In summer, worrying about our beauty, we try to protect our skin and hair from heat, dust, harmful effects of ultraviolet rays and other adverse environmental factors, sometimes completely not caring about the beauty and health of our own legs. But the legs in the warm season also suffer from long walks, often in uncomfortable shoes.
Daily care of your feet, and especially feet, includes regular washing - at least twice a day, during which it is recommended to use not only detergents, but also special brushes or scrubs that will remove dead skin particles. It is useful to replace ordinary soap in the summer with an antibacterial one.
It is imperative to wipe your feet, especially carefully removing moisture between the toes. Then, lightly massaging the feet, and if desired, the legs completely (from the bottom up), they should be lubricated with a nourishing cream designed specifically for the legs.
After simple caring procedures, it will be useful to lie down for 15 minutes with your legs upside down to relieve swelling and allow your legs to rest.
When caring for your feet, you should also undertake more serious cleansing procedures. So 2-3 times a week the feet will benefit from deep cleaning, which is done after a good steaming, which, by the way, can also occur in warm water, just the “soaking” time increases. After the feet are steamed, they should be blotted with a towel and immediately carefully treated with a pumice stone or a special foot grater. Razors in this case are strictly contraindicated.
Dried feet should be massaged with cream (moisturizing or nourishing) and put on cotton socks.
For foot care, products enriched with vegetable oils (olive, almond, sesame) are perfect. Herbal ingredients are also very welcome in the cream (extracts of lavender, sage, calendula, myrrh, chamomile).
With regular care, your feet will only delight the eye, and not cause inconvenience.
In summer, heat, dust, insect bites, and shoe straps negatively affect the legs. The skin on the feet becomes dry and begins to crack, often an infection gets through microcracks and brings even more discomfort. Baths with herbal decoctions, essential oils and salts can be a useful summer procedure for feet.
To reduce sweating, you need to use oak bark, thyme, as well as pine oils and extracts.
Chamomile and calendula are excellent disinfectants, while St. John's wort, nettle and mint are refreshing.
Chamomile, honey and linden flowers will help with edema.
You can quickly soften the skin in potato broth.
When a cold starts, a bath with two tablespoons of mustard will help.
When you have neither the strength nor the time to fully prepare the foot bath, you can use only sea salt (in the absence of which, the usual one is also suitable). The advantage of sea salt is also that it is good for the whole body, and not just for the legs, as it helps us to replenish iodine deficiency. Salt and water will very quickly relieve fatigue, cleanse the skin and tone the legs.
To prepare such a bath, you just need to pour warm water (not hotter than 37 ° C) into a bowl and pour more salt into the water, hold your tired legs in it for 10-15 minutes.
As a rule, the water for the foot bath should not be too hot, and in case of swelling, inflammation, varicose veins or excessive sweating, it is better to use cooling baths, which will reduce swelling, inflammation, relieve pain and constrict blood vessels.
A regular foot bath should last 5 minutes, with increased sweating - no more than 3 minutes, with cracks - no more than 10 minutes.
Contrast baths, or rather basins, do an excellent job with leg fatigue. You need to pour tolerantly hot water into one basin, and cold water in the other and step, stepping your feet from one basin to another. Also, water for contrast baths can be enriched with any additives.
The massage is useful both because it relieves the feeling of heaviness and fatigue, and because it helps to get rid of puffiness, and because it promotes proper blood circulation. In addition, it is very useful to raise your legs more often to restore blood circulation.
You need to start doing massage from the feet. Having massaged the feet well in circular movements, you can move up to the knees and higher to the thigh in the same movements.
It is important to remember that the skin for the massage must be clean. It is useful to use special massage oils or even a regular nourishing cream for foot massage.
Massage movements must be performed in the direction from the foot up to the thigh.
After taking a bath and massaging your feet, you can also pamper them with a specially prepared mask. If you wish, purchase a ready-made foot mask or make it at home.
