Legs and Feet Care

Legs and Feet care

Your legs should be pretty and well groomed as your face and hands.

Hard skin, uneven toe nails and hairy legs show that you are neglecting your legs and feet.

Aching feet are the result off lack of proper exercises. Give them as much attention and same beauty care as your hands.

Your footwear must be comfortable with not too pointed shoes or too high heels, which lilt at unnatural angles while walking.

It is worthwhile to take weight off your feet during the day time. Take off your head. Ten minutes of relaxation like this gives relief to your aching feet.

Cold and hot foot bath also help feet. Before retiring to bed at night, soak your feet in hot water for a couple of minutes to which a little alum powder has been added. Now soak them in ice-cold water for a few seconds. Repeat the process several times to help tired feet.

For the beautifying of your feet, rub the calluses with a pumice stone every time you take bath. You can also gently rub rough spots on your feet also with pumice stone.

After bath, massage your legs and feet with a mixture of glycerin and rose water. During winters rub your legs and feet with warm olive oil at least once a week.

Make a mixture of 5 grams of sodium sulphate, 15 grams of bicarbonate of soda and 20 grams of ordinary salt. Put some of it in warm water and soak your feet in it. It helps aching feet.

A few, regular exercises also help tired aching feet. A very simple exercise is to stand on your feet flat and then curl your toes under. This is an excellent way to strengthen your arches. Do it as many times as you can during the day time. Another simple exercise is to walk first on the outside and then the inside of each foot.

For itchiness of feet, rub them with lemon or vinegar. Corns and calluses are caused by ill shoes fitting and wrong way of walking. Bare feet walking on the grass helps a lot. Garlic or onions tied to the corn can relieve the pain. Rubbing with pumice stones help to eliminate calluses. For leg cramps large doses of vitamin C and calcium help.

Defuzzing of legs

There are two ways of getting rid of hair on legs. If you want to shave off the hair, do so immediately after your bath. Apply a little shaving cream and shave upward strokes. Then rub some moisturizing cream on your legs.

Depilatory creams leave a smoother surface. Apply with a spatula on hairy parts of the legs and wait for about ten minutes before wiping it off with damp cotton. Then wash with warm water and rub on some talcum powder.

Feet care routine

Rub your feet and legs daily with pumice stone, during your bath. It will discourage build up of hard skin in feet and weaken hair growth. After bath deal with cuticles and toe nails exactly the same way as you do for 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 a scrub brush. Dry your feet and cut the nails straight across, leaving the corner. You may trim the corner slightly. This way of trimming the nails prevents in growing toe nails smooth with emery board. Now clean under the toe nails with cotton tipped orange stick. Next, buff the nails and apply cuticle remover. Push back cuticles with an orange stick and massage each toe with warm coconut or olive oil or cuticle cream. Apply the polish the same way as you polish your fingernails. After the nail polish is dry, massage body lotion or oil into your legs and feet.