Foot baths: effective recipes



foot baths Problems with legs can occur at any time of the year. In winter, the legs get tired of heavy, hot, often - "dermatine" and non-breathable shoes; in the off-season - from blotting and heels; in the summer - from dust, fatigue, corns, coarse skin of heels, spurs ... All these problems can be solved by careful leaving. You can make foot baths from the most accessible ingredients.

Foot baths with sea salt

It will suit you if you want to solve the problem of swelling, constant fatigue (working on the legs), tension, clogged pores, problems with nails and fungus. Make baths with salt in the fall and spring, as they help protect themselves from rhinitis and acute respiratory disease. And besides, they make prevention of varicose - an excellent solution for lovers of heels, as well as pregnant (but "waiters" before using it is better to consult a doctor).

There are salt and contraindications: scratches, cracks and other skin problems.

Salt bath recipes: 1 large spoon of sea salt dissolve in warm water (1 liter). Keep your feet in the basin with this water for about 20 minutes. When the bath has cooled, add more salt solution, hot. Course: 2 to 3 times in 7 days.

Conifer bath with salt: the previous composition (a liter of water, a spoonful of salt) enrich with a single drop of coniferous ether or extract, and it should be dripped on the salt, before adding it to the water. Duration of the procedure: up to 30 minutes. The result: relief of cold symptoms, best rest for tired and swollen legs, excellent blood circulation in the skin.

With tea tree oil. Tea Tree Oil (1 drop per liter of saline) is added to the tub to treat fungal infections, to improve the circulation of the feet, to relieve fatigue.

Salt bath with herbs. If you prepare a saline solution on the decoction of herbs, we will get a moisturizing, soothing and relaxing effect for the skin of the feet. The most useful are the broths of chamomile, linden, calendula, birch, sage, nettle, mint. Soak the legs in such a bath is recommended 15-20 minutes.

Salt + iodine. This popular recipe softens and deodorizes the skin of the feet, eliminates sweating, improves blood circulation, removes puffiness, strengthens the nails. 5 g salt (sea or cooked), dissolve in a liter of water and add 5 ml of iodine. Lower the legs into the composition for fifteen minutes. Then rinse with water and wipe with a towel.

Salt with ethers. Essential oils will help to remove fatigue and swelling of the legs, are an excellent deodorant, improve skin tone and strengthen the nails. One of the most popular oils for pedicure is lavender. It relaxes and soothes the feet. We prepare a bath at the rate of 1 drop of oil per liter of brine. The bath is more effective in the evening.

A bath with salt and ammonia will help to remove coarser skin growths and make the feet soft. To do this, add three spoonfuls of ammonia to the tub with a warm saline solution.

Baths with soda

Soda helps to soften very rough and keratinized skin; fights bacteria and unpleasant odor, reduces sweating; helps dissolve the old dirt.

Soda bath with salt to cleanse the skin. For one liter of warm water should take two tablespoons of sea or table salt and one spoonful of soda. Instead of soda, you can add a laundry soap to the bath.

Sodovo - soap tray for feet. Very simple and effective remedy for corns. With regular use (1-2 times a week) all calluses come off, the heels will look like a baby. Rub the laundry soap on a large grater. For 1 liter of hot water, add a tablespoon of soap chips and 2-3 teaspoons of soda. The feet are recommended to soar until half an hour, adding hot water as it cools. Softened coarse skin areas should be cleaned with pumice or a file for heels. Then rinse your feet with clean water and apply a moisturizer.

Soda bath with white clay with coarse skin. For a liter of warm water, add 2 tablespoons of white clay, 2 tablespoons of liquid soap, a spoon of ammonia. Soak the legs in the resulting composition for about 20 minutes. As a result, the skin becomes soft and smooth.

Soda with herbs from swelling and fatigue. If the legs are tired and swollen by the evening, soda baths on the decoction of herbs will help. Suitable camomile, calendula, linden, sage, St. John's wort. Herbs will accelerate the healing of wounds and cracks. To a liter of broth add a tablespoon of soda and a spoonful of honey.

Foot baths with hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a proven antifungal agent that cleans away a bad smell. It will also help with skin hardening. But do not forget: peroxide will return smoothly to the heels, only if they did not suffer from a serious illness; In addition, carefully measure the dosage of peroxide in order not to over-bake the skin.

Base recipe: 1.5 liters of water (hot), 4 large spoons of peroxide. In such a bath the feet should be kept no longer than 5 minutes, after which the softened skin is processed with a nail file. For your own safety, the first procedure is best done even shorter - soar the legs in just 2.5 minutes. Course: not more than 2 times for 7 days.

Paraffin foot baths

This substance is very popular with masters from expensive salons, which add it to the baths not only for the feet, but also for the hands. Paraffin effectively softens the skin, moisturizes it, strengthens the marigold, and also relieves limbs from fatigue. Finally, the right bath can warm the skin, which is very like women suffering from joint pain.

But it's not necessary to follow this procedure in the salon - you can do it yourself. It is made simply:

1. Buy cosmetic paraffin. Place it on a water bath and warm it until it melts and becomes pleasantly warm.

2. While it "leaks", prepare heels, treating them with a scrub or lotion.

3. Lower the legs into the paraffin wax, count to 10, take them out.

4. Repeat the procedure five times. In the end, your heels will be generously covered with paraffin "plaster".

5. Wrap your feet with cellophane, from above tighten your tightest socks. Keep this warming from 30 minutes until night.

6. Remove the "plaster", soothe the skin with cream.

Course: 1 to 2 times in 7 days.

