Care of the feet begins with morning exercises. The purpose of gymnastics is to wake up the body, to give the legs tone and working rhythm. The result of the daily morning gymnastics for the feet is beautiful and healthy legs for many years. Here is the simplest gymnastics for the feet, which even children can perform.
- Waking up, stretch a few times, without getting out of bed. Lying, rotate your feet feet left and right in circular motions 15 times. Bend your legs in your lap and stroke them with your hands from your feet in the direction up.
- Stand up, lean back in the chair, 4-6 times rise on your toes and drop on your heels.
- Walk around the room on your toes, and then on your heels, lifting your foot high off the floor.
- Stir with the fingers of both feet.
Finish the gymnastics with an easy massage: stroke your legs from the bottom up, tap on them with the edge of the palm, massage in circular motions.
Evening foot care provides daily foot baths. Folk recipes of such trays are numerous and varied. After regular trays your legs will become beautiful, healthy, they will even get tired less during the day.
Below are a few popular recipes for foot baths:
Cleansing bath.
Take 2 hours. drinking soda and dissolve them in a liter of boiled water (preferably hot), add to the bath 1 st. l. cleanser for the body or legs. As the water cools in the tub, hot water should be added. After the legs are decocted, you should rub your feet with a pumice stone or a stiff brush. The duration of the bath is 20 minutes.
Cleansing-tonic bath.
In 3 liters of water, dissolve 1 tbsp. l. drinking soda and 2st. l. salt (sea or cookery). Put your feet in the tub, pour hot water if necessary. The duration of the procedure is half an hour.
Therapeutic bath with calendula.
Brew 1 liter of boiling water 1 st. l. flowers of calendula. Such a bath has a wound-healing, soothing effect. It is recommended for calluses and damage to the skin of the feet. The duration of the bath is 20 minutes.
Toning bath.
Take the 2st. l. dry nettle and St. John's wort, pour the herbs with boiling water. The duration of the bath is half an hour.
Soothing and firming bath.
Take the 2st. l. the following mixture: chamomile flowers, flaxseed, needles. Pour dry mixture with boiling water, add 1st. l. salt. Put your feet in the tub for half an hour, pouring hot water, if necessary.
Warming-relaxing bath.
Take 1st. l. powder mustard, dilute in a glass of warm water and pour boiling water. The duration of the mustard bath is half an hour. After the bath should wear warm socks, preferably from wool. This bath helps with colds, diseases of the upper and lower respiratory tract. Do not do it with high body temperature.
Folk recipes will help your legs to be healthy. After taking a foot bath, you should apply a nourishing cream on your feet, and do a relaxing foot massage. To legs have always been in great shape, it is undesirable to wear slippers at home, it is best to walk barefoot. Especially useful are morning walks with bare feet on dewy grass. Restore the legs of sports, for example, cycling and swimming.
Not only folk recipes can heal legs. There are a number of physical exercises that need to be performed during the day, as soon as you have a free minute. They relieve fatigue from their feet, gait when performing these exercises constantly, it becomes light, natural, beautiful.
- Stand upright, put your hands on the back of the chair. Slowly rise on your toes, stay in this position, transferring the weight of the body to the outside of the foot. Repeat several times.
-Put a book on the floor. Stand so that the inside of the foot rests on the book, and the outer one touches the floor. Slowly rise on the socks and lower to the starting position.
- Lift from the floor several times small items, for example, a hair elastic.
- Walk around the room on the outside of the foot, then on the inside.
- Try to play with your toes. If this exercise you can not do, then at least move your fingers chaotically.
When caring for your feet, pay more attention to the knees, because the skin of the knees is more dry and rough. When washing, you should thoroughly rub it with a washcloth, use various scrubs for the body. After washing in your knees, you should rub the nourishing cream.
A pedicure can be done both in a manicure salon and at home. To do a pedicure at home, you should first hold your feet in a steamer. The feet can be rubbed with a pumice stone or brush. After the tray, cut off the nails, remove the cuticles from the nail, using a nail file, you need to give the nail a beautiful and neat shape. Do not cut the edges of the nail in the big toes so that it does not grow into the skin. After this, the nails need to be painted with lacquer.