Athlete’s Foot Bath
4 drops tea tree
4 drops lavender

6 drops goldenseal
2 drops sandalwood

1 tsp cinnamon

Add oils and cinnamon to 2 gallons warm water and mix well.   Tea tree oil, lavender, golden-seal and cinnamon have anti-fungal abilities. The sandalwood will aid in healing the cracks and sores commen to athlete’s foot disease. Its antiseptic and soothing properties help keep feet safe from secondary problems that can arise from the open cracked skin. Patchouli could be substituted for the sandalwood as a skin regenerator. Patchouli also has fungicidal properties.

Athlete’s Foot Powder

This foot powder is clay based for the ultimate in absorbing moisture.  One of the hardest things to do in managing athlete’s foot is how to keep the feet dry throughout the day.  Unless you have the ability to go barefoot or take your shoes off during the day you are left with the problem of your feet sweating in your shoes and socks and that can set off the incredible itching that comes with the infection.    I am a landscaper and when I was battling my athlete’s foot it was a given that my feet were going to sweat at some point during the day.  I wish I had known about this then – give it a try.

Let me know how it works but I would suggest that this is not a cure all for the infection.  The athlete’s foot needs to be battled from different angles.  At least that was my experience and my experience lasted a long time until I finally put a combination together that cured it in about 2 months.  I will share my experience with you soon but the use of a topical anti-fungal ointment such as Lotrimin would be a good addition to the foot powder treatment.  You can get a variety of anti-fungal medications at drugstore.com.

I will work on getting links to the different products you will need to create this powder to make it as easy as possible for you to put it together.  But for now – here is the recipe.  Bon Appetite.

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. powdered clay
• 1 oz. arrowroot powder
• 1 oz. cinnamon
• 1 oz. powdered goldenseal herb
• 1 oz. rubbed sage leaves, finely ground
• 1 oz. baking soda
• 25 drops lavender essential oil
• 10 drops tea tree essential oil
• 10 drops geranium essential oil
• 10 drops cypress essential oil
• 5 drops eucalyptus essential oil

Materials & Tools:

• Blender
• Shaker to put the foot powder into for application

Directions:

First add the powdered clay, arrowroot, goldenseal, sage, cinnamon and baking soda to a blender and blend together.

Next add all the essential oils and blend them together with the dry ingredients.  Put the mixture into the shaker and apply to the feet and in between the toes.  Also apply powder to your shoes and socks daily.

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Recent scientific studies confirm East Cape Manuka tea tree oil to be highly effective in controlling Foot and Toe Fungus infections.

Tinea pedis commonly known as Athlete’s foot is a skin disease caused by a fungus, usually occurring between the toes, resulting in cracked skin, itching, scaling, inflammation, blisters and dry skin.

Scientific Studies undertaken by New Zealand’s Cawthron Institute demonstrate conclusively that one chemotype of Manuka tea tree essential oil, produced in the East Cape region of New Zealand’s North Island to be highly effective in controlling and eliminating many strains of foot and toe fungus.

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Apple cider vinegar has been used since early times to prevent and relieve a number of ailments.   In fact, around 400 B.C., Hippocrates used the vinegar along with honey to treat his patients, making it one of the worlds first medicines.

The process to make the vinegar involves extracting the liquid from crushed apples, adding sugar and yeast to stimulate the fermentation process and then a second fermentation process is when the acid-forming bacteria transforms the alcohol into vinegar.  The apple cider vinegar contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals including beta-carotene, pectin (good for reducing cholesterol and regulating blood pressure), potassium (helps to alkalize the body and stimulate cell growth), sodium, calcium, chlorine, phosphorous, magnesium, iron, and fluorine.  It is also an aid to detoxification of the bodily organs.

Fighting Athlete’s Foot

The element in the apple cider vinegar useful to fighting fungal and bacterial infections is malic acid.  It is because of this that apple cider vinegar may be one of the best natural remedies for athlete’s foot (tinea pedis) which is a form of ringworm that occurs on the feet.    It also relieves the itching associated with athlete’s foot and is considerably less expensive than prescription drugs or over the counter topical medications.

Will “The Real Apple Cider Vinegar” Please Stand Up

If you can see through your apple cider vinegar then you are missing all of the health benefits that come from using it.  The effective type is organic and unfiltered and has a brown cloudy web-like foam called “mother”.  The mother carries all the beneficial nutrients responsible for the many healing qualities of this age old remedy.  The apple cider vinegar you find at your neighborhood grocery store is more likely to be a sparkling clear vinegar that has undergone a steaming process to clean the brown tinge (mother) out and make it more appealing to the consumer. The product I promote here on this site is the BEST apple cider vinegar you can buy. If you are going to use this form of treatment for your athlete’s foot I highly recommend you get the best and don’t cut corners. It’s not worth it. Trust me I know. Athlete’s foot sucks and whatever treatment you are going to utilize you need to be serious about it. I would suggest utilizing a combination of treatments. That is why I have armed this site with all the products I can find to combat this incredibly painful and persistent problem.

How To Administer the Treatment for Athlete’s Foot

An effective way to administer the acidic product to treat feet infected with the athlete’s foot problem is to create a mix of 50/50 apple cider vinegar and warm water.  Soak the feet for 20 minutes and be sure to clean with an anti-bacterial soap before and after the soaking treatment.  It is important to thoroughly dry the feet after treatment to keep the fungal problem from spreading in a moist environment.  Depending on the severity of the condition this treatment can be administered  twice daily.

An alternative to soaking, especially for less severe cases,  is to apply the treatment using a washcloth or cotton ball soaked in the apple cider vinegar.  This might prove more effective for children who find it hard to sit for the period of time necessary to get a good soaking treatment.