Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Listerine Foot Soak




This is crazy. Mix 1/4 c Listerine (any kind but I like the blue), 1/4 c vinegar and 1/2 c of warm water. Soak feet for 10 minutes and when you take them out the dead skin will practically wipe off.

This one has been getting repinned a lot.  Sometimes the pinner puts the entire recipe in the pin, and sometimes they leave out the Listerine, which is interesting because on all of the source sites, that's one of the main ingredients.  The other main ingredient being that perennial favorite for practically everything, vinegar.

There are a few things going on here.  First, the recipe itself is odd.  If you mix 1/4 cup of Listerine, 1/4 cup of vinegar, and 1/2 cup of warm water, you have one cup of liquid.  That's not remotely enough for a foot soak.  Not even if you're doing one foot at a time.  So there's that.  

Then there is the note from the recipe saying that they prefer using the "blue" Listerine.  Well, that's giving some folks unintended consequences, like dyeing their feet blue.  Others had better luck with the soak, claiming their feet did feel softer, but that the dead skin did not wipe off as advertised.

The part that the pin gets correct is the very first sentence.  "This is crazy."  Yes, yes it is.

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