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Make your own foot cream The best recipes for legs. Cooling foot cream with menthol

The main properties of nourishing foot creams are softening, restoring skin. Active substances exfoliate the keratinized epidermis, heal wounds and prevent their formation. Pharmacy preparations have antibacterial and antifungal properties, reduce sweating and relieve skin inflammation.

The necessary action is provided by useful ingredients: salicylic acid, urea, vegetable oils (jojoba, myrrh, lemon, shea butter, sea buckthorn, cocoa, Siberian cedar, wheat germ), fruit extracts and juices, medicinal herbs(pineapple, celandine, chamomile, aloe), essential oils (mint, thyme, rosemary, fir), vitamins, camphor and other useful components.

Names of nourishing foot creams:

  • "Golden Gourd and Corn Oil";
  • Doctor Biocon foot balm;
  • Intensively smoothing foot balm (Paloma Poland);
  • Moisturizing lotion "Pineapple sorbet" Vitex;
  • "Rubber for feet" Home Doctor Ukraine;
  • « Perfect heels» SPA-cream Ukraine;
  • "Gentle Feet" Dr. Sante Ukraine;
  • sea ​​buckthorn;
  • Fruit and nut complex action;
  • Nichidi skin cream snail.

Nourishing foot creams at home

Women who love to experiment offer alternative formulas for nourishing foot creams. They are effective, affordable, always fresh, pleasant to use.

You can prepare nourishing foot creams at home according to the following recipes:

  • For nutrition and softening

A spoonful of chamomile decoction, 2 tbsp. l. camphor alcohol and ghee, 4 tsp. olive oil, half tsp glycerin, 2 yolks. Mix and melt in a water bath. Rub into skin.

  • For nutrition and healing of abrasions and cracks

Combine calendula-based ointment with vitamin A in a ratio of 2:1. The cream has disinfectant properties.

  • For nutrition and prevention of peeling

St. John's wort oil 1 tbsp. spoon, badger fat 1 teaspoon, half teaspoon natural wax, two drops of vitamins E and A - mix and rub into the skin.

  • For nutrition and hydration

By tablespoon sunflower oil and vinegar mixed with egg yolk and a teaspoon of turpentine. Apply to feet.

Clarins Nourishing Foot Cream

The features of Clarins cosmetics are the use natural ingredients, individual approach to skin type, care for women, men and children. Products are offered to customers only after passing dermatological control.

The company introduces innovative formulas not only in cosmetics, but also in skin care cosmetics. Among them is a series of special clarins nourishing foot creams with a predominance of various properties. These funds are classified as elite in terms of quality and price.

  • Universal cream "Youth of legs" for women - tones, softens, eliminates dryness, strengthens nails. Relieves fatigue, gives the legs a feeling of comfort.

The cream recipe includes shea, cashew, myrrh, thyme, arnica oils. These substances gently act on the epidermis, soften and moisturize the skin. The cream has light fragrance powder.

  • Revitalizing and rejuvenating foot cream - according to the annotation, it not only soothes dry skin and gives comfort to tired legs, but also has the effect of preserving youth.

Such properties are provided by the composition: essential and fixed oils, laponite powder, useful ingredients of medicinal plants.

  • Milk for tired legs - quickly relieves the feeling of fatigue, restores lightness, refreshes and softens the skin.

It contains extracts and essential oils of useful plants that relieve tension, have astringent and tonic properties, as well as a complex of emollients. Milk can be used at any convenient time, rubbing from the ankles to the middle of the thighs. Interestingly, the product can even be applied to tights: it does not stick and does not stain clothes.

Many save their legs from fatigue simply by throwing them higher at the end of the day. This is a good way to recover, but there is a better homemade foot cream. cook best cream for your feet with your own hands and feel a different quality of life (I'm completely serious).

Foot cream with mint

  • 30 grams of Shea butter (Shea butter)
  • 30 grams coconut oil unrefined
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp mint extract ()

In previous articles, I wrote about Shea butter and coconut. These herbal moisturizing oils can even be used in pure form. The price of unrefined oils is the same as the average finished product for skin care, but free of parabens, lauryl sulfates, petroleum derivatives and water with emulsifiers.

