Soaking Your Feet In Black Tea Can Cut Out Foot Odor

If you spend enough time browsing through home remedies and alternative treatments, it can be easy to get discouraged. All you want is a simple, low-cost solution to your problem but so many people out there are ready to take advantage of your needs. Even if they aren't trying to take you for a ride with a bogus, overpriced juice cleanse, there's often a tendency to overpromise.

Yet, natural ingredients do have certain uses. Turmeric can help people cope with osteoarthritis, while ginger is helpful for dealing with dizziness, menstrual cramps, and post-surgery nausea.

Today, we're going to show you how another common household ingredient can help you handle a more sensitive personal problem. Doctors know it as bromodosis but back in 1974, Frank Zappa gave it a much catchier name: Stink-foot. 

When bacteria breaks down sweat, it releases an unpleasant, cheesy smell. Since your feet are often stuck in a shoe all day, this sweat has a way of collecting and giving for microbe stowaways one long-lasting smorgasbord. 

However, if you're a tea-drinker, you may have had the answer you needed to cut this odor out all along.

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First, here are some helpful tips to keep the stink away.

One of the most important hints is to not wear the same pair of shoes two days in a row if you can help it. Wearing the same pair all the time is perfect for creating the warm, damp environment bacteria love, undoing even the most thorough scrubbing.

If you're prone to sweaty feet, you can also use spray deodorant.

But don't worry if you're not a fan of these, they're just one of many options. The one we'll be exploring in full does the same job.

Make sure you don't forget your toes, either.

Once you dry your feet after a bath or shower, it can help to take some cotton and dab the spaces between your toes with rubbing alcohol.

Podiatrists will often recommend scrubbing your feet with anti-bacterial soap.

However, this is not a good idea if you also have problems with broken skin or eczema.

So what can you do instead to block out the sweat? The next page has a simple, step-by-step guide.

First, you'll want to put two bags of black tea in a pint of water and boil for 15 minutes.

Why tea? The acid in it closes the pores, which reduces sweat. It also has a way of killing bacteria, which is why some podiatrists recommend it over similar home remedies.

Next, add about two quarts of cool water.

Then, you put the mixture in a tub or a large bowl and make sure it's at a comfortable temperature.

Then slip your feet in the tea and get comfortable.

You'll be soaking your feet like this for about 20-30 minutes so you might want to bring a book.

Follow these steps once per day for about a week.

Hopefully your feet will feel a bit more fresh after that.

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