If your heels are extremely dry, they are sending you a message. Likely, your dry skin has not been fed or moisturized for weeks or months, or longer! Once dehydrated, those outer layers want to be sloughed away, revealing new, softer skin beneath. You can help them achieve softer skin. Try softening them in just 3 steps!
Begin softening those dry heels today
Soften your dry skin in 3 enjoyable steps
1. Soak your feet!
Help this skin to revitalize with a foot soak of at least 10 minutes in warm to hot water that has been prepared with nourishing oil (see below). Add a salt or sugar scrub and massage into your feet, or use Epsom salts (optional) especially on the affected area of your heels. It kind of tickles!
2. After the soak, apply an oil and massage it in thoroughly.
Out of the soak water, pat dry your feet. Apply a few drops of body oil and massage them into the skin on the tops, sides and bottoms of your feet. Re-apply the oil again at least once a day. This routine of self-care for your feet is easiest at night.
Repeat steps #1 and #2 daily two or three times, or until the foot soak makes your extremely dry skin somewhat spongy. This new texture is preparing the new layer of skin that is more supple and hydrated. Spongy skin could happen on your first soak! That’s a good start. If so, proceed to step #3.
3. Shed any Spongy Skin
Take a rough-ish face cloth and (gently!) rub away the spongy skin. Be careful! Do not tear the skin. Just help it to slough off, revealing new, healthy skin. Towel dry and moisturize again with oil. Re-apply the body oil again that day or evening.
Repeat the whole process for two or three days until your heel skin is pretty!
If you are persistent, your heel skin will become clean and smooth. It will become clear of cracks, spongy skin or rough areas.
Wow! How well you’ve cared for those wonderful, beautiful feet!
Your feet are so thankful!— although too busy to say so.
Nourishing Oil Recipe
Choose to nourish your skin, opt for a footbath with a nourishing oil. Footbaths are one of the most healing methods for skin. Suggested by Maurice Messegue, a French herbalist in the countryside in the early 20th-century.
Blend a scented herbal solution for extremely dry skin with this recipe. Make
the solution, apply it and care for the dry skin on your feet.
Make this Nourishing Oil: find the Recipe, here.
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