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How To Clean Your Yoga Mat

Posted by admin On April - 8 - 20105 COMMENTS

Like anything that’s carted around, plopped on the floor and walked on, your yoga mat gets dirty and unsanitary. So you’ll need a plan to keep it clean and free of germs and odor. Here’s how to clean a yoga mat and keep it looking fresh.

1. I think to mix one part water to three parts white vinegar. Or add a few drops of mild liquid detergent to a cup or two of water in a spray bottle. And you can mix a cup of warm water with several drops of mild detergent to create a dilute, soapy mixture. Use a sponge to gently massage the soiled areas with your homemade solution.

2.For a deep cleaning, submerge your yoga mat in the bathtub with a mild detergent. Use very little soap, less really is more here, and scrub with a kitchen sponge. Rinse well with clean water.

3. Do not using Washing machine. The yoga mat may loose its shape. Instead, submerge your mat in a solution of warm water and mild detergent. Thoroughly hand wash the mat and rinse in clean water. After lay the mat on a dry towel and roll the mat and towel together.

4. Remember clean your mat lightly after every time for using. To keep your mat looking and smelling fresh, spray it lightly with a mat cleaning spray. To make your own all-natural mat cleaning spray, add three drops of tea tree oil, two drops of peppermint oil, and two drops of lavender oil to distilled water.

5. Place mat in bath tub with hot soapy water Laundry powder will work well and let it soak for 30 minutes or so. You can use a soft brush to scrub any stains. If you want to disinfect use a little bleach directly into the water and mix well before soaking the mat. This will kill any smell and germs, but just a little bleach as too much could deteriorate your mat. Rinse off well and then let it hang dry off a clothes line preferably in the shade.

How to choose a rubber yoga mat

Posted by admin On April - 7 - 20101 COMMENT

Yoga has become the first choice of fitness for more and more female.So the choice of yoga mat  like sports, the best choice is high quality. Now Rubber yoga mat is variety on the market, it is easy to pick people dazzled, what kind of Rubber yoga mat is harmful to health, while quality can be excellent long-term use of it? Good rubber yoga mat should meet the following two requirements:

1. Because the rubber yoga mat with the practitioner direct contact with the skin itself is chemicals, it is absolutely not toxic and odorous.

Toxic and odorous mats for non-toxic tasteless without treatment, just open, smell is great, or in the water after a long dry scrubbing office about 20 days flat would be a small number of odor, and practitioners will appear after prolonged use of intermittent dizziness, nervous headache, nausea, fatigue and other adverse reactions. 

2.Rubber yoga mat required good material weight is moderate, not easy to deformation for a long time.

The market for sale yoga mats divided into about PVC, PVC foam, EVA, EPTM, and so on. PVC foam which is the most professional (PVC content of 96%, yoga mat weight is 1500 grams). EVA and EPT’M is primarily moisture mats (weight 500 grams). But this material mat is too light, not tiled the floor. PVC and anti-slip mats just rely on material cut from (left total weight 3000 g), with only one non-slip texture, skid resistance and poor. After a period of time, because there is no foam middle hole, mats will be crushed and will not bounce back to normal specifications.

Jade Yoga Mat

Posted by admin On April - 7 - 2010Comments Off

As the goal was to develop the best functioning yoga mat available. Because natural rubber performs so much better than synthetic rubber (PVC, PER, TPE, EVA), synthetic rubbers were never really an option. Jade yoga mats combine natural rubber from the Far East and technology from the West to form arguably the best yoga mat you can find.  Jade yoga mats were the first green yoga mats to be constructed of natural rubber, which has more cushion and resilience than any PVC or synthetic Rubber yoga mat on the market.

Jade Yoga produces what they claim to be nature’s best yoga mats. The Jade yoga mat is crafted of natural rubber tapped from rubber trees and contains no heavy metals, ozone depleting substances, PVC, or other synthetic rubber.  Natural rubber is tapped, like maple syrup, from rubber trees, making it a sustainable, renewable resource.  In fact, Jade prides itself on producing mats using only components approved by the FDA for use for rubber in continuous contact with food.

Jade Yoga plants a tree for every mat sold, and also tries to help out many very special people and organizations trying to bring yoga to those who might benefit from it, but might not otherwise have a chance to try – from a abused girls shelter in West Africa to a homeless shelter in Indianapolis to supporting educational programs for children from New York to California.The Jade Yoga Mat is made with open cell, natural rubber that never gets wet with perspiration. Natural rubber has long been used where safety demands non-slip performance.

Some FAQ About Natural Rubber Yoga Mats

Posted by admin On April - 5 - 2010Comments Off

Made from natural rubber, a biodegradable material, the natural Rubber yoga mat offers superb traction and a high-rebound dense cushion. In contrast, natural Rubber yoga mat is a little better. The anti-slip effect is better. Here are some FAQ about natural Rubber yoga mat.
1.How to do if the yoga mat has rubber smell?
Because it is natural rubber material, so there will be rubber smell, so the initial use, wash with water.
2. Can dry under the sun?
Generally, we do not recommend drying under the sun. But the actual situation is that if were washed 1 to 2 hours is OK under the sun.
3. How do I care for my natural rubber yoga mat?
Remove excess amounts by rolling up with a dry towel – the old traditional method! And avoid contact with oils.

When you practice, a professional Rubber yoga mat supplies to assist, the practice will more with less. It is particularly important with yoga mat as the auxiliary supplies. It can avoid direct contact with the ground to bring the body’s pain, but also play a role in anti-slip insulation. How to choose a high quality professional Rubber yoga mat is critical, because the poor quality of the yoga mat is not only does not promote the role of exercise may also make your body unconsciously hurt.

   In the choice of rubber yoga mat need attention as follows: In summary, a good yoga mat can definitely make your problems solving color, also further improvements in hygiene. So you can practice the process of fully involved to the relaxed fun atmosphere.

  1. The length of yoga mat should not be shorter than the height, width not narrower than shoulder width.
  2. The thickness of yoga mat about 5mm.
  3. The flexibility of yoga mat. Be sure to select good elasticity, soft and hard moderate yoga mat to match your practice.
  4. The uniformity of yoga mat.
  5. The skid resistance of yoga mat surface. If mats on the ground or hand sliding surface in sliding mat, note yoga mat of skid resistance are not very good.