How to cook:

  1. On steam bath melt shea and coconut. oil.
  2. Add olive oil and let cool until room temperature(if the house is cool, do not bring to hardening).
  3. Add mint oil.
  4. Beat with a blender or mixer, for home cosmetics handheld mini cocktail mixer is very useful. Whipping lasts no longer than 3-5 minutes.
  5. Store at room temperature.
  6. You don’t need to whip the cream, then it will have a “vaseline” structure, as in the photo above. Essential oils can be added to the cream according to your taste. Great for heels.

Summer foot cream

Great cream for dry feet. Suitable for foot and heel care.

  • 50 grams of almond or sesame oil(it could be olive oil too)
  • 100 grams coconut or shea butter
  • 1 tsp vitamin E (possible from ampoules or capsules. There are ampoules in vet pharmacies)
  • 2 tbsp grated beeswax
  • 30 grams pure water(distilled or filter-boiled)
  • 5 drops essential oil lavender or homemade lavender extract (prepared as mint extract)

How to cook:

  1. Melt wax and oils on steam or just on gas.
  2. In a separate container, heat water to a boil.
  3. Add water to the melted mixture, stirring constantly.
  4. Add essential oil.
  5. Transfer the cream to a sterilized container with a lid. Stir the mixture until it has completely cooled down. In order for the cream to have the consistency as in the photo, it needs to be beaten for 3-5 minutes. In this case, it is less likely that the cream will exfoliate, although it contains wax, which naturally emulsifies.

Based on coconut oil or Shea butter, it is much better than ANY commercial cream or lotion. Oils are especially effective for treating eczema and inflammation.

Legs in the summer require special care, because they experience a lot of stress in the heat, swell and get tired. Pamper them with baths, creams and massages.

feet summer is not easy, so foot care at home needed all the time, not occasionally. After all, we use face creams every day, and why are legs worse? And we are talking not only about pedicures and, but also about relaxing baths, remedies for edema And calluses. Take care of your legs, and you will have heels like a baby, and your legs will be fast and tireless.

So, after running around in a hot city or after tiring work in the country, we will please our legs - we will make a bath for 15-20 minutes. First, we will put them in order, wash and clean them, and then we will calm and relax them.

Foot bath "Moydodyr"

This bath can be done, for example, before. In a basin with not very hot water add 1 tbsp. soap shavings (it is desirable to take laundry soap) and 1 tbsp. drinking soda. We keep the legs in the basin for 15 minutes, then massage, three heels and process the nails.

Foot bath "Sweet dreams"

You need to soothe and relax your legs after a hard labor day? Keep in mind that after this procedure you will sleep like a baby - foot baths help a lot with this.

We need to take 2 tbsp. chamomile, flaxseed and pine needles, put in a liter jar, pour boiling water and let it brew for half an hour. Then pour it all into a bowl of warm water, keep the legs in this healing infusion for 15 minutes.

Foot bath "Marathon"

If you still have to run around the city today or go to night club, it is worth cheering up your legs a little. A tonic foot bath is very simple: a handful of salt, you can use sea salt, dissolve in a bowl of water. We keep the legs in the pelvis for 15 minutes, and then rinse with cool water, to which boric acid- 1 tsp to a glass of water.

How to make foot cream at home?

After the baths, it would be nice to lubricate the legs with a wonderful home-made cream.

You can choose the simplest option. You need to buy vitamin A in a pharmacy in liquid form, as well as an inexpensive cream for oily skin. Now mix 1 tbsp. cream and 15 drops of a vitamin, and then apply this home remedy feet, rubbing vigorously into the skin.

Here is another recipe. Take 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, mix with 1 yolk, add 1 tbsp. vinegar and 1 tsp. turpentine. This cream should be applied to the feet to invigorate them, affect active points, and soften rough skin.

How to get rid of calluses?

Take a foot bath every day, then attach an aloe leaf or a lemon peel with pulp to the place of the callus at night. After 3 days, the calluses should come off.

If there are calluses on the feet, then after the bath, carefully treat them with a pumice stone and apply products with salicylic acid.

If there are corns between the fingers, then you need to lubricate them at night nourishing cream and sprinkle with baby powder.

A compress from calluses also helps with corns. bread crumb, dipped in vinegar, which must be tied to corns at night.

