How to Add Ingredients to a Home Foot Detox

A foot detox bath is one method of trying to remove wastes and toxins from your body. It seems miraculous as the water turns from clear to a dark color. To further enhance your detox experience, you can add one or more natural ingredients to the water and hope for additional healing benefits. At the very least you will feel less tension after a relaxing foot detox bath.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Bath salts
• Herbs

1. Fill the foot tub with clean water up to the level-line in the tub. The recommended water temperature is 104 to 108 degrees F.

2. Pour in several teaspoons of bath salts. Choose one with a nice scent such as lavender.

3. Boil pine tree leaves for 5 minutes then and add to the water for relief from mental or emotional fatigue. It may also help reduce asthma, cure respiratory illnesses and relieve arthritic pain.

4. Toss in some bamboo to help relieve the common cold, sore throat, sinus congestion and cough.

5. Add green tea for a range of health benefits including reducing depression, cholesterol and cancer risk.

6. Dump in ground garlic to kill fungus, as well as lower blood pressure and boost your immune system.

7. Improve skin conditions with the dried skin of a citrus fruit.

Tips & Warnings

• Line the foot tub with a plastic bag before filling with water to eliminate cleaning any residue afterwards.
• Pregnant women, persons with a pacemaker, or organ transplant recipients should not use a foot detox bath.
• Recommended usage between the ages of 10 and 65 is every other day, not to exceed three times per week; under 10 and over 65 the recommendation is no more then twice a week.

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