Why do steam rooms add moisture to your skin / body but hot showers dry you out?
I think we can hold temperature constant assuming that is a factor, especially since a cold(er) shower won’t dry you out as much. Pretty sure steam rooms and the hot showers that would dry you out are in the same neighborhood, temp wise.
My skin is always glowing, plump, radiant after a good steam session but super dry after a similarly-temperatured hot shower.
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A hot shower will wash away the moisturizing oils in your skin through the (relatively) large volumes of water flowing over your skin. A steam room/sauna doesn’t interact with the oils like that, so you get the heat treatment without the washing effect.
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