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Baking Soda and Citrus Soak
Baking soda has too many uses to list here, but when it comes to foot odour, it can be a true miracle worker. It naturally helps control odour, kill bacteria/fungus, and softens your feet to boot.
Lemon is an astringent, which will help with excessive sweating causing food odour, plus it has a wonderful fresh scent.
You will need.
¼ cup of baking soda
eight cups of water
Juice of one lemon
Something to soak your feet in
Directions
Place ¼ cup of baking soda in your foot basin, and then cover with approximately 8 cups of toasty (but not hot) warm water. Squeeze in the juice of one lemon, sink your feet in, and give it a little swish. Soak for 15-20 minutes or so, and then dry completely.
Very vinegar soak
Apple cider vinegar might not seem like the first thing you want to submerge your stinky feet in, but it actually does a nice job at getting rid of odour. It creates an acidic environment that bacteria have a hard time thriving in, reducing the count and subsequently the smell.
You will need…
1/2 cup of Apple Cider Vinegar
five to eight cups of warm water
Something to soak your tootsies in
Directions
Fill a foot basin with five to eight-8 cups of warm water and add ½ cup of white distilled or apple cider vinegar to it. Submerge your feet, swish the mixture around, and soak for 15 minutes twice a day.
Dry completely when you’re finished-you can rinse them in cold water afterwards if you want.
Black tea foot soak
Common folklore often tells of soaking feet in black tea to remove foot odour-thought to be effective because of the high levels of tannins, or tannic acid, in the tea.
The acid would create an unfriendly environment for bacteria, while it also possibly acted as an astringent (contracts body tissues therefore sweat glands.) It’s hard to find scientific evidence of this, but it might be worth a try as many people swear by it!
You will need…
five bags of black tea
four cups of hot water
Something to soak your feet in
Directions
Pour four cups of very hot or boiling water into your foot basin, and add five bags of black tea. Allow them to steep for 10 minutes, and then soak your feet for 20.
Do this once a day, drying your feet thoroughly afterwards.
Smelly feet are no fun for anyone (even our shoes suffer), but with a little bit of dedication, knowledge, and some awesome foot soaks on your side, you can triumph over this unpleasant condition.
Tips:
Wash your socks often.
Sprinkle your shoes with baking soda, it is not only totally odour absorbing it helps keep feet dry and has kills off bacteria.
Wear open toed shoes when possible.
Avoid synthetic material in socks, which make it harder for feet to breathe.
Fabulous Foot Fact
Out of the two to three million sweat glands on our bodies, ½ million are located on are feet.
Scientists think this is because way back in the day when we walked everywhere, and didn’t yet have shoes, our feet would get hot from walking on ground baked in the sun. The multitude of sweat glands allowed them to cool themselves off more effectively. — Online
