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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Sweating combined with an unpleasant odor can be a serious problem, which sometimes even leads to isolation and depression. The causes of sweating are often our bad habits, improper diet, the presence of fungal or endocrine diseases. Far not always it is possible to get rid completely of this problem, therefore many people in search of a decision use alternative means from a sweating of feet - and, often, really find a way out of the developed situation.
A lot of alternative drugs are known, the action of which allows you to eliminate discomfort and forget about it for a few days or more. More often such means are presented vegetative broth, or other accessible preparations of knitting and antimicrobic action.
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Trays from sweating of feet
Baths and baths from sweating of feet are not only useful - it's also a very pleasant procedure. The effect depends on which components are used to add to the water. For example, essential oils - jasmine or rose, eliminate the unpleasant odor, and at the same time relieve fatigue, stress, improve mood.
Citrus oil perfectly tones, rosemary - gives strength, and coniferous oil relaxes and soothes.
A great success is the bath with oils and sea salt. For example, add a few drops of chamomile and lavender oil in salt (3 tablespoons), add warm water (3-5 liters), immerse the feet in water for 25 minutes. After the end of the procedure, the feet are rinsed with running water and wiped dry.
Perfectly recommended itself and the following composition: take a few drops of eucalyptus, lavender and rosemary oil, added together with 1 tbsp. L. Salt and 1 tbsp. L. Soda in 4 liters of water. In such a solution, keep the feet for at least 20 minutes, then rinse the feet with clean water and treat with an antiseptic solution.
In addition, as a solution for the bath can use herbal medicines, as well as strong tea without additives (both black and green).
Oak bark from sweating of the feet
The oak cortex is recognized as an excellent remedy for sweating of feet - this raw material can be bought without any problems in any pharmacy. The easiest way is to prepare on its basis an infusion, for which such components are necessary:
- five full tablespoons of bark;
- up to a liter of water;
- enamelled container.
The bark is covered in a container, poured into water and boiled for half an hour, after which they cover and insist another couple of hours. Next, the infusion is filtered through a gauze flap and used for baths or for rubbing the feet.
To enhance the effect of decoction of the bark, many experts advise adding verbena, or lemon juice (can be replaced with citric acid).
The use of oak broth is limited to two weeks: then you should take a break for the same period of time.
Vinegar from sweating of feet
To get rid of sweating feet will help vinegar - but not a simple table, but apple, with a natural composition. It is desirable that the vinegar was cooked at home. If it is a product of industrial production, then on the packaging it should be indicated that before you - a natural remedy, and not a synthetic solution, flavored with an apple.
Vinegar from apples contains qualitative organic acids and tanning components: on the skin these substances contribute to the formation of a protective film with antifungal and antimicrobial action.
How correctly to apply vinegar?
Prepare the solution from one part of 9% of the product and one part of the boiled water. Then the solution is used in different versions:
- Before going to bed, wipe with foot solution, after washing and drying them. In the morning, feet are washed with cool water and soap.
- In the evening, make a half-hour bath, consisting of 5 liters of lukewarm water and 100 ml of vinegar. The course of therapy - two weeks, then - a break 3-4 weeks.
Boric acid from sweating of feet
One of the main properties of boric acid is disinfection, which occurs due to the folding of proteins and the destruction of most microbes and fungi that live on the feet and in the interdigital spaces. In addition, boric acid narrows the pores, reducing the secretion of sweat glands and attaching the skin of the legs.
Apply boric acid with sweating feet as follows:
- Wet a napkin or cotton pad in alcohol solution of boric acid;
- carefully wipe the feet with a solution;
- for the left and right foot use different napkins or cotton wool.
In order to increase efficiency, boric acid can be combined with Teimurov paste, Fukorcinum or Novocindol.
Recipes for preparing preparations for sweating feet in the home
You can forget about sweating of your feet forever, only by observing certain conditions. First, you need to wash your feet daily, at least twice a day, preferably with tar or household soap. Secondly, you should always wear only clean socks or tights, clean disinfected shoes. By the way, shoes should be made of natural materials, and it should be selected according to the weather and the season, so that your feet are not soared and not overheated. Thirdly, it is necessary to revise the diet, as food directly affects the human flavor. It is desirable to severely restrict or exclude the use of fatty foods, smoked products, chocolate and cocoa, alcohol, spicy spices.
As a supplement, such recipes are used for excessive sweating of the feet:
- To reduce sweating of feet, you should regularly drink tea with mint or lemon balm.
- Prepare the infusion of two tablespoons of sage and a glass of boiling water. Take infusion of a third cup three times a day for 20 days. Do not drink infusion of pregnant and lactating women.
- Take baths or baths with infusion of peppermint leaves, a medicine letter, foliage of walnuts, chamomile color, sage. These plants can be used alone, or in combination with each other.
