How does listerine help your feet

Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Gross, we know. It itches, burns, and typically leads you to develop a red rash. Sometimes it blisters, too. Enter: the Listerine foot soak. To understand more about a Listerine foot soak and if it actually works, we reached out some dermatologists.

Meet the Expert. As the foot detox trend continues to surge, Listerine a specific brand of mouthwash is the latest ingredient that soakers are pouring into their basins. We'll dig more into the efficacy ahead. Shainhouse explains that Listerine Original this is the amber-colored Listerine you may have seen on store shelves contains thymol, which has anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal properties.

If you only have one nail affected, you can soak a cotton ball in Listerine and apply it directly to the nail. Skotnicki says Listerine contains four essential oils with alleged antiseptic qualities: eucalyptol, menthol, thymol, and methyl salicylate. The essential oils in Listerine may irritate your skin and can potentially cause a reaction such as allergic contact dermatitis, Skotnicki says.

This is more likely if you have sensitive skin. You also might experience dry skin after a foot soak, due to the alcohol in Listerine. I am going to try this ASAP! Crossing my fingers! I have never heard of that. I am hopeful you are healing quickly, and that this is a nice treat at the end of your recovery! The reason why is that I want to share it with my sisters and friend who have to deal with callouses, I want to make it sure before I suggest it to them.

Thanks so much. I totally get it!! There is nothing more embarrassing than to have them comment about how bad they are when you are getting a pedicure!! I hope you like the way this works! All our feet will be minty fresh when this is over. Thanks for the recipe! I just gathered my stuff together to do mine today, too!! Take care of yourselves! I tried this foot soak and I can honestly say it actually works. Im amazed at the difference. In glad I found this. Who would ever think that those 3 things would make your feet so smooth!

Happy you enjoyed it — and thank you for coming back and giving me your feedback! Being on a small fixed income now, I said I would try the foot soak, but can any mouthwash work?

Listerine is costly to try on my feet.. LOL I have used the blue and I have used the clear — they both work!! I read all sorts of reviews … […]. Jump to Recipe. As crazy as it seems, this actually works. I have been using this technique for years, and it really works just like the callus remover they use at a salon. You bet it does!! Crazy, right?

I am not going to gross you about with foot talk, though, because honestly, feet totally gross me out. Once they get past that cute little kissable baby foot, and start running around and getting sticky, they can kinda just keep them to themselves. It took me a whole lot of years to even go get a pedicure somewhere, because the thought of someone wanting to TOUCH my feet?

When I ran across countless posts of foot scrubs, I thought I would give this one a whirl over the winter. I have been using this method ever since with excellent results. Whenever I feel restless leg symptoms, I just put on some soap as you would apply lotion.

It relieves my symptoms within a few minutes. Have you ever heard of this remedy for restless leg syndrome? A: There has been little research on the use of soap for restless leg syndrome RLS.

That said, an anesthesiologist published two studies on the use of soap or soap-scented oil SSO to treat pain Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, July ; Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, September RLS is a mysterious neuromuscular condition that is hard to treat.

By Joe Graedon.