Homemade Foot Soak Ingredients
If you are like most people, you use your feet a lot throughout the day. Unfortunately, you may neglect your feet when it comes time to pamper yourself. Soaking your feet in a relaxing bath can help them feel clean and restored. Choose your foot bath ingredients carefully to achieve the most satisfying results.
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Epsom Salt
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Epsom salts help sooth sore, swollen feet. The salt helps reduce swelling by absorbing the excess moisture out of your feet. You don't need much Epsom salt to do the trick. Just add 1/4 cup of salt to every gallon of hot water you use in your foot bath. Stir the contents of the foot bath thoroughly until the salt almost completely dissolves into the water. Let the water cool to a warm temperature before you put your feet into the bath.
Scented Oils
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Adding oils to your bath creates a pleasant scent that will remain on your feet for a while. Only add a few drops to the bath depending on the potency of the oils. Using more than a few drops of the oil can turn your bath into a noxious mess if the oil is too strong to use in large quantities. Mix and match different oils to create new and interesting scent combinations you can enjoy.
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Tea Tree Oil
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Fungal infections are a concern if you constantly confine your feet to hot shoes. Tea tree oil can help fight and even prevent the occurrence of fungal infections on the feet. Just add a few drops of the oil to your hot bath to benefit from it. Don't add too much or your bath will become an oily mess. Use tea tree oil in a thick foot bath such as rice water so it can mix more thoroughly into the bath.
Milk
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The proteins in milk are beneficial to every part of your body, including your feet. If you have rough parts of skin on your feet that you detest, add a little milk to your warm water foot bath. You only need about 1/4 cup for every gallon of water in the bath to receive the benefits of the milk. The milk will work its magic and soften those rough spots. After you finish your bath, you can take a coarse stone to your feet to scrub off the rough areas.
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