It is said that you can have an idea about the hygiene of a person by simply taking a look at his shoes or feet. In fact, the way your feet look can tell the other person much about your personal cleanliness. In other words, we can say that the health of your feet plays a much important role in your overall personality. Thus, it is quite obvious that people want to have beautiful and healthy feet. However, for the purpose, you need to take proper care of your feet, washing and scrubbing them properly, moisturizing them on a regular basis, and so on. At the same time, you need to wear comfortable shoes, which allow your feet to relax and breathe easily. Read on to explore some more foot skin care tips.
Tips For Healthy & Beautiful Feet
Feet Soak
Supplies Needed
Supplies Needed
Tips For Healthy & Beautiful Feet
- Wash you feet on a daily basis, in lukewarm soapy water. Thereafter, rinse them with cool water, dry with a towel and apply foot cream.
- Whenever you get your feet wet, make sure to dry them thoroughly, especially between the toes.
- The best time to buy shoes is later in the day, when the feet are a bit swollen. The shoes that feel comfortable at that time will surely be comfy at all times of the day.
- If, and when, you go out in the sun wearing sandals, make sure to apply a sunscreen on your feet, just like the rest of your exposed body parts.
- Scrub your feet, especially the heels, with a foot scrubber on a regular basis. It will help remove the dead cells and make you feet softer.
- Before going to bed, wash you feet thoroughly, dry them with a towel and apply moisturizer generously, especially at the heels.
- Whenever you are applying moisturizer or cream on your feet, avoid the area between the toes.
- To keep you feet dry and odor free, make use of products like foot powders, foot sprays and specially designed insoles.
Feet Soak
Supplies Needed
- 1 cup Lemon Juice
- ¼ tsp Cinnamon Powder
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- ¼ cup Milk
- Water
- Tub
- Fill a tub with warm water and put the lemon juice, cinnamon powder, olive oil and milk in it. Mix well.
- Put your feet in the tub and let them soak in the water for 10-15 minutes.
- Now, wash your feet with a mild soap, dry them with a towel and apply a foot care cream.
Supplies Needed
- 1 tbsp Almond Oil
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Wheat Germ Oil
- 12 drops Eucalyptus Essential/Fragrance Oil
- Bottle (dark-colored)
- Take a dark colored bottle and put almond oil, olive oil, wheat germ oil and eucalyptus oil in it.
- Shake the bottle shake extremely well and store in a cool, dry place.
- To use the lotion, just rub it into your feet and heels, after you have cleaned and dried them.
Foot Exercises
Foot Stretch
Sit on the floor and keep your legs stretched out in front of you. Now, loop a towel around your feet. While keeping your heels on the floor, pull the towel with both ends, using it to draw the middle of the foot and toes towards the body. Hold the position for 4-5 seconds and slowly come back to the starting position. Repeat the exercise 5-6 times.
Ankle Stretch
Stand straight, with your legs pressed together. Now, lift up one of your knees, as high as it is possible for you. Next, flex your ankle back as far as you can. Then, extend your leg forward, pivoting at the knee, and flex the ankle forward as far as you can. Repeat the exercise 5-6 times.
Marble Pick-up
Place about 20 marbles on the floor. Try picking up those marble with the help of the fingers of your feet. This exercise provides flexibility to your feet and also helps strengthens it.
Cycling
To strengthen the muscles of your feet, cycling is one of the best exercises. When you indulge in cycling, almost all the muscles of your feet are put to work and get strengthened. It also helps ensure proper blood circulation to your feet.
Toe Pulls
Put a thick rubber band around your toes. Now, try to stretch the foot fingers as far as you can. You can repeat the process for about 10 times. Avoid the exercise in case of any injury in the fingers or toes.
Toe Raises & Toe Curls
Sit on the floor and keep your legs stretched out in front of you. Try to curl the fingers of your feet and raise the heels of feet. Hold the position for about 5 seconds and repeat 4-5 times.
Foot Stretch
Sit on the floor and keep your legs stretched out in front of you. Now, loop a towel around your feet. While keeping your heels on the floor, pull the towel with both ends, using it to draw the middle of the foot and toes towards the body. Hold the position for 4-5 seconds and slowly come back to the starting position. Repeat the exercise 5-6 times.
