Whether you’re trying to lose weight or you simply want to look and feel healthier, one of the best ways to rid your body of harmful toxins is to drink water. Just 6 to 8 glasses every day will help to keep you hydrated and keep your vital organs in their best possible health.
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You don’t have to drink plain water, however. In fact, there are a number of things that you can add to your water that will not only boost the taste, they will help to flush those harmful toxins out of your body.
Detox waters have become very popular and there are many different recipes that you can make.
We’ve collected 20 of the best for taste and health benefits. These waters contain ingredients like lemon which helps to flush harmful toxins from your body, mint which aids in digestion, cucumber which contains anti-inflammatory properties and ginger which is a natural pain reliever and aids in digestion.
Some waters contain melon, raspberries and other ingredients that are equally as healthy and beneficial. If you have been thinking about adding detox waters to your healthy routine, we have the recipes for you. They are all very easy to make, require very few ingredients and the best part is you can mix and match ingredients to adapt the recipes to your personal taste.
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- Slim Down Detox Water
- Fruity Detox Water
- Day Spa Apple Cinnamon Detox Water
- New Year Detox Water
- Strawberry Infused Vitamin Water
- Fat Burning Detox Water
- Cucumber Lemon Detox Water
- Aloe Water
- Lemon and Ginger Detox Water
- Simple Morning Detox Water
- Master Cleanse Detox Water
- Peppermint Grapefruit Detox Water
- Pineapple Sugarcane Spa Water
- Jillian Michaels Detox Water
- Stress-Relieving Detox Water
- Blueberry Orange Water
- Raspberry and Mint Water
- Watermelon Detox Water
- Day Spa Mango Ginger Water
- Blackberry Peach Detox Water
- Fat Burning Detox Foods
Slim Down Detox Water
This great detox water not only rids your body of toxins but helps to flush fat from your body as well. Cucumbers are diuretics that can help you to avoid water retention. Lemons and limes help to flush out toxins from your digestive tract and grapefruits help you to burn fat. Just add ½ gallon of spring water, ½ of a medium grapefruit (sliced), ½ a cucumber (sliced), ½ each of a sliced lemon and lime and a couple of mint leaves. Allow the ingredients to sit in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving, and drink at least ½ gallon per day for optimal results.
Fruity Detox Water
This delicious detox water has strawberries and kiwis and is the perfect summer drink. You will need 2 liters of water, a couple of strawberries, and a couple of kiwis. Just chop your kiwis and strawberries, add to your water and sit in the fridge for a couple of hours to let it seep. The kiwi has vitamins A and E, which will help you to rid your body of free radicals, and they help to flush toxins from your colon. Strawberries are great for your skin and then contain anti-aging properties and help to fight carcinogens. You can add more or less fruit depending on your taste preferences or add different fruits or a mint sprig for a completely new taste.
Day Spa Apple Cinnamon Detox Water
Not only does this delicious water not have any calories, but it’s also great for slimming down and ridding your body of harmful toxins. It also helps to boost your metabolism. You will need a gallon-sized pitcher filled with spring water, and you can refill the pitcher three or four times using the same apples and cinnamon sticks. You need a thinly sliced apple (whatever your favorite type) and a cinnamon stick. Just add those to your water and cover about ½ of the pitcher with ice before filling it with water. It’s best if you let them sit in the fridge for an hour or so before serving. You can add additional apple slices or cinnamon if you prefer a stronger taste.
New Year Detox Water
Ok, so it’s not even close to the New Year, so you can just call this one the New You Detox Water. You need a gallon pitcher of spring water and a few raspberries, along with sliced grapefruit, cucumbers, pears, and a sprig of fresh mint. You can also add lemons, limes, blueberries, and cranberries if you want. Just add all of the ingredients into the pitcher and allow it to sit for a couple of hours so that the flavors combine. Make a new pitcher every day to keep it fresh. This one will boost your metabolism, help you burn fat, and flush out all those nasty toxins that make you feel sluggish.
