Foot baths with soda perfectly soften the skin, reduce excessive sweating of the feet. Helps to remove dead skin and remove calluses. Makes heels smooth and well-groomed.
Characteristics of soda baths
Baking soda (its price is quite democratic and therefore this tool is available to every woman) is an important component for limb care.
Soda-based foot baths prepare the epidermis for further cosmetic manipulations. They help not only to steam the skin, but also to clean the dermis from dirt and dust. They have an irreplaceable therapeutic effect.
Pros of using soda baths
Sooner or later, the skin on your feet gets rough, crusty, or worse, cracks. This situation forces a woman to take a fresh look at foot care and add soda foot baths to her arsenal of procedures. What this procedure does:
- Disinfection of the skin on the feet.
- Eliminate bad smell.
- Healing of pustular inflammation in the area of the feet, under the nails.
- Removal of small cracks.
- Skin softening.
- Relieve tired legs.
For the greatest benefit, you can use not the classic soda bath, but with the addition of soap, ammonia, various oils, etc. The choice depends on the goal to be achieved.
Rules for the use of soda baths
Soda foot baths give a good result, but they should not be abused, otherwise, instead of the long-awaited effect, you can get a violation of the pH level and excessive dryness of the feet. Before proceeding with the procedure, the following nuances should be considered:
- procedure with soda solution should take no more than 20 minutes;
- water should be warm, and as it cools, boiling water is gradually added to it;
- after a soda bath, the feet are thoroughly cleaned with a pumice stone or a foot brush;
- at the end of the session, the limbs are rinsed with cool water;
- feet are kept in ankle-deep water;
- limbs after taking a bath are wiped dry with a towel or dried naturally;
- after the procedure, the legs are smeared with a nourishing cream or ointment, and then put on cotton socks;
- to relieve fatigue in the legs, it is advisable to carry out the procedure before going to bed.
Such baths should be done at least three times a week, and the total number of procedures should be 7-10.
Illnesses that baking soda baths can cure
Foot baths with soda will not remove serious illnesses, but eliminate certain discomfort and preventthe development of certain skin diseases they can.
For a better effect, a classic soda bath is enriched with olive (50 g), apricot (2 g) or other oils, vitamin A is added.
A foot bath with soda heals heel cracks, but for this the procedure is carried out daily. Here it would be useful to lubricate the heels with soap every other day, and after the bath, treat the skin on them with pumice, then apply a nourishing cream.
Heel spurs are steamed in a soda bath. Next, lotions with kombucha are applied to the problem area, they are kept for up to 4 hours. Then the compress is changed and the spur is treated in this way for ten days.
Warm baths help to remove the ingrown nail plate. To do this, the feet are steamed, and then the nails are cut, and the finger is treated with iodine or a special ointment.
Soda also helps fight foot fungus. Here, in addition to soda, soap or s alt is also added to the soda solution.
Also, a soda bath relieves tired legs well. After this event, it is good to treat the skin with a home-made balm. It includes half a glass of olive oil, 1/3 of a glass of castor oil, vitamin A oil in the amount of 10 g. The product is rubbed into the skin, and then put on socks.
Fight against foot fungus
Soda baths in the treatment of fungus are used in combination with other means. They soften and prepare the skin for further activities. The water in the basin should be 35-40°C. For 2.5 liters, they take a tablespoon of soda and the same amount of liquid orgrated laundry soap. Bath time is 20 minutes.
Feet affected by a fungus are not wiped, but wait until the water on them dries itself. After the affected area is treated with an antifungal ointment or varnish, and then clean cotton socks are put on the feet. Foot baths for fungus are done every 4 days for a month.
Bad smell removal
Unpleasant foot odor causes a lot of trouble. This is due to thousands of bacteria, which, as a result of their vital activity, create a similar problem. If the feet by nature have excessive sweating, and besides, they have fungal infections, then the unpleasant smell of the feet will not take long. In this case, regular baking soda will help.
One teaspoon of soda should be taken in a glass of water. Rinse your feet with this mixture. Do not wipe them, but let them dry naturally. Next, dip cotton swabs into the soda solution and put them in the space between the toes and put on socks. Leave it like this overnight. Soak your feet in cool water in the morning. The course of treatment is 7 days.
During these activities, people with particularly sensitive skin may experience severe itching and irritation. If side effects appear, soda procedures are stopped or done less frequently, for example, in a day or two.
Soda foot bath recipes
Fatigue in the legs, bad smell of the limbs and other ailments can be overcome if regularlyuse soda baths. Below are a few recipes that will help improve the condition of the feet.
In order to clean the skin on the legs well and properly disinfect it, you need to take 50 g of sea or table s alt and the same amount of soda. Pour everything with not very hot water. During the first fourteen days, the baths are done every day, and then 2-3 times for 7-10 days.
Before a pedicure, take a teaspoon of soap and two tablespoons of soda to soften the dermis. The ingredients are diluted in two liters of water. Feet after the bath are dried naturally, and rough areas are treated with pumice. This procedure helps to easily remove the cuticle and trim the nails without any problems.
Soothes rough skin on the legs with a solution of liquid soap, baking soda and ammonia, taken in the amount of one teaspoon. All ingredients are added to warm water and mixed thoroughly. The duration of the procedure is 15 minutes.
Heal cracks in the feet will help a decoction of chamomile or calendula, which is obtained from a glass of boiling water and 25 g of grass. Dry flowers are simmered in boiling water over low heat for five minutes, and then added to warm water with soda. Feet in such a bath are kept for no more than 20 minutes.
A warm bath of five liters of water with 50 g of soda and six drops of vanilla, lavender or juniper essential oil will help soothe your feet. If dilated veins, blue vessels or stars are visible on the limbs, then a few drops of mint phytoessence should be added to the water.
You can experiment withbath with soda, add various base oils, such as olive, linseed, walnut. Baking soda (the price of it barely reaches twenty rubles) is available to everyone, and foot care with this component is particularly effective.
Contraindications
It was written above how to make a soda solution, and now let's dwell on cases where this event will do more harm than good. So, such procedures are prohibited for people with diabetes, as well as people with tumors of various types. Do not take foot baths at elevated body temperature and with infectious or colds. The prohibition is cardiovascular and renal diseases, as well as varicose veins. Individual tolerance to baking soda should be considered before using baths.
Such baths should not be too carried away, as baking soda can change the natural pH level of the skin and cause excessive dryness, peeling, itching and cracking of the skin.
How to make your heels smooth at home
In order for the heels to be smooth and the legs to look neat, it is not necessary to go to the salon, because you can transform our limbs without leaving home. For this purpose, you will need any greasy cream and a heel brush, do not confuse it with a pumice stone.
The procedure should not be carried out without first cleansing the heels of rough skin, and it should not be done when the dermis is well steamed, since a he althy one can be removed along with the roughened layer.
So, first you need tolubricate the skin with cream and leave for five minutes. Next, you should slightly wet the brush, but not much, water should not drain from it. The brush is driven over dry heels, and after a few minutes, the dead skin on them will begin to roll into lumps and fall off. If the rolling of lumps on the skin has stopped, then the brush should be slightly wetted again. So do 3-4 approaches. Then the legs must be rinsed and smeared with cream. This procedure will make your heels smooth and your legs well-groomed in a short time.
How to make heels smooth at home with and without soda, we have considered, and now it remains to consolidate all the knowledge gained in practice and get he althy, beautiful and smooth heels.
