“Your feet never take a day off, so take care of them”. This quote will accompany us throughout this article. Good-looking feet reflect how people take care of themselves, do you know why? Because unfortunately not many people care about the beauty of their feet as much as the rest of their bodies! Yes, people do have a daily skincare routine, daily shower routine and hair routine, but footcare? Hmmm not really.
Why Feet Need Special Care?
Although poor hygiene is not the only cause of athlete’s foot, not caring for your feet can make problems worse. If you don’t dry your feet, the warm and damp area between your toes creates the perfect breeding ground for the fungus to grow. The same thing with hydration, because poor hydration will make your feet dry and that dryness causes pigmentation. Another common problem is cracked heels. Cracked heels are not a sign of poor hygiene, there are other reasons too like obesity, eczema, aging athlete’s foot and diabetes. One of the most important things to do to avoid all these issues is to simply have a footcare routine.
Helping Your Parent Could Help the Whole World
The hero of today’s story is an American skincare company founded over 25 years ago called O’keeffe. The founder of this company is Tara O’Keeffe, who had a story with her father Bill who suffered from dry and cracked hands. Bill was a diabetic rancher, which makes sense why he had bad hands that would crack and split. Tara couldn’t find anything that would work for him. Since Tara is a pharmacist, she brought home ingredients from the pharmacy and made a hand cream in her own kitchen. The cream is designed to her father’s situation. Little by little, word got out, and people started asking for it and buying it. Today, O’Keeffe’s has a loyal following of not just people who work outdoors, but also nurses, teachers, mechanics, diabetics, and people with skin conditions such as eczema.
Footcare Routine
- Clean your feet regularly:
No matter what you do, if you don’t clean your feet by water and soap regularly, you won’t get any benefits from what you put on your feet. Wash your feet the moment you take off your shoes and when it gets dirty for any reason. The most important part after cleaning your feet properly is to dry it with tissues or towels and make sure it’s 100% dry. As wetness is the place where germs and bacteria grow.
- Pedicure is not only for pampering yourself:
We all work at least 8 hours besides all the stress the life brings to us. Indulge yourself with a pedicure every month (Home or spas). Pedicure is an intense footcare to clean your feet and do nails. Pedicure is addiction, once you try it once, you won’t stop doing it. It’s a good way to take care of your feet alongside your daily footcare routine.
- Exfoliate your feet:
Everyone must have a foot scrubber to exfoliate heels on a weekly basis. The best way to do it is to exfoliate and wash your feet properly, then you put a generous amount of O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet, wear socks and go to bed. You will wake up the next day with baby feet. As O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet is developed to hydrate and relieve extremely dry cracked feet, providing long-lasting results. O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet instantly boosts moisture levels and locks the moisture in, helping your feet looking and feeling great for long time. It creates a protective layer on the skin to prevent further moisture loss. Foot scrubbers are great but not enough to get soft feet. You must exfoliate with cream-like products to remove dead cells on the surface of your skin. O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet Exfoliating is an exfoliating lotion that moisturizes, softens and repairs extremely dry, cracked feet. You can notice the difference from the first use.
- Moisturize your feet every day
Moisturizing your feet is an essential for beautiful, nourished and moisturized feet. O’keeffe saves us again this time with a lighter formula than the previous one. O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet – Foot Cream is for a daily use and it’s one of the bestselling footcare products on Amazon and iHerb. As the skin’s natural barrier can be damaged, causing dry and cracked skin, O’Keeffe’s Healthy Feet – Foot Cream is specially formulated to create a protective barrier on the skin’s surface that locks in moisture and keeps your skin hydrated. This cream has the most effective hydrating ingredients like water, glycerine, stearic acid, paraffin and urea.
Are You More of Natural-based Fan? No problem, keep reading.
By the end of the day, feet could get moisturized with the same butters and creams we use for the rest of our bodies. The very first natural body butter that works like magic is shea butter. Shea butter is known for intense hydration and long-lasting moisturizing. You could use is it as raw butter for intense care (once a week) or lightweight for daily use. Another body butter that works on dry skin perfectly is cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is rich in natural plant compounds called phytochemicals. These substances may improve blood flow to the skin and slow skin aging by protecting against damage from the sun’s harmful UV rays. As you know hands and feet are just like the face when it comes to the appearance of signs of aging. Lastly, mangoes are not just delicious but nourishing for your skin. Mango butter is scientifically proven that is a powerful emollient for dry skin, forming a naturally occlusive, protective barrier that could help to boost skin’s own natural barrier function. You could choose any of your favourite body butter and use it daily for beautiful and healthy feet. It may sound exhausting to do it every day, but trust me once you get use to it, you won’t feel it’s exhausting anymore. One last tip, as it’s better to use it at night, then it’s better to wear socks to lock the butter and allow your skin to absorb it.
