Apple cider vinegar: how to use and its effect

People who want to look good care not only about the well-groomed appearance of their face, hair and hands.It is equally important that the feet are well groomed and healthy. For this purpose, various cosmetics, often very expensive. However, in any household at hand, there are cheaper means that are no less useful. One of the affordable and effective foot care products is apple cider vinegar.

This product is obtained from apples that have undergone fermentation. It has a soft taste and a pleasant aroma, it has great nutritional value, when compared with ordinary alcoholic vinegar. The use of the product is wide and diverse due to the presence of useful substances in its composition. These active biological substances have a beneficial effect on almost all organs and tissues of the human body, both when applied externally and internally.

Apple cider vinegar has found great use in cosmetology. On its basis, effective masks and lotions are prepared for whitening pigment spots, for cleansing the face from black spots.

While dosing the composition and introducing additional ingredients, women with different skin types can apply it to increase its elasticity and elasticity, to get rid of wrinkles and reduce manifestations of rosacea. The benefits to the skin become noticeable very soon after the start of the application of cosmetics due to the complex effect of such substances as:

• organic acids stop the reproduction of harmful bacteria and promote wound healing;
• vitamins and trace elements are needed to improve the protective functions of the skin, the regeneration processes in it, to maintain the metabolic processes in the epidermis at the proper level;
• Enzymes and amino acids are involved in the restoration of the structural composition of collagen, since protein synthesis is not without them.

Features of the composition allow the use of apple cider vinegar for the feet in many painful conditions. Its bactericidal and refreshing effect is useful in case of excessive sweating, helps to get rid of the smell when sweating. Women, especially after childbirth, often develop spider veins on their legs. Apple cider vinegar, which strengthens the walls of blood vessels, will help minimize their severity. But the product not only eliminates the stars, it even gives way to the treatment of varicose veins.

Due to the wearing of uncomfortable shoes with heels, standing work, varicose disease, in the evening the legs become swollen, and discomfort may appear in them. Baths and wraps with vinegar will relieve the feeling of tiredness and heaviness, save from swelling and pain in the legs. Traditional medicine recommends using the product from the heel spur - a disease in which there is a sharp pain in the heel when walking. With frequent and strong muscle tension in athletes, in older people due to age-related changes may occur convulsions. Especially often they appear at night, interfering with proper rest. When cramps use vinegar for foot baths will be effective.

Many women are faced with a problem that does not cause pain, but gives great aesthetic discomfort - it is rough skin of the heels. Women spend a lot of money on visiting beauty salons, on the purchase of pumice and nail files, emollient creams and scrubs, but not always get the desired result. The problem is exacerbated in the summer after work in the country, and wearing open shoes becomes problematic.

Despite the abundance of positive properties, the product has contraindications.

• First of all, like any remedy, it can cause an individual intolerance or an allergic reaction. Therefore, the first use of the tool must be very careful. If an allergy occurs, the use of the agent must be stopped.
• Contraindications may be increased sensitivity of the skin, their redness, which does not pass for a long time after a mask or bath. Such hypersensitivity can lead to the development of allergies in people prone to it.
• You should not use products based on vinegar in the presence of wounds, scratches, burns and tumors, inflammation and other damage to the skin.

To avoid unpleasant consequences, you need to follow the instructions for the preparation and application of a cosmetic product, do not exceed the specified quantities of ingredients and exposure time. It must be remembered that vinegar, although made from apples, is a rather aggressive substance, and if used improperly, it can cause excessive dryness of the skin and even burns.

Before use, it will not hurt to visit a dermatologist or a cosmetologist and get advice on the ingredients and dosage. And also it should be understood that too frequent use of the tool does not bring additional benefits, and the measure must be respected. In addition, the use of folk remedies, baths and compresses for a serious or neglected disease is not an essential treatment, they can only serve as a supplement to the main treatment by a specialist. For example, edema occurs when the kidneys or diseases of the cardiovascular system, and in this situation, it is not necessary to wait for much help from vinegar self-treatment.

Apple cider vinegar is used differently depending on the purpose of the application and the problem you want to solve. If we are talking about skin care feet, most often used baths in which you need to soar legs. A mask or compress will also be effective. After them it is easy to treat the horny areas, the skin becomes susceptible to subsequent care. In addition, foot baths are a pleasant and relaxing procedure. Depending on the added components, you can keep your feet in the bath for 15 to 40 minutes, and compresses and masks can even be nightly.

If there is no time or desire to engage in baths, it is possible to pick up the composition, which you just need to wipe problem areas. For example, when varicose veins can be rubbed with cider vinegar in the morning and evening. The product can be smeared and spider veins. Cotton swab moistened with vinegar and massaged them with light movements (the procedure can not be used for the face). And also, on the basis of the product, formulations are prepared that need to be used for smearing the corns, warts, and corns.

