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Best Foot Care tips for Beautiful and Happy Feet- Keep your Feet Soft and Beautiful

Everyone wants to look perfect, but healthy skin and your proper care reflects your whole personality. You do makeup, wear beautiful clothes and accessories to look beautiful but if your forget your feet, sometime it can be embarrassing and painful at the same time. Anyone looses his or her charm because of these dry and unkempt feet. These feet reflects your health and your improper care for your skin.

If I ask- Who wants to have soft and pretty feet? Than your answer is obvious, YESS...I want

In our daily life, we do not have much time to do everything for our body but if we want to look good and beautiful than you have to do proper care and daily skin care regime. These daily routine does not take much time and money. If you want to keep your feet looking their best, you have to take steps to preserve and maintain them. 

Best Foot Care Tips For Beautiful and Happy Feet


Here are the best foot care tips to keep your feet looking their best and beautiful. 

Wear Comfortable and Fit Shoes  


If you wear wrong shoes, it will down you feet very quickly. Too small, tight fit or shoes that rub your feet in wrong way can causes blisters, rashes and corns. You should always wears comfortable, well-fitting shoes, whenever possible. You should be careful when bringing home a new pair of shoe.

Soak Your Feet regularly


At night, after a long day of your work, your feet feels tired and dirty. To keep them clean and relax than it will takes a little effort. Follow these steps and pamper your feet-
  • Take a bucket of lukewarm water.
  • Add a liquid soap, lemon juice and 1 tbsp salt into the warm water.
  • Slowly dip your feet into the water and keep it soaking about 10-15 minutes.
  • Using a scrub or pumice stone, remove dead skin cells.
Do theses steps twice a week to see a good results.
  

Scrub your feet



Scrub your feet with good foot scrub. You can use a market bought foot scrub or homemade foot scrub. Apply foot scrub on your wet feet and massage it in circular motion on a dry areas. It helps to remove black and dry dead skin cells from your feet, and make them clean and smooth. Many times, I always used homemade foot scrub which is very simple and effective. So, I share with you my simple homemade food scrub- Sugar and baby oil scrub.
This is very simple and anyone can make this foot scrub. 
  • Take a half cup of sugar and 2 tbsp baby oil, mix it well. Apply this mixture on your feet and massage it slowly.
This being a very simple process, anyone can easily make this scrub and leave the feet perfectly free of dead cells and calluses. You need a bowl of sugar and ½ a cup of baby oil. Mix well and scrub the hard areas of your feet thoroughly.Doing this whenever you feel that the feet are developing roughness and calluses will make sure that they are well nourished and moisturised and you have no cause for complaining after your pedicure session.
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Remove Nail Polish 

Wearing a matching nail paint is good and enhance you feet beauty but overtime same layer of nail paint can down your nails. You should change your nail polish in a weak, for few hours let your nails nail-polish free. When apply new layer of nail polish, be sure to remove all of the old layer of old color. It gives strengthen your nails.

Nails Trimming


You should trim your nails regularly, broken and ingrown nails are not so good. They are painful and causes discomfort. Do not cut your nail too short and prevents the cuticles as this can also so painful and sensitive.
  

Moisturisation


Above all processes, moisturisation is also very essential part for our skin. Moisturisation keeps your feet soft and smooth like a baby feet. Your feet needs more moisture than your whole body parts. Apply thick layer of good foot cream on your feet and massage it, and put on pair of socks overnight. This helps your feet become more softer and smoother. Cocoa butter cream with vit. E is also very effective for dry and rough feet.

Try these simple natural foot care tips :-
  
Coconut oil - Massage your feet with coconut oil, it is very simple way to soothe and hydrate tired your feet. 

Vaseline - Apply a layer of Vaseline on your feet at night regularly. This will changes your texture of your skin and makes it smooth.

Rose water and Glycerine - Combine Rose water and glycerine together and fill it in a bottle. Use this solution daily on your feet. It helps to repair your cracks  and prevent your feet from itching and irritation. 

A proper care and regular foot massage is essential for our feet. Massage improves our blood circulation and makes our feet soft and smooth. By these, keeps your feet beautiful  young and looking fresh always.



If these simple foot care tips works for you or you share your favorite tips. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment box below. 



Stay happy and beautiful !!!!




Best 3 Daily skin care routine for dry skin of your face - Save your skin from dry and cold weather

As you all know that all environmental conditions have their own affects on our body. We want to keep our body as well as our skin happy, healthy and good looking. Skin is the largest part of our body that mainly effected by the weather, skin is our outer shell that we present or show to the world each and every day in our life. In any season, our skin has huge effect either it is hot or cold. We always struggling with the different cosmetics and beauty products to achieve perfect skin. 



