Recommended, the visit to the pedicure
A visit to the pedicure-podiatrist costs less than 30 euros. Carried out now, this session allows you to spend at least two months from the wings to the feet. A luxury ? No, a good health reflex for the feet.
Smart: while waiting for a horn or callus to heal, protect it with a bandage, wear wide shoes, and in the evening massage the sensitive toe with a foot cream.
Judicious, the gym that strengthens
The more the foot moves, the more its twenty muscles are functional. Suddenly, the legs are less heavy, the back is forgotten and the most cautious no longer have “frozen” toes! And it’s easy. In the evening, for example, walk around the house barefoot as often as possible. Go up and down on the soles of the feet. This stimulates the arch of the foot, the ankle muscles which, as a result, better return the blood from the venous return to the legs. And then it relaxes the toe joints which stretch and move apart at will. This is especially good if you wear high heels all day long, which constrict and compress them.
Conversely, it is advisable to arch the foot as the dancers do, by lowering and extending the toes as much as possible. Stretch and release them several times in a row each night, with your legs straight. It is also excellent for refining the legs and ankles.
Smart: reflex at the office. Roll your bare foot over a tennis ball. Magical !
Indispensable nail care
A small cut, once a week, after the shower, when the nails are flexible, it is ideal to keep the shape given by the pedicure. And thus avoid having to cut too much, or badly, which often promotes the formation of ingrown toenails. Invest once and for all in a pair of stainless steel scissors, short, curved, reserved for this use. Get in the habit of rubbing alcohol on the nails before and after the cut, to avoid painful whitlow-like sores in the event of an injury. Not to mention the little bit of a file to finish, which considerably increases the life of the tights!
Smart: to whiten the free edge of the nails, pass a stick coated with cotton wool impregnated with hydrogen peroxide at 10 volumes.