Strawberry Infused Vitamin Water
This detox water not only keeps you hydrated but it helps you to enjoy beautiful skin. It’s chocked full of vitamins and anti-inflammatory ingredients, and it looks beautiful in the glass, too. You will need about a cup of strawberries, 2 cups of cubed watermelon, a couple of sprigs of fresh rosemary, filtered water and just a dash of course salt. Just muddle the strawberries and rosemary together in a bowl, and then add them with the cubed watermelon to your pitcher. Pour filtered water over it, give it just a light stir, and then refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Fat Burning Detox Water
This recipe gives you a detox water that flushes out nasty toxins and really does help you to drop a few pounds, too. It’s got apple cider vinegar, which has so many benefits that it’s impossible to list them all. There are also apples, which are great for fiber; lemons, which have cleansing properties; and cinnamon, which helps to curb your appetite. You’ll need about 12 ounces of filtered water, 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and about half a medium apple sliced. You can also add a bit of sweetener if you want. You simply put everything except the apples into your blender and blend for about ten seconds. Then just add your apples and drink.
Cucumber Lemon Detox Water
The lemon in this water recipe is great for boosting your immune system and cleaning out harmful toxins. Cucumber is an anti-inflammatory and helps you to stay hydrated. Mint sweetens your drink without adding sugar and aids in digestion. To make this one, just mix about eight cups of water with a medium cucumber (wedged or sliced), a whole lemon (wedged or sliced), and about ten mint leaves (or however many you prefer). Mix in a large pitcher and allow it to steep in the fridge overnight. This is a really tasty drink and one that offers many wonderful detoxing benefits.
Aloe Water
You have surely heard of (or experienced for yourself) the wonderful benefits of aloe. Did you know that you can add it to your water? When you take aloe internally, it can help with circulation and digestion, increase your energy, and eliminate fatigue. Making aloe-infused detox water is easy. You need to split the leaf down the center and remove the gel. Mix the gel with some water and lemon in the blender and process for about a minute. You will need about a cup of water, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and about 2 tablespoons of aloe gel.
Lemon and Ginger Detox Water
Ginger is a natural pain reliever, and adding it to your water can give you wonderful detox properties. For this recipe, you need about 12 ounces of water at room temperature as well as the juice of ½ a lemon and ½ inch knob of fresh ginger root. Just add your lemon juice to the water and then grate the ginger into it using a zester or cheese grater. This is a great drink for first thing in the morning. Not only will it help to relieve pain all day, it will cleanse toxins from your body throughout the day and the lemon juice helps to release those nasty toxins so they’ll flush out better.
Simple Morning Detox Water
The easiest way to get detox water every day is to simply squeeze the juice from half a lemon into a tall glass of water each morning. Drinking at least eight ounces of lemon water every morning will flush out those toxins and keep them from building up. If you’re drinking it every day, you are certainly going to feel better because you will be constantly releasing toxins that can make you feel sluggish and sick. There’s no recipe aside from squeezing that fresh lemon juice into a glass of spring or filtered water, and you can add ice if you want.
Master Cleanse Detox Water
This master cleanse detox water recipe is designed to flush every bad toxin out of your body. You will need about twelve ounces of filtered water, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of organic maple syrup, 1/10 of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper, and a dash of sea salt. Just mix the ingredients together and drink. There are also optional ingredients like green tea and laxatives that you can add, but the detox water in itself is great for ridding your body of free radicals and leaving you feeling and looking much healthier.
Peppermint Grapefruit Detox Water
This detox water has ingredients that will clean out your kidneys, eliminate bloating, and help you enjoy much healthier skin. It also aids in digestion. You need about ½ gallon of purified water, ½ lemon sliced, ½ lime sliced, ½ grapefruit sliced (note that you can also substitute or add oranges if you want), 1 cup of sliced cucumber with peels, 1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger and a handful of fresh peppermint leaves. Just add all of the ingredients into a pitcher and cover with ice. Refrigerate for at least a couple of hours before serving and discard after 24 hours, as the citrus fruits tend to get a little mushy.
