible for eliminating toxins from the body.

Many of the problems associated with poor drainage of body fluids are indeed due to a slowing down of the lymphatic system and poor blood circulation. Taking draining and purifying waters made with draining herbs and fruits rich in vitamins and antioxidants, following a healthy diet, and practicing physical activity are small interventions that can help counteract these disorders.

Preparing Flavored Draining and Detox Water at Home

More and more often in supermarkets, flavored draining waters with fruit and other ingredients are commercially available, already prepared and bottled. However, preparing flavored draining detox water at home is very simple, and it gives you the opportunity to use your favorite ingredients in addition to draining herbs and fruits, creating special and delicious flavors and blends.

To prepare flavored draining water, you will only need:

  • Fill a carafe or container with cold natural water or room temperature water.
  • Flavor it with draining herbs, pieces of fruit or vegetables, spices and berries or essential oils and mother tinctures. Preferably choose organic and untreated ingredients.
  • Stir.
  • Place the carafe in the fridge and let it macerate for at least three hours, allowing the water to extract the aromas and active principles, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants from the plants and fruits.
  • If possible, let it infuse overnight: the longer the maceration time, the more beneficial the draining flavored water will be.
  • Store in the refrigerator for no more than three days.

Draining waters can actually be considered as cold draining herbal teas: in this case, as we have already pointed out when talking about  cold tea and cold herbal teas, the preparation of cold drinks should never be done by cooling down a hot infusion, as this process will make the drink bitter, oxidize it, and easily disperse its properties. It is therefore important to prepare a hot infusion if you want a hot draining herbal tea, and let the herbs macerate in cold water or ice for herbal teas and draining flavored waters, in order to not affect the properties and extract the active principles of the botanicals used in the most correct way.

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Types of Detox Draining Flavored Waters

As we said, draining flavored waters can be prepared using a wide variety of draining ingredients. In general, detox flavored waters are prepared by infusing in water:

  • Plants and Aromatic Herbs: If dried draining herbs are used, the quantity to be used is 10 grams of plants per liter of water. If fresh herbs like rosemary, basil, or mint are used, you can also use 15-20 grams of herbs.
  • Fruits and Vegetables: In the case of using fruit, it should be cut into small pieces, which should be macerated in water for at least 4 hours and can then be eaten.
  • Mother Tincture: It is an alcoholic extraction of the active principles of plants, ideal for those who do not have time to let the herbs infuse in water but want an immediately draining, purifying, and refreshing drink. If using the mother tincture, such as drenvin or epavin, about 30-40 drops per liter of water should be used.
  • Essential Oils: Essential oils, like mother tinctures, allow you to quickly and easily make flavored waters. 3-4 drops per liter of water will be enough.

Discover the Selection of Draining Essential Oils by Terza Luna

Among the most effective draining ingredients you can use and mix in your purifying detox water are:

  • Mango: rich in vitamins;
  • Pineapple: slimming and anti-inflammatory effect;
  • Lemon: energizing, digestive, alkalizing, rich in vitamins;
  • Cucumber: hydrating, diuretic;
  • Grapefruit: slimming, digestive, alkalizing, rich in vitamins;
  • Rosemary: liver detoxifying, energizing;
  • Blueberries: rich in antioxidants, diuretic, beneficial for microcirculation;
  • Orange: alkalizing, rich in vitamins;
  • Ginger: anti-inflammatory;
  • Mint: digestive, refreshing;
  • Birch: diuretic, liver detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, anti-cellulite;
  • Fennel seeds: digestive and diuretic;
  • Cherry: using the stems, antioxidants and rich in vitamins;
  • Lime: energizing, digestive, alkalizing, rich in vitamins.

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DIY Recipes for 4 Homemade Draining Flavored Waters

Now that you know which are the most suitable ingredients for preparing homemade detox waters, and the most effective draining herbs to purify the body and rid it of toxins, you can unleash your creativity and prepare your own draining flavored water following your taste and experimenting with combinations of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices.

By using different ingredients and plants, it is possible to provide different benefits to the body, and therefore create waters with different properties to support the body's various needs.

Therefore, we want to offer you 4 recipes for flavored waters for different needs, blending the benefits of fruits, essential oils, and draining, purifying, and diuretic plants. The recipes are intended for a quantity of 1 liter of water, with a maceration in the fridge of at least 3 hours.

Draining, Hydrating, and Alkalizing Water Recipe

Ingredients for 1 liter of water:

  • 1/2 cucumber sliced with the peel (preferably organic)
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1 drop of ginger essential oil
  • A few basil leaves

Let it macerate in the fridge for at least 3 hours. This detox water combines the alkalizing properties of lemon with the hydrating properties of cucumber and the anti-inflammatory properties of ginger.

Flavored Draining Fat-Burning and Purifying Water

Ingredients for 1 liter of water:

  • 30 drops of burdock mother tincture
  • 1 grapefruit sliced with the peel (alternatively replace it with 1 drop of grapefruit essential oil)
  • 1 sprig of rosemary

This flavored water has a fat-burning and slimming effect provided by the grapefruit, but also draining and purifying for the skin, thanks to the anti-inflammatory and purifying properties of burdock.

Flavored Draining and Digestive Water

Ingredients for 1 liter of water:

This flavored water has a draining and diuretic effect, useful to counteract water retention and promote digestion, preventing bloating of the stomach and abdomen.

Hydrating, Energizing, and Draining Flavored Water

Ingredients for 1 liter of water:

This draining flavored water has a moisturizing and energizing effect thanks to the contribution of vitamins and antioxidants. It helps to drain and purify, stimulating diuresis.

When to Drink Draining Detox Flavored Water?

Flavored draining water can be an excellent substitute for normal water, a tasty and refreshing drink to which are added the benefits provided by the properties of the plants and fruits used. These detox waters are also an important integration of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants in our diets. They can therefore be consumed at any time of the day, although being very diuretic it is better to avoid drinking large quantities in the evening, to avoid having to interrupt sleep to empty the bladder. They are instead excellent to consume in the morning, to activate metabolism and the draining system.

Herbs for Draining Waters to Buy Online

The combinations of ingredients to create draining and detox waters that are also refreshing and delicious are endless. Visit the section of spices for sale online at Terza Luna, where you can buy organic plants and spices with different beneficial properties for the body, which help against water retention, detoxification from toxins, and hydration. On Terza Luna, you will also find a wide selection of essential oils and mother tinctures, to quickly and easily make flavored waters enjoying all the benefits of plants.

 

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