Essential Oils for Feet

Using aromatherapy is a good way to rest your feet from tired, sore,and worn out feet.

Common Essential oils for feet that you can use are:
Peppermint: an anti-inflammatory with decongestant and soothing properties.
Lavender: will soothes the feet.
Rosemary: mild stimulant .good for rheumatic aches and pains.
Lemon: refresh, revive, and stimulate circulation.
Eucalyptus: very powerful bactericidal with anti-viral properties.
You can make your own blends using these essential oils for feet at you home.
The following recipe is designed just for your feet. Please try it and your feet will Thank you!

Peppermint Foot Scrub

This recipe gives relief for tired and cramped legs.Also,you can try following treatment with a foot bath.
Ingredient:

• 4 tablespoons Epsom salt/ sea salt
• 2 tablespoons soy oil
• 8 drops peppermint essential oil

Foot Scrub

Foot Scrub (For rough, dry, calloused, or weary feet). This recipe will leaves feet feeling soft, smooth, tingly, and the body refreshed.
What you will need:

• 1/4 cup (59 ml) ground oatmeal
• 1/4 cup (59 ml) cornmeal
• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) sea salt
• Essential oil of lemon or peppermint
• Moisturizing cream or lotion
• Spring or tap water

Prep time: 5 to 10 minutes
Mix with: spoon and small bowl
Store in: A large batch of the dry mix could be made, stored in a zip-seal bag, low tub/jar, or tin and kept in the bathroom.
Yields: 1 treatment
Instructions:
Combine the dry ingredients with enough water to form a creamy, gritty paste. Add a few drops of essential oil and stir again. Sit on the edge of the bathtub or bench in the shower and massage feet with mixture. Really scrub all those rough areas and between toes. Rinse and dry. Apply a thick moisturizing cream mixed with a few drops of either essential oil.
Note: Make sure to clean the bathtub after this procedure as the scrub could clog the drain.
This essential oils for feet recipes is taken from : The Herbal Body Book by Stephanie L. Tourles, 1994

Tired Footbath

This blend comes in handy when you've been on your feet all day.
You will need :

• 3 drops lavender essential oils
• 3 drops rosemary essential oils
• 4 drops lemon essential oils
• 2 litre of warm water

Combine oils and mix well.Massage into legs using circular motion, massage onto dry feet. Rinse well.
Before you go to bed :
Rub olive oil into your dry, cracked feet. Do not rinse. Then, put a cozy pair of socks on and go to sleep. Your feet will drink in the moisture and feel much better by morning.

Energizing Foot Lotion

If you have been on your feet all day and they are aching then make some of this lotion and rub it on. They will feel better in no time.
You will need:

• 1 tablespoon almond oil
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon wheat germ oil
• 12 drops eucalyptus

Combine the ingredient in a bottle. Shake extreme well. Store in a cool and dry place
To Use: just rub into your feet and heels.
Tea Tree is another essential oils for feet that I recommended. Tea Tree oil has natural deodorizing and anti-fungal properties. It can be used for fungal infections, blisters, athlete’s foot, infected wounds, insect bites, rashes, and warts.
You can try using this oil to make foot powder.

Tea Tree Foot Powder

• 2 drops of Tea Tree oil
• 2 drops of rosemary oil
• 2 tablespoon of arrowroot powder.

Add oils to the powder, stir until the oil is thoroughly mixed in, then dust onto feet before putting on your socks.

Essential Oils for Arthritis

Oils that can be used for Joints

Marjoram
Black Pepper
Lavender


Arthritis is a disease millions of people suffer from every day. While it's pretty rare that anyone has been able to cure it, arthritis can be treated and controlled. The use of essential oils is one of the best and safest ways to treat and control the pain caused by arthritis.

There are two types of pain-acute and chronic-which affect the systems of the body. Acute in general refers to pain that will end ie pain caused by burns, broken bones, headaches, etc. Chronic, on the other hand, refers to pain that is persistent, wearing and gets worse with time rather than better-arthritis, for example. Arthritis attacks the joints, quite often the hands due to their complex arrangement of joints, bones and tendons.

When treating joint pain caused by arthritis the first thing to do is look at your diet. Decrease your intake of simple carbohydrates and avoid coffee and red meat. Increase your vegetables, fruits, complex carbohydrates, wheat germ and oily fish.


Massage with essential oils is one of the most effective methods of relief found for arthritis. Some believe arthritis can be cured if caught and treated quickly enough. There is not enough evidence to say whether that is true but the treatment suggested is extremely helpful in providing relief and making it possible to control the level of pain and the amount of activity you can do.

The following is an arthritis bath blend that some have found helpful. For each bath you add 2 handfuls of Epsom salt and one of rock salt, and 4 drops of the following blend:

Fennel             30 drops
Cypress           16 Drops
Juniper             10 Drops

This bath treatment is best used daily for only two weeks. While using it, don't use any other treatments including any other essential oils. (Before using, make sure you are not allergic to any of the oils used in the blend.)

After the two weeks, you can massage any of the following essential oils into the joints that are affected: Roman Chamomile, German Chamomile, Lavender, Yarrow, Peppermint, Niaouli, Calendula, Eucalyptus (any), Angelica, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Pettitgraine, Black Pepper, and Rosemary.

Your best method would be to try out the different ones and see which will work best for you. Sandalwood is good for smoothing out the skin and when mixed with Lavender has a lovely scent to it as well. Peppermint, Rosemary, Lavender, and Eucalyptus work well as a blend. The Peppermint helps the blood move while also helping to cool down any inflammation.

We also offer a blend called Tension Release which, when combined with Helichrysum and Jojoba Oil and massaged into the affected joints, is wonderfully invigorating and helps alleviate the pain.

When using any essential oils for massage, always add a few drops of whatever oils you use to at least a tablespoon of a carrier oil. Fractionated Coconut Oil (FCO) is one of the best because the skin absorbs it well. Also use a teaspoon of Jojoba Oil in your blend.

Arthritis can be a crippling and extremely painful problem that will last until you die. But it can be managed and, in particular, managed without using drugs.