The minimum time for the mask is 15 minutes; if you plan to hold it longer, then wrap your legs with cellophane and a towel. Ideally, masks are best done in a course of two to three months with the same break.
Cabbage leaves will help to get rid of cracks, which should be grinded into gruel using a blender or meat grinder. Having applied the gruel to the feet, it should be kept on the feet for at least half an hour.
You can make the skin soft and pliable with the help of celandine, collecting fresh plants, they should also be ground and applied to the feet for at least half an hour. The same effect can be achieved with mayonnaise, which should also be applied to the feet, but for at least an hour. After such a mask, coarse skin can be easily removed even with an ordinary hard washcloth. Interestingly, many women use the hard sides of regular dishwashing pads for this purpose.
Lemon has a whitening effect, it should be cut in half and wiped with a cut of the foot, feet should be washed after 10-15 minutes. Also, to whiten the skin of the feet, you can use cottage cheese and sour cream, which, in addition to whitening, also have useful nutritional properties.
If your problem is corns and calluses, soak a warm potato mask on your feet for an hour, which can be made directly from mashed potatoes, and more useful - from ground potato peels.
Regardless of the season, pedicure should be done at least once a month.
Pre-steam the skin of the legs for 10-20 minutes. The steamed feet should be wiped off with a towel and, using a pumice stone or other means, to clean off the keratinized skin particles.
When processing nails, it should be remembered that they should be filed and cut from the edge, in a straight line (not in a semicircle). After processing the nails, you need to remove the cuticle of the nail roller. After that, the feet should be lubricated with cream, performing massaging movements.
At the end, you need to apply varnish, which can be either colorless or colored.
The most dangerous summer shoes for feet can be safely called shoes without a heel, as well as shoes with very high heels. The ideal heel height is 6.25 cm.
It is also important to remember that natural materials will allow the foot to breathe, which means that moisture and infection will not accumulate in such shoes, and heat exchange and blood circulation will not be disturbed.
Shoes should not be too tight, otherwise calluses and corns will appear. And, of course, it should be comfortable, so do not hesitate to walk through the sales area right in the store in order to fully appreciate all the advantages of your chosen pair.
It will not be superfluous to remember that you cannot wear someone else's shoes, especially summer ones. You need to be careful and when visiting water parks, swimming pools, saunas and showers, it is best to have your own slates.
Those who wear socks should change them more often in the summer and give preference to natural materials. Sometimes, especially if you are on the beach or in the country, you should completely refuse socks. Walking barefoot is useful, but in safe places.
Take care of your legs, take care of them, and they will always delight you, attracting the admiring glances of others.
Romanchukevich Tatiana
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In the summer season with open shoes and short skirts, our feet should be in perfect order. However, right now they are more susceptible to the influence of negative environmental factors than at other times of the year. What kind of foot care is needed in the summer?
If your heels are rough
Usually, in the summer, the skin of the feet is drier and coarser, because it is not protected by closed shoes, as in winter. Warm baths with sea salt will help to keep the skin of the soles in excellent condition. Keep the feet in them for about 10-15 minutes, and then remove the hardened areas of the feet with a pumice stone.
In the hot season, your heels need hydration more than ever. For this purpose, use a special cream or warmed olive oil.
Swelling of the feet
This problem often appears in people suffering from diseases of the cardiovascular system and kidney disease.
Summer foot care should include a daily cool soak with sea salt and a few drops of tea tree or sage oil. With swelling of the lower extremities, it is very effective to drink any diuretic fees, as well as limit summer drinking to one and a half liters of water per day.
Nail fungus
In the hot season, many women try to hide their nails damaged by fungus under colored varnish. However, this does not solve the problem, because achieving an aesthetic appearance is not the most important thing. In fact, the fungus also affects the skin of the feet, loosening its stratum corneum, and infection can enter through small cracks.
Nail fungus must be treated. However, only a dermatologist will prescribe the correct and effective treatment. These can be special antifungal creams, gels, as well as ointments and liquids that contain lactic acid, salicylic acid, iodine, sulfur and tar.
