Home Pedicure Recipes

The purpose of doing pedicure is to clean and beautify the feet. You get it done from a beauty salon or do it yourself at the comfort of your home, you work towards cleaning and caring for your feet. The basic process of pedicure involves four steps. They are soaking feet in warm water, exfoliating the dead skin cells, trimming and painting the toe nails, and applying a good quality moisturizer. You may mix different cosmetic product in the soak water for different effects on your feet. Similarly, you may use different substances to scrub your feet to get the desired exfoliation effect.

The present article tells you some of the available home pedicure recipes. Do try each once. Use the one which gives you the best results regularly. You may change home pedicure products in accordance with your personal interest and availability of resources. Ideally, a pedicure should be done once in 15 days. Doing it more often may make the skin of your feet dry and wrinkled. Be careful and follow the instructions given below.

How to Give Yourself a Pedicure at Home?

Take bowl and fill it with warm water. Add a dollop of shampoo, 4-5 drops of rose water and 2-3 drops of any essential oil of your choice. Mix all the ingredients well to form lather. Soak your feet into it for about 10-15 minutes. The warm water will loosen up the dead skin cells, and thus will ease the process of exfoliation. Take a scrubbing agent, preferably with almond extracts, and rub the feet gently. Take a pumice stone and rub the skin with it. Both will serve the purpose of exfoliation.

If you are wearing any nail polish on the toe nails, remove it with the nail paint remover. Take a nail cutter and trim the toe nails. Bring the nails in shape with a nail filer. Now, wash your feet with plain warm water. Pat dry the feet with a towel. Apply a thick layer of good quality moisturizer. Wear socks for the next 3-4 hours. This will prevent the escape of moisture from your feet to the atmosphere.

What are the Different Home Pedicure Recipes

The home pedicure recipes given below can be easily made from the material available at home. You can derive different results by using different ingredients to make soak water and feet scrub.

Recipe 1: Make the soak water by mixing warm water with ½ a cup of bath salt and a cup of fresh milk. The lactic acid in milk helps in loosening of the dead skin. Make the feet scrub by mixing a cup of baby oil and ½ a cup of coarse sea salt.

Recipe 2: Mix a cup of fresh milk, 2-3 drops of almond extract and a bowl of warm water together to form soak water. You may use a paste made by mixing gram flour and yogurt as a feet scrub.

Recipe 3: Mix a bowl of warm water with 3-4 drops of honey and 9-10 drops of lemon juice or vinegar. Use this mixture as the soak water. Make a paste with banana and honey. Rub it on your feet.

Now, with this basic knowledge on home pedicure recipes, make sure you pamper your feet with some superb home pedicure treatment. Happy Feet!