Take for example the popular foot detox bath ioncleanse.
Chinese detox foot bath.
Detox foot pad are stuck on the bottom of your feet and left there overnight purportedly to draw out toxins such as heavy metals.
Our research shows that for stress and fatigue which are usually caused by poor blood circulation foot bath can find great relief without drugs at.
Some people add epsom salts or a few.
Advertised as a safe and relaxing way to.
Oz in a television segment devoted to foot care discusses the benefits of baking soda sodium bicarbonate extensively.
It involves immersing the feet in warm water.
So they believed that you can flush out toxins from your body through your feet.
Ionic foot baths aren t the only way to do a foot detox.
They work by providing an electric current to an electrode array immersed in a salt water solution.
Aside from terminating toxins baking soda is a known remedy for treating sore feet and killing foot odor.
In fact there are a variety of ways to detox the body through the feet including korean and chinese acupressure based foot soaks detox foot pads foot scrubs masks and soak recipes that use naturally detoxifying epsom salts bentonite clay and other ingredients.
According to chinese medicine detoxification of the body through the feet has many health benefits.
This so called chinese system of reflexology is based on the theory that the foot contains natural energy zones which correspond to a particular internal body organ.
Castor oils are rich in minerals vitamin e and unsaturated fatty acids.
Detoxification foot baths also known as foot detox ionic cleansing ionic foot bath and aqua water detox are pseudoscientific devices marketed as being able to remove toxins from the human body.
You may not recognize the name but you probably have seen the infomercials about foot patches or foot baths that pull all the toxins out of your body through your feet leaving you with a patch or bath full of brown liquid aka the toxins.
When you peel off the detox foot pad in the morning its darkened or discolored appearance supposedly reflects the toxins that have been removed from your body.
A recent fad has been sweeping the country.
An ionic foot detox is said to work by pulling the toxins out of your body through your feet.