Sandal Weather Alert! If your feet have been safely hibernating for winter, you can ease them out of it with our 10 minute Foot Treat.
The items you’ll need to gather before settling in are marked in bold italics to help you with quick prepping!
Turn on your essential oils diffuser
Feet Treat Diffusing Playlist: combine lavender and lemon in the diffuser together (lavender calms while lemon deodorises and you’ll find both in the Everyday Oils Collection), or choose Young Living Citrus Fresh™ (calms while being a great air purifier). Position your diffuser in a high, secure spot as close as possible to where you’re sitting. The oil mist created by diffusing will fall through the air and remove odour-causing substances and you’ll want that for our next step!
Remove your polish
There’s a good selection available nowadays of natural nail polishes and nail polish removers if you don’t want to go the totally natural route by keeping them bare and buffing to bring out their lustre. (Feel free to leave your tip in the post comments on our Facebook page if you have a favourite.) Even the natural ones can have a strong odour, so all the more reason to have your diffuser cranked up.
Our 10 minutes will go out the window if we stop to talk about the Perils of Polish, but if terms like 3-Free, 4-Free, 5-Free and Waterbased are new to you, I urge you to check it out sooner rather than later!
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
Any questions? Please get in touch via our Contact page.
Nail health check
Are your nails smooth and even? Strong and fast-growing? Make a mental note to chase up a few things if they need some nutritional TLC.
Sulphur in your diet provides excellent support for healthy nails and hair. (More on that here.) A good regular intake of protein-rich foods including peanuts and eggs will help. I like to supplement it quickly and easily by taking Young Living Sulfurzyme® capsules. They combine MSM — a potent source of organic sulphur and a building block for strong bones, joints, teeth and nails — with premium Lycium barbarum wolfberries which help my body to uptake the sulphur effectively.
White spots on your nails? Zinc can help. Wheatgerm, alfalfa, dairy, parsley and sunflower seeds are good sources.
Fungal infections? Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5, found in wheatgerm, sunflower seeds, green veges to name a few) helps build resistance to fungal infections. Great, you say, but the clock is ticking — what about my 10 minutes?! Onwards.
Soak your tootsies in an essential oil-infused foot bath for 5 minutes
Essential oils aren’t water soluble, so add several drops or so to a handful of natural shower gel or Epsom Salts and add the mixture under the running hot water as you’re filling your foot tub. This helps the oils to evenly disperse.
I like to combine peppermint (soothes aches and energises), lavender (all-rounder for skin) and Melaleuca alternifolia (excellent for fungal conditions of all kinds). If you do happen to be battling Athlete’s Foot or have one of those pesky fungal nail things going on, you might like to make up a blend of these three oils and apply daily directly on location (neat or diluted if necessary).
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
Any questions? Please get in touch via our Contact page.
Smooth away the rough spots
Take care to follow the instructions that come with your gadget or implement of choice for sloughing off any build-up of dead skin. Depending on your chosen tool (sounds like we’re getting the sander and grinder out, doesn’t it!), jump this step ahead of the foot soak if your feet need to be dry for the process.
Lavender is known to help soften corns and calluses, so the same blend mentioned above can help with some daily prevention and maintenance on those particular bug bears.
Finish up by applying a lovely rich natural moisturiser onto those areas. If you’re doing this before going to bed, slather your feet in organic coconut oil, tuck them into thick cotton socks and allow the goodness to soak in overnight. And I think I just heard the 10 minute timer ring.
If you can spare another five minutes, tack them onto the ‘foot soaking’ part of the equation and bliss out for a little longer. A supply of these Choc-Peppermint Truffle Balls is handy for such occasions.
