Homemade Heating Pad

Every once in a while, we all experience a muscle pull, sleep in the wrong position, or for the ladies, the monthly menstrual cramps. While the readily available pain killers (whose regular consumption is very harmful) or electric heating pads are handy, how about using your own homemade heating pad. It’s fast and easy to make, and there are several options available to make your own microwaveable homemade hot pack. A homemade heating pad can immediately relax the body, relieve it from pain and be just as soothing as the over the counter heating pads

Requirements for homemade heating pad

To create your own masterpiece of a homemade heating pad, you start by collecting the raw materials that would be required. The fabric option can be chosen among cotton (plain, prints and denim) or some used cloth lying in the house like old towels or socks. It is better to choose among cotton fabrics as it is microwaveable. The softer and fluffier the fabric, the better it is. The filling can be chosen from the following: uncooked rice, wheat, feed corn, buckwheat hulls, barley, oatmeal, beans, flax seeds and cherry pits. To add fragrance to the heating pad, spices, herbs and essential oils could be added. If to be used, it is better to keep the main filler, along with the spice, herb and essential oil, in a container together for few days as it helps in equally distributing the fragrance. This is extremely soothing when used.

How to make a homemade heating pad

To create the homemade heating pad, it is first required to cut and sew the fabric as per the size of your convenience and requirement. One side needs to be left open for the filling. The stitched bag should ideally be filled up to ½ to ¾ the level and not fully, as this helps the pad to mold better around the body when it is used. Once the bag is filled, the open end is stitched and this is now ready to be used as a heating pad. You can also create a cover for the heating pads in a similar way by using a Velcro to close the open end. Though, it is important to remember only to put the main pillow for heating and not the cover, it is also important to remember that homemade heating pads should always and strictly be made only by cotton fabric. It needs to be microwaved for two-three minutes and can be used for as long as sixty minutes.

These heating pads are very useful and practical to treat pain or to pamper yourself after a long-exhausting day. But it is important to be cautious, while removing them from the microwave and applying it to the body. The bag shouldn’t be too hot to burn the skin. While our laziness might argue that why put so much effort in something that is so readily available in the market, creating a homemade heating pad gives satisfaction and it could be customized as per your preference and convenience. It is an inexpensive way to heal aches.