With all of the shopping you may be doing this holiday season,
your feet will enjoy some pampering.
Massaging Bare Feet
• Soak feet in a warm
footbath for about 15 minutes.
• Pat feet dry then gently scrub the skin with a pumice stone.
• Apply a rich
moisturizing skin cream, Crisco lard or Vaseline all over each foot.
• Put on a
pair of socks to protect the layer of moisturizer so that the skin has a chance
to absorb it.
• Wash off in the morning when you shower.
• Do this treatment each
night until skin is healthy again.
5 Homemade Foot
Soak Recipes
Recipe Directions:
• Unless otherwise noted, mix together all ingredients thoroughly
then store in an airtight container.
• Use 2 to 3 tablespoons per gallon of water used in soak.
• Water temperature is at personal preference, but I find the
hottest water my feet will comfortably tolerate gives the most relief and
comfort.
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Recipe #1
1 part Epsom salts
1 part Baking soda
Drops of choice
essential oils (optional)
Recipe #2 - Chamomile Tea Foot Soak
4 bags chamomile tea
1/8 cup dried
parsley
4 drops essential oil of choice
Steep ingredients in
1 gallon of hot water for 10 minutes before soaking feet.
Recipe #3
2 cups Kosher salt
1 cup Epsom salts
Drops essential oil of
choice (optional)
Recipe #4
1 1/4 cups Epsom salts
1 1/4 cups Kosher salt
1/4 cup baking
soda
1/4 cup cornstarch
Recipe #5
1 cup lemon juice
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup milk
Mix together well in
a small bowl then add to 1 gallon of water and soak feet.
Single Ingredient Ideas:
1 cup honey per gallon of water
1/2 cup Epsom salts per gallon of water
2 cups brewed coffee
per gallon of water
Essential Oil Ideas:
peppermint, lavender, lemon, orange,
eucalyptus, mint
You can also add marbles to the bottom of the basin to rub your
feet over while soaking, quite soothing!
When your garden is in full bloom,
add as many flower petals as you like to your favorite recipe for a special,
pampered experience.
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Homemade Foot
Therapy Scrub
Do you have dry, rough patches on your feet? Here’s a simple treat that you can pamper yourself with while
giving your tootsies some TLC.
Homemade Foot Therapy Scrub
Ingredients:
3 TBS. used coffee grounds (fine)
1 TBS. flour
1 TBS. heavy
cream (whipping)
1 tsp. cornmeal
1 to 2 tsp. olive oil (extra-virgin)
2
drops lavender essential oil
2 drops tea tree oil
Directions:
In a small glass
bowl, mix the coffee grounds, cornmeal and olive oil.
Next add the cream
and flour to make a thin paste.
Add the essential oils and blend well.
Gently scrub on your
feet, making sure to focus on dry or rough areas. Rinse off completely, pat
feet dry then apply your favorite moisturizer.
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If you have sore, tired feet regularly, please do try Homemade Foot Soaks - they really do help and it feels divine!
Homemade Foot Soak
Materials Needed:
1/2 cup Baking
Soda
½ cup Kosher salt
Pumice stone
Directions:
Soak feet in a tub
of hot water with the baking soda and Kosher salt stirred in.
Soak for about 20
minutes.
After 20 minutes,
lift one foot out of the tub and begin to scrub the callus or corn with the
pumice stone. Do this gently, your skin will be tender from the soak.
Rinse the pumice
stone in the tub as needed, you’ll have loose skin building up. Also rinse the
loose skin pieces off the foot you are working on as needed. Continue working
on the foot with the pumice stone until the callus or corn has been removed, or
at least as much as is comfortably possible. Sometimes this will take more than
one treatment.
Repeat the procedure
on the other foot (which has been soaking in the tub the whole time). The skin
will be softer yet on this foot, so go gently.
Once you’ve successfully
removed the calluses or corns or removed as much as you could in one sitting,
rinse off your feet and pat dry. Apply your favorite moisturizer and cover your
feet with wool or cotton socks.
The first treatment will always be
the biggest job, but if you regularly soak your feet and treat rough spots with
a pumice stone as soon as they start to appear, your feet will benefit and you
won’t have much of a problem controlling calluses or corns.
If calluses and corns are
particularly thick, you may need to give the above treatment over a period of
several days.
If you find your
feet develop calluses easily, try treating them regularly with coconut oil or
shea butter and fitting your shoes with cushion insoles. Corns can be helped by
wearing shoes that fit well, use cushioned insoles and avoid wearing high
heels. You can buy special pads to cover your corns that help them heal faster.
There are home remedy recipes to apply on corns, but you have to tread
carefully since you don’t want to damage the surrounding healthy skin.
If you have calluses
or corns that seem to be permanent, are painful and don’t disappear with
treatment, have your doctor check them. He (or she) may be able to prescribe
something for you. Sometimes surgery is required for extreme cases.
Careful: If you have diabetes, it’s always recommended to
consult your doctor first before treating your feet.
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