Dry calluses and corns
This problem usually makes itself felt when wearing tight, uncomfortable shoes. In this case, summer foot care is impossible without the use of special products (scrub, pumice stone).
A scrub is a milder way to get rid of hard calluses and calluses, so you need to use it every day. But you need to use pumice once a week. First, treat the required areas of the skin with a rough surface, and then with a smoother side. Before such a procedure, the skin of the legs should be steamed.
Heavy legs
In summer, we usually experience leg fatigue most often, because warm weather encourages frequent long walks. And at the resort, we not only sunbathe on the beach, but also actively participate in various excursions where you need to walk a lot. Here you need special foot care in the summer.
To alleviate the condition of your legs will help not only comfortable shoes with low soles, but also special gymnastics.
Try to do this kind of gymnastics every day, but do not overdo it so as not to overload the body. And remember that proper and thorough foot care in summer is the guarantee of the beauty and health of your legs.
For women over 50, legs should be the subject of increased attention. During the summer, our legs are more open than usual and it is important that they are groomed without causing anxiety.
Let us draw your attention to what makes our feet uncomfortable and require special care.
Here are some reasons:
It is important not only to make beautiful in summer, but also to monitor the skin of the legs and feet. To keep skin clean, smooth and hydrated, follow our standard skin care program: cleanse, tone, nourish and moisturize.
A woman after 50 should pay special attention to caring for her feet, because they are not just enough to cleanse, nourish and moisturize. Our feet require additional cosmetic care.
Do not forget that hair removal in the summer requires perfection from you. Women whose skin on their legs is too delicate and sensitive may have an undesirable side effect in the form of redness and pinpoint irritation of the skin. Take steps to avoid this:
epilate a couple of days before the scheduled event;
epilate only after showering and actively rubbing the skin of your legs with a washcloth;
in the epilator, be sure to use a massage attachment, so you will reduce the traumatic effect of the procedure;
use an anti-inflammatory gel after epilation.
Few pay due attention to foot care in the summer. But this is just as necessary, along with the way we take care of our face and hands. Our legs are real workers, they are in tension all day, resting only at night. Didn't they deserve to be looked after and taken care of?
The legs are especially hard in summer. They get caught in open shoes, as a result of which the skin of the feet becomes accessible to dust, dirt, wind, sun and other factors that have an adverse effect.
Shall we take care of it?
This is the first and most important part of the summer foot care program. Probably, there is no need to explain that you need to wash your feet at least once a day, especially in summer. Warm water and soap or shower gel are best for this. It is undesirable to use hot water for washing your feet: it dries out the skin.
In addition to washing, the skin of the feet should be cleaned with a scrub. And if in winter it is enough to use a foot scrub once a week (moisture is retained in closed shoes, and in addition, the feet are not exposed to the wind), then in the summer, when the stratum corneum thickens and looks rough, you will need a scrub more often - after about day. To better exfoliate dead skin particles, cosmetologists advise using all kinds of scrapers and special brushes with short, stiff bristles instead of fingers.
By the way, if you use a facial scrub for your feet, there is nothing wrong with that. Just keep in mind: the foot scrub contains larger and harder abrasive particles, since the skin on the legs is much denser than on the face.
Pay attention to the condition of your feet after using the scrub. If microcracks appear on the skin, it means that this scrub is too hard for you, or you rubbed the skin too intensively. To avoid cracks through which infection can easily penetrate, choose scrubs with ingredients that heal the skin, such as herbal extracts. 
After water procedures, which are best done about an hour before bedtime, you need to apply a nourishing cream to your feet. In the composition of such a cream, one of the nutritious oils (sesame, linseed, almond, etc.) must be present. Vegetable oils are quickly absorbed without leaving a greasy sheen or feeling sticky, so you can put on socks or put on shoes soon after applying the cream.
