The best home foot spa is one that is full of all of the things that give you joy in luxury spas. Make yourself feel loved and pampered with this self-care ritual.
What Does Soaking Your Feet In Epsom Salt Do?
Before we get into how you can enhance your foot spa, it’s a good idea to know just what soaking your feet in epsom salt can do. Epsom salt, also known as magnesium sulfate, is made up of magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen.
Soaking your feet in it can leave them feeling softer. Magnesium aids in soothing and relaxing while oxygen invigorates the feet from the inside out. After a long day, an epsom salt soak can help breathe new life back into hardworking feet.
The uses of epsom salt for feet don’t end at soaking. Its coarse texture also makes for a great exfoliation treatment. You can exfoliate your feet around 1 to 3 times per week depending on your own needs, and it can be done in the shower or after your foot soaking session.
To exfoliate using epsom salt, simply wet your feet and take a large pinch of your epsom salt in your palm. Using gentle circular motions, rub all the areas and feel the dead skin shed away to reveal softer, smoother, and refreshed feet.
With dead skin cells scrubbed off, your feet will be better equipped to absorb other products such as lotions, oils, and body butter you may wish to use after your soak and exfoliation.
Create An At-Home Foot Spa Ritual
While soaking your feet, you don’t have to sit around and do nothing (unless you want to). Here are some suggestions to make the most of your soak:
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Catch up on your favorite shows – A good foot soak only lasts about 20 minutes, but that’s 20 minutes you could be spending catching up on a favorite show. Using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or a foot-soaking basin set up in front of the TV, soak your stresses away while you lose yourself in a program you love.
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Read a book – The quiet calm of a foot soak makes it a great time to read a book. If you find yourself too busy and falling behind on your favorite books, scheduling a soak for your feet lets you also schedule a couple of chapters.
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Learn a new language – Language learning apps make knowing a new lingo more fun and accessible than ever before. With your tablet or smartphone in hand, you can tackle a couple of lessons on a language you’ve always wanted to learn during those 20 minutes.
Using your time this way makes you productive. It’s a great way to enrich yourself while also enjoying a bit of well-deserved self-care.
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Meditate – Sometimes, life catches up with you, and you find yourself feeling unbalanced and stressed. A little mindful meditation works wonders to bring you back to the center as you remind yourself of the importance of living in the moment.
A foot soak with all-natural aromatherapy is the perfect environment for embracing the art of meditation. Simply close your eyes and feel your breath, feel the warm movement of the water, breathe in the aroma, and clear your mind of anything that may be bogging it down.
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Do a puzzle – Crossword puzzles, sudoku, word searches, and cryptograms are some of the games that are great for enjoying a little fun and mental enrichment at the same time.
While you’re sitting with your feet soaking in the warm epsom salt water, it’s the perfect time to lose yourself in a stress-relieving puzzle you enjoy.
Epsom Salt With Pure Essential Oils
Pure essential oils can enhance your epsom salt soak experience. You get the soothing benefits of epsom salt on your feet, while you breathe in the authentic aromas of natural plants.
At Better Bath Better Body, we have a range of all-natural foot soak blends infused with 100% pure essential oils. Here are some of our recommendations:
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Detox Foot Soak – Our Detox Foot Soak is a USP Grade epsom salt blend that is made of fractionated MCT coconut oil, vitamin C crystals, vitamin E oil, and a blend of invigorating and soothing essential oils.
The essential oils in this blend include bright and zingy lemon, cool soothing peppermint, grounding frankincense, and relaxing lavender.
Lemon adds to invigoration, peppermint lends a fresh cooling element, frankincense comforts, and lavender relaxes the senses while you soak.
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Circulation Foot Soak – The same base ingredients as the Detox Foot Soak are infused with all-natural essential oils of ginger, cypress, eucalyptus, and lavender for a soak that is comforting throughout your entire self-care experience.
Ginger is warm and comforting, providing a little spice to the blend. Cypress is like a breath of fresh air, giving the same invigoration one would feel stepping into the forest. Eucalyptus provides a clean element to the soak, and lavender adds an herbaceous air of relaxation.
- Lilliuma Relaxify Foot Soak – Made with Mediterranean sea salt, this foot soak is infused with essential oils of lavender, frankincense, and chamomile. Focusing primarily on aromas known for their ability to relax, warm, comfort, and soothe, it’s an ideal blend for a relaxing at-home spa moment.
To sum it up, creating an at-home foot spa ritual with the best home foot spa essentials involves more than just soaking your feet in epsom salt; it's about indulging in self-care and enhancing the experience.
Using all-natural foot soak blends from Better Bath Better Body elevates the experience, leaving your feet softer and rejuvenated and your mind refreshed. Elevate your self-care routine with these simple yet luxurious additions, turning your home into a personal sanctuary of relaxation and well-being.