Ankle Stretch
Stand straight, with your legs pressed together. Now, lift up one of your knees, as high as it is possible for you. Next, flex your ankle back as far as you can. Then, extend your leg forward, pivoting at the knee, and flex the ankle forward as far as you can. Repeat the exercise 5-6 times.
Marble Pick-up
Place about 20 marbles on the floor. Try picking up those marble with the help of the fingers of your feet. This exercise provides flexibility to your feet and also helps strengthens it.
Cycling
To strengthen the muscles of your feet, cycling is one of the best exercises. When you indulge in cycling, almost all the muscles of your feet are put to work and get strengthened. It also helps ensure proper blood circulation to your feet.
Toe Pulls
Put a thick rubber band around your toes. Now, try to stretch the foot fingers as far as you can. You can repeat the process for about 10 times. Avoid the exercise in case of any injury in the fingers or toes.
Toe Raises & Toe Curls
Sit on the floor and keep your legs stretched out in front of you. Try to curl the fingers of your feet and raise the heels of feet. Hold the position for about 5 seconds and repeat 4-5 times.
Homemade Foot Scrub
Homemade Foot Pedicure Scrub Recipe
Lime Foot Scrub
Ingredients
Ingredients
Ingredients
Ingredients
Lime Foot Scrub
Ingredients
- 3 Limes
- 2 tbsp White Sugar
- 1 tbsp Sweet Almond Oil
- 15 Fresh Mint Leaves (chopped)
- 5 drops Lime Essential Oil
- Cut the limes into small pieces.
- Put all the lime pieces into a blender and form a pulp.
- Mix the lime pulp with almond oil, mint leaves and essential oil.
- Your lime foot scrub is ready to be used.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Sugar (white or brown)
- ¼ cup Sweet Almond Oil
- 6 drops Orange Essential Oil
- 1 drop Ginger Essential Oil
- 1 tsp Powdered Cayenne Pepper
- Take a plastic bowl and in it, mix together sugar and almond oil.
- Add orange oil and ginger oil and mix well.
- Stir in cayenne pepper as the final ingredient.
- Your sugar foot scrub is ready to be used.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups Sea Salt
- ¼ cup Sweet Almond Oil
- 2 drops Peppermint Essential Oil
- 3 drops Lavender Essential Oil
- In a bowl, combine together sea salt and almond oil.
- The mixture should hold well. If it doesn't and seems dry, add almond oil, by the tablespoon, till you get the desired consistency.
- Add peppermint oil and lavender oil. Mix well.
- Your peppermint foot scrub is ready to be used.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 2 tbsp Ground Oats
- 2 tbsp Aloe Vera Gel
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1 tsp Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
- 1 tsp Almond Oil/ Olive Oil
- First of all, you need to grind the oatmeal, in a coffee grinder or food processor, to a sandy consistency.
- In a large bowl, put ground oats and add all the other ingredients. Mix them well, until the mixture resembles a paste.
- Your brown sugar foot scrub is ready to be used.
Relieve Tired & Swollen Feet
Tips To Relieve Tired & Swollen Feet
- The easiest way to get relief from tired and swollen feet would be to dip them in a bucket of cold water. You can even keep your feet under a cold-water tap.
- Another effective method would be to take cold drink cans from the refrigerator and roll them over the feet. It will provide relaxing effect, kicking away bouts of tiredness or swollenness.
- Place your feet on a pillow and rest for about twenty minutes. Elevated feet helps in getting relief from tired and swollen feet.
- Rubbing feet with peppermint oils and fragrant herbal oils are effective in treating swollen feet. Massaging would improve circulation, which in turn will reduce edema.
- This might come to you as a surprise but rolling a tennis ball under your feet for several minutes is an effective way of exercising the feet and treating tiredness.
- Take two buckets of hot and ice-cold water respectively. Soak your feet first in the bucket of hot water (keep it as hot as you can bare) for about 10 minutes. Thereafter, quickly switch to the bucket containing ice cold water for about 30 seconds. Repeat the process several times a day.
- Mix 2 tsp of castor or jojoba, 3 drops of lavender essential oil, 1 drop each of German chamomile essential oil and geranium essential oil in a small bowl and massage gently into your feet. Once you do this put your feet up for sometime. Wash your feet with a mild soap and apply nourishing cream on your feet.
- Massaging from ginger essential oil is effective for reducing swelling. Apart from alleviating pain and soothing aches, it also improves circulation.