Wonderful foot masks

Most affordable option- buy at the pharmacy blue clay and regularly spread it on the legs, especially the feet. Such masks are very good - they soften the skin, relieve calluses and corns. The clay is washed off after it has dried.

Here is another recipe, very effective. You need to take 2-3 tbsp. water, dissolve 10 aspirin tablets in it, add 1 tsp. lemon juice- you need to get gruel. With this gruel we will lubricate the heels and feet after the baths. Legs should be relaxed, steamed. Now we wrap the legs with a film, put on socks and rest for 20 minutes. Then we wash off the gruel and process corns and corns.

And here nourishing mask for legs. We take half a glass fatty yogurt, add 100 g of cottage cheese and 1 tsp. lemon juice. Apply to feet, hold for 15 minutes, rinse with warm water. The legs will be like from the picture!

Alla Ivonina

In summer our feet need special care. Often the skin on them becomes coarse and cracked, suffers from chafing of sandals and sandals, and is dried out by hot air.

In addition, in the summer we often wear heels and at the same time we want to be well-groomed in open shoes. To solve all the problems and help your legs, I offer the best recipes for legs that you can apply at home or in the country from what is at hand.

Recipes for the legs are wonderful, effective, but despite this they will not give desired result if rough heels are the cause of diseases, for example, thyroid gland, beriberi, gastritis.

Foot mask recipes

Nut peeling mask. After applying this mask, the skin of your feet will become soft, tender and velvety.

For this foot mask recipe, we need:

Grind the nuts in a coffee grinder and mix them with cream or butter. Apply the mask in an even layer on the skin of the feet and gently massage. Then rinse off with warm water.

Night mask from celandine "Baby's heels". If during long summer work the skin on your heels has become rough and cracked, remove it without special efforts a simple and very effective mask will help.

You will need:

  • stems and leaves of celandine;
  • shoe covers or cling film;
  • socks.

Grind celandine with a meat grinder or blender to a state of gruel. Apply the paste on your feet in a thick layer. Put on shoe covers or wrap your feet cling film. If you don’t have anything on hand, then you can use plastic bags, but then they need to be securely fastened to the ankles.

Put on socks on top and leave the mask on all night. Wash off the mask in the morning. The rough skin will go away by itself, it will not even need to be removed with a washcloth or pumice stone.

cucumber lemon mask in bags. Enzymes contained in lemon help exfoliate old cells and renew it. cucumber juice has a whitening effect. After such masks, the skin on your heels will become soft and tender.

To prepare this recipe for legs, you will need:

  • two plastic bags;
  • 2-3 cucumbers;
  • three lemons;
  • vegetable oil- 3 table. spoons.

Cut cucumbers, lemons and grind into a liquid gruel in a blender or pass through a meat grinder. Add vegetable oil. Divide the mass into two parts and transfer each to a bag.

Dip your feet in the bag and keep for 20-30 minutes, then rinse.

The mask will be even more effective if you make a hot foot bath before applying it.

Great Foot Recipes

Scrub "Mint freshness". This beautifully refreshing mint-scented scrub gently exfoliates and softens feet. Additional bonus- a wonderful cooling effect, so desired in the hot summer.

You will need:

  • big handful fresh leaves mint;
  • apple cider vinegar - 3 table. l;
  • powdered milk- 2 table. spoons;
  • sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
  • 3 tablespoons coarse salt.

Grind the mint leaves with a knife, pour apple cider vinegar and leave to infuse in the sun for 15 minutes. Then
add in turn milk powder, sour cream, sea ​​salt. Stir. Your scrub is ready.

Dip your feet in the basin and apply the scrub to your feet, turning Special attention to the heel area. Leave on for 10 minutes, then rinse your feet with warm water and pat dry with a towel.

Cocktail "Fruit Delight". Pamper your feet with a delicious cocktail that will help relieve fatigue, nourish the skin of your feet and give it a delicate aroma of fruits.

You will need:

  • a glass of warm kefir;
  • 1 handful of raspberries and blackberries;
  • 1 banana.

Everything needs to be mixed in a blender. Apply the cocktail on the feet, leave for 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water.

Recipes for feet - baths, body wraps

Pumpkin spa wrap "Relax". Are your feet buzzing? This wrap will help relieve fatigue after a long day at work.

