Foot baths are always very useful and they can solve many problems. In our article we will talk about the most popular recipes.
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Every woman knows that for beauty, it is necessary to take care of herself. Undoubtedly, it is very important that each part of the body is very beautiful, including the legs. They also need special care. Of course, muscles can be pumped up thanks to training, you can give a beautiful look at home. The most popular procedure of all for this is baths in which a variety of components are added that can solve different problems.
What are the good baths good for?
The procedure for taking a bath is very simple. You need to make a solution and place your legs in it for a while. If you do this regularly, then the result will appear quickly. Baths are considered quite effective and allow you to solve such problems as:
- Remove the fatigue of the legs
- Eliminate the unpleasant odor if the legs sweat hard
- Prepare your legs for a pedicure
- For hardening
- In the occurrence of fungal diseases
- For the prevention of vascular diseases and joints
To get the best effect, it is better to treat the legs with a nutrient cream after the procedure. It will penetrate open pores, and the effect will turn out to be amazing. After all the procedures, the legs should give a rest for a while.
How and when to make foot baths at home?
To make a foot bath is always pleasant, and its effectiveness will help get rid of different ailments or simply improve the appearance. Positive results are quite possible, but subject to some rules:
- Carry out procedures before bedtime so that the legs have time for relaxation and they can relax
- Immediately after cooking, use the solution, do not wait until the water cools down. This will remove all the rough skin
- In the manufacture of the solution for use, follow the instructions and do not break the dosage. If they are not observed, then problems may arise
- The bath itself is spent for 20-30 minutes and the same amount of time must be lie down. So the effect will turn out to be the best
- After the bath, you can make a peeling with a pumice or scrub
- Wipe your feet well and apply cream on them
- It’s still good if you wear socks and hide your legs under the covers
Baths are carried out at least three times a week. If you use aggressive substances, it will be enough once. The full course is 10-15 procedures.
Baths for the legs, feet at home with salt, soda, vinegar, peroxide: recipes
We figured out the main moments of the baths, and now let's talk about what they can be prepared from.
Baths with sea, salt
If you constantly swell, your legs get tired or tense, then such a bath will definitely suit you. In addition, it allows you to get rid of the fungus. The greatest efficiency from this composition is observed in spring and autumn, because it allows you to protect against colds.
Remember that salt has contraindications. If you have cracks or scratches, it is better to postpone the procedure until they are healing.
- Salt solution
So, for cooking, heat a liter of water and add a large spoonful of sea salt there. Keep in the basin of the legs for about 20 minutes. After cooling, add a little more hot solution. The procedure is carried out 2-3 times a week.
- Salt with needles
You can also add a drop of coniferous ether to such a solution, but not in water, but to the salt itself before adding. The result will be very pleased - swelling will be left, symptoms of colds will be facilitated if any, and blood circulation will improve.
- Tea tree oil
We prepare a saline solution as in the previous version and add only one drop of tea tree oil. Such a tool will help cure the fungus, improve blood circulation and just get rid of fatigue.
- Salt bath with herbs
If you make a salt solution with a decoction of herbs, you get a moisturizing, softening and relaxing agent. Ideal for such a procedure - chamomile, linden, calendula, birch, mint, nettles and others. Taking the bath costs 20 minutes.
- Bath with salt and iodine
Dissolve 5 g of any salt in a liter of water and pour 5 ml of iodine. Lower your legs into the water for 15 minutes. After that, rinse them well in clean water and wipe them with a towel. With such a solution, you will get rid of sweating, establish blood circulation, and also swelling.
- Salt with ethers
One of the most popular broadcasts today is lavender. On a liter of solution, it is enough only one drop. It is better to make such a bath in the evenings.
- Salt with ammonia
If you have coarse growths or hard skin on the feet, then add three tablespoons of ammonia to the salt solution.
Baths with soda
Soda allows you to make softer coarse and even keratinized skin. Moreover, it allows you to eliminate the bacteria and the smell of sweat, and reduces the sweating level. If there are old dirt on the legs, then it can be removed with soda.
- With salt
To prepare the bath, add two tablespoons of salt and one soda to a liter of water. By the way, some add laundry soap instead of soda.
- With soap
This recipe is very simple and requires use a couple of times a week. It helps effectively fight corns, corns and so on.
To do this, grate the soap on a grater and a tablespoon of such chips will be enough for a liter of water. Add 2-3 teaspoons of soda there. In such a solution, you should not hold your legs for more than half an hour, but during this time it is necessary to add hot water. Mainty areas are easily cleaned with pumice. At the end of the legs, you need to rinse well and apply a cream on them.
- With white clay
Another excellent tool for removing rough skin. Add a couple of spoons of white clay, the same amount of liquid soap and a spoonful of ammonia to a liter of water. The procedure spend 20 minutes.
- With herbs
If your legs are constantly getting tired and you are tormented by edema, then you should make a bath with herbs for them. You can use chamomile, calendula, linden, sage or St. John's wort. Moreover, herbs allow wounds and cracks to heal faster. A spoonful of honey and a spoonful of soda is added to one liter of the decoction.
Baths with hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is a well -known tool that allows you to eliminate the fungus and an unpleasant odor. It helps to remove and ripe skin. Just remember that you will return the smoothness of the heels, provided that they are not much infected. Moreover, do not make mistakes with the dosage, otherwise you can harm the skin.
