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Beer goggles (and beer spas) – new research reveals why beer makes you beautiful

Luxury travel blog » Places to Travel » Europe Travel » Czech Republic » Beer goggles (and beer spas) – new research reveals why beer makes you beautiful
August 24, 2010 by Carol Perehudoff

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Beer goggles makes you look beautiful – it’s now a scientific fact. But did you know that beer spas make you beautiful, too? Yes, beer spas are a worldwide phenomenon. And so is beer drinking, but you knew that one already.

Beautiful inside and out

The mystery of beer goggles solved

The drunker you get, the hotter everyone else looks – and many a Toronto frat boy wonders why. Now the mystery is solved. According to British researcher, Professor Lewis Halsey, the phenomenon of ‘beer goggles’ can finally be explained. It’s because alcohol impairs your ability to detect asymmetry, and symmetry – ie when both sides of the face match up – is a major factor in how we judge human beauty.

The results of Halsey’s study, which just came out in the journal Alcohol also found that when under the influence women are more likely than men to see the world through beer goggles.

Beer spas are becoming more popular

What the study doesn’t go into is that women are also more likely to go to the spa, and with beer spas becoming more and more popular maybe more women will be seeing themselves (as well as their companions) though some esteem-boosting beer goggles after a healthy soak in a beer bath.

Where to go for your own beer spa experience

If pouring a 12-pack into your bathtub doesn’t appeal to you, head to Europe, the home of the best beer spas.

A beer spa in the Czech Republic

Drink it, wear it – celebrate the hops!

 

The most famous beer spa comes from that brew-happy nation, the Czech Republic, where a glass of beer can cost less than a bottle of water. The Chodovar Brewery in Chodova Plana has been crafting beer for nearly 500 years and opened their spa in 2006. Guests can soak in a tub full of herbs, dark lager and carbonated spring water, a bathing experience said to be beneficial for the skin and circulation as well as reducing joint pain.

Beer spas in Austria

At the Starkenberg Brewery in Tarrenz Tirol, Austria, you can swim in a pool full of Pilsner.

The Landhotel Moorhof just outside Salzburg, Austria, offers beer baths, hops baths and even beer facials.

According to the Moorhof’s website, bathing in beer extract combats everything from inflammatory rheumatic afflictions, gout, skin diseases and poor circulation to making skin soft – though no word yet on if it will make you look more symmetrical. Good luck with that.

Was it good for you, too?

 

For more info about spas read The Spa and Spa Travel

Category: Czech Republic, Europe Travel, Spas and Wellness

About Carol Perehudoff

A former freelance travel columnist for the Toronto Star, Carol has won more than 30 writing awards and honours. A spa and luxury travel expert, she’s written for top travel publications around the globe.

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  1. Lesley Peterson

    March 26, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    What a great post, Carol. I would be so up for soaking up the beer vitamins in a tub of herbs and dark lager.

  2. Carol Perehudoff

    February 19, 2015 at 8:51 am

    Just think of the possibilities, Tanya. Rum spas in the Caribbean and vodka spas in Russia!

  3. Tanya T. Lara

    February 18, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Oh wow. I’ve had a chocolate and wine spa but never beer! But I guess when in the Czech Republic, do as the Czechs do, eh? I wonder if they have this too in Belgium?!

  4. Lori Henry

    October 6, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    I’ve never been a fan of beer, but this gives me another reason to give it a shot!

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