For prevention, there is only one method: mitigation. Someone prefers petroleum jelly, someone - home recipes: vegetable (olive or linseed) oil, curdled milk, honey and even onion gruel. All these tools really help, if you do with them compresses for 2-3 hours, or even better - at night. Before resorting to these measures, you need to make sure that the feet are free from the fungus and that the crack is not festered. Otherwise, the compress becomes an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. Just in case before the procedures, treat the feet with an antibacterial compound. If the cracks are not yet, but worried about excessive dryness, lubricate your feet for a night with a fat cream and put on socks - cotton or woolen. And if the fungus? Do not self-medicate. Although there are many means for internal and external use, antifungal lacquers, as well as keratolic patches or ointments to remove the affected areas of the nail, first of all, it is necessary to confirm the diagnosis. A truly effective antifungal complex can be prescribed only by a doctor.
Unloved corn
Get rid of dry skin, cracks on the heels of forever impossible - we constantly press our own, weighing a small area, and calluses arise again. Leave everything as is, you can not!
Remember: calluses are not cut off. If you use a corn plaster, keep in mind that the fresh peel coming from under the coarse crust is too tender - it must be covered with a special protective plaster-pillow, otherwise it is easy to injure this area. Dry calluses (especially with the already appeared rod, extending deep into the track) are best left untouched, let them be removed by the hardware method in the cabin. The recipe for every day is simple: 2-3 movements of pumice during the evening ablution.
The issue of nutrition
Do not listen to those who try to convince you that the nail is a dead, cornified matter, and therefore it is pointless to feed it. The nail plate receives a certain amount of nutrients, it grows and is capable of regeneration, and therefore can not be considered dead. That's if the fingernail is not nourished and moistened, then there really is not much chance of "surviving" it.
Cream baths are very useful for stop and nail. Add 50 ml of fat cream (an ideal moisturizer!) To warm water and strew the legs for 15-20 minutes, then immerse them in a cold bath with ice pieces for a short time. Nails need not only to nourish and moisturize, but also to exfoliate - just like skin. The timely disposal of the upper layer will help the nails look shiny and pink. But here you need to know the measure: grinding with a saw blade should be carried out not more often than once in ten days, and for thin, weak nails - even less often. To avoid "bends", do not sand the dry nail plate, apply a thin layer of vegetable oil or special oil for nails to it. In this case, a kind of "microprinting" of the nail flakes occurs, its structure becomes denser, the plate acquires a shine and invulnerability to the bacteria. Mick polishing can be done with special scrubs for nails. And, of course, intensive nutrition and massage of the cuticle, nail bed and the "root" of the nail is absolutely necessary. No wonder they say that the proper care for the cuticle and nail bed - 50% guarantee of a beautiful pedicure! Be sure to massage the nail bed and nail, greasing them with olive oil, and even better - a professional cocktail for nails and cuticles.
Classic edged pedicure
This pedicure is popular, because the result can be seen immediately. By cutting tools the master can qualitatively process calluses, cracks, and also feet, subject to peeling. But the "classics" have their drawbacks. After it, the growth rate of the protective layer increases. And this, in turn, increases the buildup of dry skin and corns. In addition, with classical care there is a possibility of injuries and cuts, which increases the risk of infection and can cause pain when walking.
Hardware pedicure
This is the fastest procedure for treating the feet with dry skin, cracks on the heels. Special grinding nozzles will treat feet no worse than experts in classical pedicure. Instead of water in the hardware version of care, special compounds are used - softeners, which contribute to the rapid exfoliation of corroded tissue. And all would be well, if not for the organic dust that arises in the process.
Maintenance Care
For thin skin, the ideal option is the drug care: treatment of feet with scrubs and other compounds based on salts, alkalis and fruit acids, as well as grinding with abrasive nail files and scrapers. Advantages here are the complete elimination of injuries and cuts and a very small thickness of the removed layer of skin, which allows you to keep the pedicure longer in perfect condition.
Spa-pedicure
The most modern complex for foot care. It includes not only hygienic care, but also the relaxation of the whole organism. Removal of calluses and corns in spa complexes occurs due to peeling with natural ingredients. With such care it is impossible to overdo it. But its main advantage is a relaxing effect on the entire body. This is a reflex massage, and aromatherapy, and providing the necessary nutrition, and moisturizing. Minus such withdrawal - the possibility of allergic reactions in the presence of individual intolerance.
Fodder forage
Not least the health and appearance of the nails depends on the diet. Do not forget to enrich your menu:
- fat cottage cheese: it perfectly combines the necessary calcium nails,
- conducive to the assimilation of the last phosphorus and vitamin of growth - vitamin D; sea fish and seafood - they contain iodine, without which there are no beautiful hair,
- Skin and, of course, nails; vitamins of group B: to enhance the beneficial effect, take two tablespoons of dry yeast daily;
- fresh citrus or juice from them, and in winter -
- Sour cabbage: vitamin C, contained in these products, will strengthen the general immunity, and therefore, strengthen the defense of nails against the fungus; In addition, it will help to avoid dysbacteriosis, also able to indirectly have a negative effect on the nails; vitamin A: it increases the elasticity of all tissues and will become an excellent prevention of cracks and delamination; lean on cod liver, eggs, orange and purple vegetables and fruits.