We give you two homemade recipes for exfoliating and repairing cracks with natural ingredients to give your feet the primary care so that they look beautiful and sexy this spring-summer.
How to easily exfoliate heels and feet at home
Can you exfoliate your feet at least once a week? This will make the dead skin that thickens the epidermis come off and make way for new and soft skin?
Ideally, exfoliate. after a 20-minute hot bath to remove dead skin more easily. You can also do a bath only at your feet and put in the water decongestant or refreshing salts .
For the first session, and if necessary, after 20 minutes, when the skin is soft, use a foot file or pumice stone in the most problematic areas. It will remove the most significant amount of inert skin.
To keep your feet with weekly sessions, use a less aggressive scrub, and, in addition, you can massage the feet to restore elasticity and activate circulation. Dry your feet very well and apply a moisturizing cream with urea.
Homemade scrub recipe to exfoliate feet
Super and straightforward, easy, there are no excuses for you not to do an exfoliation a couple of times a week.
Mix in a cup of 2 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of olive oil. If you have essential oil of mint Y rosemary camphor , use them, with 2 drops of each essential oil is enough. It will be the best massage for your feet that you can give yourself.
Apply the scrub and massage as long as you want, then wash, dry well, and apply a cream with urea .
Remember: do not use essential oils during pregnancy or lactation.
How to treat dry, cracked heels
Cracks in the heels are perhaps the ugliest thing about the feet, and they can be difficult to remove.
They are persistent after a certain age. The skin ages, dehydrate, thickens, and cracks. They can also hurt the skin, be painful, and become infected .
Must prevent them from appearing in the winter by moisturizing the feet daily .
But if they have already appeared, we can do an intense pedicure with a professional to fix our feet and remove the most necessary roughness. Then we can follow a maintenance routine throughout the summer.
If the calluses are not thick, you can do a good exfoliation strip the thicker skin with a pumice stone or foot sandpaper and recover the hydration of the heels with creams rich in urea.
Homemade repair balm recipe for cracked feet
Restore your feet when you feel them tired, dehydrated, and rough.
The calendula oil makes this balm repairing, healing, and anti-inflammatory .
Ingredients :
30g oil calendula
30g shea butter
4 drops of vitamin E
10 drops of propolis tincture
15 drops of essential oil lavender (optional)
Preparation
Place the oil and butter in a jar and add the vitamin E. Take them to a water bath and as soon as they melt, remove them from the heat.
Wait for them to cool down, add the lavender essential oil, and beat with a wire whisk if you wish to use it.
Pour into a disinfected wide-mouth jar.
Use and conservation:
After good hygiene, take a balsam almond and massage your feet every night until fully absorbed. Use it while you feel roughness and your feet are repaired. Maintain the softness and hydration of your feet with moisturizer. Precautions and contraindications: Do not use essential oils if you are pregnant or nursing.
