Nail care on the legs

In anticipation of summer, every woman striveslook perfect. Hairstyle, makeup, figure, clothes – all the nuances are taken into account, even the smallest ones. And, of course, in no case should you ignore your feet. After all, cracked heels and yellow nails in open sandals can spoil the overall impression of the most perfect image. Regular care of your toenails and foot skin will help you become the owner of the most beautiful feet in the world. Modern beauties have a wide variety of foot care products in their arsenal – from inexpensive to elite series. In addition, do not forget that there are a large number of different folk remedies for foot care, which often act much more effectively than ready-made products. Surely each of us at least once in our lives has seen the feet of a small child – tender and soft. So where does this softness and tenderness disappear to in an adult? As a person grows, the load on the feet increases significantly. In addition, shoes also play a significant role. The average modern woman spends about 11 hours a day in shoes. Often, for the sake of beauty, women sacrifice comfort and the foot ends up squeezed into tight shoes, which results in poor blood circulation and damaged skin. If foot care is not thorough enough, their condition rapidly deteriorates:

Due to the fact that shoes are often uncomfortable, blood supply is disturbed, resulting in increased sweating - the skin uses sweat as a lubricant. Trying to compensate for his position.
Because of the mechanical friction wet from the sweat of the skin aboutshoes have corns. All calluses can go through three stages - redness and swelling of the skin in the area of contact, the appearance of blisters with liquid subcutaneous contents. After that, the skin at the site of the appearance of the corn is significantly coarser and becomes rough. If you do not take the necessary measures at this stage, the skin coarsens very much, covering itself with a thick stratum corneum. In particularly severe cases, it is under this horny layer of skin that bubbles with water content are located. However, do not bring to such extremes.
Often a woman faces such a problem,as a cracking of the skin on the fingers and heels of the feet. This is almost always due to the tightness of the foot in the shoe, improper feeding and untimely removal of the stratified skin.
In addition, a woman who is not carefully and systematically caring for her legs is much more at risk of contracting fungal diseases of the skin and nails.

Of course, the problem is much simplerprevent than to fight its consequences. That is why this article describes foot care in the most accessible and detailed way. If you spend just a little of your time, you will proudly show off your beautiful and well-groomed feet. Proper foot care helps to maintain not only beauty, but also health. Toenails need constant care no less than the skin of the feet. You can get a pedicure in almost any salon. However, it can also be done at home. All you need is:

Hot water
Nail scissors
Nail file
Pumice

Steam your feet thoroughly and then trim them.nails, not ignoring the corners. After that, process the nails with a file, not ignoring the corners. Dry your feet and cover the nails with colored or transparent varnish.

Care for heels

If you feel that when you walk you havediscomfort - pain, burning in the feet, especially the heels, most likely, you have damaged skin on them - cracks. Cracks can cause a lot of very unpleasant minutes, and also lead to quite serious consequences. Measures must be taken immediately. At the first symptoms of discomfort, carefully examine the soles of your feet and if you find even the smallest cracks, immediately begin treatment. Important! If a lot of time has passed since the cracks appeared, and redness, swelling or abscesses appear around the cracks, or if your body temperature rises for no apparent reason with cracked heels, do not take any independent action and immediately consult a doctor. When starting treatment, be prepared for the fact that at least a month will pass before you achieve the final result - perfectly smooth and beautiful feet, so you need to start now. As mentioned above, you can use a variety of products for this - both purchased and homemade. Below is a description of foot care using folk remedies using available improvised means.

Remarkably promotes skin hydration andsoftening of cracks is an ordinary pure petrolatum, which can be bought in a conventional pharmacy. Also get boric acid. Before going to bed, make a hot foot bath with boric acid at a rate of 1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water. The duration of the bath should be about 20 minutes, after which the feet must be rinsed with clean water and dried. After that, apply a thick layer of petroleum jelly on the existing cracks and apply a folded bandage over it, fixing it with a bandage. Leave the bandage on all night, repeat the next day. Procedures should be repeated until the cracks are healed completely.

If the cracks are very deep and begin to appearsigns of an inflammatory reaction, they must be treated with ointments, which contain antibiotics. Ointment should be applied to the cracks in circular motions, a fairly thick layer. There is no need to impose a bandage. There is often an opinion. That for the treatment of cracks on the heels, steroid ointments are the most suitable. The truth is in this - the steroids contained in the ointment create a powerful barrier that prevents microbes from penetrating deeper into the skin crack. However, one should not forget that such ointments can often cause various undesirable reactions, so they can be used only with the permission of a dermatologist.