Foot baths with vinegar

This kitchen "acidifier" saves from the trampled, coarse heels, fungus and unwanted odor.

Base recipe: pour 2 tablespoons of vinegar (it is very desirable to use apple) in 2 liters of water of pleasant temperature. Hold the legs in the bath for about 15 minutes, then rub the problem areas with a pumice stone or brush. After that, dip your feet in cool water for 15 seconds, wipe, and when the skin calms down (about 30 minutes later), pamper it with a moisturizer.

Important! Do not make such a bath if you notice a crack on the foot, even a small one. Also, vinegar will not like the scratched, rubbed skin.

Foot baths for sweating and odor

Manganese. Pour this agent into the water to make it gently pink (if it becomes crimson, you can burn the skin). Course: 2 weeks, every 2 days.

Oak bark. One large spoonful of bark pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, cook until 7 minutes, let cool under the lid. Pour another 300 ml of hot water into the broth to get it warmed up and there was enough volume for the procedure. Make the tub until it cools. After it, the feet should be rinsed with clean water and thoroughly wiped.

Essential oils. Best of all in your situation, eucalyptus, tea tree and citrus oils will suit. These funds take away a bad smell, tone up the skin, normalize the secretion of sweat. In the basin with water, drip no more than 4 drops of any ether, steam the legs for up to 20 minutes. At the end, treat the skin with a solution of boric acid (2%).

Foot baths from corns and cracks

Oatmeal bath. 250 ml of "Hercules" pour a glass of boiling water, allow to steam for about 20 minutes. Stir these flakes in a basin with hot water. Result: soft skin.

White clay. 2-3 spoons of white clay, stir in an identical number of liters of hot water. Drink your feet for up to 20 minutes, and then moisturize them with cream.

Starch. At 1 liter of pleasantly warm water, one large spoonful of starch is needed. The duration of the procedure is 20 minutes, preferably before bedtime. The bath makes the legs more tender, and also the prevention of cracks.

Esters and milk. In 1 glass of milk (only not from the refrigerator, but preheated), add up to 6 drops of lemon, pine or cypress ether. Pour this case into a basin with warm water, steam the legs to half an hour. Get a home spa treatment, as well as treatment of painful cracks. By the way, this bath can be done without essential oils, just mixing fresh (pasteurized, too, can be milk with water, only the legs in it to keep it up to 15 minutes.

With honey. 50 grams of natural honey (that is, 1.5 tablespoons thick or 2 tablespoons of liquid product) add in a liter of water. Give the legs "poteksat" in this bath for 20 minutes. This procedure is considered the most useful of all listed.

With potato broth. Drain slightly cooled (to painlessly enter the hand) decoction in the basin, steam heels to half an hour. Rinse them with clean water, dry with a towel, and rub with castor oil.

With sour cabbage juice. For 1 liter of water, take 200 ml of this juice. Hold the legs up to 20 minutes.

With boric acid. For 1 glass of water, take 50 g of boric acid. The bath is done from evening. Legs in it should "bend" no more than 15 minutes, after which they must be wiped, treated with problematic sites with petroleum jelly and warmed (suitable for ordinary socks). In the morning, the feet are rinsed with plain water under the tap. Course: 5 procedures.

Baths with oils. You will like olive, sunflower, jojoba, apricot, and grape seed oil. These funds very well nourish and soften the "keratinized" skin. The most popular recipe is: 5 ml of orange oil and 1 large spoon of any other pour in a liter of warm water.

Nitrate. Mix 3 tablespoons of ammonia with the same amount of salt. Course: 1 time in 7 days. The result: gradual softening of the most "wooden" heels. Another recipe: 1 tablespoon of ammonia, as much soap shavings and soda, 2 liters of hot (but without bending) water. Keep the legs up to 40 minutes.

Toning trays for feet

Dry mustard. This medicine means well "erases" fatigue, disinfects, makes the blood run faster ... But attention: it also warms, due to which sweating is intensified. However, do not rush to abandon this procedure, because it normalizes sweating, and also removes bad smell from the skin. Especially the procedure is recommended for women who have caught a cold or suffer from chronic rhinitis, as well as hypertensive patients. The basic recipe is this: 1 teaspoon of powder stir in a liter of hot water, hold the legs 15 minutes.

Contrast bath. You need 2 basins with water of different temperatures: -15 and +40 degrees. Put your feet in the first, count to 20, then move them to the second.

Tea house. Brew 1 tablespoon of tea (green), cover it to insist. Add hot water to the bath. Pry the heels for about 15 minutes.

Etheric. Dissolve 2 large spoons of salt in the water (sea), add 2 drops of rosemary, eucalyptus and lavender oil.

How to make foot bath?

1. You can steam from quarter to half an hour. Longer legs are best not to keep in the bath - the skin will dry up, and on the heels there will be wrinkles.

2. Do not add more ingredients than indicated in the recipe. Even the banal salt can harm in an immoderate amount.

3. Directly prepare a soft towel. After any of the above procedure, you need to wipe the skin dry. Even if you smear wet heels with the best cream, it will not absorb, that is, it will not bring the desired benefit. In addition, on wet skin fungi or bacteria quickly spread.

Contraindications

- Women in the situation,

- suffering from problems with blood vessels, thrombosis,

- if you have a burn, a scratch, a wound on your leg, or you have suffered a frostbite,

- with diabetes mellitus,

- with increased body temperature,

- in the presence of psoriasis, dermatitis,

- hypertensive patients (with exceptions in the form of trays designed specifically to reduce pressure).








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