What Is the Price Range for Footbaths?

If you’ve determined that a footbath is something you need for your home or business, next determine your budget. That figure will be based upon the spa brand, its purpose and available features, and whether you’ll be using it at home for one person, or commercially for several individuals.

Many well-known manufacturers offer foot spas for home use, including Conair, HoMedics, and foot health company Dr. Scholl’s. The smaller footbaths can be simple tubs for warm water, costing less than $10, or electric versions with so many bells and whistles they need a remote control to operate. You can buy a simple, molded plastic footbath from Sunbeam with an aerating bubble feature and a water-heating element, for about $18. For just a few dollars more, HoMedics makes a spa with changeable pedicure discs and massaging features, as well as water jets with different settings. For about $40 the same company offers a version with a few more speed settings. Differing speeds and interchangeable pedicure and massage attachments can gradually add five or ten dollars to the price of a personal unit, but usually only specialty features like acupressure nodes will send the price above $100. High-end personal foot spa features which will send the cost of the unit well above $200 will almost always include detoxification. Ionizing spas, like the Aqua Chi Pro Ionic Foot Bath and Spa, can reach $1,500 in price and sometimes more.

Professional-style footbaths for commercial applications range in price from $3,000 to $6,500. PediSenso and Whirlpool offer pedicure stations, complete with plumbed footbaths, massaging leather chairs with client controls, and cabinetry designed to look like fine furniture. The gold standard of salon pedicure chairs is SaniJet, whose prices are similar to the upper end of the Whirlpool price range.

Footbath prices depend on so many variables that it makes sense to do your homework before making a purchase. Research brands to make sure the spa you purchase came from a company with staying power and a reliable customer service history. In addition, if you will be buying an ionizing bath, make sure you know exactly which replacement rod arrays you will need, and how long an array will last before it needs replacing. If you can, especially when buying online, find someone who will let you try out the footbath you are considering, or at least make sure the company you are dealing with has a return policy you can live with.