- Oak bark crushed into dust, poured into bed before going to sleep in cotton socks. In the morning, the socks are removed, and the feet are washed with cool running water. The bark can be successfully replaced with conventional starch.
- Prepare an alcohol tincture from one part of the birch buds and five parts of vodka. The received medicine is wiped clean feet in the morning and in the evening.
- In an emergency situation, such a recipe can help: feet and gaps between fingers are wiped with wet napkins, and after that - a slice of lemon.
Oils from sweating of feet
Often used to eliminate sweating feet different oils. Especially popular are oils of flax, eucalyptus, cedar, olives. Vegetable oil extracts perfectly moisturize, nourish, tone the skin, deodorize.
Olive oil is the most affordable - its action is to cleanse and rejuvenate the skin of the legs.
How to properly use oils with sweating?
Oil solutions lubricate the feet and gaps between the fingers, put cotton socks on and go to sleep. The next morning you should wash your feet with warm water and soap.
With a slight sweating of the feet, it is recommended to treat the feet with a mixture of vegetable oil and baby cream, and if the problem is expressed, add oil to the zinc ointment. Proportions are selected individually.
Soda from sweating of feet
Everyone familiar baking soda is a successful remedy for sweating feet. And they have been using it for such a purpose for many years.
Soda normalizes the pH value on the skin.
Soda stops inflammation, inhibits the development of pathogenic flora.
Soda creates conditions on the skin that are unacceptable for the further development of microbes that cause an unpleasant odor.
To date, there are several recipes for sweating feet with the use of soda:
- Take 2 tbsp. L. Soda, as much starch, mix. Add to the mixture 5 tbsp. L. Softened cocoa butter, mix, form a piece at your discretion and put into the refrigerator. If necessary, the piece is pulled out and wiped by feet - the remedy acts like a deodorant.
- Take 1 tsp. Soda and rub the powder in your feet.
- Take a piece of laundry soap, rub it on a grater, put it in a saucepan. Add 200 ml of water, put on the fire and boil until the soap is dissolved. The mass is allowed to cool and add 1 tbsp. L. Soda, mix. The mixture is gradually applied to the feet every evening, for 15 minutes, after which it is washed off with warm water. With regular procedures, sweating gradually decreases.
Soap from sweating of feet
Household soap is indispensable in the fight against sweating of the feet. And many people get rid of sweating feet without a special recipe - it is just necessary to wash your feet as often as possible during the day with the use of household soap. Soap not only cleans the skin of microbes, but also dries.
With a strong sweating and pungent smell, the baths help:
- on the large side graters rub a piece of soap, add a small amount of water and mix until the formation of foam;
- The resulting mass is applied to the feet for about a quarter of an hour.
The procedure is repeated twice a week. Optimum use of soap with the designation "72%".
Tar soap also has similar properties, but it does not have the most pleasant smell, and besides, in some people it can cause allergies.
If the smell of tar does not seem unpleasant to you, and you do not have allergies, then you can use tar soap to get rid of sweating. It is required to simply wash his feet every day, for 2-3 weeks continuously. Tar drains the skin, stabilizes the work of the sweat glands.
A tar soap will also help against fungal attack - in fact often sweating with stench is a sign of a fungus.
For treatment to be most effective, it is preferable to buy tar soap in pharmacies.
Iodine and salt from sweating of feet
Alcohol solution of iodine is a strong antiseptic, which destroys both bacteria and fungal infection. In addition, iodine improves skin and nails. But you need to consider that iodine can cause allergies and even a burn, so before starting treatment it is important to make sure that there is no intolerance to this drug.
Iodine and salt can be used to remove the fungus on the legs - but this procedure will be effective only at the initial stage of infection.
Salt successfully supplements the action of iodine. In addition, salt softens the skin and normalizes the microflora.
- Take 1 tbsp. L. Salt and the same amount of soda, after which add 1 tsp. Iodine (two liters of scarcely warm water). Use the solution as a foot bath. The duration of the procedure is 10 minutes, after which it is necessary to wash the feet with detergent.
- Mix in one liter of water 2 tbsp. L. Salt and 1 tbsp. L. Iodine. Keep your feet in this compound for about half an hour.
- Collect in a basin of warm water, add half of the bubble of iodine. Hold the legs in the basin for about 10 minutes. After that, the feet are drained with a napkin and treated with 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Peroxide from sweating of feet
To treat the feet with sweating apply a specially prepared solution based on hydrogen peroxide:
- take 200 ml of water and two tablespoons of 3% hydrogen peroxide;
- if the skin on the legs is rough, there are corns and natoptyshi, then you can add another 1 tsp. Peroxides;
- in a solution wet a napkin and carefully wipe in advance washed and dried feet, then sprinkle with talcum powder or baby powder.
