Foot care, pedicure at home

In our article "Caring for feet, pedicure at home" we will tell you how to take care of your feet, how you can do pedicure at home, because groomed feet should look just as beautiful as well-groomed hands. This is very important in the summer, because the feet can not hide behind pantyhose or boots. Many do not know, or just lazy, how to take care of your feet. But if you pay insufficient attention to your footsteps, this can lead to the appearance of fungus, cracks, smell and other various troubles. We will give you some tips on how to properly care for your feet, for the skin of your feet, behind your nails, behind your heels.

To begin with, we repeat the truism:
- We choose the right shoes. It should not be too spacious or very narrow, this applies to the shoe on the hairpin, and the sneaker.
- We periodically massage our feet and gymnastics.
- Every day we take care of the skin of feet.
- Twice a week we take care of our toenails.

Skin Care Stop
Every day my feet, especially this, refers to the summer period. You will feel confident in any open, summer shoes, if you follow our advice:

- In order for our feet to be clean, take a small basin and soap. In the basin we pour warm water and rub our feet using a loofah, soap and pumice. We take a toothbrush and, as it should, work on the toes, lightly press the brush, and rub it on the nails, and on the entire surface around them.

- Then we'll clean our feet, do not rub them hard, then just get wet with a towel, leaving a little moisture. Here between the fingers, we will well rub it, they do not need moisture. Do not rub, until the cream and do not grab at once for the tweezers, a little wait.

- Massage your feet. To do this, we will acquire a special remedy, or use warm milk, lemon juice or olive oil. We mass slowly, pay attention to each part of the foot, but do not apply anything between the fingers.

- Rinse your feet with warm water, if before you did not use milk, yogurt, if you took juice or butter, then do not rinse.

"Let's apply the foot cream." Do not be greedy, if your skin is dry, we will apply enough cream on it.

"We'll wear socks to absorb the cream better."

We take care of our toenails
It is very important and necessary to look after the nails. After all, the fungus and ingrown nails do not make the nails more beautiful, so do not neglect such things, because in summer the nails are in sight.

What you need to know about nail care?
- Once in 4 days we file nails on the legs, then they will be in good shape.

- Once a week we cut our nails. The nail should end where the finger ends. We will not cut off the nails very shortly, as the likelihood of ingrown nails will increase.

- Rub orange juice or lemon juice into the nails to add a little shine and disinfect the nail plates.

- Do not forget to apply the varnish in the summer, even if it is colorless. So we can protect ourselves from different germs and fungus.

Pedicure at home
Here are some recommendations on how to do pedicure at home:
To do this you will need: soap, pelvis, towel, special nail file, cuticle oil, special device for separating fingers for a pedicure, pumice, moisturizing cream and varnishes.

- Remove the old varnish, if any.

- Put your feet in the basin with soapy water, and we'll sit for 20 minutes.

- With the help of a nail file, we cut the nails. Let's remember the rule: we never cut off our nails, while they are still wet, we can damage them. Wait until they are completely dry, and then cut them.

- After we have cut our nails, we will apply oil for the cuticle. Let's leave the oil on the nails, just a few minutes, and then move the cuticle with a wooden spatula.

"We'll remove dirt from under our nails."

"Then we'll get soaked, we'll let our feet dry." Apply the varnish to the dry nails.

- Take the lacquers and the separator for your fingers. We must first apply the base coat, because the colored lacquers dry the nails very much. And there is a coloring pigment, can penetrate the nail and then the nails will acquire a rather strange color. After the base coat, we will apply a colored lacquer, and then a fixer.

How will we treat cracks on the heels?
When cracks appear on the heels, it indicates that something is going on in the body, something is wrong. The cause may be diabetes, beriberi, fungus and so on. About prevention and treatment should be thought of earlier than the then started illness will be treated by a doctor. It happens that in some cases, to help the patient, surgery is needed.

To your heels were as smooth and soft as a child, you need to do this at home:
- We take a moisturizing cream for the feet and every evening we apply a lot of foot cream, we need to do before going to bed, after taking a shower. We put on socks to improve the result.

- Instead of cream, we will try Vaseline, after its application, we will put on socks. In vaseline you can add a drop of lemon juice.

- The legs should be clean.

- We do a pedicure.

- We use pumice stone.

- We eat food rich in iron, calcium and omega-3, zinc.

- Once a week, soak the feet in the bath, which we add lemon juice and salt.

- We make a mask of honey, this mask promotes the healing of cracks and makes the skin of the legs softer.


Now we know how to carry out foot care pedicure at home. Let's not forget that we need to take care of our feet. After all, they wear us every day, and sometimes we need to thank them for it.