In addition to heels, often cracks also occurbetween the toes. In this case, a person experiences painful painful sensations. In addition to discomfort, the cracks between the fingers very quickly contribute to the development of fungal diseases. That is why the treatment of cracks between the fingers should immediately begin with the use of antifungal drugs. The most optimal drug will help you choose a doctor - a dermatologist. It is necessary to work their feet at least three times a day, after washing their feet with soap and drying them. Do not forget that wiping your feet can damage the integrity of the skin and cause cracks. In no case rub the skin with a towel, and gently water.

Folk ways of foot care

Nature has always been with us for hundreds of yearsreadily comes to the aid of a person. Foot care is no exception. There are a huge number of folk recipes. However, when choosing the right one for yourself, take into account the characteristics of your body and individual intolerance to individual components included in the components. Natural components accelerate the healing of cracks and microcracks, moisturize the skin well and have a general healing effect on the feet.

If you have cracks on your heels, significantlyEasy to help your condition will help you ordinary apples. Sew the apple with the peel on a fine grater. The resulting mashed potatoes should be applied to a layer of dense tissue and applied to the existing lesions of the skin. The tissue dressing must be tightly fixed with bandage. Leave such a compress is desirable for the whole night, in the morning having treated the feet with any moisturizer. As a rule, for the complete disappearance of all small cracks, 5-7 procedures are necessary.

Fresh juice is no less effective in healing cracks.cucumber. If the cracks in the skin are relatively small, you can simply lubricate them with a slice of fresh cucumber. If the cracks are deep, you need to prepare the following ingredients: Two fresh medium-sized cucumbers. It is advisable to give preference to those varieties of cucumbers that are grown in Russia. Three tablespoons of any natural honey, and 5 tablespoons of aloe tree leaves crushed to a puree state. Please note that the plant should be at least three years old. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly, place in a glass container and put in a cool, dark place for a week. After this, make a compress at night - apply a thick layer of the mixture to gauze, apply to the damaged area, fix with a bandage. In just 10 days, the deepest cracks will heal. Be careful with this recipe if you have previously had cases of allergic reactions to honey and other bee products.

Small and superficial cracks remarkably cureordinary fresh tomato. Simply after each washing of feet, wipe your feet with a fresh cut of tomato. If the cracks are deeper, moisten a cotton swab or gauze in tomato juice and attach them to the crack for 15 to 20 minutes. The duration of the course of treatment is at least one month. In no case do not repeat the mistakes of a large number of women and do not use ketchup for compresses - you will get an absolutely opposite effect.

Another faithful assistant in the fight against cracks andscuffs - this is a common grass "high elecampane". Dried elephant can be bought at the pharmacy. Its useful properties have been known for a long time - our ancestors specially grown it and successfully used to treat many diseases. To treat cracks on the skin of the soles, prepare the following remedy: chop the fresh grass of high elecampane into pieces, place it in a gauze pouch and place it in boiling water for one to two minutes. After this, allow to dry without pressing the bag. Do not allow the compressor to cool, attach it to cracks. Also this remedy is a great help in case of puffy and calloused calluses. Treatment should be continued until complete recovery.

Rapidly and effectively heals cracksand corn is a fresh cabbage leaf. Treatment is as follows - take a fresh cabbage leaf, scald it with steep boiling water, then cut it with a knife in various directions. This must be done in order to let the cabbage juice. After that, attach the sheet to the affected area and fix it with a bandage or any bandage. Leave the compress for 5 to 6 hours. After that, apply any foot moisturizing cream to your feet. For the treatment is not recommended to use the top cabbage leaves, because their effect is not so effective.

The following recipe suggests the treatment of cracks,using potatoes. To do this, you need to soar your feet in a potato broth before going to bed every day. For its preparation, carefully wash 5 medium potato tubers, boil them, without first cleaning. After the potatoes are ready, peel it and peel it to mash. Puree add in 3 liters of hot water, in which this potatoes were boiled. Keep the feet in the broth should be kept until it cools. After that, rinse your feet with warm clean water and pat dry with a towel and treat with any fat cream. Cream should be applied sufficiently thick layer, then do not forget to put on cotton socks.

