Every season, change brings with it the joy of a new daily routine. The much-anticipated winter weather has arrived, and we are all eager to wrap ourselves in the warmth of hot teas and blankets, among other things. Dry-skinned people have additional challenges because their hands and feet get so severely dry during the winter season that they crack and bleed. Despite having hand and foot care tips, the majority of people prioritize their hands and feet less.
But keeping your concerns in mind, Mad4India brings you DIY hand and foot care tips made from ingredients that are easily available in our homes. These DIY hand and foot care tips will surely leave your hands and feet soft and nourished in the winter.
Three DIY Foot Care Tips
1. Baking soda and keeping Dryness at Bay
Baking Soda is a common ingredient that is easily available in our kitchen and has great exfoliating properties. It can be a great relief to dry feet as it removes the dead skin from the feet. The best-known use of baking soda is that it eliminates foot odor. Thus, using baking soda in your foot care regime should be a must.
There are various ways to use baking soda and here are the steps:-
- Add three teaspoons of baking soda to a warm water bowl and mix it thoroughly.
- Soak your feet in that warm baking soda water for 15 minutes.
- Use a pumice stone to shed away the dead skin and later on rinse it with clean, lukewarm water.
- Do it twice a week for better results.
2. A nourishing scrub of lemon and coconut oil
The health benefits of lemon are well-known. It can be a great ingredient that can be added to our foot care regime. The acidic qualities of lemon have great healing and exfoliating properties. Tenderly using lemon can help treat the bacteria from the cracked heels. Lemon juice is great if you want smooth and silky feet.
Here are the steps to make this scrub and the ingredients you need are- Sea salt, coconut oil and lemon juice.
- Mix 5 tablespoons of sea salt, 1 tablespoon of coconut oil and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice in a glass container.
- Mix it thoroughly until it resembles the scrub.
- Apply it to your cracked feet and let it on for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Finally, rinse it off with cold water.
3. A Dose of Moisturiser
After scrubbing off the dead skin of your cracked feet, moisturization comes. Nothing can be better than vegetable oil found on our kitchen shelves. Vegetable oil has high moisturising qualities and it hydrates the tough and chapped skin of cracked feet.
Here is the easy way to add vegetable oil to the foot care regime-
- After exfoliating your feet and patting them dry, massage your feet with vegetable oil like mustard oil, sunflower oil or olive oil.
- Put on your favorite socks and let them soak overnight which will give a boost of hydration to your feet.
After making your foot care regime, we cannot leave our hands behind as they are also being punished in these cruel winters when our fingers get dry and our skin starts to peel off. So, here we have three DIY hand-care tips that will leave your hands hydrated and soft.
Two DIY Hand Care Tips
1.Cleaning and Soaking hands in Olive oil
Just like in the foot care regime, olive oil is a great moisturizer but in the hand care regime, olive oil will be used in the first step of soaking and cleansing the hands. Here is the hand care regime.
- Pour a few drops of body wash in lukewarm water.
- Then add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1/2 tablespoon of salt and mix it until it lathers up.
- Soak your hands in that lukewarm water for 15 minutes to cleanse your hands.
Olive oil will lock the moisture while body wash and salt will gently cleanse your hands.
2. Honey and aloe vera gel Hand Mask
Our hands are always exposed in winter as we use our hands for the tiniest task. So, they deserve pampering once or twice a week. Honey and aloe vera gels are handy and easiest to use as hand masks.
- Mix the 1 tablespoon of honey and aloe vera until it looks like a serum or has a thick consistency.
- Apply that mask on your hands and leave it on for 15 minutes.
- Then gently massage it for some time to relax your hands.
- Rinse it off with lukewarm water.
These winter hand and foot care tips can help you attain soft and supple hands and feet. They are not only moisturizing and relaxing for our skin, but they are also inexpensive and readily available in our kitchens, so they will not break the bank. So, give these great hand and foot care tips a try and say goodbye to dry skin this winter.
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