- Wonderful Foaming Honey Foot
Bath at Home
- By Nathan Kotny
I imagine you can tell me at
length about how tired your feet and legs get after your busy
day. When’s the last time you got to treat yourself to a
day at the spa? Even if you had the time, it’s not too often
you can afford the $100 cost of a simple, relaxing, foot soak.
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Doesn’t that sound nice?
A relaxing foot soak at a spa. So I put together this simple
recipe so you can have that soothing soak with ingredients you
probably already have at home, and can whip up immediately.
Step 1. Create this wonderful
foaming honey foot bath at home.
Here’s what you need:
1 tablespoon Honey
1 tablespoon Liquid Soap (I used dish soap)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 tablespoons Sweet Almond Oil
The almond oil was
the only things that sounded like it was tough to find, but my
wife and I found it at the chain drugstore at the corner of our
street. Just take a look in the beauty/cosmetic aisle. |
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Mix all these ingredients
together in a bowl and its ready for your foot bath. Note: If
you want to make this stuff in a large quantity to save for later,
you can bump up all the ingredients to something like this:
½ cup Honey
½ cup Liquid Soap (I used dish soap)
1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
1 cup Sweet Almond Oil
Now you can save
this in a bottle and save some time for next time.
Step 2. Find
yourself a foot bath
These days you can
get a fancy, space-age, foot bath for about $20. They promise
they do all sorts of things like vibration, bubbles, and heat.
I haven’t tried one myself, but for $20 that probably isn’t
a bad experiment.
My wife however
didn’t need one as she had me volunteer to provide all the
scrubbing and massaging for her.
Wait! Hon, I don’t
recall you ever offering me a foot bath?
So anything around
the house that can submerse your feet just above the ankle is
going to work here. We ended up using a disposable aluminum roasting
pan.
Yes it was brand
new and didn’t have roasted meat in it!
Step 3. Fill
up your foot bath
Put your mixed up
concoction from Step 1 into your foot bath and fill with warm
water.
Please be real careful
with the water temperature. Do this by triple checking the temperature
of the water with your hands when it’s done. And if you
are doing this for a spouse make sure you understand their taste
in temperature.
I speak from experience
here. I got a little lazy, and didn’t judge the hotness
of the water. Although my wife was a trooper and tried to go
along anyways. I could tell from her grimace and refusal to dip
more than like a toe into the water, that I made it too hot.
Step 4. Soak
for 10 minutes
After I got the
temperature of the water right, we soaked her feet for 10 minutes.
There is all sorts of good stuff going on now during this soak.
The soap is obviously
cleaning all sorts of impurities from your feet. I can’t
even explain how many things the honey is doing. Here is a short
list:
1) Apparently honey
forms hydrogen peroxide which is a great anti bacterial agent.
So there is goes cleansing your feet some more.
2) Honey contains
antioxidants. Health news constantly revolves around us getting
more antioxidants. So without me getting all biologist on us,
I’ll just confirm that getting more antioxidants on our
skin and in our diet is really super great!
3) Honey is also
a terrific humectant. All that means is it makes a great moisturizer.
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Just knowing about
this foot bath, you can get started on your at-home foot spa.
So take 15 minutes tonight and pamper yourself. Those feet are
going to feel so soft, especially in a comfy pair of flip flops. |
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