The Original, Award Winning Long Hot Water Bottle by YUYU. 75cm x 12cm, Wearable Strap, Up to 6 Hours of Warmth. Grade A, Natural Sri Lankan Rubber Eco Bottle, 2 Year Warranty. from UK (Koala Grey)

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The YuYu hot water bottle is the first ever to feature a long shape . What does that mean? Well it means you’re able to use the product along a larger part of your body than with a standard square shaped bottle. The YuYu hot water bottle is also the perfect eco and sustainable option. Hot water bottles are more economical to keep you warm, by offering direct heat versus heating a whole house. The YuYu bottle needs less than a litre of water to be filled, which uses up significantly less energy than central heating would. A hot water bottle has been proven to reduce stress and anxiety when used. Similarly to a warm bath, or a warm cup of chamomile tea. It helps to soothe, and can reduce everyday stress instantly. The humble hot water bottle is a necessity for hygge and cosy winter evenings, but is that all it is good for? The short answer is no! For hot summer nights, putting your hot water bottle in the freezer is an ideal way to keep cool. Just fill it up half full, and leave in the freezer for 2-4 hours. This is an eco-friendly option to keeping a fan or AC on all night.

Don’t use boiling water - If using a traditional style hot water bottle, you should allow your boiled kettle water to cool for a few minutes before adding it to the bottle.Place the YUYU rubber bottle into the freezer for 3-5 hours (or until icy and slushy). Note: The time it takes to completely freeze will vary depending on the freezer you are using. If used and stored according to recommendations, your hot water bottle should give good service for approximately 2 years; during this time, rubber will naturally deteriorate, therefore it is advisable to replace your hot water bottle to ensure it is compliant with British standards for safe use. Along with other penny-saving solutions for keeping toasty like finding the best electric blanket for your mattress and warming your feet with a pair of the cosiest women's slippers, selecting a good quality hot water bottle is a cost-effective way to stay warm in the depths of winter. Heat therapy can also be effective at relieving aches, joint pains, and period cramps according to the NHS, so it's a good idea to have a hot water bottle on hand even on milder days.

We may all associate a hot water bottle with keeping us warm and cosy in the colder months, but it may be doing more than just keeping the cold at bay. As with regular aches and pains, the heat helps reduce pain receptors and can act as a natural form of pain killer. A hot water bottle is known to help in relaxing the uterus, reducing the tightening of blood vessels and improving the blood flow to the abdomen area to improve pain. This heat is good for both reducing the effect of DOMS, or aiding the aches once it has happened. To Cool Down The benefit being, with a hot water bottle you can apply this directly to the source of pain. Increasing effectiveness and offering instant relief. Post Workout

The Body Bottles are wider in dimension compared to the traditional YUYU Bottle, measuring 75cm x 12.5cm, giving you that extra surface area coverage to target heat on those painful spots. After a workout, it may be that you have sore and tight muscles. This is often referred to as DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) which is the soreness you’ll feel the day or two after your workout.

Take the YUYU rubber bottle out and place into the cover and wrap it, hug it or sling it around your body for the ultimate cool down. The YuYu bottle cover is also made using a specific waffle design, trapping heat and keeping it warm for longer. Up to several hours! Perfect for those hot and dry days and nights. Go green by turning your air conditioning (AC) off and cool down the natural way. Bring your YUYU Bottles to bed to keep your entire body cool throughout the night and wake up feeling refreshed. YUYU Bottle is a brand that specializes in selling hot water bottle, and the pure cotton waffle series is one of the most popular series. Its exterior is a breathable, soft, cotton waffle cover, and it also has a duvet-like lining which can trap heat and make you enjoy hours of warmth and happiness. Its interior is a bottle made of natural rubber, which makes it safer for you to use it. In addition to the comfortable feeling of wearing, various ways of wearing are also a highlight of it. It has the function of wearable shoulder strap, which you can wrap, hug and hang on your body, so you can free your hands when you are working or doing other things. It has 7 soft colors to choose, from clay, papaya, gray and cornflower to ocean mist, rose and white. These warm and soft colors can make you relax after a tired day. UCL’s Heat Therapy Professional, Dr Brian King explains how this works. ‘Pain is caused by a temporary reduction in blood flow which activates our pain receptors. The elongated YuYu Bottle stands out because it takes advantage of the horizontal arrangement of sensory nerves supplying the human skin and deactivates the pain receptors at a molecular level.’This can help to apply heat to specific areas of the body where you’re feeling aches or pains. In addition to this, it also features drawstring ties to be worn around the body hands-free. You can even use this same method on your head for sinus congestion. The YuYu bottle can again help with this method. This is as the unique long shape of the bottle can help you apply the heat to specific areas on your ear, nose or head versus the traditional square share. Thoughts? Cold use: Continuous freezing and heating of the rubber, especially in hard water areas may reduce the lifespan of the natural bottle. For this reason, we recommend using one bottle for freezing and one for heating. Having collated all that information, we then narrowed our list down to the best hot water bottle options on the market. About the author Can be used for ice therapy. Ice your sore muscles and joints with the YUYU Bottle post workout or post race to reduce inflammation and swelling.