Relaxing Foot Soak

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What is a Foot Soak?

Immersing your feet in warm water is an age-old remedy to ease your feet’s aches and pains. This is the simplest form of a foot soak or a foot bath.

Health Benefits of a Relaxing Foot Soak

👍 Relieves Pain

Immersing yourself in a warm water bath or your feet in a warm foot bath is the best antidote to ease away tiredness. A post published by the Arthritis Foundation states that warm water therapy helps relieve all kinds of musculoskeletal pain. (source: https://www.arthritis.org/living-with-arthritis/pain-management/tips/warm-water-therapy.php)

👍 A Relaxing Foot Soak Helps Induce Sleep

A foot soak can help ensure a good night’s sleep, especially in elderly people. The warm water foot soak helps reduce the heart rate and stress levels in the body, which in turn improve the quality of sleep.

👍 Softens Feet

A report on foot care by The British Homeopathic Association suggests that people with cracked heels can soak their feet in warm salt water for ten minutes to bring down the inflammation in the feet. Wipe the feet dry and apply a cream or ointment on cracked heels.

About the Ingredients:

✿ Absorbed through the skin, the magnesium in Epsom salt promotes relaxation while relieving tension, pain, and inflammation.

✿ Black sea salt contains sulfur. Sulfur in salt water can be used to ease inflammation and infection. Black sea salt has a little bit of iron that can help soften the skin. Also, potassium is vital for the proper functioning of the heart, muscles and the nerves. Hawaiian Black sea salt contains the minerals needed to give your body …. CALM.

✿ Pink Himalayan salt becomes an ionic solution when dissolved in water. It helps to pull the toxins and heavy metals out of skin tissues.

✿ Used medicinally, menthol crystals’ cooling sensation makes them ideal for addressing aches, pain, cramps, sprains, and irritation. They help relax muscles while easing tension headaches, nausea, dizziness, and they can be used as decongestant agents for their ability to promote the feeling of airways opening up. It is known to leave skin feeling cleansed, moisturized, and radiant. Additionally, its astringent property is known to tighten skin, leaving it looking firmer and smoother. Menthol Crystals exhibit effective antispasmodic properties that help relax muscles.

NOTE: This recipe is strictly for the feet, as Menthol Crystals are too concentrated to submerge the entire body in a bath soak without causing sensitive areas to experience irritation.

👍 Basic supplies for a relaxing soak…

Tub. For each soak, you’ll want a bathtub, a large, shallow washbasin, or foot tub.
Towel. Have a towel, bath mat, or drying cloth nearby, too.
Time. Soak for 15 to 60 minutes.
Warm water. Have some additional hot water available to freshen up the water if you’re not using a bathtub.
Cool water. Finish each foot soak with a cool water rinse.

TO USE: Pour approximately ¼-½ cup into foot bath or foot massager with warm water. Soak feet as desired.