Foot Care Tips

Posted by: beautytips | July 21, 2010

Foot Care Treatment Tips: In the shower, gently rub a foot file all over the bottoms of your feet to slough away dead cells and encourage turnover (try Tweeze man Foot File, $20, tweezerman.com). At night, massage your soles with a hydrating foot cream (try Sally Hansen Just Feet 24 Hour Double Duty Creme, $6.25, at drugstores). Suffering from yellowing toenails? New York City manicurist Jin Soon Choi advises taking a vacay from deeply colored varnishes. She also recommends bleaching your nails with a homemade paste. Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice into a teaspoon of baking powder, and rub the paste onto the nails with a cotton pad or brush. Rinse, then buff for a natural finish. To rid nails of discoloration caused by a fungal infection, see a podiatrist, who can give you a topical treatment or oral Rx. Corns can be reduced with the help of a foot file. Use it in the shower to slough off the top layer of hard skin, then apply a foot cream. Wearing roomy shoes can help too. Wide-width shoes can also prevent hammertoes and bunions from getting worse, but if yours are truly unsightly or painful, you may want to consider surgery.

Prevent future damage: Expert advises doing one foot treatment a day. You hydrate their cuticles on Monday, smooth calluses on Tuesday, exfoliate on Wednesday, and then repeat for the rest of the week. Alternate between wearing heels and flats to avoid placing too much pressure on the balls of your feet, and don’t buy shoes that feel tight even if they’re sexy and on sale. The wrong size can cause a world of damage.

Home Foot Care Tips – Routine

Rub your foot and legs daily with a pumice stone during your bath. It will discourage forming of hard skin on feet and weaken hair growth.

After bath deal with cuticles and toe-nails in exactly the same way as you do for the nails of your hands.
Pedicure (Once a Week)
Remove old nail polish with cotton dipped in nail polish remover.
Wash your feet in warm, soapy water and scrub them well with either a pumice stone or a scrub brush.
Dry your feet and cut nails straight across, leaving the corners. You may trim the corners slightly.
This way of trimming the nails prevents in-growing toe-nails. Now smooth with an emery board.
Clean under the toe-nails with a cotton-tipped orange stick. Next, buff the nails and apply a cuticle remover.
Push back cuticles with an orange stick and massage each toe with warm coconut or olive oil or cuticle cream.
You are ready for polishing your nails now. You may put cotton wool between toes to prevent smudging.
Apply the nail polish the same-way as you do on your finger-nails.
After the nail polish is dry massage body lotion or oil into your legs and feet.