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DIY: Homemade Detox Foot Soaks with Listerine and Epsom Salt

Published on February 24th 2015 by Sean Nelson under DIY

After a whole tiresome day, detoxifying your feet is a healthy habit. As you relax your feet in foot soaks, your whole body tends to get rid of its tiredness quickly, since there are active nerve endings under your feet that quickly pick up stimuli. Make your own foot soaks at home with different ingredients for different purposes, and that should not only give you the best results in a very natural way, but would also cut down your expenses. Different foot soak recipes help in different conditions like athlete’s foot, calluses, cracked heels, sore foot, nail fungus, foot blisters etc., as also remove the dead skins from your feet and help in exfoliating, thus acts as foot softeners, making them look gorgeous. A pair of fair, soft, moisturized feet would certainly add to your grace and persona.

Detox Foot Soaks with Listerine and Epsom Salt

10 Best Homemade Foot Soak Recipes:

1. Homemade Foot Soak Recipe with Listerine and Vinegar

Ingredients

Listerine – 1 cup
Apple cider vinegar – 1 cup
Honey – 1-2 tbsp
Warm water

Foot Soak Recipe with Listerine and Vinegar

How to make

Mix all the ingredients in a wide and deep pan so that it holds enough water to soak both your feet. Dip your feet and keep soaked for about 15 to 20 minutes. You can also add another round of warm water after sometime, if you feel the water is losing heat.

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Better if your pan is non-metallic, since metals are good conductors to lose heat easily.

2. Homemade Foot Soak for Dry Feet

Ingredients

A large basin
Epsom salts (hydrated magnesium sulfate) – 1 cup
Baking soda – 1 tbsp
Essential oils
Moisturizer

How to make

Fill the basin two-third with warm water. Make sure the basin is large enough to fit in both your feet comfortably. Add the Epsom salt to this water and mix well until dissolved. Later, also add the baking soda and stir well. Baking soda helps soothing dry skin and foot odor. Pour a few drops of essential oil to this and soak both your feet for around 20 minutes. Smear moisturizer over both your feet and massage lightly.

3. Homemade Foot Soak to detox feet by Epsom Salt

Ingredients

Epsom salt – 1 cup
Sea salt – 1 cup
Baking soda – 2 cups
Essential oil of lemon – a few drops
Warm water
Mason jar – 1 (of a half-gallon capacity)

Homemade Foot Soak to Detox Feet by Epsom Salt

How to make

You can either mix all the above ingredients first (except water) to make a mixture to store it in a mason jar to ease task during future foot-soak sessions, or else, you can also add the ingredients one by one to a basin full of warm water, and then soak your feet. Either ways, the above ingredients act as anti-fungal and anti-bacterial helping to detox your stinky feet and keep them healthy and stench-free.

4. Easy/Instant Foot Soak Recipe

Ingredients

Sea salt/Epsom salt – ½ cup
Hot water – ½ a bucket

How to make

Boil the water and bring it down to a comfortable temperature. Add the salt. Your foot bath is ready to use. Dip both your feet in the warm water, as long as it is warm. Wipe off with a soft towel.

5. Homemade Foot Bath with Salts

Ingredients

Epsom salt – ¼ cup
Kosher salt – ¼ cup
Baking soda – ¼ cup
Cornstarch – ¼ cup
Warm water – ½ a bucket

How to make

To the warm water bucket, add the salts and dissolve thoroughly. Later, add the corn starch and also the baking soda and mix. Soak your feet and soothe them. You will feel completely relaxed in 15 minutes.

6. Natural Foot Soak Recipe with Coffee

Ingredients

Honey – 1 cup
Brewed coffee – 2 cups
Epsom salts – ½ a cup
River or marble rocks – 2 to 3 pieces
Warm water – ½ a bucket

Foot Soak with Coffee

How to make

Boil the water and pour it in a bucket. First, add the epsom salts and dissolve thoroughly. Add the honey, the brewed coffee and mix well. By this time, the hot water would lose its temperature to a comfortable level. Now place the rocks under the water in the bucket, which you can use to rub your feet against to make them clean. This also soothes your under-feet. Now you are all relaxed in a little time!

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You can also try essential oils of your choice like peppermint, lavender, lemon, orange, eucalyptus, mint etc.

Other DIY Foot Soak Recipes

7. Foot Bath Recipe for Smooth Feet

Ingredients

Milk – ¼ cup
Water – ¼ cup
Lemon juice – ¼ cup (freshly squeezed)
Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Cinnamon – A small amount

How to make

First blend all the above ingredients together and apply this mixture on your feet. When done, submerge both your feet in warm water and keep them soaked as long as the water is warm. Repeat the process every night before sleep to get a pair of pretty feet to add to your personality.

8. Foot Soak using Hydrogen Peroxide

Ingredients

Hydrogen Peroxide (3% solution) – 2 cups
Sea salt – 1 cup
Essential oil (fresh smelling ones like peppermint, tea tree, green tea) – 1-2 drops
Warm water – 4 cups

Foot Soak using Hydrogen Peroxide

How to make

In a bucket or tub, put the warm water and add all the ingredients one by one. Soak your feet as long as the water is hot. Hydrogen peroxide is an excellent antiseptic, and would destroy all primary infections and toxins from your feet.

9. Foot Soak with Rice Water and Baking Soda

Ingredients

Rice water – 2-3 cups
Baking soda – 3 tbsp
Tea tree oil – a few drops

Foot Soak with Rice Water and Baking Soda

How to make

Pour the hot rice water in a basin and add baking soda to it. Wait until the temperature comes down to be comfortable for your feet. Add the tree tea oil to this and soak your feet. Rice water enhances blood circulation of the feet, which in turn is good for your whole body. The tea tree oil is a good antifungal and would keep your feet free from any possible fungal infections, which is especially common to those people who wear leather shoes or foot-covered footwear frequently.