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We are smack bang in the midst of summer time – aka sandal and thong season (for our USA mates thongs = flip flops).

There’s a sure freedom that comes with being barefoot or sporting minimal footwear even when it has its perils.

The dreaded sandal blowout…

Doing the funky hen dance as you tip toe throughout the recent sand making an attempt to forestall 3^rd diploma burns to your tootsies…

Your toes do a good bit of grunt work, and this may go away them dry and cracked. To make the state of affairs much more ominous, they often get forgotten in your each day magnificence routine. So it’s good to indicate them some love once in a while.

An simple (and cheap – woohoo!) technique to give your toes some love is with a easy foot soak.

We’ve acquired 2 recipes for you at present – the primary is NOT pure however we thought we’d point out it anyway, as a result of it helps you perceive what makes a foot soak work wonders.

Miracle Listerine Foot Soak (not pure!)

Doing a fast a google search and you can be bombarded with tales of a magical foot soak utilizing the mouthwash Listerine. It claims to take away all of the cracked dry pores and skin leaving you with tremendous clean toes simply by soaking.

The recipe could be very easy

• 1 cup Listerine
• 1 cup Vinegar
• 1 cup heat water

The Listerine is an excellent antiseptic wash which leaves your toes minty recent as its components like Benzoic acid are nice at killing fungus and different germs, however that’s about all it does on this miracle foot soak. It’s not a pure product, so except you could have a pores and skin situation affecting your toes you may go away the Listerine out of the recipe and the soak will nonetheless have it’s softening impact.

Foot soaking can result in delicate toes with slightly further one thing

Before you get too excited and go and begin soaking your metatarsals, there’s one thing to inform you first. Because we wish to maintain issues actual.

Foot soaking could be very efficient, however we don’t need to get your hopes up an excessive amount of. These soaks will certainly assist your toes, however they gained’t miraculously go away your toes softer than a Unicorn’s fluffy rainbow pillow.

Soaking is barely a part of the journey in direction of delicate toes. Soaking your toes in water that’s barely acidic (e.g. by utilizing vinegar) will assist break down the bonds that maintain collectively the useless pores and skin cells which kind calluses.

The foot soak is the 1^st step. The 2^nd step is an efficient going over with a pumice stone or scrub.

Yes, sadly some elbow grease continues to be required for that desired softness. But it’s not all unhealthy. You could make it a very pleasant expertise (particularly in case you can persuade some else to do the rubbing!)

Some nice facet advantages of an excellent foot soak and rub are that it improves circulation and is deeply stress-free which is ideal after being in your toes all day.

Our Sensational Natural Foot Soak recipe

We had an excellent take into consideration this foot soaking enterprise and got here up with a recipe of our personal that’s even higher than the notorious Miracle Listerine Foot Soak. If you’re like us and like all pure merchandise, then that is one of the best ways to get completely satisfied heels at residence. Hands down.

Here’s our completely pure DIY foot soak that may get your tootsies feeling elegant.

Step 1: Mix:

• 1 Cup Vinegar (brown, white or apple cider)
• 1 Cup Epsom salts
• Just sufficient heat water to cowl your toes
• Option 1 – add 6-10 drops of your favorite important oils
• Option 2 – brew some natural tea within the water. Just be sure it has cooled sufficiently earlier than dipping in your toes. You may even use some herbs from the backyard (we used rosemary).

Step 2: Soak your toes for at the very least 10 minutes

Step 3: Exfoliate. You can both use a pumice stone, sugar scrub or – our favorite – a espresso scrub.

(To make the espresso scrub simply mix 1.5 tablespoon of sugar/espresso grounds with 1 tablespoon of oil (olive, coconut, macadamia, rice bran or TLC Intensive Repair Oil are all nice)

Step 4: Rinse, dry and moisturise. Apply a couple of further drops of physique oil or foot cream. 

Step 5: Put on some socks to seal within the moisture and to forestall slipping over.

Who’s up for a Sunday foot soak?

We’d love to listen to the way you go. If you’re feeling courageous, ship us your pics on Instagram or Facebook and we’ll re-post our favourites Let’s showcase these luscious toes of yours.