The prepared solution with peroxide is not stored for a long time, therefore each time it is necessary to make fresh. To enhance the effect, it is recommended to add freshly squeezed aloe vera juice into the solution. The received product is used not only for rubbing, but also for putting compresses - they put them on overnight, for two weeks. This course will help to forget about the problem for a long time.
Herbs from sweating of feet
Experts advise twice a day, after washing their feet, apply fresh sheets of birch, grass grass, or barley or oat straw to the feet and fingers.
You can fill cotton socks with ordinary dry grass, put them on overnight. In the morning remove socks and wash your feet with soap.
Also advise to apply to the feet of leaves of lemon grass, sage, mint or lemon balm. Deodorizing effect is possessed by leaves of apple, willow, thyme.
Helps and clean from sweating feet. Many people know about beneficial properties of celandine for skin health. The healing abilities of this plant are really limitless: the celandine successfully and quickly fights inflammation, heals small wounds and cracks, relieves germs, deodorizes and disinfects.
Baths with celandine especially help if sweating of the feet is accompanied by a stench, itching and flaking of the skin on the legs. Pour 400 grams of dry plants with four liters of boiling water, insist until cooling. This amount of infusion should be sufficient for two procedures.
Bay leaf from sweating of feet
The bay leaf is rich in essential oils and organic acids, which determine its antimicrobial, healing and anti-inflammatory effect.
To permanently eliminate sweating of the feet, three-ten laurel leaves are steamed in a five-liter enamel tank. On the basis of infusion, foot baths are made every evening.
The steamed laurel leaves can be used repeatedly several times.
Tansy from sweating of feet
Tansy is often used externally. This is due to the pronounced anti-inflammatory and bactericidal abilities of the plant.
It happens that the feet do not just sweat, but they also itch and seem to "burn". Alternative healers in this situation are offered to be treated with tansy, or rather, baths based on the infusion of this plant. To prepare the infusion, a handful of tansies are covered in a thermos, poured in 0.5 liters of boiling water and held for three hours. After the procedure, feet should be well poured with talcum powder or baby powder.
Such procedures can be repeated every day before going to bed, for 4-6 weeks.
Essential oils from sweating of feet
Essential oils are a part of many cosmetic and hygienic preparations. The bottom line is that such oils perform the combined role of deodorant, antiseptic, and also a stabilizer of cellular metabolism.
Which of the essential oils are considered the most effective in the sweating of the feet:
- butter cypress;
- bergamot oil;
- tea tree oil;
- citrus oil;
- lavender oil.
Tea tree from sweating of the feet has the ability to quickly limit sweating, narrowing the pores. Tea tree oil stabilizes the sweat function, promotes the destruction of microbes, which provoke the appearance of an unpleasant odor. Typically, it is enough to rub a couple of drops of oil in the foot area, so that the effect is noticeable.
Bergamot, among other things, has an antifungal property, so oil on its basis should be used by those who have problems with foot mycoses.
Fir oil from sweating of feet is applied no less often, since it has a pronounced disinfectant and anti-inflammatory effect. Fir suppresses the growth of staphylococci, rod-shaped bacteria, viruses. Oil of fir can be rubbed into the area of feet and shins, add to baths or creams.
Many patients mix several different oils, but there is no general recipe for making such mixtures. Everyone chooses the best combination for themselves. To obtain a more reliable protection from sweating of the feet, one should check in practice the effectiveness of all the ingredients, as well as the individual reaction of the skin to them.
Shea Butter
Mix one teaspoon of starch with the same amount of shea butter, and also with a small amount of soda (a third of a teaspoonful). The resulting paste is applied every evening to clean feet, and in the morning the feet are washed and rubbed dry.
Alcohol from sweating of feet
From the sweating of the feet this composition helps a lot: take a few pinch of vanillin, 100 ml of water, 2 tbsp. L. Alcohol. The resulting mixture is filled into a bottle with a spray and periodically sprayed onto the area of the feet and fingers.
With a little sweating, you should wash your feet well and wipe them with salicylic, boric or resorcinol alcohol. When using any of the alcohol solutions, care should be taken not to overdry the skin. If there are signs of overdrying, then you need to lubricate your feet with a nutritious cream.
Vodka from sweating of feet operates on the same principle: it is true that it is not necessary to dilute vodka. Just need to wipe clean feet with a napkin soaked in vodka for the night. As a deodorant, you can add a few tablespoons of lemon juice to the vodka.
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Manganese from sweating of feet
In what cases should we recall such a simple and effective remedy as manganese?
- If the fingers and toes are scratching or burning.
- If the skin of the legs turns red, it flakes.
- If there are small cracks or bubbles.
Before use, potassium permanganate should be diluted, otherwise a concentrated solution can harm the skin. Optimum preparation of liquid with 0.04% concentration. This solution will be pinkish, but not red, and even more so, purple.