If the above methods do not work for youdid not help at all or not completely, try a stronger remedy. To prepare it, you will need: one glass of milk, two tablespoons of any natural honey, and two tablespoons of coltsfoot leaves. Wash the leaves thoroughly and chop them. Pay attention to one small nuance - the leaves cannot be chopped with a knife, since when in contact with metal, they lose all their beneficial substances. Therefore, the best option would be to chop the leaves by hand. After that, bring the milk to a boil in a water bath. After it boils, pour the chopped leaves into the milk and boil for half an hour, stirring continuously. After that, turn off the heat and add honey to the resulting gruel, thoroughly mixing all the ingredients. The mixture must be applied to a gauze napkin, which you will apply to the cracks in the skin. It is advisable to do the compress at night, and in the morning, after rinsing your feet with clean water, treat them with a moisturizer. Even the most old and deep cracks heal in the shortest possible time.

Almost all people know about the amazingeffect of honey on the body. However, very little is known to the fact that honey not only removes inflammatory reactions, but also has a strong wound-healing effect. And with cracks on the heels of the honey will cope quickly enough. Apply a thick layer of honey on a dense fabric, put on cracks and fix with a bandage. It is advisable to do this procedure before going to bed, leaving a bandage for the whole night. In the morning, you must rinse your feet with clean water and grease the cracks with ordinary baby oil, and then stick a sticking plaster. This is necessary so that the skin does not lose its moisture. However, be careful when applying oil - apply it only on the crack, not smudging the skin around. Otherwise, you will not be able to paste adhesive plaster on oily skin. In addition, once again, we draw your attention to the fact that this method should not be used in any case for people prone to allergic reactions.

Another way to get rid of cracks is usedmany women have been using it for decades. To prepare this remedy, you will need: one raw chicken egg, 200 grams of vinegar essence, and 200 grams of butter. Place the egg in its shell in a small glass container and pour vinegar essence over it so that it completely covers the egg. Leave the egg for two to three days - during this time, the vinegar essence will completely dissolve the eggshell, leaving only a thin film shell. Drain the vinegar essence, add butter to the egg and rub thoroughly. Wrap the resulting mixture in gauze, apply to the cracks and put on socks on top. Leave this compress for 2 - 3 hours, after which you need to make a hot foot bath with the addition of soda at the rate of 3 tablespoons of soda per liter of water. Feet should be steamed for at least half an hour, after which the keratinized layer of skin should be very carefully removed using pumice or a specially designed pedicure file. After this, blot your feet with a towel, let them dry slightly and apply any nourishing foot cream. The procedures should be repeated every day until the cracks are completely healed, which usually occurs within 5 days.

No less effective heals cracks in pigsinterior fat. To remove cracks before going to bed, apply pork fat to the cracks in a very dense layer, then wrap the feet with plastic wrap and put warm woolen socks over it. In the morning, fat will completely absorb. Repeat the procedure is necessary every day until the cracks are fully healed. And in the event that after the cracks disappear, you will continue to do this procedure once a week, you will be reliably protected from the re-occurrence of cracking of the skin.

Beautiful legs - it's easy

However, caring for your heels is not the only thingcomponent of success. No less important is the well-groomed and healthy appearance of the entire foot as a whole. For this, women also have several wonderful tools in their arsenal.

Traditional medicine offers attention to modernwomen one very old, but very effective recipe giving the legs a healthy and well-groomed appearance. To do this, you need to beat 100 grams of butter in a container, pour half a glass of curdled milk into it and mix everything. Make a hot foot basin with baking soda, steam your feet for half an hour, rinse with clean water and dry. After that, apply a mixture of curd and oil, wrap with plastic wrap and put on socks, leave overnight. In a week your legs will be transformed beyond recognition.

Stir the legs in a hot soda solution, rinse with running water and apply a lot of vegetable oil. Wrap the legs with a plastic wrap and leave overnight.

There are a few simple rules to followwhich will keep the skin of your feet healthy and beautiful. Firstly, do not overuse the bath - prolonged exposure (more than 30 minutes) to hot water dries the skin very much. Secondly, if you have dry skin on your feet, try not to use regular soap for washing. The best option for you would be soap containing lanolin or regular baby soap. Despite the fact that walking barefoot has a beneficial effect on the general condition of the body, walking barefoot on hot surfaces, such as hot sand or stones, is not recommended, as it can lead to damage to the skin of the foot. Remember that if you cannot cope with the problem on your own, be sure to consult a doctor - treatment and foot care under the supervision of a doctor will help achieve the desired result much faster. And after you get rid of the problems, be sure to pay attention to the prevention and prevention of recurrence of foot diseases. Beautiful feet are the result of systematic and thorough skin care. The time spent on this will definitely pay off handsomely – you will catch admiring glances and feel like the best! After all, this is exactly what every woman wants! We recommend reading: