Get Your Skin Winter Ready
Don't let winter get the best of your skin. The cold, arid weather can zap moisture, leaving you with chapped hands and dry feet. Make a little "me" time in the morning and evening to try this soft hands and feet makeover. Your skin will be silky smooth by day-by-day.
Cure for Dry skin on hand and feet:
Start by soaking in the bathtub. Make sure your feet and hands are submerged for at least five minutes. Let the warm water dilate your pores and soothe your dry skin. If your feet are rough, gently smooth the rough areas with a pumice stone to remove dry, ragged skin and reveal newer, fresh, more hydrated cells.
After your soak, towel off lightly, leaving your feet slightly damp. Adding moisturizers to damp skin helps the products to absorb more than it would normally.
Soft Hands and Feet: Choose an all-natural moisturizer for deep skin penetration. if you want smooth skin and need to reduce skin inflammation. almond or jojoba oil. Do not use lotions and creams that contain alcohol.
Dab the oil on a cotton ball. Slowly rub the cotton over the soles of your feet. Work your way around each toe and over the top of each foot. Dab extra oil on the toenails and cuticles to hydrate and moisturize the nail beds. Work the oil into your hands the same way, starting with the top of each hand. Pay close attention to the knuckles, making sure the oil penetrates the skin, leaving you with soft hands. Let the oils work in the morning, shower and gently scrub away any residual oil.
Cure Scaly skin on Hands and Feet: Few simple steps and the use of a common beauty product can cure this condition on the hands and feet to prevent future occurrences.
The first thing you want to do is soften the skin. You'll also need a pumice stone, petroleum jelly, a pair of cotton socks and cotton gloves.
After your shower and while your hands and feet are still soft and damp, slather them with petroleum jelly and slip on the socks and gloves. Allow the jelly to penetrate overnight. In the morning, begin with your hands. Remove the gloves and rinse your hands under warm water, rubbing them with a rough washcloth. This will remove the dead scaly skin and leave moisturized new skin on your hands. To maintain this effect you can apply petroleum jelly with gloves after every shower.
For your feet, you can afford to give a little more time for the removal of scaly skin, which may have built up on your heels and the balls of your feet and begun to crack. Wash your feet with warm water and use a wet pumice stone to slough off the dead, dry skin.
Once you've removed all the loosened skin, apply a thin coat of petroleum jelly and socks to wear throughout the day. This may be a little uncomfortable, but the heat of the socks and your shoes throughout the day will allow the petroleum jelly to penetrate and soften the rough, dead skin. When you remove your shoes and socks and take a shower, your feet will be a little softer and it will be a little easier to scrub the dry and scaly areas away.
For prevention of scaly skin, use the petroleum jelly treatments on your hands and feet as often as necessary. I tend to sleep with cotton gloves and cotton socks at least once a week to keep hands and feet soft and pretty.
Removing Calluses Basics: Start with a Soak, Before you start rubbing away at those stubborn calluses, soften them with a soak. This is especially important for rock-hard foot calluses. While there is an abundance of soak tubs on the market, you can get the same results from items that you already have in your home. All you need is a plastic tub, piping-hot water, 1 tbs lemon juice, 1 tbs cream milk, bath salts, plastic food wrap and cotton socks .
Fill a tub with hot water and the bath salts, making sure to mix everything together well. Place your feet or hands in the tub before the water starts to cool and find a comfortable position. Leave your hands or feet in the tub for 15 minutes. Dry your hands or feet with a towel before removing the calluses.
After softening them with a soak, you’ll find callus removal much easier. Gently rub at your calluses with a pumice stone to shave down your calluses. If you aren’t making as much progress as you’d like, you can use the popular Ped Egg with replacement blades, which comes with progressively finer pads for thorough callus removal, use little at a time, please don’t do over otherwise start bleeding.
Finally, consult a physician if you can’t get rid of your calluses yourself, or if you have medical problems like diabetes or poor circulation. Removing calluses is a chore, so your best bet is to preventative maintenance measures. After you work extensively with your hands, wash them, apply a softening, moisturizing lotion. Use a foot moisturizing cream after every bath. For feet with chronic callusing problems, apply foot lotion before bed, and afterwards wrap your feet with plastic wrap and wear some cotton socks for overnight. When you take off them in the morning, your feet will feel soft and supple. You need to repeat treatment on a weekly basis.
Anyhow, take care of your skin this winter. Feel like a goddess and maybe act like one sometimes. You are soft and you are smooth. Have an awesome winter!
