Showing posts with label Home Spa Treatments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home Spa Treatments. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2011

Nourishing Winter Pedicure at Home

Hiya girls and guys! Hope this winter is going on well. All of us need extra skin nourishment in winter as our skin loses all the moisture and natural oils. Even I do feel uncomfortable with my skin in winters as its very dry and flaky. It's not only enough taking care of your facial and body skin with lotions and creams, we should also take care of our precious feet which bears our whole weight :). Even in summers our feet are usually dry and rough, then just imagine how it will be in winters? Just check your feet now, touch it gently. What do you feel? It's like toughing a rough cactus isn't it? :( My feet was like same till today morning, as I didn't perform any pedicure after summer. Today morning I found out an interesting way to perform a best winter pedicure and my feet became instantly soft and bright :)) as you see in the below picture..


So, how to perform this nourishing winter pedicure at home? And what are the things needed? A very few things which you can find in your kitchen :D

THINGS NEEDED
1. Salt
2. A small tub
3. Essential oils such as olive, almond, grape seed oils
4. Foot scrubber, loofah or a pumice stone
5. Soft towel
6. Nail cutter
7. Nail polish remover.
8. Cold cream or moisturizer.

FOOT SCRUBBER
Foot scrubber is very essential for every pedicure because it scrubs your feet well, removes the flaky dead skin cells and makes feet soft and smooth. If you don't have one you can purchase it from your nearest department store or you as also replace a foot scrubber with a good loofah pad or a pumice stone.


Okay now I will give the steps of performing this pedicure. :D

METHOD
1.Remove your old nail polish and file your nails. Fill the tub with warm water. The water shouldn't be too hot or cold, it should be bearable for your foot. Hot water is used in pedicure because it loosens up the pores of your skin and makes the scrubbing process more easier and fuller. It softens the rough skin and thus the impurities and dead skin gets removed easily :)

2. Now mix a hand full of salt, few drops of your regular body wash or shampoo and the essential oils to the tub of water. Salt acts as a great exfoliate while the essential oils nourishes your feet and prevent it from drying.

3. Blend the minute of water well to get lather like this and soak your feet in the tub for 15 minutes.


4. After 15 minutes, take out your feet and scrub it with your foot scrubber gently over the sensitive skin surfaces and little harder over the rough parts of your feet. Don't be too harsh to your feet while scrubbing.


5. After 10 to 15 minutes of scrubbing, wash your feet with plenty of clean and cold water. Towel dry and moisturize with a good moisturizing lotion or a cold cream like the ponds cold cream which I use all the time :) You can coat your nails with a good nail enamel if you wish. The process is complete. :)

NOTE: This winter pedicure can be followed once in every 15 days to prevent the beauty of your precious feet :) You should clean and moisturize your feet every night before going to bed in order to make it look and feet soft and smooth all the time :)

Softy softly feet is all yours now! Say goodbye to winter dryness :D :D

Monday, October 17, 2011

Spa Pedicure at Home For Soft Feet

Dark and dry feet looks ugly and spoils the entire beauty. We can do a simple spa pedicure at home with few natural kitchen products. Today I am going to instruct you all about an easy quick spa pedicure to remove dead and rough skin cells, which reveals the original beauty of your feet. You can do this every week to avoid roughness in your feet!




INGREDIENTS

  • Nail polish remover
  • A small tub
  • Hot water
  • Bath salts or normal sea salt
  • Essential oils (Eg.Olive oil)
  • Regular shampoo
  • Foot scrubber, loofah or pumice stone
  • Soft towel
  • Nail cutter
  • Moisturizer or cold cream
  • Nail polish (Optional)

PROCEDURE
  • Remove the old nail polish from your nails using nail polish remover and cotton.
  • Pour hot water in a tub, and mix little cold water to balance the heat, which is bearable for your feet.
  • Now add the salts, essential oils like olive or lavender oils, shampoo to the water and mix well.
  • Soak your feet in the tub of water for 15 minutes.
  • By doing this, the hot water and salts softens the rough skin and loosens the dead skin cells while the essential oils nourishes your feet.
  • After 15 minutes, take your feet out of the tub and scrub with an exfoliating foot scrubber, loofah pad or with a pumice stone. Be gentle in the sensitive areas and scrub well in the rougher parts of your feet.
  • Scrub both feet for 10 minutes until the dead skin cells are completely removed from the skin layer. Now wash your feet with clean and cold water thoroughly. Wipe with a cotton towel and pat dry.
  • Now file the nails and shape them. The shaping process should be done after soaking in hot water because the nails will be soft and thus it's easier to file.
  • Moisturize your feet with a good moisturizer or cold cream. Polish it if you want.
  • Soft and smooth, beautiful feet is all yours now!

Hope this will be your quick spa pedicure this week! All the best! Leave your comments :)