Winter season brings dry and rough conditions that strip skin of its natural moisture. Cold and harsh winds mostly irritates our delicate skin of face, lips and hands. This is also leads to red patches, dead skin, clog pores, acne. If you do not care it properly than age effects or wrinkles can seen early on your face.

I also experience the worst winter when my skin becomes dry and rough. It feels so uncomfortable
flaky and itchy skin. I often spends a lot of money and time on my skin products but it really not works. Only buying a good product is not enough, you should follow a proper skin care regime throughout the year. If you want maintain your skin glow, healthy and charming than you should develop a daily dry skin care routine. 

So, if you feels tight, dry, flaky, itchy, sore and uncomfortable dried out, its means your skin is dry skin. You always had a dry skin or its any beauty products effects or winter effects that makes your skin flaky or dry, there is no need to worry. By follow this dry skin care regime in your daily routine that helps your dry skin and make your skin soft and glowy. 

I share my daily dry skin care routine which help me out. I have divided my daily routine into 3 simple sections in a day that makes my skin clean and soft. These three simple parts in a day are:-

1. Morning section
2. Day section
3. Night section

I try to describe all steps clearly to keep your dry skin healthy and prevent it from drying. 

Best 3 Daily skin care routine for dry skin of your Face - 


1. Morning section

In morning section, you should follow these steps and include them in your daily skin care regime.


First, you should always wash your face with lukewarm water, do not use cold water because it constricts your skin pores. This will freshen you up. 

On wet face, use a mild cleanser which is suits your dry skin, massage it on your wet face for a minute.Than wash off with Luke warm water. Always avoid harsh or chemical cleansers. 

After cleaning, now you can use a mild or organic skin toner. If you not like market bought skin toner than you can use rose water. I always used it, it gives coolness and freshness on my face . 

Now, Apply a thin layer of moisturizer which is for dry skin. Mild and Milk cream or moisturizer is best for your dry skin. Than massage it in circular motion, leave it for 5 -8 minutes. 

If you are going to step out in sun, than use sunscreen or day cream on your face and neck. It will keep your skin hydrated throughout the day and protected from the sun. 

If you want to wear a foundation, then you may use it after applying your day cream or sunscreen. Mineral foundation is good for your dry skin. 

2. Day section

Only morning section is not sufficient for your skin type, do not forget to take care of your skin during the day. For Day section you should follow these simple steps -


Always carry your moisturizer or day cream, lip balm or moisture rich lipstick, Vaseline in your bag. 

If you feel your skin tight or dry than during your first morning break or coffee break, just walk to the wash room and use another thin layer of moisturizer which is used in the morning. keep your skin hydrated. 

If your lips becomes dry than apply a good lip balm, gloss or lipstick. 

Drink a lot of water and fluids, this will naturally keep your skin hydrated from inside. 

3. Night section

Before going to bed, it is very important to follows these steps-



First wash your face with lukewarm water, on wet face use a good dry skin makeup remover to clean your face properly.  
If you feel that there is some traces of makeup on your skin than use your mild cleanser.  
Apply mild scrub on your wet face and slowly massage it in circular manner.This will helps you to remove flaky and dead deposition of cell on your face and make your skin smooth and clean. You can use scrub once or twice in a weak. 
Now apply a thick creamy moisturizer or a good night cream. This will help to nourish your skin while you sleep, making your skin more smooth and soft. 

I hope this can be the best dry skin care routine for dry skin and this will help you too!!!!

Try these simple steps at your home and do tell me, what will you experience.


How to cure dry and dark elbows at home ?

Mostly, we all are focusing on our facial skin and do proper care of it but forget about our elbows. An even fair skin tone adds to your beauty and having dark dry  elbows can detract from it. This is very embarrassing situation especially for women, this makes you self conscious and decrease confidence about wearing short sleeves or sleeve less dresses.



The skin of our elbows is usually thicker and folded more than its surrounding skin. The elbow skin tends to be drier due to absence of oil glands in it. These dry elbows already serve up discomfort and becomes dark due to deposition of dead skin cells on it. In this situation , never neglect to cure these dark and dry elbows as this will not harmful but it will spoil your beauty and affects your personality. 


While dry elbow skin is thin and serve up discomfort. Disposition of dead skin cell become darken over time and even exposed to the sun. This problem needs proper care and nourishment. If you do gentle treatment and daily moisturisation. This will remove dead skin cells and makes your elbows softer , lighter and even skin tone again. 


How to cure dry and dark elbows at home ?

Home treatment requires a proper care of skin on regular basis.
This treatment includes these following steps:-
  • Scrubbing 
  • Cleansing 
  • Moisturizing  
  • Lightening.

