Do It Yourself At Home: The Pedicure

Researchers have shown that getting a pedicure can be extremely helpful. Besieds helping your feetfeel better, when massage is included, pedicures have been known to lower your stress and pain andimprove blood flow. Professional pedicures, though, are not something that lots of people areinterested in seeking out. Professional pedicures involve using the same tools that have been usedon multitudes of others and you can't tell those tools are hygienic. The good news is that it isperfectly possible to give yourself a pedicure. Here is what you have to do if you are interested toexperience all the benefits of a pedicure without stepping out of your front door.

Take off any nail polish using a non-acetone polish remover (acetone is not good for your health).Then trim the toenails (straight across) and use a nail file to file down any rough edges. Make sureyou use a toenail clipper and not a fingernail clipper. The curved shape of a clipper used for clippingfingernails can cause toenails to become ingrown and begin hurting.

Try soaking your feet in a warm bath. Try to keep your feet in the bath for about three minutes. Youcan try adding things like lavender bath salts or other skin moisturizers and soothers. This makesyour foot bath more relaxing and is a good way to take care of your feet to help them feel better.Pretty much every bath and body aisle of stores have things to make a foot bath better. Some arepricier than others but pick the one you like the best.

Use a pumice to smooth down any rough patches or calluses that may still be left after the foot bath.Don't use a callus shaver or something similar. Plain old pumice stones are just fine.

Rinse your feet once you are through using the pumice stone. After you have rinsed off any pumiceor callus dust and also any foot soak additives that might be clinging on, apply some moisturizinglotion. There are many moisturizing lotions that are made particularly for the feet. Don't settle forjust rubbing in the lotion, although you can if you are pressed for time. Rather, if possible, reallymassage in the lotion. The massage is great for the rest of your body, not simply your feet.

Now that your feet are all clean, free of calluses and have been properly moisturized, if you havetime, the next step is to make them beautiful. Though this isn't precisely an essential step, knowingthat your toes are pretty (even if you're the only one who can see them because your feet are stuffedinto closed toe shoes all day) can do quite a lot for your confidence. Cuticle pushers are the bestoption for pushing back your cuticles (trimmers can lead to a number of injuries and infections).Your base coat has to be a quality nail strengthening polish. After that has had the time to dryproperly, paint whatever colors or designs that you want!

At-home pedicures can be done somewhat quickly and are commonly less expensive than those thatyou would get professionally. They're good for your whole body health, so get going!