What are the benefits of soaking your feet in orange peels

As an important part of the human body, feet play the role of support and walking. As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With feet, we can go anywhere we want to go. Feet play such an important role, how can we protect our feet? Massage and foot soaking are both ways to protect your feet. Especially foot soaking, which is particularly beneficial to modern people's feet. We know that orange peel has many functions, so today we will take a look at the benefits of soaking your feet in orange peel.

Citrus peel has a fragrant smell and has the effects of sterilization, dispelling wind and cold, moisturizing, aiding sleep, and removing odors. Using it to wash your hair and take a bath can not only remove skin dirt, but also moisturize the skin and eliminate fatigue. Soaking your feet in orange peel has magical effects. The climate is dry in winter, and the skin on the feet easily loses moisture, becoming rough and inelastic. Citrus peel is rich in organic acids, vitamin C and essential oils. After soaking in hot water, these substances dissolve and penetrate into the skin through the open pores when soaking your feet, stimulating the capillaries under the epidermis and promoting metabolism. These ingredients form a thin film on the surface of the foot skin to prevent moisture evaporation. Soaking your feet in citrus peels can also keep you warm in winter. It can also improve your sleep and help you fall asleep sweetly.

We need to remind everyone not to take a bath directly with fresh orange peel, because its surface is contaminated with pesticides and preservatives, which may irritate the skin. Orange peels need to be processed. First, rinse off the dirt on the surface with clean water, then cover with clean water about 5 cm and soak for more than 30 minutes; then put it in alkaline water (add 5 to 10 grams of edible alkali to 500 ml of clean water) and soak for 5 to 15 minutes or soak in rice washing water for about 1 hour; finally, rinse it with clean water and place it in a ventilated, cool place to dry for 1 week. Citrus peels stored for more than one year become the traditional Chinese medicine "Chenpi", which has the effects of regulating qi and regulating the middle, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It can be used to treat indigestion, abdominal distension, phlegm and cough caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation. If you want to drink it in water, you should use dried tangerine peel, which contains much less volatile oil than fresh tangerine peel and will not irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Tangerine peel is a commonly used Chinese medicine for regulating qi, strengthening the stomach, and resolving phlegm. Drinking it as tea can indeed clear away heat and resolve phlegm.

The above are the benefits of soaking your feet in orange peels. Through the above description, we can understand the various benefits of soaking your feet in orange peels. So friends, after eating oranges, don’t rush to throw away the orange peels. You can collect the orange peels, dry them and put them away, and then use them for foot soaking the following year. This way you can reduce waste while soaking your feet, killing two birds with one stone.