Scrubbing or Exfoliation :-

Exfoliation or scrubbing is helps you to remove dry and dead skin cell from your elbows. 
First, take a little amount of scrub and apply on each elbow. Gently rub in circular motion for 5 minutes. Rinse with water.

You can purchase a fine-grained scrub from a market or your made it at home by using natural ingredients.

Take 1/2 tbsp wheat germ, 2 tbsp oats, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1/4 cup of cream in a bowl and mix it well. Apply this scrub on your elbows. Use a scrub twice a week before showering for best results.

Cleansing :-

For providing hydration to your elbows skin, cleanse your elbows skin with a nourishing shower oil on a shower puff to soften elbow skin. Rinse with warm water.

Add fragrance free hydrating cream to your cleansing routine for maximum absorption. You can use petroleum Jelly or creams on dry elbows which provided hydration. Coat your elbows with a thick layer of petroleum jelly or cream while dry and rinse it off in the shower to help lock in the moisture from your creamy cleanser. 

Avoid creams with chemical moisturizers and heavy fragrances, they can irritate the skin.

Moisturizing :-

Moisturization of skin is also very important, lack of moisture in skin causes dryness or flacky skin. Elbow skin is generally hard from our other skin, So use of regular moisturizer not very effective. You can use moisturizer which contains Sunflower-seed oil and lanolin emollients. Creams with Emollient create a barrier on your skin to keep hydration intact and protect it from drying skin. 

Take a small amount of thick emollient cream and apply over each elbow while damp, to allow it to absorb deeply. Apply moisturizer daily after showering and at night before bed.

Lightening :-

Dryness and deposition of dead skin cell cause of black and dark skin of elbows. You  can   choose a skin lightening serum which   contains vitamin C, glycolic acid, kojic acid or licorice extract. 

Take a quarter-sized amount of lightening serum into each elbow and massage it on circular manner. These help to remove dead and dry skin and prevent over production of melanin pigments.

Always use a sunscreen on elbows when going out for the day, it keep sin exposure.

Note :- If you still find dry, patchy dry elbows after a couple weeks of this treatment, see your dermatologist.

How to have younger looking hands- keeping hands beautiful

We are mostly take care of our face, apply different beauty products on our face to look younger and wants to stop aging but what about your hands? We are forget about our hands aging, next to the face our hands are the most visible part of our body. 

At a certain point of our age, looking younger starts to sound good. We do daily skin care regime for our face and neck but sign of aging will show earlier in our hands than the face. The skin of our hands is very  delicate and thin. There is  no fat under the skin of hands because of this the veins are so visible. 

As we grow older, Our hands also need extra care because they are always doing so much hard work for us  so we often taken for granted.
Now from today, include your hands in your daily skin care regime and do proper care like you do for your face. The best way to maintain your hands younger are -

Beauty tips to keeping your hands beautiful


Protect your hands

When you are washing dishes or clothes, always wear the rubber gloves . The soaps and detergents are very harsh for your hands even for your nails. 
When you are scrubbing the pans or pots with these cleaning agents, they have chemicals and bleach which is hard on your skin and causes ageing. So, wear gloves for every time you wash dishes or clothes or anything with soaps and detergents and protect your hands.

Exfoliation of your hands skin

Exfoliation is the process in which we remove the dead skin cells with the help of scrubber or exfoliator. Use a scrub on your back of hand and massage it for 5 minutes and than wash you hands. You can use same scrub that you use on your face. It makes your skin smooth, exfoliate your hands at least once in a week. 
You can make your own home made scrubber, take 1 tbsp sea salt and mixed with lemon juice. Rub this solution on your hands with an old toothbrush. It helps remove any dead skin cells.

Keep your cuticles neat and clean 

Generally, our nail cuticles overgrow and we are trying to trim it, but it is very difficult task. Cuticles works as barriers to bacteria and fungus for our nails. Never cut your cuticles with your teeth or with nail cutter. Keep them hydrates with lotion and use a wooden cuticle pusher. Keep you cuticles clean and infection free.

Moisturizing your hands



After washing your hands, use moisturizer on your hands properly. Use a mild soap for washing your hands. Moisturizing is very important for thin skin of hands. Every washing your hands moisturizer remove out with soap.Make your habit of applying moisturizer after each washing and drying your hands. Just after one day, you will notice the difference.

Apply sunscreen daily



Like your face, your hands are also exposed to the sun. As we all know that sun rays are the biggest cause of premature aging. So, always
use a high SPF sunscreen or sun block on your hands, especially when driving your car. The UV rays  causes 90% of the fine lines, wrinkles, discolorations to your body.



Home Facial – How to do a Facial at Home?


Every women in this world wish that she looks beautiful and want soft, smooth and glowing skin. If you also want to be picture perfect skin than you should take care of your skin properly and make your skin healthy.

