Best home foot spa treatment in 6 easy steps
A foot spa is what we want after a long brisk walk and damage from wear & tear. Of course, we address a lot of foot cramps day in and day out. Some of the major foot problems might be like using worn out shoes, tightly fitted shoes, wearing heels, poor blood circulation, heavy walks and many more. It’s certainly our job to eradicate such cramps. To prevent our selves from those cramps we need to practise feet massaging and proper foot hygiene. A home foot spa can do all these things with top-notch quality.
Foot spa is what we need on a weekly basis because it improves blood circulation, reduces itchy sensations, redness, peeling and blisters caused by wearing shoes constantly or due to brisk walks.
But how often can we spare time for heading to a spa? And How much money should we spend on the foot spa? Certainly, we don’t want to break the banks. Nevertheless, we should not avoid proper foot hygiene and foot massage. So, a home foot spa plays an ideal role in doing the job of proper foot hygiene.
What is a home foot spa?
A home foot spa is unwinding yourself by dipping your feet in a hot water tub and foot spa will do the work. You just need to indulge with a foot spa in order to get relaxation and relief from all that stress on your foot. A home foot spa involves Foot soak, Foot mask, Foot scrubbing and a therapeutic pedicure treatment. The ingredients used in a home foot spa vary from those used in a normal pedicure treatment. A home foot spa is trying out some exotic ingredients like essential oils and therapeutic salts.
What is the best home foot spa treatment?
A home foot spa involves 6 essential therapeutic steps,
- Foot Soak
- Basic Pedicure treatment like applying oil to cuticles, pushing back cuticles, trimming and filing nails
- Foot Scrubbing
- Foot Mask
- Massaging the foot with moisturizers
- The final touch
These six steps constitute the most effective and best home foot spa. Basically, you need to soak your feet in a solution with exotic ingredients like Essential oils, Lemon or Epsom salt. Detoxify your feet using those ingredients. Then cleanse your feet with the pedicure treatment which is followed by Masking, Scrubbing and Massaging. Lastly, goes the final touch which is the nail painting session.
How effective is home foot spa treatment?
Home foot spa has a large number of benefits as it improves foot hygiene. Some of the key benefits of a home foot spa are, it provides good blood circulation, relieves stress, moisturizes the feet, reduces health issues, gives soft feet, helps in cleansing and detoxification of foot. [1]
There are also some reflexology techniques to massage the feet. Reflexology techniques are merely the pressure points on your feet. Each pressure point is interlinked to some health issues. So, by massaging those pressure points you’ll not just gain relaxation but also you will no more be in vain. [2]
Things required for a Home Foot Spa
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Basic pedicure kit
The things that are incorporated in the basic pedicure kit are cotton swabs, nail polish remover, nail clippers, nail filers, buffer, cuticle pusher, cuticle clippers, pumice stone, nail scrubber and some of your favourite oils to soften the cuticles.
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Equipment for home foot spa treatment
You’ll need a hot water tub with lukewarm water to soak in your feet. A foot wash like shampoo that cleanses your feet. A clean towel to pat dry your feet after cleansing. Few fragranced or sweet-smelling candles so that you can dwell in fairyland. Also, you can equip a foot spa massager which cleanses and provides massage to your feet.
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What to put in a foot spa water(Exotic ingredients for a foot soak, foot scrub and foot mask)
Basically, a home foot spa is using ingredients that are unique and exotic. For this foot spa, you’ll need
- Any Essential oils
- Epsom salt
- Rose petals
- Milk
- Lemon
- Sugar
- Baking soda
- Olive oil
- Strawberries
- Tea tree oil
- Yoghurt
- Honey
- Neem leaves/Vitamin e capsules
- Moisturizers
Six easy steps to ace the best home foot spa
These 6 steps will surely take you into a world of fantasy. Follow this home foot spa treatment every week as your foot deserves all that pampering and soothing.
1. Soaking Your Feet
Time to unwind and relax when the foot spa does its job. You can get to read a book, watch your favourite show on Netflix, wear a face mask or you can just doze off for a while.
A home foot spa includes essential oils, salts and other tropical ingredients. That’s because essential oils have anti-inflammatory properties wherein it can help in soothing, rejuvenating, revitalizing and improve the blood circulation of your feet. The best essential oils to incorporate into your home foot spa are eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, lemon and jasmine oils. [3] [4] [5] Whereas, salts or other tropical ingredients will help with detoxification and cleansing of your foot. [6]
- Take a round tub with some lukewarm water
- Put in some pebbles which make you reminisce about those luxurious spa treatments.
- Add drops of your favourite essential oils. It may be Lemon, peppermint, eucalyptus, jasmine or lavender. All these oils improve blood circulation, leaves a soothing effect and revitalize your feet.
- If you can’t afford on essential oils, you can go with some salts like table salt or Epsom
- You can also add a cup of milk which doubles the soothing effect
- Finally, add a foot wash of your choice and few chunks of lemon. Mix all those ingredients thoroughly.
- You can also use a foot spa massager. You just need to add all these ingredients into a foot spa massager and then turn on. As soon as you turn on the foot spa, you will observe a stream of water flowing out. Then you can be ready to place your feet.
- Now, wash your feet and dip it in the magical water. Stay for about 15-20 minutes.
- After the session is over, take off your feet and pat dry using a towel
2. Basic Pedicure Treatment
After soaking in for 20 minutes, your feet will become moist, supple and soft because of all those amazing ingredients. It would be the best time to prep your nails, i.e., to file, buff, trim or cutting cuticles. This step will give the nicest appearance to your feet.
