Cracked Heels Home Remedies

Cracked heels are very common. Our diet and way of life has also something to do with this problem. Cracked, dry and flaky heels look very unpleasant. They give a very rough and untidy look, which nobody wants to have. There are many reasons and causes for having cracked heels.

Causes of Cracked Heels:

Cracked heels are basically caused by dryness of the feet. But there are many other causes as well which cannot be ignored.

• Walking bare foot for quite a long time. Continued pressure on feet causes cracking of skin on heels. This may be due to prolonged standing or over weight
• Inactive sweat glands, which causes dryness.
• Wearing uncomfortable shoes, or shoes with thin soles.
• Having flat feet or certain diseases like eczema, psoriasis, etc also causes fissured heels.

Curing Cracked Heels:

• The foremost home remedy to cure cracked heels is to adopt a healthy weight and lifestyle.
• Avoid wearing thin soled shoes and shoes with open backside.
• Regularly use pumice stone bars for exfoliating/removing the dead skin around heels.
• Apply Moisturizing oil-based cream daily to the affected area. This may require more than one daily treatment. A cream that has zinc oxide works very well.
• A home remedy for cracked heels may be found in the addition of zinc and omega-3 fatty acids to your daily nutritional regimen.
• A regular foot bath and foot massage helps to keep the skin on heals healthy and soft.
• Diabetic patients should immediately consult their physician if the fissures persist for a long time and show color changes.

Pedicure Nails,Feet and Hands at Home

Having just clean beautiful face is not enough. One has to have neat and clean hands and feet too to mark the entire impression. Doing pedicure at home is not at all difficult task. It keeps your feet beautiful and saves your money, which you spend in a beauty saloon to get your pedicure done.

Following some easy steps give you a very good home pedicure but there are certain things for which you need to invest some money as buying a pedicure kit which has nail cutter, filer, cuticle remover stick, dirt remover, pumice stone, brush and foot scrubber to remove the dead skin. Feet require more time in cleaning them than the hands as the skin is harder plus we keep washing hands 100 times in a day but we don't wash the feet so often. That way they are more dirty and require a different way of cleaning them than the hands. You need cotton; nail polish remover and nail color if you apply nail color on your toe fingers. A liquid antiseptic and some soap are required to clean the feet. Here is the simple way to do a pedicure at home:

1. Clean the nail polish from the toes if you had applied with a remover. Soak the feet in bearable hot water in a tub for 10 minutes. It makes them softer to remove the dead skin and cut and shape the nails. Add some antiseptic solution and sop to this water.
2. if the feet have become tanned or dark you can apply bleach on them before starting the pedicure procedure to make them clean.
3. Scrub the heels with the foot scrubber to remove the hard dead skin. Never cut if off. If they are too bad then show them to a doctor and apply cream to fill the cracks. Use the foot brush on the nails and feet. Use pedicure to clean the feet.
4. Now wipe the feet off with a towel and cut the nails. Don't cut the nails so much that they start showing you the soft pink skin. It might give you pain. Cut them in good shape and remove the dirt that fills into the corners of the nails with the help of the stick, which is meant for it.
5. Massage your nails and feel with cuticle cream and push back the cuticles from the nails.
6. Wipe off the feet and nails to remove the extra cream from them and apply nail color on them. Men can apply transparent nail color coat on their toenails to give them a perfect finish.
7. When the nail color gets dry, massage your feet with a foot cream and if its night then wear your cotton socks to absorb the cream.

Now your feet are beautiful, softer and smoother for quite some time.