Skin Care
Daily care
If you do not care for the skin of your legs, it will soon become coarser, cracks appear on it, and generally will not look good. You do not want that to happen? Therefore, in the evening, after coming home after work, it is necessary to carry out such procedure:
1. Each leg should be rubbed with a massage brush. Pay special attention to the soles of the feet and soles of the feet, massaging them with circular movements - so you remove the old skin cells, improve blood circulation, and have an effect on the active points of the foot, which will not only relieve fatigue, but also positively affect overall health.
2. Wash feet with warm water and soap, rinse. For the purpose of hardening, you can make contrasting baths:
, first lower your legs for 1-2 minutes in a basin with hot water, then for 5-10 seconds - in a basin with a cold. Repeat the procedure 2-3 times, ending with cool water.
3. Wipe your feet dry, including between your toes.
4. Apply foot cream to feet and soles.
After that it is useful to sit for 15 minutes, raising your legs parallel to the floor - you need to sit on one chair, and put your feet on the second. It is especially useful to give such rest to the feet of those who are forced to spend standing all day, this will help in the prevention of varicose veins.
To the skin of the legs remained in order, and the toenails were beautiful, once a week it is recommended to do a pedicure.
Solving individual problems
Fatigue, swelling of the feet
A tray of herbs will help. To make it, you need to take 100 grams of a mixture of chamomile flowers, birch leaves, mint. Pour this mixture 1 liter of boiling water and press for 40 minutes. Then pour the infusion into the basin with hot water, make a bath for the feet. The water temperature should not be more than 38-39 ° C.The duration of the bath is 10 minutes.
To remove fatigue, puffiness and rejuvenate the skin, you can use pieces of ice - they need to rub the skin of the legs. Especially the effect will become noticeable if the ice is prepared from the infusion of sage leaves, chamomile flowers, arnica, cornflowers or yarrow.
Perspiration of the feet
Many complain of sweating of the feet, which is often accompanied by the appearance of scuffs. In addition to causing hygiene inconveniences, increased sweating reduces the body's defenses. To reduce sweating, use the following tips:
so that your legs are less sweaty, be sure to wear cotton, not synthetic socks. For the winter, buy socks with a high content of wool. Try to wear only leather shoes. By following only these recommendations, you may have partially solved this problem.
if you suffer from perspiration of the feet, you can apply a deodorizing spray for the feet - it must be applied on the feet before putting on socks, on dry feet. This spray eliminates bacteria, soothes the skin, reduces sweating;
to reduce sweating of feet will help regular, at least 2 times a week, foot baths from an oak bark. To do this, 200 grams of oak bark need to pour 1 liter of water and boil for 20 minutes. Broth strain and add to cool water at a rate of 1 tbsp.spoon on 1 liter of water;
with sweating can help the foot bath with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. After such a bath, the feet should be wiped dry with a soft towel. If there are rubbing between the toes, these areas should be wiped with cologne, half diluted with water. Then, lubricate the skin between the fingers with lanolin cream and, in order to avoid contact, to lay fingers with thin strips of gauze soaked with a nutritious cream;
also with sweating it is very useful to make foot baths with the addition of decoction or infusion of sage leaves, horsetail, hips, pomegranate.
Cracks on the heels of
If the level of natural skin hydration is insufficient, dry soles may appear and cracks may appear. Especially painful and deep there are cracks on the heels.
To avoid a similar problem will help the trays of Veronica grass. For 1 liter of water, take two stems of Veronica and boil for 5 minutes. When the water cools down to such an extent that it can not be burned
, soar your feet 10-15 minutes. The course of treatment - from 3 to 15 baths, depending on the condition.
Tray from the tincture of milkweed: for 10 liters of boiling water take 100-150 g of milk and insist until the temperature of the water becomes tolerable for the feet. Soar your feet before going to bed, then put on woolen socks.
Sometimes under the toes can also appear cracks, which cause anxiety due to extreme soreness. Such cracks well heal if you lubricate them with sea buckthorn oil.
Corns
One of the most common problems that can occur with your legs is the appearance of calluses. To avoid this, you need to choose the right shoes, but if they did appear, then you can:
soap and soda bath. For their preparation, in 2 liters of hot water, dissolve 1 tbsp.l.drinking soda, 1 tbsp.l.planed laundry soap and 1 tbsp.l.ammonia. Rinse the tub for 40 minutes, pour boiling water to keep the water warm. Then softened calluses need to be cleaned from the soles of pumice or a special fine-mesh brush for the feet, then grease these places with a fat cream for the feet. Baths do every week. If necessary, repeat the procedure 2-3 times;
good shoelets for the feet. If you do not regret the money and buy yourself expensive high-quality foot care tools - a narrow metal fine-grained nail file for eliminating individual calluses and a wide heros for heels, then you can, without exaggeration, be able to wipe away annoyed calluses a couple of times and without soda trays. Use the fillets after the steaming of the feet, after which the legs are lubricated with cream;
so that the feet are always soft and gentle, once in 7-10 days, use a special foot scrub: it must be applied to the steamed skin and massage the feet in a circular motion. Then wash the scrub with warm water and apply a foot cream.