You will need:

  • a glass of pumpkin puree;
  • one teaspoon of honey;
  • 1 egg.

Any accessible way prepare the pumpkin: steam, microwave, boil in a small amount of water, mash into a puree. After that, mix everything thoroughly. Spread the mixture evenly over two pieces of gauze and wrap them around your feet. Leave for half an hour then rinse.


Massage mask - peeling "Beach". Combine business with pleasure, pamper your feet while relaxing on the beach. For this you don't need additional funds or ingredients. Everything you need is already in your beach bag and around you!

You will need:

  • tanning oil;
  • warm sand.

Mix some sand in your palms with a small amount tanning oils. Apply sand with oil on the skin of the feet with massaging movements. Massage your feet for five minutes. Then go for a swim.

Potato bath "Budget". Are you going to cook for dinner tonight mashed potatoes? Do not pour out the broth remaining after cooking. The starch contained in it has a softening effect on the skin.

We need a decoction with a small amount of puree.

Pour the broth into a bowl, add mashed potatoes, stir, let cool until comfortable temperature and steam out the skin of the feet. After that, rub the roughened places with a pumice stone and rinse with water.

Foot bath with honey. To prepare a foot bath you will need:

  • shower gel - 1 table spoon;
  • honey - 1 table spoon.

Mix honey with gel and add to hot water. This bath perfectly moisturizes, exfoliates the skin, and also has an antifungal effect.

Here are some great foot recipes. In order for our legs to be beautiful, well-groomed, they need regular care. Do not be lazy, do baths, peels, foot masks, rub, massage your feet.

I look forward to your comments, recipes for legs!

Hello dear readers. How to make your heels soft and smooth at home? I will not be mistaken if I say that every woman dreams of such smooth, soft heels. How beautiful they look in summer open sandals! Therefore, watch the post until the end - there will be 6 ways to get rid of rough skin on the heels.

Baths are the best remedy for soft heels

When the skin of the heels becomes rough, ugly, you should not wait for more serious changes. It is necessary to correct the situation.


What can cause cracked heels? First of all, it is:

  • dry indoor air,
  • lack of care
  • hormonal disbalance,
  • poor circulation,
  • lack of vitamins, especially A and E.
  • fungus attack,
  • high sugar, thyroid disease.

If you don't have serious illnesses, then quickly correct the situation will help soda baths. Pour 1 tbsp into a basin with warm water (1l.). spoon of soda, pour 3-4 drops of essential oil, lower the feet for 15 minutes. After softening the stratum corneum, we treat the legs with pumice stone, lubricate with cream.

Bath with milk. In 2 liters of water, add 1 tbsp. milk, 3 tbsp. salt, a little shampoo. We keep our feet in this solution for about 20 minutes. Then we treat the feet with a brush or pumice, wipe dry, lubricate fat cream.

Bath with glycerin. Pour into a bowl warm water, add 1 hour. l. glycerin, lower your feet for 15 minutes, rub the skin on your heels with a brush, grease with a fat cream. All baths can be done daily 1 time. The course is a week.

Masks for feet and smooth heels


You can make great things at home medical masks. For a rough cover, a real elixir will be a mask with yolk.

Recipe: Take 1 tbsp. l. starch and lemon juice egg yolk, mix well, lubricate the steamed heels, hold for 15 minutes, then rinse with water, wipe them with a towel, grease with cream.

Honey mask. We take 1 tbsp. l. honey and olive oil, mix, apply on the heels, hold for 30 minutes, rinse with warm water.

To make your heels smooth, try doing herbal compresses. Brew a mixture of herbs: chamomile, string, sage, calendula. Two st. l. herbs, brew 200 ml of boiling water. Insist 30 minutes. Soak gauze in the infusion, apply to the heels, fix with cellophane, put on socks.

Treatment of cracks in the skin

Skin on the heels without cracks, is it possible? Of course available! Take advantage simple recipes and you will forget about this unpleasant phenomenon, How .


Spend treatment with peroxide. Pour 4 liters into the basin hot water, enter 4 tbsp. l. peroxides. Lower your legs, the main thing is that they are covered with water, hold for 10 minutes.

Soon you will see that the skin has steamed out as if you had been steaming it for an hour.

