The most effective procedure for the skin on the heels was smooth and gentle, if we make foot baths: herbal, from table salt and sea salt, soap and soda. They need to be done at least 3 times a month. To do this, you need to choose the bath you like, taking into account your skin on your legs and immerse your legs for 30 or 40 minutes into it.
But if you use only this procedure, you can not achieve the result that you want. In addition to the trays, you need to regularly clean the skin of the heels. When the legs are ripped in the bath, you need to clean the upper horny layer of the skin with a pedicure brush with stiff bristles or fine-grained pumice.
If regularly removed coarse skin particles, it will be much more effective than if we remove the blade and handle with iron brushes, such procedures are very harmful to the skin of the legs.
Once a week, you need to clean your heels with a foot scrub. A little scrub should be applied to the oval nail file or to a flat pumice stone and in a circular motion it is good to rub into the skin of the heels. Rinse and repeat the procedure again. Skin on the heels should be cleaned with a scrub for no more than 2 or 3 minutes, otherwise you can injure the top layer of the skin. After a skin of heels it is necessary to soften and humidify. Hearts need to be lubricated with a cream with an extract of calendula or chamomile, or the usual foot cream that you always use.
The most pleasant and effective procedure for foot care is a hot foot bath, lasting from 15 to 20 minutes.
For a cleaning bath, take 1 or 2 teaspoons of baking soda, soluble in one liter of water, add 1 tablespoon of soap chips and immerse the feet in water.
We make the toning bath so: in 3 liters of warm water we dissolve a handful of salt. After the bath, rinse your feet with cool water with the addition of boric acid, (1 teaspoon per glass of water).
For a firming and soothing bath, take 2 tablespoons of a mixture of needles, flaxseed and chamomile. To keep our legs beautiful and healthy with the help of St. John's wort, nettle herbs, calendula flowers. After the bath, we clean our feet with a fine-grained pumice stone.
The attribute of the indispensable care for the feet are the contrasting baths with cold water (10 seconds) and hot (5 seconds) done alternately, with the addition of salt and herbs. They help with fatigue, edema, heaviness in the area of the feet.
If you find that the skin has become fragile and lost elasticity, this happens from prolonged exposure to the sun or after bathing, you need to make lotions from the althaea. To do this, in enameled dishes we will fill 2 tablespoons of crushed root of althea, half a liter of warm water. Densely close the lid and heated in a water bath for half an hour, do not forget to stir it. Then cool to a state of room temperature, soak in this decoction of napkins and apply them for thirty minutes to the heels. If possible, do this procedure 2 times a day: morning and evening.
There is another, also effective way - mix 1 egg yolk with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and add ½ teaspoon of potato starch. We will put the mixture on the already steamed heels, and hold, until the mask has dried, until a dense crust. Then wash off the mask with warm water and apply a moistening emulsion.
Skin on the heels can be made smooth and gentle, if every day to rub into the skin of the heels a little warm olive oil or pulp of olives.
In order not to break the upper layer of the skin on the heels, you need to apply moisturizing creams before taking hygienic or sun baths.
If the skin on the heels looks like sandpaper and is very hard, then the top layer of skin dies. So after a soda-soap or a herbal bath you need to put a compress on the heels of the onions. To do this, we scald the onion head with steep boiling water several times, then cut into halves and apply to the heels. From above we put a film of polyethylene, we will bandage and leave for the night. In the morning, remove the onion remnants, rub well with pumice stone and grease with a fat cream, rub the cream in circular motions. It will be enough to make 2 or 3 such procedures, and the skin will become smooth and tender.
If the skin looks like "sandpaper", then such a defect can be corrected if we hold our legs in a warm bath of starch, then we brush the heels with a not very rigid brush. After this bath the dead cells of the upper layer quickly leave, and the skin becomes smooth and soft.
To the skin was silky and tender, you need to use the following recipe: the heels of the legs are smeared with corn oil or fat cream, before going to bed, then we put a film of polyethylene and fix it with a bandage. In the morning we'll make a foot bath, we'll hit our feet for 20 minutes, pumice the skin on the heels. This procedure is done regularly, and the skin will become tender and satin.
If we make a vegetable or fruit mask on the face, we do not forget about the heels. Hardened skin soften, if we put a mask on the heels of fresh zucchini. For this zucchini finely chop, impose on cheesecloth and attach to the heels for half an hour, then wash it with warm water and grease with a nutritious fat cream. Such a mask is done once a week and the skin on the heels will look like a tender rose petals.
We will cheer up the heels with a mask of fresh apricots, and they will have a beautiful view. This mask is very simply done. We split apricots without pits in a bowl, using a knife or fork, add 1 or 2 drops of olive or vegetable oil, mix well and put on a weak fire for three minutes. We will put a warm mask on the heels, put it on top with a polyethylene film and tie it with a bandage. With such a mask, we lie for 20 minutes, then we wash it off with cool water. If desired, lubricate the heel with a nutritious cream.
