Got Smelly Feet? Dr. Oz Has A Home Remedy For Taming Your Smelly Feet
I saw this on Oprah yesterday...
Dr. Oz had an at-home remedy for curing foot odor.
A girl on the show tried it, and they did a follow-up with her months later.
No more smelly feet!
Here's how she did it...
Apparently, the secret for really smelly feet is to simply dry them out. And one of the best ways to do that is to soak your feet in tea.
Yep, Dr. Oz said to take some tea bags, place them in a bowl of lukewarm water, and let your feet soak in that for 30 minutes each day for a week.
The tannic acid in the tea will actually tan your foot a little bit, which will dry it out," he said. "That's helpful in reducing the amount of sweat, and the odor as well." Source
Dr. Oz said other home remedies may also be worth trying, but for people with really smelly feet, sometimes the only way to fix the foot odor problem is to dry out the feet with tea like this.
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i have a question. does it matter what kind of tea bags is being used? what kind meaning flavor and who makes it. like lipton, etc.
thanks for your time!
jasmine
Peg -
The same question was asked on the Oprah forums, and the answer appears to be 3 tea bags.
I found this reply most helpful:
"I am pretty sure that the number of teabags was three and it should be common tea which contains tannin and its the tannin that dries up the sweat, stopping your feet from smelling so bad. I would imagine that you would use a different batch each time as the first batch would be stinky after 30 mins." --Janet05
Hope that helps! :-D
with the tea bag cure for feet about how many bags. i'm 38 & about 97lbs 5ft 1 in thank you for your time.