Botanicals Natural Foot Soak

I found the most awesome little shop selling organic and natural beauty products in Lower Marsh last week.  It had the most fabulous array of natural products, a lot of which I hadn’t heard of before.  I immediately set to opening tester pots, sniffing and applying.  By the end of the lunch hour, my hands were feeling so laden with products I couldn’t open a bottle of coke, yet I’d left with a small tub of mineral salts which I hadn’t been able to try but smelt too god damn good to leave behind. Yes, it’s another Impulse Buy!

But anyway I was excited.  I whittled away my afternoon at work, occasionally producing the pot and persuading passers by to have a sniff.  The salts have a beautiful scent of mint and tea tree.  So refreshing and up-lifting.  I couldn’t wait to get home to try them out. 

I got a bubbling foot spa for Christmas, so filled it with warm water, then added the recommended two teaspoons of Botanicals Mineral Foot Soak – a blend of Himalayan mineral crystal, Dead Sea and Epsom salts.  I waited a couple of minutes for them to dissolve, pondering in this time if switching on the bubbles would assist this process before deciding I wasn’t entirely sure if adding products to the water in a bubbling foot spa would block it up (anyone know?  It’d be fun to add some essential oils or something). 

After grabbing a towel, I settled down on the sofa and placed my feet in the water.  It was pleasant as warm water always is on tired achey feet.  But I was a little disappointed.  I couldn’t smell the wonderful aroma that had convinced me to buy the Foot Soak in the first place.  It was so strong in the pot, I had felt sure the aroma would filter up from the foot spa and envelop me, lifting my spirits as well as relaxing my feet.

After around 20 minutes of Come Dine With Me, I removed my feet and dried them off with the towel.  These were definitely softer feet than usual.  Very pleasant in fact.  I padded around the flat for a bit and it felt good!  The ache in the arches and heal of my feet were gone and walking just felt ‘soft’.

I finished up with a rice based foot oil I bought in Thailand to try to prolong the feeling then popped on some cotton socks.  The result the next day was wonderfully soft feet.  I was impressed!

On another note, the shop in Lower Marsh also had a potential rival to my beloved Bare Escentuals mineral foundation which I quite fancy trying.  Will likely try to acquire some testers and feedback at a later date. 

Rating out of 10: 9

The Good: 

Beautiful smelling salts

Anti-bacterial tea tree oils

Soft, sweet-smelling footsicles!

The Bad:

Aroma doesn’t quite reach you from the foot spa (perhaps I used too little?!).

The Ugly:  I paid about £12 for my 125g pot at the shop in Lower Marsh, but you can find Botanicals Mineral Foot Soak for £9.95 online at http://www.botanicals.co.uk/.  I reckon it’ll probably last a good while.