Dry, cracked feet are not sexy. Although this tends to be a danger for the summer, you can spend all year. If you can not afford a fish pedicure, get rid of dry heel syndrome with this five-step process that vain and use from time to time.
Because it is a process step 3 (the foot soak, foot massage and mask and night), you can skip parts of this process, if desired. If you use the mask to foot every night for a week, their problems must be resolved.
- Soak feet for 5-10 minutes in a warm foot bath made with 1 cup milk and 5 cups warm water.
- Create a homemade foot scrub by putting 4 tablespoons salt or sugar in 1/2 cup oil. Baby oil, sweet almond oil or coconut oil or even vegetable oil works well.
- Massage the homemade foot scrub in a circular motion into bottoms of feet.
- Scrub bottoms of feet with the pumice stone. Rinse and dry feet.
- Before you go to bed that night, try this tip from beauty guru Paula Begoun: rub a Stridex pad over dry areas of feet. Stridex, a product found in the acne section of any drugstore, contains 2 percent salicylic acid so it's a great exfoliant for the feet.
- Apply moisturizer thickly on feet (do not wash off Stridex). A super-rich moisturizer like cocoa butter, Eucerin (my favorite) or even Vaseline works best.
- Pull on socks and keep them on throughout the night for at least 4 hours.
What You Need:
- 1 cup milk
- Sugar or salt (either will work)
- Baby oil, sweet almond oil or coconut oil
- Pumice stone
- Stridex, found in the acne section of any drugstore
- Thick moisturizer
- Socks
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