How to make foot baths with soda?

Beautiful appearance is not only silky hair, healthy teeth, smooth skin and a graceful gait. It is also well-groomed legs. It often seems that they are not visible to anyone except ourselves, but this is not so. And even if you can skillfully hide them from prying eyes, cracked skin, as well as an eternal feeling of tiredness in the limbs indicate unhealthiness and do not add joy. You can give your feet a more well-groomed and healthy look with the help of soda baths.

Baking soda can be found in a cabinet in any kitchen, and this substance available to any housewife can become a reliable assistant in solving many cosmetic problems. It has a lot of positive properties:

• has an antiseptic effect on the skin;
• disinfects it;
• has an antifungal effect;
• cleanses well;
• relieves inflammation;
• heals and softens the skin.

The unsightly appearance of the feet is a common problem. Given that when walking the skin of the legs experiences constant pressure and friction, this is not surprising. Women pay special attention to the appearance of their legs - not one of them is pleased with the loss of elasticity of the skin, its thickening and cracking.

The unsightly condition of the legs is often the result of wearing unsuitable shoes (boots, boots, and other shoes) or socks made of synthetic fabrics. The reason sometimes lies in poor nutrition, lack of vitamins A and E, iron, as well as various serious diseases. At the same time, the list of diseases and cosmetic problems that get rid of foot baths with soda is extensive.

The benefits of such procedures are noticeable with severe limb fatigue, which is especially important when the body is prone to developing varicose veins.Thanks to the softening properties of soda using trays, you can get rid of skin seals on the protruding parts of the feet.

This is an excellent tool in the fight against lesions of the extremities with the fungus. And even with an ailment such as gout, procedures using soda help fight. Such measures relieve pain, swelling, normalize metabolic processes in the body, thereby helping to overcome the disease.

For all the benefits of soda to the body, there are a number of restrictions on its use:

• hypertension;
• allergy to soda;
• malignant neoplasms;
• diabetes;
• infectious and inflammatory diseases in the acute stage;
• varicose veins;
• pregnancy.

Soda bath recipes are diverse, but getting started with them, some conditions must be kept in mind:

• it is impossible to take baths with baking soda for more than twenty minutes, since this can lead to an undesirable effect - instead of softening the skin, a person will get its excessive dryness;
• legs should be in the water tank ankle-deep;
• warm water is used for the procedures, and as it cools down, boiling water needs to be added to the basin, so a hot kettle should be ready;
• after the exposure to soda is stopped, the feet must be properly cleaned to remove all residual dead skin and dirt;
• at the end of the procedures, you need to hold the legs for several seconds in cool water, wipe with a towel or allow to dry naturally;
• after the bath, rub the cream into the skin and put on cotton socks;
• To give your feet relaxation, baths are better to use before bedtime.

Salt has the ability to draw excess fluid from the body, relieving it of edema. It improves blood circulation. Thanks to it, the body is cleansed and skin color improves. Substances in salt help to improve the condition of nails.

Laundry soap in the form of shavings is added to the bathtub with soda (or soda-saline solution) because it helps soften thickened skin, prevents the appearance and development of fungus.

Instead of water for a soda bath, you can take decoctions of various herbs, for example, chamomile or celandine, as well as many others. Different medicinal plants have their own beneficial qualities and have a healing effect on the legs.

Essential oils can be added to soda solutions for fungal problems. To do this, it is enough to drop a few drops of eucalyptus oil, tea tree, cypress or juniper into the water.

Iodine, which is included in soda water, also eliminates the fungus.

Hydrogen peroxide enhances the resistance of the bath to damage to the feet, as well as corns and calluses, fungus, bad smell and excessive sweating.

Vinegar, used as an additional component of soda solution, also eliminates too much perspiration.

The advantage of all these tools is that they are always available and they can easily be taken into service for organizing cosmetic procedures at home.

• To qualitatively clean the feet, add a couple of tablespoons of soda and salt to the water (two liters). Water should not be too hot. Two weeks you need to arrange procedures with baths once a day, and after that - only twice a week.
• Before a pedicure, it’s a good idea to organize a soap-soda bath. Soda (two tablespoons) and a drop of creamy soap (or a teaspoon of ordinary, grated in the form of shavings) are added to water (two liters). Having completed the procedure, it remains to dry the feet with a towel, and rub the coarsened skin with a pumice stone.The bath will soften the nails and skin, making it easier to do a pedicure.
• To make the skin of the feet softer, just mix soda (one teaspoon), ammonia (the same amount) and cream soap. Stir it all in the water and hold it in your legs for fifteen minutes. This will free the feet from corns and rough skin with the help of improvised means.
• To rid the skin of the legs from damage, in a glass of boiling water you need to brew calendula or chamomile flowers (1 tablespoon) and hold for several minutes in a water bath. In warm soda water, add the ready-made broth and hold the legs in this composition for about twenty minutes, waiting for the water to cool. This procedure will eliminate scratches, cracks and other skin lesions.

• Eliminate leg fatigue is able to soda solution with vanilla aromatic oil. Two tablespoons of soda and five drops of oil are taken for five liters of water. This composition helps with the first signs of varicose veins.
• To improve the condition of the toenails, take the juice of one lemon and vinegar (teaspoon). They are dissolved in a liter of water and kept in it for up to twenty minutes. Thanks to this, the nails should become whiter.
• You can strengthen your nails by holding your feet in water (one and a half liters) with soda and salt added (in a tablespoon), as well as lemon juice (half a teaspoon).
• To create a moisturizing effect, high-fat milk (1 liter) and soda (1 teaspoon) are mixed. Thanks to the effects of this composition, the skin becomes softer, the risk of fungus is reduced.
• To heal cracks in the heels, you need to add hydrogen peroxide (two tablespoons) to a warm soda solution. You need to hold your feet in a basin with such a liquid for ten to fifteen minutes, and then brush your feet with a stiff brush.

• If the skin has suffered severe damage or is covered by a fungus, two tablespoons of soda and iodine should be diluted in two liters of water, and then the feet should be kept in this composition.
• A bath with white clay will help get rid of dry skin and brittle nails. Soda will soften the skin, and clay will exfoliate dead cells. Thanks to the use of this composition, the appearance of the fungus can be prevented. You will need to take four tablespoons of clay and two - soda per couple of liters of water.
• Baths solve the problem of ingrown toenails. Feet should be steamed in a liquid with soda, cut the ingrown nail and treat it with iodine or ointment with the appropriate healing properties.
• To make a bath against fungal infections, pour three tablespoons of soda and four salt into hot water (three liters). After dissolving the powders, lower the legs into the water, periodically pouring boiling water into it. When the legs are steamed, they can remove rough skin, cut off a damaged nail and treat with a cream against fungus.

Use baths for the feet of mostly women. A variety of recipes associated with a cosmetic or therapeutic effect, cause mostly positive feedback. Those who engage in such procedures on a regular basis note that the effect of them becomes most visible when they are repeated periodically. If you arrange baths at least once a week, it will be obvious.

Many note the effectiveness of such baths against fungus. Often, ordinary soda, water and some other available ingredients are much more effective than expensive pharmacy drugs.

Moreover, as noted by ladies experienced in cosmetic procedures, in order to take measures to improve the condition of the skin on the feet, no special conditions are required. You can do this in the bathroom or even sit in a chair, for example, in front of the TV, putting a basin with the necessary solution under your feet. It’s enough to have a towel on hand at this time so that you can wipe your feet after completing the job.

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