Rough skin on the heels, cracks and excessive dryness. All these problems can overtake a woman if she does not pay enough attention to her legs, neglects the use of cosmetics. Home foot care involves applying creams, bathing, and massaging. Let's consider each of these procedures in more detail.
Foot care folk remedies: baths
A good effect can be achieved if you regularly pamper your legs with all kinds of baths. The best means for their preparation are herbs, sea salt, essential oils. This type of foot treatment helps nourish, moisturize, tone up and relieve fatigue after long-term wearing of high-heeled shoes.
To prepare a soothing bath, dilute a handful of sea salt in warm water. After the procedure, you need to rinse your feet with cool water.
Herbal baths are an excellent procedure that heals cracks and relieves heaviness. To prepare a healing composition, you must pour boiling water over the following components:
• dry needles (2 tbsp. l.);
• flaxseed (2 tbsp. l);
• chamomile flowers (2 tbsp. l).
To heal the feet, you can also make a bath based on nettle, St. John's wort, celandine, string.
Massage
To provide complete care for your feet, you should not forget about such a meaningful procedure as massage. You can do it yourself. All actions must be started with stroking the feet and gradually move towards the toes.
To massage the feet, it is necessary to carry out gentle pressing movements. A procedure of this kind is very beneficial to health, since there are nerve endings on the feet that affect the work of internal organs.
Cleansing feet and brushing nails
To remove the stratum corneum from the heels and the formation of calluses and corns, it is imperative to resort to the use of foot care products in the form of scrubs.
It is necessary to apply them to the skin after steaming. When the scrubbing procedure is completed, you need to start processing the nails, trim them, remove impurities, remove the cuticles and give the desired shape with a nail file.
Moisturizing
For full-fledged foot care after water procedures, you must definitely use special creams and masks. Cosmetic products of this type contain nourishing and moisturizing ingredients, therefore, to maintain the beauty of the legs, they must be applied to the feet daily.
