“Sexy water”: TikTok makes even drinking a glass of water cool. And in the boom of proposals there is also that of Bella Hadid

In the video that started the trend, the content creator with over 80 thousand followers Kelly Stranick in a white t-shirt, jeans and baseball cap – which has become the official uniform of the healthy girl social – adds to his jug of filtered water, a squeezed lemon, a few slices of cucumber, some green mint leaves, a scoop of bovine colostrum, but also chlorophyll and vitamin powders. Thus the craze for the was born on TikTok sexy water, which offers a new solution to an old problem: drink more water. Even if it is the best known and most banal beauty secret, drinking a lot of water – more precisely, about two liters of water a day, variable according to the conditions of each individual – is not easy for everyone, also for this reason, perhaps, the trend of sexy wateralso called sexy skin water o morning cocktail, is having a lot of success. The name, coined on TikTok by Kelly Stranick, is part of that charm that we try to add to the simplest and most essential liquid of all, and can be misleading: in reality the sexy water it’s nothing but a flavored water enriched with functional ingredients and supplementschosen to your liking.

Bella Hadid in the sexy waters market

The recipes to make the sexy water at home they can also be very different from each other and the functional waters proposed by various brands are added to the do-it-yourself carafes, especially in the United States, where in the last year the soft drinks market has exploded. It also contributed to fueling it Bella Hadidsuch a fan of the trend that he co-founded the brand functional drinks Kin Euphorics, cans of infusions based on vitamin C, saffron, turmeric and adaptogenic ingredients, such as schisandra and damiana, designed to help the immune system and reduce inflammation in the body. As she showed in a recent video on TikTok, the supermodel’s morning routine includes – in addition to several pills, essential oils, a can of Kin Euphorics and holistic stones – also her own versions of sexy water based on liquid detox supplements and liquid ionic minerals.

What are these “waters” and why are they “sexy”

The most striking common feature of the sexy water it’s theirs I wait “cute”, nice to photograph: in home recipes, pink or blue waters, edible glitter and heart-shaped ice cubes or petal infusions are used, while sexy water proposed by the various brands are presented in very colorful bottles with unusual shapes or in flavored cubes based on electrolytes and vitamins, such as Waterdrop’s “microdrinks”, compact sugar-free cubes to be dissolved in water to enrich it with natural fruits, plants and vitamins. The goal is the same: take advantage of the invitation a drink more, basic advice for every wellness recipe. A concept that the German company Air up has poetically transformed into a “excite the ordinary”. Air up, in fact, is a special water bottle which, by exploiting the physiological phenomenon of retronasal smell, manages to give different flavors to the water with which it is filled (which however in this case remains pure water). The question is: in addition to making people drink more, there are actual benefits to choosing one sexy water instead of a simple glass of water?

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“Flavour the water with fruit and vegetables to your liking it is a good idea if we have difficulty reaching the recommended two liters of water a day, because hydration is essential, as it can be useful for those who suffer from water retention, using mother tinctures of centella, birch or horse chestnutwhich help improve circulation and drain the body”, he explains Vittoria Giannini, dietician and nutritional biologist specializing in eating disorders and obesity.

Pay attention, however, to the choice and mix of functional ingredients: for example, squeeze a whole lemon as many creators on TikTok suggest, it is not a good idea according to the dietician, because “drinking lemon juice every morning, in addition to worsening reflux problems, can ruin tooth enamel”. Even mixes of powders and supplements are not recommended: “The risk is to create a useless, if not harmful, drink which does not take personal needs into consideration. The best thing – concludes Dr. Giannini – is to contact a doctor or a nutritionist for evaluate whether there is a need for integration and what typethen building a recipe tailored to one’s own shortcomings and problems”.

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