Skip to content
Herbs & Cultures

Natural skin and hair care

Pumice foot scrub

A scrub with pumice powder for hard skin.

Used for

Time
5 minutes
Makes
About 60 g
Sesame

Pumice is coarser than sugar and does not dissolve; with sesame oil and eucalyptus it becomes a scrub for really rough spots.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons pumice powder
  • 60 ml sesame oil
  • 10 drops eucalyptus oil

Step by step

  1. Mix everything well in a clean jar.
  2. Rub about a tablespoon per foot over heels and soles. Rinse off and pat dry.

Registry

Herbs in this recipe

Read more about effects and safety on each herb’s page.

  • Caution

    Africa · Food · № 356

    Sesame

    Sesamum indicum

    Traditionally attributed effects: soothing, softens the skin, diuretic, promotes menstruation and milk flow, laxative; leaves for respiratory complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery in children, bladder catarrh; seeds for bleeding haemorrhoids, absent or painful menstruation.

    Ancient Egyptian medicine+3Folklore
  • Caution

    Oceania · Herb · № 172

    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus globulus

    Eucalyptus oil is used for coughs and blocked noses with colds and externally for muscle pain; the European Medicines Agency recognises these as traditional uses. Strong clinical evidence is limited.

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge+4Folklore

Cultures and traditions

Where the herbs come from

These traditions know the herbs in this recipe.