Tips for Foot and Nail Care

Your feet propel you through the world, help you get through the day, and keep you grounded. While they are often neglected by people, ladies are beginning to realize that their feet draw a lot of attention depending on the occasion and the type of shoes they wear.

Slapping on beautiful gel toe nailscan go a long way in enhancing how beautiful your feet look. That’s why it’s important to note a few things you should do regularly to maintain healthy and good looking feet.

Smooth It Out

Make it a practice to use a pumice stone or foot file on wet heels and calluses.  This will help keep your feet looking attractive in open-back shoes. To soften the skin on your feet, you just need to follow a few steps:

• Bathe them in water or a foot bath for 10 to 15 minutes. 
• Use a pumice stone to gently remove the thicker skin.  Tannic acid is a natural antibacterial agent that may lower the likelihood of developing athlete’s foot. 
• Moisturizing foot scrubs with botanicals like crushed fruit pits, sugar, or chemical exfoliants can also help remove dead skin. 
• After you’ve scrubbed, use a rich foot cream or balm with shea butter or cocoa butter.  To soften tough calluses, look for balms or heel creams with salicylic acid or urea.

Moisturize

If your feet are very dry and cracked, you should get medicine from a podiatrist or dermatologist.  If they’re not too bad, there are lots of moisturizers to pick from.

• To begin, you could use over-the-counter heel pads with medicine to ease calluses while you walk. 
• Use a thick cream to soften the tough skin on your heel after you’ve scrubbed off the calluses.
• Look for creams that have petrolatum, which is a moisturizer, or lactic acid, which is a humectant and draws water into the skin.

 Fight Fungus

There are a lot of different kinds of over-the-counter antifungal medicines, such as lacquers, creams, lotions, liquids, spray powders, and spray liquids.  When it comes to athlete’s foot, these items work best on mild cases. They probably won’t help at all with toenail fungus, which is hard to treat. 

• Use options like Terbinafine, tolnaftate, miconazole, ciclopirox, or clotrimazole as they are the main ingredients that make them work, and it doesn’t matter what form they are in.
• Some people also use tea tree oil called melaleuca oil as it works well on weak cases of athlete’s foot.
• Socks or sprays with medicine should help if your feet are sweaty. Aluminium chloride hexahydrate is often found in powders to help keep feet dry.
• Find an antifungal cream if your feet are dry. 
• Always wash your feet and dry them well, making sure to dry between your toes.  Every day, put on new socks or other clothing.

Other Things to Keep Your Feet Looking Spiffing

Wear Sunscreen

Cover the tops of your feet with an SPF. When you go barefoot or wear open shoes, put on broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 on your feet.

Get Support

Having sore feet after standing for a long time is normal. For more comfy shoes, put insoles inside them.  Select insoles that have a plastic cover at the base. According to podiatrists, the shell makes them strong enough to really support your feet.

Don’t Forget Your Toenails

Like getting your feet done? The method is important. Hangnails and ingrown toenails can happen if you trim your nails incorrectly.  Always ensure that the nail tech should also gently push the tip back instead of cutting it, as cutting it can cause an infection. If you like to do your own nails, look for nail “nippers” with a curved handle and a cutting jaw that is made to fit the natural curve of nails.

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