1, essential oil has the characteristics of firming, soothing skin and contracting microvessels. Soaking feet is very useful for improving the dryness and sclerosis of foot skin.
2. Many essential oils have the functions of relieving nervous tension and stress and relaxing emotions. Soaking your feet can calm your mood and relieve stress.
3. Soaking feet with essential oil can also promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, strengthen microvessels, and play a role in strengthening the body and preventing diseases.
4. Soaking feet with essential oil can strengthen nerve endings exercise, promote the regulation function of the nervous system, and help prevent neurasthenia and improve insomnia symptoms.
How to massage with foot bath essential oil?
1, first massage the essential oil evenly to the whole foot and rub the soles of your feet with your hands.
2. Press your feet with two thumbs. Foot center is the place where Yongquan point of kidney meridian is located, and it is also the foot reflex area of kidney. It is a very important health-care acupoint, and you can massage it here.
3. Press each toe carefully. The big toe is the reflection area of human head, and the other four toes are the reflection areas of important organs such as eyes and ears. Pressing toes has a very good effect of clearing the brain and improving eyesight.
4. Make a fist with one hand and scrape the soles of your feet from front to back 20-30 times with the dorsal joints of your fingers, which has a good health care effect on the digestive system.
5. Push and knead the inside of the arch alternately from heel to toe for about 30 times.
6. Knock the soles and the inside of the feet with empty fists.
7. Squeeze your feet several times from inside to outside and from top to bottom.
8. Hold your feet with your hands and rub them hard. It is best to have a fever.
9. Cross your hands and fingers, rub back and forth on both sides of the tibia in front of the calf several times, and pat the inside and outside of the calf at the same time.
What essential oil is good for soaking feet?
Essential oils that can be used for foot bath include lavender, ginger, rosemary, Melaleuca, thyme, geranium, juniper, cypress, mint, geranium and fennel. You can choose one of the essential oils to soak your feet. For example, lavender essential oil can relieve fatigue and help sleep, tea tree essential oil can cure beriberi, and ginger essential oil can accelerate blood circulation and cure cold hands and feet. You can also choose several essential oils to match.
1, relieve pain and fatigue
Essential oils used together: lavender essential oil, mint essential oil and cypress essential oil. The specific use method is to drop 2 drops of lavender essential oil, 2 drops of mint essential oil and 2 drops of cypress essential oil into warm water to soak feet.
2, regulate endocrine and enhance resistance.
Essential oils used together: lavender essential oil, Melaleuca essential oil and thyme essential oil. The specific dosage is two drops of lavender essential oil, two drops of Melaleuca alternifolia essential oil and two drops of thyme essential oil.
3. Treat cold hands and feet and dysmenorrhea.
Essential oils used together: rosemary essential oil and ginger essential oil. The warming effect of ginger is well known, and the warming effect of ginger essential oil is better. In addition, ginger has a good effect on relieving dysmenorrhea and treating constipation, varicose veins, flatulence, gout and hemorrhoids.
4. Eliminate edema and promote lymphatic circulation.
Use essential oil: geranium essential oil. Geranium essential oil can balance internal environment, endocrine, menstruation, diuresis, edema of lower limbs, sterilize and promote lymphatic circulation. Can improve the symptoms of water retention and ankle swelling. Using 6 drops of geranium essential oil can eliminate edema and promote lymphatic circulation.
5, eliminate ankle swelling
Essential oils used together: juniper essential oil, geranium essential oil and fennel essential oil. The specific dosage is 2 drops of fennel essential oil, 2 drops of juniper essential oil and 2 drops of geranium essential oil.
The method of soaking feet with essential oil is very simple. One more step than usual is to add essential oil. Drop 2-6 drops of essential oil (no more than 6 drops) into the hot water for soaking feet, gently stir the water surface with your hands to disperse the essential oil in the water, and then soak your feet. If your skin is sensitive or you soak your feet with essential oil that is irritating to your skin, you can dilute the essential oil with milk and then soak your feet with water.