We clean off the stratum corneum, cover the heels with a composition (1: 1), which includes glycerin and vinegar (table). We do baths with peroxide 1 time in 7 days, but the mixture can be lubricated every day.

homemade cream for the treatment of cracked heels can be prepared in a few minutes. Take baby cream, add oil peppermint.

And here is a more complex composition. This cream includes:

  • ghee - 50 grams;
  • glycerin oil - half a teaspoon;
  • any vegetable oil - 4 teaspoons;
  • camphor alcohol - 30 grams;
  • egg yolks - 2 pcs.;
  • chamomile infusion - 1 tbsp. spoon.

First, prepare a decoction of chamomile: 1 tbsp. l. flowers, brew 100 ml of boiling water, infuse for 2 hours. Excess liquid can be frozen and then used as a cosmetic.

Then we mix all the ingredients, apply on the heels, wrap in polyethylene, put on socks, hold for several hours.

Homemade heel cream - better than a pharmacy product


There is another way to treat heels, which is better than many ready-made cosmetic preparations. This is a cream that you can prepare in just a few minutes.

For this you will need vitamin A and calendula ointment in a tube.

Take a glass jar, mix vitamin A with ointment well: 20 ml vial of vitamin and a tube of ointment (20g). Store the resulting mixture in the refrigerator.

Daily, at night, lubricate the heels with this magical remedy, then put on socks. Course-week.

After a weekly course, you can continue to lubricate the skin, but already 2 times a week. This cream has an amazing quality: to permanently rid the feet of cracks.

Do not forget to lubricate the nails and the entire foot. Even older people with a neglected state of the dermis acquire soft, smooth heels.

Foot cream with urea

Great for cracked heels compounds with urea, which instantly penetrates the skin, promotes loosening and removal of the upper, stratum corneum, for example,.

In addition, urea cream performs protective functions and also supports in tissues required amount moisture, promotes penetration into the depth of the epidermis useful substances included in this tool.

Cream with urea helps to treat such diseases of the epidermis of the feet as eczema, fungus, psoriasis, ichthyosis.

What is this substance - urea? This is very important component, which is found in the cells of the human epidermis. If there are no diseases of the skin of the legs, then it contains up to 1 percent of urea.

Its main purpose is to moisturize the skin, which means preventing dryness and the appearance of cracks.

Folk recipes for the treatment of heels

Folk remedies are endowed with an excellent healing effect.


Mask with celandine: chop fresh celandine leaves, put on the heels, secure with a bandage, wrap with foil on top, put on socks. Stay like this for the night. Wash off the herb with warm water in the morning. Rub the exfoliated epidermis with a brush, grease your feet with cream.

Effective folk remedy: boil a few potato tubers in their skins, drain some of the water, and mash the potatoes in the remaining water. Pour into a basin, add water to cover the feet, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soda.

Put your feet in the solution, hold for 5-8 minutes, rub your feet with a pumice stone, rinse with water, wipe dry with a towel, lubricate with cream, put on your socks.

Not less than effective remedy - oatmeal, boiled in water. Pour a good portion into the porridge, put the mixture in 2 bags, put them on your feet, insulate for 2 hours, then rinse with warm water. A few such procedures are enough to make the heels soft and smooth.

How can we not remember about? If you are not allergic to it, then prepare a simple tortilla of 2 tbsp. spoons of flour and 1 tbsp. honey.

Divide it into 2 parts. Before going to bed, steam your feet, wipe dry, attach the cakes to your heels, fix them, put on your socks. In the morning, roll up the cakes to use them again. The course is 10 days.

Another proven recipe. Scroll 2 large onions in a meat grinder, arrange them in 2 bags. Before going to bed, put them on your feet, warm them up, put on socks, 3-5 procedures will be enough. This tool will also save you from.


Use lemon for heel care.

  1. The procedure is best done at night. Cut in half and squeeze out the juice. It can be used for cooking, simply added to tea or frozen for later.
  2. Place the squeezed lemon halves on both heels and put on a sock over the top to hold the peel in place. Now just go to sleep.
  3. In the morning you will notice how much softer your heels have become. Perfect result achieved by repeating the procedure every 2-3 days. The same lemon halves can be used multiple times until they dry out.

Vitamins for smooth heel skin

What vitamins are lacking in the body so that the heels are soft, like a child's? First of all, vitamin A.