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Unless you've been hiding yourself underneath a rock for the last few years, you would've heard often about detox. Detox is a way of ridding your system of years of built-up toxins. A detox program is the course of detox that you will take. You may start with a lemon detox which involves drinking copious amounts of lemon juice and water. You may also try one of the more experimental detox methods such as detox foot patches, or the detox foot spa which relies on foot detox. One of the best ways of detoxing is through whole foods and sensible diet, because this kind of detox you can carry on for the rest of your life will. If you do this you will never have to "detox" again.

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Is  the Detox Foot Spa a scam? First, a little bit about detox in general and Foot Detox.

Detox is removing all toxic chemicals that are left in your body through everyday living. Foot Detox is the method used for drawing these chemicals out of your body through your feet.

With the Detox Foot Bath, you place your feet into the water, which contains salt to aid conductivity.  A small charge of electricity is passed through the water, releasing the toxins.  One session should last about half an hour.

The water starts to change color.  Gradually it turns into a chocolatey brown colour. Is this really the colour of your toxins, or is it something else, like electrolysis?

This is what the sceptics say. That Detox Foot Baths are nothing more than  cheap scams.