- Start of the session by removing nail polish with a cotton swab
- Then trim your nails to a perfect shape with a nail clipper and then goes filing and buffing of the nails
- Apply your favourite oil like coconut, olive or almond oil or cuticle cream to the cuticle areas and massage
- Using a cuticle clipper, gently cut your cuticles. Be very cautious while cutting cuticles as it may hurt if you cut over the wrong areas.
- With a cuticle pusher, push back the cuticles. Again, do this very gently without putting pressure on cuticles.
- Scrub the soles of feet, between the fingers, ankles and heels with the leftover oils and lemons in the water. You can also use a pumice stone. This will remove cracks and dead skin.
3. Exfoliating the dead skin
Exfoliation is an essential step in a foot spa, pedicure and manicure at home. Exfoliation is basically the removal of dead skin cells from the body. It promotes blood circulation and helps in fighting with several skin problems like blemishes, breakouts, dark spots, inflammation, cracks, swollen foot, pigmentation, dry skin, sun tanning and many more. [7] [8]
It thereby gives a soft, supple, radiant, glowing and moisturized skin which frees from all skin issues. You should incorporate scrubbing all your body parts at least twice a week to attain all the benefits of scrubbing/exfoliation.
- Again dip your feet into the water containing oils and other ingredients. Let your feet soak in all those ingredients.
- Start exfoliating your heels, soles, ankles, and middle of the fingers with a foot scrub or a pumice stone. This will remove the oils, other ingredients and also the leftover dirt particles.
- Now, prepare a homemade foot scrub. The ingredients to be included in this foot scrub are Sugar, Baking soda, Strawberries and Olive oil.
- You will need three strawberries, half cup of sugar, a tablespoon of baking soda, and few drops of olive oil
- Firstly, chop off the strawberries and mash those chunks into a smooth paste. Add half cup sugar, tablespoon baking soda and few drops of olive oil into the paste. Blend all these ingredients.
- Apply the paste onto your legs and massage nicely with a foot scrub.
- Scrub for about 10 minutes till your feet feel clean, clear, pampered and moist
- Wash off the leftovers with fresh warm water and pat dry
4. Mask treatment for your feet
Whether you include foot masks in-home foot spa or normal pedicure treatments, they detoxify your skin by removing all the impurities, dirt and grime. Foot masks leave long-lasting benefits on your skin like preventing wear & tear, locking in the moisture, rejuvenating and maintaining healthy skin.
As the mask dries off, all the ingredients used in foot masks will get absorbed into the skin. Those impressive ingredients you use in foot masks will hydrate your skin, fastly recovers from all the skin damages, makes it smooth and soft. [9]
Also, foot masks come in different variants like gel masks, peel off masks, clay masks and many more.
- This mask uses ingredients like Yogurt, Honey, Tea tree oil, Rose petals (optional), Mint leaves or Vitamin E capsules
- You will need a tablespoon honey, 2 tablespoons of yoghurt, few drops of tea tree oil, few rose petals and either mint leaves or vitamin E capsules
- In a bowl of 2 tablespoon yoghurt add few drops of tea tree oil, 1 Tsp honey, few crushed neem leaves, and rose petals if you desire. Blend all these ingredients thoroughly.
- Tea tree oil and mint leaves will detoxify your skin with their antioxidant properties. Besides, honey and yoghurt will leave a soft and supple foot.
- Apply this paste to your legs and leave it for about 15-20 minutes
- After the mask dries off, massage for 5 minutes and then rinse off
5. Massage with a moisturizer
Massaging your body parts should be done on a regular basis to promote good blood circulation and keep the skin deeply moisturized. Massaging your feet has got numerous benefits from treating skin issues to health problems. You can overcome stress, anxiety, insomnia, poor blood circulation, recovery from injuries, and swelling of legs. It improves overall nail and skin health. [10]
There are also some reflexology techniques which are more effective than a normal massage. Reflexology techniques deal with the pressure points located in and around your feet. You need to just concentrate on the pressure points and apply much force on them. This technique will also definitely yield better and effective results.
- After the four sessions – soaking, trimming, scrubbing and masking your feet will almost feel moisturized, nourished and clean.
- This session of massaging your feet with oils or creams will hydrate, rejuvenate and moisturize your skin to a hundredfold.
- Take some of the best oils like Coconut, Olive, Almond oils or other essential oils.
- Sitting comfortably in some uber chairs, bend one of your legs and rest the other foot on the opposite thigh
- Now start massaging ankles, soles, sides of feet, middle of the fingers and nails with therapeutic oils
- Do upward strokes, downward strokes, and some reflexology techniques. [2] Also, apply pressure with thumbs and fist especially on the pressure points.
- Repeat the same to other foot.
6. The final touch!
Now, as you’re done with prepping nails, moisturizing, rejuvenating, and nourishing your feet, you’ve provided the required pampering to your feet. By now, your feet feel so refreshed and moisturized.
What’s late? Probably this is the time to play with different colours, nail arts, french manicures and what not.
Lastly, don’t forget to wear socks after the pampering and painting. You need to protect your feet from dirt, grime and dust particles after the foot spa is done.
A home foot spa is essential to either maintain or pamper the feet. So, indulge in a nice home foot spa instead hitting to a salon.
Also, let us know your experience with this home foot spa in the comment section.
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Divya paladugu, thanks a lot for the post.Really thank you! Much obliged.
Ohh! You’re welcome. Pleasure is mine!