Just when you thought that bathrooms and home spas couldn't get any more luxurious — what with whirlpool tubs, jetted showers, and the like — bathtub manufacturers up the ante by offering tubs that feature whirlpool and air-massage systems in the same package.
“Customers want to create more of that in-house spa retreat, and the industry is trying to meet that demand with a more sophisticated system,” points out Tawnya Quiet, marketing director for Aquatic Whirlpools.
Combining water and air, whirlpool jets target specific areas of the body with varying degrees of pressure. The size and quantity of jets varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but many offer custom packages that place almost any number of jets anywhere the customer desires.
Homeowners are not as familiar with air-massage (also called airbath) systems. The air-massage concept uses air channels molded into the shell of the tub and small air portholes drilled into the channels in several locations around the tub's bottom or sides that shoot heated air into the bath, creating a bubbling hot-spring effect and delivering a gentle, circulation-stimulating massage to the entire body.
Baths that combine whirlpool and airbath systems in one unit offer twice the hydrotherapy benefits of standard whirlpools or airbaths.
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