In the solution, keep the feet for about 15 minutes, every evening, for 2-3 weeks. Do not be afraid, if the skin on the soles of the feet darkens a little - this is a temporary phenomenon. After a while, the skin will lighten up on its own, but if you need to speed up this process, you can lubricate your feet with lemon juice - the skin will return its natural shade.
In addition, experts recommend that soak in the same solution socks that you use. Of course, these socks should not be light, otherwise they will lose their color irrevocably. Soak after soaking.
In addition, it is necessary to handle insoles in shoes - for this there are a lot of different drugs that can be purchased, both in pharmacies and in special stores.
Alums from sweating of feet
Burnt alum - this is an old and affordable drugstore for getting rid of sweating of feet. This tool has a lot of useful properties:
- disinfects, providing cleanliness for a long period of time;
- stops bleeding, heals wounds, scratches, sores;
- prevents and stops the development of the inflammatory process;
- knits, adsorbs, deposits the skin.
Sweating of feet is eliminated with alum powder - they are sprinkled with feet, wrinkles, fingers, add it to shoes, socks or pantyhose.
Users argue that such a simple application can eliminate the problem of sweating of the legs in 3-4 days.
Copper vitriol from sweating of feet
Treatment with copper sulfate has many fans. Copper sulphate - and this is the famous vitriol, is an excellent moisture-absorbing substance. In agriculture, vitriol is considered an effective antiseptic, fungicide, it is widely used for disinfection of damaged plants.
Copper sulfate is characterized by moderate toxicity, therefore it should be used with extreme accuracy, adhering to the formulation:
- in a glass container pour 1 tbsp. L. Copper sulphate;
- pour warm boiled water;
- mixed and poured into the pelvis.
Clean, pre-washed feet are immersed in the solution, so that the feet do not touch the bottom of the pelvis. Withstand about six minutes. After this, the feet should be dried without wiping them.
As indicated in the recipe, this method allows you to get rid of sweating of your feet in just 3 days.
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Henna from sweating of feet
A good effect, aimed at normalizing sweating, has henna. With one condition: henna must be real, quality.
Take the packaging of henna, dilute to the consistency of sour cream. Apply to the foot area and leave to dry completely, then rinse with warm water. The procedure is repeated daily, during the week.
At the end of the treatment, the skin on the legs will acquire a reddish hue - this is not terrible, the redness after a while will pass independently, and with it will pass and sweat of the legs. In the future it is recommended to carry out preventive procedures - approximately once in 2 months.
Shark fat from sweating of the feet
Shark fat is considered a natural natural antibiotic, which has a strong disinfectant, antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral effect. Fat helps with dermatitis, herpes. He will also get rid of sweating.
In pharmacies, there are many preparations based on shark fat. In this case, the most famous remains "Cream-balm for legs with shark fat and velvet Amur" a universal remedy, normalizing the work of sebaceous and sweat glands. The cream is allowed to be used for treatment or for the prevention of fungal attack.
The cream is used according to the instructions: easily rubbed into the clean skin of the feet in the mornings and in the evenings.
Cement in socks from sweating of feet
The use of cement powder is a controversial way to get rid of sweating of the feet. Cement powder can cause severe dryness of the skin, up to the appearance of cracks. He has an adverse effect on the nail plates.
Nevertheless, there are people who try on themselves such an extraordinary means, following this recipe:
- sprinkle your feet and gaps between your fingers with dry powder;
- put on socks and walk indoors for several hours.
The course of such treatment is about a week. The amount of powder for one procedure is approximately 2-3 st. L.
As for the opinion of experts, they advise to replace the controversial agent with ordinary baby powder or ground into powder with oak bark.
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Mustard from sweating of feet
Mustard powder can be used from sweating, falling asleep in socks, or adding to the bath - the water should not be hot, but hardly warm.
Some people put in shoes peculiar "insoles" from packaged mustard plasters - they assure that this method allows eliminating an unpleasant aroma and reducing sweating. Whether there are any unpleasant sensations during the wearing of the shoe - the users are silent about this.
Sea salt from sweating of feet
Sea salt is used as a stabilizing scrub, or in the form of a foot bath.
- Salt strengthens the skin, nails.
- Sea salt increases local immunity.
- Baths with the addition of sea salt relieve inflammation, relieve pain.
- Crystals of salt activate local blood circulation, improve the work of nerve fibers and glandular system.
Sea salt is dissolved in hot water, add cold water and lowered into the solution in advance washed feet (ankles) for a quarter of an hour. The proportion of the solution is as follows: 200 g of salt are taken per 2 liters of water. After a quarter of an hour, the feet are washed with a stream of clean water, wiped dry. There are no restrictions on the number and frequency of such procedures.
To permanently get rid of sweating, you need to try a lot of different ways. There is no universal solution to the problem. In this case, the most effective alternative remedies for sweating of the feet are found only in the course of individual practice of use.