In spa and parlous, there is many types of face massage or you can say FACIALS are available. But in this , you can spend so much money because all different types of facial are having there own range i.e. Cost of each facial. And as you all know that these are expensive and also takes your long hours in the parlous. 

 
So, You can easily saves a lot of time and your money by doing the facial at your home. In home facial , the best thing is that you know the product or ingredients which you are using.

Facial is a technique that makes you skin flawless and healthy. It is most efficient and effortless routine for your skin . It improves the blood circulation in your face and toned the skin. It also rejuvenate your skin and you looks younger than your age.

Types of Facial

Facial are many types -
  • Fruit facial
  • Gold facial
  • Diamond facial
  • Pearl facial
  • Chocolate facial and many more.

Before doing this, you should be aware of your skin type and which facial is suitable for you skin type. Sometimes, it shows its adverse effects so be careful.

Basic Home Facial Steps-


Facial at home is very easy and simple. Do facial once in 15 days which helps you to improve complexion, increases blood circulation, rejuvenates the skin , removes tanning and relieves tension. You will feel refreshed and more alive naturally. So, let start with the following basic steps :-

Step 1: Face Cleansing


The first step in facial is CLEANSING . In cleansing , you will clean you face and neck with good facial cleanser or makeup remover to remove all traces of dirt, excessive oil and makeup. You can you use store bought products, but make sure that for oily skin you should use an oil free cleanser and for a dry skin you should use a milky or creamy cleanser .

You can use natural cleanser i.e Raw Milk which is generally use in home for cleansing. Take a cotton ball and dip in milk and wipe your face to remove all dirt and makeup from your face. Use circular upward movements.After this wash your face with cool water and pat dry using soft towel.

Step 2: Skin Exfoliation or Scrubbing


The second step is Exfoliation which helps to remove dead skin cells from your face and neck, reduce large pores and improves skin texture. If you do good exfoliation on your skin , it helps to get rid of dead cells, sebum or oil and residual dirt on the face.
 
Apply facial scrub to damp skin and massage gently in circular motion . And focusing on area around nose, chin and forehead. Avoid scrubbing around the eyes as they are very soft and sensitive skin. Exfoliates for 5-8 minutes and Rinse you face. You can do exfoliation 2 times in a week and Regular exfoliation reduces the spots , wrinkles and fine lines from your face and keeps your skin smooth, soft and younger.
 
Use scrubber according to your skin type :
  • For oily skin – Orange and lemon scrub,
  • For dry skin – Banana and avocado scrub,
  • For sensitive skin- Peach and strawberry scrub.

Step 3: Massaging


The third important step is MASSAGING, after doing proper cleansing and exfoliation. The massage will bring a long term rejuvenating effect on your face skin and it helps to look younger from your age . Massaging increase the blood circulation in your face which reduces wrinkles and pigmentation,and also delays the aging. Massaging with good facial cream or gel is restores health of your skin and provides a youthful look to your face. Give massage for 15- 20 minutes and after that wash you face with cold water.

Step 4: Steaming


The forth step is facial STEAMING.You can take steam by many ways like take steam with steamer or with a towel. From steamer, you can cover your head with towel and lean your face over the steamer and capture the steam. You should take care not to go too close as it might burn your skin.  And with second method with towel, dip a towel in a warm water and press to your face and repeating 2-3 times. Take. Steam for 8-10 minutes and finish off by splashing cold water on your face.
Steaming helps to opens the pores and release the toxins and impurities which present on the skin. 

Step 5: Applying Facial Mask or Face Pack


The fifth step is to apply Facial Mask or Face Pack. You can use the mask or packs according to your skin type.
  • For oily skin- You can use mud or clay mask which helps to absorb excess oil
  • For dry skin – You can use hydrating mask or creamy mask and
  • For sensitive skin – You use a light gel mask
Apply the mask or face pack after steaming on your face and neck area but avoiding the areas around the eyes. You can also add rose water in it for better result. Keep it for 10-20 minutes. Rinse completely with water. Face pack or mask provides your coolness, refreshment and also reduce tan and blemishes.

Step 6: Moisturizing


The last and final step is MOISTURIZING of the skin. All skin types needs moisture. Moisturizing of skin helps to protect your skin from drying and keep skin soft and hydrated and also maintain the texture.You should choose a moisturizer again according to your skin type.
 
  • For dry skin - Use a cream based moisturizer
  • For oily skin – Use a gel or water based moisturizer
  • For sensitive skin- Avoid moisturizer containing fragrances or acids
Apply the moisturizer and leave it on the skin, so skin can absorb it well.

Mainly, Use the fruit moisturizer like banana, peach, strawberry, honey or cherry or even milk. These moisturizer helps to hydrate the skin by restoring the natural moisture and make your skin it soft and smooth.