Foot care, a real skincare routine

Taking care of your feet is not always easy. For lack of time or attention, we neglect what supports our weight throughout the day.

Except in summer, where sandals and other open shoes make us aware of the fact that our feet have lacked care during the winter: dry feet, toenails in poor condition, cracked heels, calluses, etc.

In order to remedy these inconveniences and to find beautiful feet, you must give them special care. Once a week or every two weeks, treat them successively with a scrub and the application of a nourishing cream.

Since the toenails grow slower than the fingernails, there is no need to cut them too often. However, check regularly that there is no risk of ingrown toenails and also avoid cutting them too short.

Homemade foot care

If your feet do not have particular problems, such as large calluses, a simple home treatment is sufficient. This allows, when it is done regularly, at a rate of 1 time every 15 days at least and more often in summer, to keep the softness and beauty of your feet.

For this you will need:

• by bicarbonate
• a nourishing vegetable oil, such as apricot oil or olive oil
• an essential oil of your choice, for its fragrance and its relaxing effects
• a pair of night socks

In a small basin, run hot water, at the temperature that suits you. Then pour 200 g of baking soda and let it melt. Add a few drops of essential oil if you wish, real lavender or even yellow tangerine, for the scent and their benefits on morale. Immerse your feet in this bath for about 1/4 hour.

The baking soda will relax your feet and thoroughly cleanse them. Hot water will soften the epidermis. This will then allow you to perform a more effective exfoliation. Again, you can use baking soda mixed with vegetable oil as an exfoliant.

After the scrub, rinse your feet and dry them perfectly. Then, apply a nourishing oil in massage. To make it penetrate and benefit from all its virtues, put on night socks after the massage and sleep like this. The next morning, your feet will be incomparably soft.

Dry feet, how to soften them?

If your feet suffer from more severe dryness, turning to specialized creams on the market is a solution, provided you choose the right products.

However, if you suffer from corns and calluses, or even thick dead skin that is difficult to remove, it is advisable to consult a chiropodist.

Are Foot Creams Effective?

When you have very dry feet, the cream you choose must be enriched with molecules with strong repairing power, such as glycerin or allantoin. It must also have a high rate of penetration to be effective.

Beware, however, of creams that contain mineral oils (liquid paraffin ou mineral oil on packaging) which are derived from the petrochemical industry. If they immediately improve the appearance of the skin of the feet, it is only a surface treatment.

Creams with a quality composition are profitable in the long term, provided they are used very regularly. For very dry feet, a massage once a day is recommended.

What about rasps sold in stores?

The need to have pretty feet, soft and without calluses, has of course not escaped the specialized manufacturers. There are therefore, for a few years now, in supermarkets or drugstores, many tools to restore softness to the feet.

These products are displayed at higher or lower prices, depending on whether the device is electric or manual, very sophisticated or not. Electric rasps of course allow a faster and more effortless result.

The effectiveness of these products is real, when their regular use is added to moisturizers. However, you can get equally good results with more ordinary tools that have been proven for decades, such as pumice.