For the preparation of cosmetics you need to choose the right product. All recipes imply the use of only natural apple cider vinegar. It can be made at home from apples from your own garden. But fermentation is a long process, so cooking a product can take a month or more. If you purchase a product in a store, then you need to carefully read what is written on the label.

The presence of flavors, dyes will indicate that the product is synthetic, for its production accelerated fermentation was used, and it has practically no useful properties. In addition, a natural product will cost much more.

With the help of vinegar, you can effectively, quickly and safely get rid of cracks on the heels, remove the horny layer. For this you should use a mask for a night compress.

For its preparation will need the following ingredients:

• glycerin - 3 tsp;
• apple vinegar - 1 tsp.

The mixture is applied to the fabric, applied to problem areas and wrapped over cellophane or wax paper. After the mask, it is necessary to remove the softened cornified layer with a file or pumice stone, lubricate with a nourishing or moisturizing cream.

After an exhausting work day or a long walk, the legs get tired, a feeling of heaviness and pain appears. A warm bath will cope with fatigue and unpleasant sensations. In a bowl of warm water you need to add a glass of vinegar and sea salt. A half-hour procedure will not only have a relaxing effect and relieve pain, but also soften the skin and nourish it with useful substances. A more pleasant and healing procedure will make aromatic oils, extracts and decoctions of herbs.

It is especially effective to add lavender, as it has a relaxing effect. For severe pain caused by swelling or varicose veins, a cotton swab dipped in apple cider vinegar can be rubbed on the feet. Of course, he will not cure the disease, but it will considerably ease the condition.

Very often, wearing shoes and socks made of non-natural materials provokes excessive sweating. After some time, an unpleasant smell. Excessive perspiration will reduce foot baths. Along the way, they will struggle with fatigue and swelling. In 10 liters of water, which should be at room temperature, it is worth pouring 0.5 cups of the product.

Take a bath half an hour before bedtime for 10-14 days, then make a break for 25-30 days. 70 g of soda can be added to the bath, but in this case the procedure becomes twice as short. In the water with vinegar, you can add 2-3 drops of thyme oil. The dose should not be increased, since the presence of this component causes discomfort in the presence of microcracks on the skin. Nevertheless, being an antiseptic, it disinfects wounds.

Nowadays, visiting saunas, baths and swimming pools is very popular. However, in these public places with high humidity, high temperatures are maintained, which is very favorable for the development of fungus. Therefore, there are cases of infection. Acetic baths are effective against fungi, but they dry the skin, and there may be a burning sensation.

For the treatment of fungus is to prepare an ointment of the following components:

• crushed Kalanchoe leaves - 100 g;
• apple vinegar - 1 tsp;
• liquid honey - 10 g;
• eucalyptus oil - 30 g

All components are mixed and put in a dark place for three days, after which the mixture is ready for use. It can be used twice a day. For greater effect, it is desirable to steam out the legs and cut off the thickening of the nails.

To relieve the pains caused by the heel spur, compresses from the composition will help, which will not take much effort to prepare. Vinegar pour a raw chicken egg in a ceramic bowl and put in a dark, cool place. The shell will gradually dissolve. When the egg is covered with only a thin film, it must be broken, the contents mixed with vinegar, adding any vegetable oil (one tablespoon will be enough).

To avoid these unpleasant phenomena before bedtime, you should make a compress, which is applied for 20 minutes to the muscle. For the preparation of the composition in 0.5 l of apple cider vinegar for 2–3 days insist 4 tbsp. spoon lingonberry leaves. They can be replaced with chestnut flowers, crushed root devyasila, sabelnikom.

About the use of apple cider vinegar and the effect they produce, people leave a lot of feedback, which is mostly positive. People like that this affordable product can help with many problems, that it is easy to use, and it is easy to prepare formulations with it. Especially a lot of feedback from women who use the product itself or compositions based on it to care for the skin of the feet and heels. They note that they have tried remedies from different manufacturers, but only with the help of apple cider vinegar could finally get rid of cracks on the heels.Many use trays from the product to remove the feeling of tiredness and heaviness in the legs. Baths relieve pain, relax and soften the skin.

Some people suffering from varicose veins have improved. It is often said that it was possible to make sparse stars barely visible, but it took a long time to do this. It turned out to be very positive effect when using the product to get rid of excessive sweating and odor. Many are very pleased that they were able to cure the heel spur. And also people notice that the frequency and intensity of night cramps has decreased.

There is a small amount of negative feedback. They say that the funds dry the skin, there is redness. But this happened in cases where the dosage was not respected and the formulations were incorrectly prepared and applied.

The recipe means for perfect heels, see below.