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Step 1
Ease your discomfort immediately with this herbal foot bath. Use your blender and mix 3 sprigs of fresh basil with 1 cup water. Add ΒΌ salt and enough water to cover your feet in a pan. Heat the mixture until it boils. Allow the mixture to cool until it's comfortable enough to soak your feet for 30 minutes.
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Step 2
Read up on grapefruit seed extract. It's getting good press for having lots of helpful properties, including being anti-fungal. Add a few drops of the extract to a bit of water in your hand and apply it to your feet a couple times a day, drying your feet thoroughly after each application. You can purchase grapefruit seed extract at health food stores.
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Step 3
Give mouthwash a second job. Fill a small pan with enough major brand mouth wash to cover your feet. Soak for at least 10 minutes a day until the fungus is gone. Repeat as needed and dry your feet thoroughly after each application. This option helps freshen your feet if you also have a problem with odor.
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Step 4
Hold your nose and give vinegar a try. Of course, is there anything vinegar can't fix? Actually, vinegar contains ingredients that love to munch on fungus, especially the kind that causes athlete's foot. Mix a drop or two in enough water to cover your feet and soak about 10 minutes. Don't forget to dry your feet thoroughly after each application.
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Step 5
Stuff some crushed garlic into a pair of dry socks and wear them to bed. Like vinegar, raw garlic lives to kill athlete's foot fungus.