Pineapple Sugarcane Spa Water
If you prefer a bit of a tropical taste in your detox water, this pineapple and sugarcane water is perfect. The pineapple helps to rid your body of free radicals and this recipe is so easy that you can make it in about five minutes. You need a couple of liters of purified water, 2 sticks of sugar cane, and a few chunks of fresh pineapple. Note that fresh works much better than canned. Just mix all of the ingredients in a pitcher and add ice. Let it steep in the fridge for a couple of hours before drinking. The longer it sits, the better it tastes.
Jillian Michaels Detox Water
Jillian Michaels detox water has dandelion tea, which has a great reputation for breaking down fats and removing them (along with harmful toxins) from your body. Note that you may experience increased bowel movements when you drink this one regularly, but that really just means that it’s working. To make Jillian’s detox water, you will need about 60 ounces of purified water, 2 tablespoons of diet cranberry juice, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and a bag of dandelion tea (you’ll need to stew the tea in a cup of water).
Stress-Relieving Detox Water
Imagine clearing out those harmful toxins and relieving stress at the same time. This detox water recipe includes pineapple and basil. Pineapple has bromelain that cleanses the bloodstream and breaks down harmful enzymes so that they can be flushed from your body. Basil fights free radicals and is an excellent source of magnesium, so it’s really good for your heart. Using spring or filtered water, mix together in a pitcher five strawberries, about ½ cup of chunked pineapple, 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar, four or five fresh basil leaves, and some ice. Allow it to steep in the fridge for at least an hour, and enjoy.
Blueberry Orange Water
This yummy water has the antioxidant properties of blueberries and the toxin-flushing properties of citrus. Plus, it’s really easy to make and tastes wonderful. Just mix about six cups of water in a picture with ice cubes, a handful of fresh blueberries, and 2 mandarin oranges peeled and cut into chunks. You’ll want this to sit in the fridge for at least two hours so that the water has time to infuse. You can muddle the blueberries just a bit if you want to have a stronger taste or squeeze the juice from an additional orange into your water.
Raspberry and Mint Water
Mint is great for aiding in digestion, and raspberries have great antioxidant properties. Add them both to water, and you have a very tasty detox water to help flush those toxins from your kidneys, liver, and colon. You will need about half a gallon of spring or purified water, 2 tablespoons of raspberries – these can be fresh or frozen – and two tablespoons of fresh mint leaves. You also need a medium-sized lime. Just slice the lime and add it along with the mint leaves and raspberries to your water in a large pitcher. Muddle the raspberries just a bit if you want more flavor, and you can microwave the lime for a couple of seconds to get more juice from it.
Watermelon Detox Water
What better fruit to add to your water than watermelon? Not only does watermelon contain vitamins and minerals, but it also helps to flush out your system. Instead of eating it and making that juicy and sticky mess, just add a bit to your water to enjoy the full detoxing benefits. You need a couple of cups of chunked watermelon (seedless is best) and about four cups of water. Place the watermelon in a large pitcher and cover it with water. Allow it to steep in the fridge for a couple of hours before enjoying it so that the flavor can infuse your water.
Day Spa Mango Ginger Water
Ginger and mango are both great for boosting your metabolism, and ginger is a natural pain reliever as well. Mango aids in digestion and can help to flush a number of free radicals out of your body. To make this day spa detox water, you need about an inch of ginger root and a cup of fresh or frozen mango. Just peel the ginger and cut it into three or four slices. Drop into a pitcher, add your cup of cubed or sliced mango and then top with about three cups of ice before filling with purified water. This needs to sit in the fridge for about three hours to allow the flavors to come out.
Blackberry Peach Detox Water
This recipe is a bit more complicated than just adding some fruit to water. You need to make simple syrup from ¾ cup of sugar and 2 cups of water. Once that’s done, mix in ½ cup of blackberries and 2 peaches, sliced. You can also add a couple of cups of peach orchard juice to give it more of a peachy flavor. The blackberries in this have wonderful antioxidant properties and peaches are great for helping to cleanse your systems from your colon to your digestive tract. Keep this in the fridge and enjoy it all day.
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