Ragged and cracked skin
To soften rough or cracked skin of feet and knees, it is recommended to make the following masks:
honey mask. Mix 2 parts of honey with 1 part of interior fat, apply mass to cracked places. Secure the mask with a gauze dressing and leave for 2 hours. Wash off the mask with warm water;
Milk and Apple Mask. Boil an apple in milk, make a mashed potatoes and apply the resulting mass to the skin of the feet. The duration of the procedure is 30 minutes. Then the mask should be washed off with warm water;
citrus mask. Mix 10 parts of vegetable oil and 1 part of orange juice or lemon, leave the mixture on your knees for 20 minutes, rinse with warm water and grease your knees with a nutritious cream. Thanks to this mask, the hard skin on the knees considerably softens.
Removing unwanted hair
You can remove hair on your legs by depilation or hair removal. The difference between these two concepts is this: depilation is when the part of the hair that is located above the surface of the skin is removed;Hair removal is the removal of hair along with the root part.
The methods of depilation include shaving, the use of wax and cream-depilator.
The methods of epilation include plucking the hair with tweezers, using the epilator at home and various types of hair removal performed in the salons. Among the latter can be identified electroepilation, photoepilation and laser hair removal.
Shaving
The method is the easiest, painless and cheap. The disadvantage of shaving is that hair in the form of stiff bristles will begin to appear the next day.
For women to remove hair on their legs, it is better to use special female razors - unlike men's razors, they are designed for softer and thinner hair.
Shave the hair in cool water( not to irritate the skin) in a separate pelvis. If the skin is steamed after the bath, set aside shaving for 30-60 minutes to again reduce the risk of irritation.
Consistency sequence:
1. On a damp skin evenly, apply a thick layer of a shaving aid - foam, cream or gel. Stand for 1 minute.
2. Gently shave the hair against hair growth. Tested to the touch, all hair removed. During shaving, the machine should be washed in water in order to remove hair from the
.Do not touch the blade with your fingers, you can rinse the machine
only!
3. Rinse skin with water, soak with a towel.
4. Apply an after shave remover or an ordinary body cream.
Chemical depilation
For chemical depilation, substances that dissolve the structure of the hair are used, as a result of which the hair weakens, twists and easily leaves the surface of the skin. Depilatories are most often sold in the form of creams. It is very important to use the depilator precisely for the zone for which it is recommended in the instructions, since the skin in different parts of the body has a different sensitivity, and creams for different parts of the body contain chemicals of different concentrations.4 hours before chemical depilation and 4 hours after it, you can not take a hot bath or shower, so as not to cause skin irritation.
Chemical depilation is performed as follows:
1. If you apply this cream for the first time, you need to test for skin sensitivity. To do this, apply a cream to the small area of the skin on the ankle, and hold it for 15 minutes. If there are no allergic reactions( redness, itching), proceed to remove hair.
2. Apply a depilatory cream on the entire surface of the legs, evenly distributing it. The cream should be applied either to the scapula, and then to the skin, or immediately from the tube to the skin, and then distribute the scapula.
Do not save the cream, otherwise the hair will be removed unevenly. After applying the cream, withstand the time specified in the instructions.
3. With a spatula, remove the cream along with the removed hair against their growth.
4. Wash off the rest of the cream and hair with cool water, treating the skin of the legs with a hard sponge.
5. Wet the skin with a towel, apply the cream after depilation or, if it is not there, a balm for the body.
After applying the cream, the hair grows slower.
Wax depilation
The method of hair removal with cold or hot wax also has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, the hair is removed from the root and will not grow for 2-3 weeks, and on the other - this is a very painful procedure.
Wax depilation can not be performed if the length of the hair is less than 4 mm.
The day before the use of wax is not recommended to lubricate the skin with cream.
Depilation with cold wax
At home for quick hair removal it is convenient to use wax for depilation in plates. The procedure is as follows:
1. Wipe the skin with a cotton disc moistened with alcohol-containing lotion, allow to dry.
2. To get the skin dry, apply a small amount of cosmetic talc or baby powder to it.
3. Wax warm up by grasping two plates between the palms. Then the plates are divided.
4. Plate the glue to the skin, pressing it with the palm of the hand in the direction of hair growth. Quickly remove the plate against the growth of hair, while the plate should be pulled as close to the skin as possible. The same wax plate can be used several times. Using plates, remove all unwanted hair from the surface of the legs. Removing the hair from the knee, bend the leg, so that the skin on the knee well stretched. After removing the plate, this skin area can be pressed with the palm - it will calm the skin, a little pain. Remains of wax should be removed with a napkin soaked in olive oil - sometimes such napkins are sold with wax. Then wash your skin with cool water, get soaked with a towel.
After removing the wax plates, do not use soap and sponges - this will cause severe irritation.
Choose for yourself the most acceptable methods of epilation - and let this procedure become systematic. The main thing is to look well-groomed for one hundred percent.