How to take care of your feet? After all, they are particularly vulnerable to injury and irritation, because it is on them that we base the greatest burden. Most often, we only care about the appearance of the nails, and we forget about proper hydration, tearing off dead skin and preventing blisters and calluses. Once you feel your feet feel and look bad, enter a quick recovery program. Check how to take care of your feet.
How to ask for feet? It is not the easiest thing to do, because the skin of the feet is easy to dry, because although it is thick, it has few sebaceous glands, but a lot of sweat. A layer of keratinized epidermis grows on the heels and toes, cracks form in it, which may extend to the dermis and cause pain when walking. So when it is time for your feet to be exposed, they need to be looked at and the neglect corrected.
How to take care of your feet: prepare a bath for them
Add a handful of cosmetic salt to the bowl of warm water. The best are compositions based on Dead Sea salt, extremely rich in minerals, but it can also be ordinary table salt. The salt bath has a refreshing effect, helps fight puffiness, and firms the skin.
If you do not like salt baths, you can add a little shower liquid to the water or a few drops of olive oil, an oil with moisturizing properties - the idea is to soften the skin and relax. Do not keep your feet in warm water for more than 15 minutes, because the skin and nails will get too soft.
How to take care of your feet: smooth their skin
Dry your feet and use a pedicure stick to remove the cuticles, and smooth the fluffed skin with a fine grater or peeling. It is best to use a scrub designed specifically for the feet.
These are preparations usually containing pumice particles or salt crystals and aromatic oils - they polish the epidermis while nourishing it. Finally, smear your feet with a cream that will moisturize and soften them. Apply it on your skin and massage it in. Pat your feet, put pressure on your thumbs. Take your time - such a massage will additionally improve circulation and will relax you perfectly.
Sore problem: cracked heels
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Moisturizing the skin of the feet
Dry skin on the feet has a tendency to become corneal quickly, so to prevent it, keep it well moisturized. Use a moisturizing cream in the morning to rebuild the skin's hydro-lipid coat and prevent it from drying out. In the evening, put a nourishing mask on your washed feet, wait for it to absorb and put on cotton socks. When you take them off in the morning, you will find that your skin is smooth, soft and moisturized.
How to take care of your feet: remember about your nails
Nippers with a rounded cutting surface are most suitable for cutting nails. Thanks to this, they do not crack the plate, which is much harder than the hands.
Shorten the nails so that they protrude a bit beyond the fingertips - they are supposed to protect them against injuries. File the sides of the plate by rounding them slightly - but carefully, because if you do it too deeply, the nails will start to grow into the body painfully. Then remove the thickened skin by rubbing it with a special grater.
Do not use a pumice stone as its porous structure provides excellent conditions for bacteria to multiply. If the epidermis is cracked, rub it by moving the grater parallel to the cracks so as not to widen them.
How to take care of your feet: fight the most common problems
Corns and corns are cone-shaped calluses of the skin that stick into the body like a nail. They usually form in places where the foot is constantly pressed against the shoe.
What to do?
Soak your feet, pat them dry and apply a plaster to the blotter or apply a blister fluid. After 2-3 days, wet your feet again and rub the rough skin around the print with a grater or pumice - its core should be removable during this procedure. If not, repeat the entire procedure or seek professional advice from a podiatrist.
Cracked heels are most often the result of severe drying and rapid keratinization of the epidermis. Cracks can also form due to vitamin deficiency, mainly vitamin A.
What to do?
After daily soaking your feet in water with the addition of cosmetic salt or bath lotion and gently rubbing the callous epidermis, massage the crack healing cream or the contents of the vitamin A E capsule into your heels, and then put on cotton socks. When exposed to heat, the cream or the contents of the ampoule will penetrate the skin more easily.
Sweating feet are usually the result of spending many hours in warm shoes. Then the skin does not breathe and is constantly moist, which creates favorable conditions for fungal infections.
What to do?
Soak your feet in a herbal bath (e.g. an infusion of oak bark reduces sweating, sage has a disinfecting effect). Thoroughly dry the skin and rub with the anti-perspirant. Use foot deodorant daily, and if you wear closed shoes, use talcum powder to absorb moisture. During the day, e.g. at work, change to lighter shoes. If you notice the first signs of mycosis - blisters on the soles and between the toes - lubricate the skin with an antifungal preparation, e.g. with tea tree oil, after each washing of your feet.