Many know about the amazing and healing properties of green tea. In order to bring the heels to a decent appearance, we will make a mask from a universal cream with green tea. To do this, we pour 1 tablespoon of green tea with steep boiling water, salt the liquid, leave the tea leaves. After the foot bath, we will apply on the skin of the heels, a thick layer of nutritious or moisturizing cream and put the tea leaves on top of the cream. After forty minutes, we will wash off the mask with warm water, and with the pads of the fingers we massage the feet.
Once a month, let's do this procedure: in a saucepan, heat a glass of white wine, until the bubbles appear, and put 1 tablespoon of lime-colored flowers. Cook for a few minutes under the closed lid, then remove it from the fire and pour hot wine into the basin. When the liquid becomes warm, we put the heels there, we keep the feet with our fingers upward. Hold the legs for 10 minutes, then rub the heels with a soft washcloth and again lower the heels into the basin. So do it 3 or 4 times. Very quickly come the keratinized layer of the skin, and we will see that the heels are tender, pink with a delicate and satiny skin.
If you wear tight shoes, then on the heels soon formed scuffed, which when walking will be accompanied by unpleasant sensations. Apply to the heels of cool compresses of peppermint or dried chamomile flowers, then weap the heels with a light cream.
These abrasions will pass very quickly if you make such a decoction: we will prepare half a liter of broth of cornflowers, pour it equally into two basins, cool one half, keep the other half in a water bath. In a warm broth, moisten gauze or cotton swabs and put on the heels, after a few minutes we will replace some tampons, on others, soaked with cold broth and for a few minutes we leave them on the heels. Repeat this procedure 5 or 6 times, complete with a cool compress and smudge rubbed on the heels of a nourishing cream. The very next day you will feel a significant improvement, and if you do several times this procedure, you can forever say goodbye to rubbing your heels.
It is useful to make herbal wraps for the heels. Prepare the broth from: turn, chamomile, waterweed, we moisten in a hot broth pieces of cotton fabric and put them on the heels, put them on the feet on the cellophane bag, tie the ankles with a bandage. And on top of the packages we'll put on woolen warm socks. After one hour, remove the compress and circular light movements in the heels of ten nourishing cream.
From time to time, we do a strong massage with a fat cream. We warm up the fat cream in our hands and massage our heels with a gentle kneading motion. Such a massage will improve overall health and increase blood circulation in the feet.
You can massage the heels with a warm towel. We'll put a towel on the battery or iron it with a hot iron and rub it well with the pads of the fingers, feet and heels.
Cracks on the heels
If you experience discomfort when walking, the soles begin to burn, with each step there is pain in the heels, which means that you have cracks on the heels. Examine the soles, and notice deep cracks on the heels, thin and small incisions, then you need to immediately begin treatment.
Physicians believe that cracks arise from excessive dryness of the skin. It may be due to uneven skin tension, in summer the skin is stretched from moisture, in the winter it loses its natural moisture and cracks appear on it. Cracks are difficult to treat, but with moisturizers and regular medical procedures, you can permanently get rid of this problem. To treat cracks on the heels, you need to use preparations on vaseline, they can be bought at any pharmacy, but you should consult a doctor or pharmacist beforehand.
Pure petroleum jelly helps moisturize the skin and softens the cracks well. We spread the legs in hot water, with the addition of boric acid to a glass of water, take 1 teaspoon of boric acid. We will put on the cracks a layer of petroleum jelly and leave it for all night. The next day the procedure will be repeated, and we do it until the cracks disappear completely.
Painful cracks can be disinfected with green. Before going to bed, we'll wash our feet with warm water and soap, or we'll make a foot bath, dry the feet skin dry, do not forget to wipe the skin between your fingers, we'll lubricate the diseased areas with green. To avoid the appearance of cracks between the fingers, you need to wipe the feet well between your fingers after washing your feet.
To get rid of thin incisions on the heels, you can in a few days, for this you need to put a heaped apple on the heels. We will tart a juicy apple on a small grater, lay out this mashed potatoes on a piece of cloth and attach to the heels, we will tie a compress with a bandage.
To moisturize deep cracks, wipe the heels with a cut of fresh tomato. Or you can tomato juice, just not ketchup.
The grass of the elephant is known to many, many diseases were cured. Devyasil is a part of cosmetic products and is also used in dermatology. If every day make hot compresses or lotions from the roots of elecampane, then very quickly heal cracks on the heels. Cabbage leaf is an effective tool for treating cracks on the heels. For the night we put fresh cabbage leaf, and in the morning we will grease the crack with a moisturizing cream.
From deep cracks you can get rid of using potatoes. Boil the potatoes in the peel until the friable state, add water, stir potatoes with a fork. In potato broth we will hold the legs for 30 or 40 minutes, then rinse the feet with warm water and grease the crack with a fat cream or castor oil. For the night after this procedure we will put on cotton socks.
Careful care of your feet will not bring you success if you do not follow basic hygienic procedures - washing feet, changing stockings and sock, airing shoes. This can save you from the development of fungal diseases, pains and unpleasant odors.
Now we know what intensive care for the skin of the heels is needed. If you follow these tips, the skin of the heels and feet will be healthy, velvety and gentle.