Need a really good cleansing tip?  A Foot foot bath and hot hand bath are a great way to get out the toxins!  Why does a really salty, gravel hot foot bath detox help you to heal and feel so much better?  The feet and hands collect the a lot of fat and toxicity in your body because they are at the ends of your arms and legs and those areas have the smallest capillaries.  This is why feet and hands and wrists and ankles can get so toxic, crusty, rough and full of calcium deposits that cause arthritis.  (Eating dairy foods and other animal foods  GUMS UP the body and creates stagnation and poor energy/blood flow in the joints.)  Ever noticed how clean you feel after swimming in the ocean?  The salt water draws out the poisons from your skin.  Your skin is your largest organ of elimination and the hands and feet are the places where much of that trash accumulates.  The difference between this procedure, a hot foot bath, and a regular bath is that you are focusing a lot hotter water for a longer time directly on some of the most toxic areas of the body. 

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How to do it: 
Put 3 inches of gravel in the bottom of a great big old tub…big enough to put both feet inside.  ( I use one of those canning tubs that holds 6 quart jars that I bought from Walmart).  Put the tub inside your bathtub under the faucet and add hot water.  Put a stool inside the tub and a towel on the stool for comfort.  Add sea salt to the water…maybe 6 teaspoons or even more.  Sit on the stool and put the feet and hands into the water.  Grind the feet and hands in the gravel to remove dead skin and help open the pores.  Let your hands and feet get used to the heat and then add more really, really… almost scalding hot water.  Oh Yea!  Now you are releasing significant amounts of accumulated toxic chemicals that were trapped in the fat that was stuck in your hands and feet! 

After your have spent a good deal of time soaking, stand up and remove the stool and towel and kneel down in the tub so that you can stick your head and face in the water too!  (Optional)  The head is actually an appendage too!  Your face is another place that can collect a lot of oil and toxicity.  Scrub your face in the hot salty water.  Try to keep it in the water for as long as possible.  One person told me that it would be better to stick your head in the water before the hands and feet.  lol.  Ok, so be it! 

Now use your towel to dry off and your all done! 

Many people that need to do a lot of cleansing would benefit from doing hot foot, hand and head baths every day.  Everyone would benefit from doing them at least once a week or more. 
Be well and use your minds, instincts and intuition to stay healthy!