Using Mats To Clean Your Feet
Filed under Disability, Handicap Bathroom, Handicap Equipment
It is important that you keep your feet clean. Feet that are dirty and sweaty offer the perfect grounds for bacteria to grow and spread. Callouses on feet can crack and bleed if they are not properly taken care of. With proper cleaning and care, a person can avoid painful feet. Cleaning your feet in the shower using foot scrubbers, foot cleansing bath mats, or pumice stones while your feet are wet, can assure healthy, clean feet.
Cleaning Your Feet Without Bending
These mats offer suction cupped bases that adhere easily to the bathtub base. All you have to do is to place in the bathtub or shower stall floor and suction it to the location best suited for you. No need to worry about slipping either. Once these are in place, they firmly stay where you put it. When you are ready to use, just add liquid soap and water. Then run your feet back and forth the device. You can clean your feet without bending. It is perfect for those individuals who need to use a bathtub or shower bench because they simply sit and do not have to worry about balance issues. A person just simply runs their feet back and forth over the mat for a perfect sudsy cleanse and a massage.
Anyone can use foot scrubbers. They are recommended for people who are elderly, handicapped, have back or hip problems, those who have trouble bending over, or those who simply cannot reach their feet. Many times these are beneficial to athletes, hikers, and landscapers. These individuals have very sweaty feet, which is the prime environment for fungus and bacteria.
Decrease Your Chances Of Slipping
Some areas of your life that are improved by using mats in the bath area are ensuring that you will not have further injury by slipping or falling just to cleanse your feet. When you use the mats, you will have the benefits of a foot massage. Feet have many reflexology areas that connect to vital points of the body. By stimulating these points, you promote circulation and overall well being.
Costs Of Feet Cleaning Mats
Feet cleaning mats generally cost less than $25.00, depending on the type you decide upon purchasing. They are generally easy to clean and maintain. After each use, you will want to rinse it thoroughly with very hot water and let it air dry. This will assure that there will not be any bacterial growth between uses.
Tags: Rubber Bath Mats
Benefits of Shower Stall Mats
Filed under Handicap Bathroom
Shower stall mats are quite beneficial in a home environment when they are used in a bathtub or shower stall space as they can prevent the bather from slipping and falling. They look attractive and can greatly help people with mobility issues. In addition, when rising up or lowering yourself down into the bathtub, shower mats will make things safer and more secure.
Rubber Bath Mats
Rubber bath mats are nonslip mats that are very valuable and appealing to use in bathrooms. Manufacturers also make extra large shower mats. The average prices of shower stall mats range between $16-$20, and the extra large ones can cost upwards of $25 at most retail shops. Here is a list of the many shower stall mat variations.
- Square Shower Mats
- Brown Bath Mats
- Textured Pebbles Shower Stall Mats
- Teak Shower Mats
- Round Shower Mats
Extra Large Shower Mats
Extra large shower mats can cover the majority of your shower or bathtub floor for added safety from slip and falls. Extra large mats come with skid resistant suction cups to keep mats in place. Here are a few recommended shower mats to buy.
- Extra Large White Shower Mats – Oversized shower stall mats that fit the majority of your showering area.
- Extra Large Rubber Bath Mats
In many cases, showers are combined with bathtubs in the same space where the water flows and a beautiful rubber stall mat can greatly benefit people who are trying to bathe if they have sprained or strained ankles because they can give the bathers much more traction to prevent accidents.
- Most regular, standard size mats are about 18″-24″ wide and about 36″ long, and that’s a perfect size to be able to adequately cover the surface area where the person taking a shower or getting up from a bath stands and moves around in.
- They’re usually 3/4″ thick and the rubber material gives them a very soft and cushioned feel to them.
- These mats also prevent water from splattering onto the outside, exterior surface of the floor surrounding a bathtub as they superbly absorb water.
- They make the bathing and standing area much more hygienic.
- They hardly require any cleaning or maintenance at all as the normal flow of soap and water from the shower and bath naturally keeps these mats constantly clean and hygienic.
- A person’s balance is much improved as well by using these mats when utilizing the shower or bath and he feels much more secure and stable when he’s inside the shower stall or bath washing himself.
These mats are the perfect addition to every bathroom that has a shower or bathtub and they’re extremely durable as well.