As a rule, 4 tablespoons of peroxide are dissolved for cooking in 1.5 liters of water. Keep your feet in the solution for no more than five minutes and it will be possible to treat the skin with a pumice. For safety for the first time, hold your legs for a couple of minutes. You can repeat twice a week, but no more.
Paraffin baths for the legs
Paraffin always has a beneficial effect on the skin. It not only relieves fatigue, but also makes the skin softer and the nails are stronger. With the help of a properly prepared bath, the skin and legs warm up, and this allows you to get rid of joint pain. It is not necessary to do such a procedure in the cabin, you can spend it on your own at home. To do this, you need a cosmetic paraffin.
- First you need to melt it and make it warm. This is done in a water bath
- While the paraffin is in a “leaking” state, prepare the heels with a scrub or lotion processing
- Place your legs in paraffin, read to 10 and take them out. So repeat 5 times
- As a result, the legs will be covered with paraffin
- Now wrap them in cellophane, and put on top the warmest socks on top
- So keep your legs from 30 minutes or more
- After removal of paraffin, spread your legs with cream
The procedure can be carried out no more than twice a week.
Foot baths with vinegar
This kitchen liquid allows you to remove corns, soften the skin on the heels, as well as remove the fungus and smell of sweat. Standard recipe - add 2 tablespoons of vinegar to two liters of warm water. Legs are not recommended to keep for more than 15 minutes. To complete, you need to process all the problem areas with a pumice. Next, dip the legs for 15 seconds in cool water, and half an hour after the procedure apply a wet cream.
As you know, vinegar is a rather caustic substance, in fact, it is acid, and therefore if there is even the smallest crack on the leg, it is better to abandon the procedure.
Foot baths from sweat and smell
- Manganese
There is no particular restriction on the addition of this tool, but just see that the water is pink. If it is raspberry, then you can burn the skin. Repeat the bath every two days for 14 days.
- Oak bark
Take a large spoonful of bark and pour it with boiling water. Half a liter will be enough. Cover with a lid and wait until the mixture cools down. After that, add another 300 ml of hot water so that the liquid is warm in the pelvis and it is enough for warming up. Lower your legs there and wait until the solution has cooled.
- Essential oil
Eucalyptus and citrus fruits are ideal for baths. With their help, an unpleasant odor is eliminated, the skin comes in tone, and sweating is normalized. Add no more than four drops of any oil to the basin with water and grab your legs in it for 20 minutes. To end, wipe the skin with boric acid.
Foot baths from corns and cracks
- Oatmeal
Pour boiling water 250 ml of Hercules cereal and leave them for 20 minutes. After that, stir them in a basin with hot water. Such a bath allows you to soften the skin on the legs and make it more smooth.
- White clay
Mix a couple of spoons of white clay and water, and then add them to a liter of water. The procedure spend 20 minutes, and then apply the cream to your feet,
- Starch
Add a tablespoon of starch per liter of water. The procedure is carried out for 20 minutes and preferably before bedtime.
Essential oil and milk
In a heated glass of milk, dissolve up to six drops of lemon essential oil, pine or cypress. After that, add the solution to the basin and steam your legs for half an hour. This procedure will allow you to cure cracks. By the way, you can use one milk.
- Honey
Add 1.5-2 tablespoons of honey to a liter of water and place your legs there for 20 minutes. Among all the described procedures - this one is the most useful.
- With a decoction of potatoes
Bell the potatoes and let it cool a little. After that, pour it into a basin and steam your legs for half an hour. At the end, rinse them and wipe them with a castor.
- With acidic cabbage
This bath is made not from cabbage itself, but from its juice. For the procedure, 200 ml per liter of water will be enough.
- Boric acid
Take 50 g of boric acid and dissolve it in a glass of water. You need to do the procedure in the evening and it will take only 15 minutes. After completing, we wipe the legs, smear them with petroleum jelly. Additionally, put on socks at least simple. In the morning, the feet should be rinsed again. The course consists of five procedures.
- Bath with oils
For cooking, you can use olive, jojoba, apricot or grape seed oil. They differ in that they give good nutrition of the skin and make it softer. The most popular recipe for all is the addition of 5 ml of orange oil to a liter of water and one spoon of any other oil.
- Ammonia
Add three large spoons of ammonia and salt. The procedure is carried out once every seven days. Gradually, the heels will soften. You can also use chips from soap and soda in the same amount instead of salt, but only two are used instead of a liter of water. Grack your legs for 40 minutes.
Toning foot baths
- Mustard bath
An ideal means to combat fatigue. It allows you to disinfect the skin and improve blood circulation. However, there is a disadvantage - sweating is enhanced. Even if you have it already strong, then it makes no sense to postpone the procedure, because it allows you to remove unpleasant odors and normalize sweat. It is easy to cook the bath - a spoonful of dry mustard dissolves in a liter of water. It is enough to warm your legs for about 15 minutes.
- Contrast
You will need two water pelvis of various heating at -15 and +40 degrees. First, place our legs in a basin with cold water and considering up to 20 sharply transfer them to another.
- Tea
Brew green tea and let him brew under the lid. To get enough for the bath, share some water. Keep the legs in the solution also for 15 minutes.
- Etheric
Add two tablespoons of salt to the water, and also drop a couple of drops of oil there. Lavender, eucalyptus and rosemary are suitable.
As you can see, there are a lot of recipes for foot baths. You just have to choose the most suitable for yourself and try their action.
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