Check
Before starting check your feet for the so-called “athlete’s foot”, or tinea pedis, a skin infection caused by fungus.
This needs to be treated because it is infectious, which means that your feet will infect the feet of all who share the same bathroom with you, everywhere you go barefooted. Take your responsibilities. There are natural remedies for it.
Needed:
- Massage oil: 2 soup spoons olive oil, and completed with ten drops of oregano essential oil. It is allowed to use the oregano oil pure on the infected spots on skin or nails. “Athlete’s foot” has to be treated because it is infectious, what means that your feet will infect the feet of all who share the same bathroom with you, everywhere where you go barefooted. Take your responsibilities.
- A not too big plastic tub
- Lukewarm water and 2 soup spoons grated oregano soap or oregano soap residue.
- Eventually, create: 25 millilitres of olive oil, add 4–8 drops of oregano essential oil, stir, and add to the footbath. Note: not to be used for children below 15 years.
- Three clean towels (1. under the tub, 2. next to it for the ready foot to rest on and 3. one to dry)
- Clean pair of cotton socks
- Attention: the shoes you wear are also infected with the fungus. Disinfect the shoes with a disinfecting spray before using these again.
Make everything ready, put everything close to where you are going to sit, and do not walk with your infected feet on the floor. Keep on your socks and shoes till you sit. Time needed for the foot bath: minimal 15 minutes. Then dry your feet carefully eventually with a hairdryer: wet feet create fungus. You can finish the treatment by using the prepared 2 spoons of olive oil with essential oil, and massage the feet with it.
Put on a pair of clean dry cotton socks, and use open shoes in the house. This natural breathing of the skin helps to heal the affected skin. Wash your hands carefully and disinfect the tub. Wash the used towels at 90 degrees in the washing machine and dry them carefully. After a week, the skin must have recovered, healed, or show improvements when repeating this treatment daily. If not, please visit a doctor.
For a normal foot bath and basic foot care are needed…
- A plastic storage box, or small tub as a mini bath.
- Lukewarm water with some drips (per litre) of lavender essential oil, and 2 soup spoons grated lavender soap or lavender soap residue.
- Three clean towels (1. under the tub, 2. next to it for the ready foot to rest on and 3. one to dry)
- Clean dry socks, eventually warmed up.
- A little box of cheap vaselin*, add some drops essential lavender oil and stir, or use your own body oil, see recipe.
- A bottle of essential oil, for instance lavender.
- *callus remover tools, a special strong nail cutter , nail file and nail brush.
*Vaselin is an excellent and cheap product with incredibly good effects on dry skin. The skin of the feet is mostly dry, especially in winter. It also has great effects on callus. Callus can be so strong that one needs a special tool (with a blade, it is utterly sharp, be careful when using it) to take it away. Several special tools, available in a drug store, could be helpful in creating good-looking feet. The use of vaselin is necessary anyway, for after pedicure, and also after any footbath. Use a lot, an overload, because everything will disappear in the skin. Therefore, the best time to use them is just before going to sleep. The next morning all is gone. Use socks to cover the feet. You can mix the vaselin in your hands with some drips of lavender essential oil.
*Callus is easier to remove after a foot bath of at least ten minutes. During the footbath, you can massage your feet with the hands in the water. In fact, it is constant washing. Also, it is possible to massage the feet with each other. Just going over the skin of the entire foot, ankles included. The smell of lavender is beautiful, and at the same time, essential oil works antiseptically.
*The best thing is to wear open sandals at home, with an anatomically shaped footbed. They create warm feet when you suffer from cold feet, strange but true. They prevent sweating. Use woollen socks in winter, in summer cotton socks, and when it is too warm just keep the socks out.