Another component that must be included in a foot cream is an antibacterial extract obtained from medicinal herbs: chamomile, sage, lavender, etc. This extract prevents the appearance of an unpleasant odor, since it does not allow bacteria to spread.
The more moisture in the environment, the faster bacteria activate and multiply. It follows from this that the feet must be kept dry in summer. The first precaution is to splash cool water on your feet after washing. This will help tighten pores and reduce sweat gland activity.
If your legs are prone to increased perspiration, you can recommend rinsing them not with water, but with infusion of oak or juniper bark, decoction of chamomile, string, sage or eucalyptus. These plants have astringent and antibacterial properties.
As for protecting your feet from unpleasant odors during the day, deodorant comes to the rescue. Give preference to deodorants based on mint and menthol.
Corns are probably known to every woman. They appear especially quickly when we put on new shoes or when we switch from “spring” shoes to summer sandals. Calluses bring a lot of troubles and even suffering: after all, inflammations and pustules often form under them. 
To get rid of calluses, it is recommended to use a foot bath with hot water to which apple cider vinegar (3 tablespoons per 5 liters of water) and a few drops of tea tree oil are added. After such a bath, if the corn does not hurt, you can gently treat it with a pumice stone. If the corn is accompanied by pain, then you need to apply a bandage with a medicinal softening ointment on it. Instead of ointment, many people prefer natural remedies, such as aloe pulp, grated raw potatoes, lemon, or chopped onions. It is better not to take off such a bandage all night, but in the morning, carefully treat the corn with a pumice stone, pour cool water on your feet and pat it dry with a towel. In the evening, you need to treat the corn again (hot bath plus a healing bandage), and repeat the procedure until it disappears completely.
Corns are also an unpleasant thing: they look like a dense, keratinized area of a whitish color. It looks unaesthetic, and besides, corns can be accompanied by painful sensations. To make the corns disappear, steam your feet in a hot bath with the addition of vinegar, salt or soda - any additive you need to take 3 tablespoons per 5 liters of water. Now rub the steamed corns with a brush or scraper. If you regularly use foot cream, you can not be afraid of the appearance of corns.
Fungus is an infectious lesion of the skin of the feet and nails that can lie in wait for anyone in the summer. 
The most at risk of catching the fungus are those who wear tight shoes, who have minor injuries and cracks on their skin, as well as those who suffer from severe sweating.
In addition, pregnant and lactating women are at risk, since their immunity is weakened.
It is very easy to get infected with a fungus: just visit a bathhouse or a swimming pool, do a manicure with non-sterile tools or put on someone else's clothes (shoes).
It is also easy to recognize the fungus: the skin begins to itch, redness and blisters appear, the nail softens and turns yellow. Treating a fungus is a troublesome and expensive business, so prevention will be the best way out:
Try to ventilate your shoes thoroughly;
If microcracks or other injuries appear on your feet, protect your feet with socks when going outside: open shoes can cause fungus infection;
Never wear someone else's shoes and clothes!
When visiting the pool or public bath, wear slippers;
Prevent cracked feet with hygiene treatments and cream.
If, despite all the precautions, you notice the symptoms of a fungus, immediately contact a dermatologist, do not self-medicate: there are many types of fungus, and they need to be treated in different ways, only a specialist can prescribe the correct treatment.
Olga Moiseeva for the Women's magazine "Prelest"
In the summer, our feet need special care. Calluses, cracked heels, corns, swelling - that, of course, each of us has to cope with in the hot season, so that the legs have a beautiful and attractive appearance. We use a huge number of special foot care products, but we often cannot achieve a positive result. And all because this issue needs to be taken seriously, to approach it comprehensively - to regularly perform special procedures, such as:
In conclusion, I note that the famous ancient queens Nifertiti and Cleopatra devoted much more time to the beauty of their legs than caring for other parts of the body. Of course, this was due to the traditions of the time - the subjects and servants of the nobles, kissing their feet, so showed their respect. In the 21st century, little has changed. The beauty of female legs is also highly appreciated and is never left without male attention.
