The nature and experience of generations help us to maintain our health. In the age of new technologies and high-tech materials, birch bark - the usual tree bark, is successfully used in the manufacture of insoles for shoes .
Benefits of insoles from birch bark
This type of raw material is allowed for medical preparations in many countries of the world. As a rule, for making insoles, the bark is taken either of living or recently cut down birches. The most valuable is the birch bark, taken from the middle part of the tree. After the bark dries, it is ready to use.
Benefits of insoles from birch bark:
- according to folk beliefs, birch bark gives a person positive energy and takes pain, excitement;
- birch is a "warm tree", so its bark is able to warm your feet;
- birch bark does not cause irritation on the skin and does not become electrified;
- thanks to the content of betulin in its composition, birch bark disinfects, has antifungal effect, antiviral properties.
In the past - bast shoes, in the present - insole from birch bark
It turns out that health and insoles from birch bark are directly related. Because of poverty, our grandmothers wore bast shoes, but deprivations were rewarded with longevity, lack of rheumatism and joint diseases.
Today insoles from birch bark can be worn at home, with rubber boots, with autumn and winter footwear. Insoles not only will not allow your legs to freeze, but they will also remove sweating, eliminate an unpleasant smell. With the help of this product, joint diseases can be prevented.
By the way, if you think that such insoles are stiff and uncomfortable in the sock, then you are deeply mistaken - after 2-3 days of use, they become soft, cozy, comfortable.
Natural insoles can be purchased not only in the store, behind them many go to the forest, remove the bark from a fallen tree and cut out the stolechka to its size.