Sweating Rids The Body  Of Toxins

Sweating does eliminate some of the toxins, but you'd die if your body didn't have better ways of cleaning house. Physiologists point out  that sweat is about 99% water. The rest is salt, fat molecules, vitamin C, lactic acid (a waste product of muscles), uric acid and ammonia. Any drug you're taking can also turn up in your perspiration. Because the body stores tiny amount of environmental toxins in fatty tissue, it's possible that traces of these substances exit with your sweat as well.

But, the body's main detoxifiers are the kidneys and the liver. The former sends waste products out of the body through urine, while the liver breaks down alcohol, pesticides and other chemicals and shunts them out via the intestines.

So if you want to keep your system clean, skip the sauna and the steam bath in favour of caring for your liver. The surest way is not to drink too much alcohol.