Dr. Susan Taylor: Feet: From "Barbed-Wire" to "Baby Soft"


You competence not comprehend it, though on Mar 20, 2013, a tiny reduction than one month from now, it will be a initial day of spring. we would gamble that we have not suspicion about your feet during all during a winter months. Or if we did, it was to notice that your feet were cold.

Your associate or partner competence have felt your “barbed-wire” feet brush adult opposite their skin during night in bed. Not so nice.

Now that open is about to spring, it’s time to take a critical demeanour during your feet and toes. There are a lot of pleasing sandals out there and we would gamble that your toes and heals are not prepared for primary time.

So, we have a month to get to work.

The initial thing that we contingency comprehend is that we can’t get your feet in figure in one day or even one week. If we try to mislay all of a passed skin by scraping it off all during once, your feet will turn red and sore, and we competence not be means to walk. You could even rise an infection.

I like a delayed solid method. It’s elementary and all we need are my 5 attempted and loyal items. we have attempted many products for my feet over a years and we have gotten a best formula using:

  • A Tweezerman Pedro Callus Stone
  • A Toenail Clipper
  • Curel Foot Therapy
  • A span of white string socks
  • Saran wrap

Let’s start with your toenails. Clipping them not usually improves their coming though it will give we clues as to either they are healthy. Always trim your toenails horizontally opposite with your toenail clipper. Do not cut or record in an oval figure or we competence rise an in-grown nail. If any spike is intensely tough or formidable to cut, this competence be a pointer of a toenail mildew and we will need to see your dermatologist. Once a spike is cut, take a look underneath a toenail and if we see waste underneath a spike this competence also be a pointer of a toenail mildew (but don’t puncture it out). Again, it is critical to see your dermatologist.

Next, it is time to mislay a serious skin and calluses and a best mill that we have found is a Tweezerman Pedro Callus Stone. we initial saw and bought it in Paris. (I know, we know…what a bizarre thing to buy in Paris, though I’m a skin caring and product junky.) It took over a year for me to find it in a United States.

Why do we adore this stone? There are several reasons. First, it has dual sides, one that has a rougher ceramic mill than a other side and removes thicker calluses from your toes and heels. It also has a fine, somewhat smoother side for stealing dry, rough, passed skin on a bottoms of your feet. we unequivocally like a handle, that creates it easy to reason and scheme and we also have some-more control. The mill is roughly indestructible (unless dropped) and it lasts for a prolonged time.

Keep a Tweezerman Pedro Callus Stone in your shower. Each day kindly massage a excellent side opposite a bottom of your feet, gently. No rubbing or scrubbing. The same goes for a serious side of a stone, that we will use on your calluses. Everyday a tiny volume of passed skin will come off. After a month or so, a passed skin will be left and your feet will feel well-spoken (and all but a pain that occurs when we try to aggressively scratch all of a passed skin off in one day).

After we get out of a shower, slather on your feet cream. we unequivocally like Curel Foot Therapy. Although it smoothes dry, burst feet in only dual nights, we wish we to request it for a whole month, both morning and night. we consider it’s a ceramides, shea butter, coconut divert and vitamin E that do a magic.

In fact, my personal pretence is to request Curel Foot Therapy during night, hang Saran hang around your feet and afterwards put on a span of thick white socks. If we do that for several nights, your feet will feel “baby’s butt” soothing a subsequent morning. Throughout a year, we like to continue to use a feet cream as upkeep therapy.

After a month, we will have your sandal prepared Spring feet. Now it’s time to get a pedicure. There are 5 pedicure manners that we titillate we to follow.

• Do not trim your legs for several days before removing a pedicure since there have been cases of women building a serious infections (a form of tuberculosis) from a spin feet soaks.

• To equivocate bacterial infections, do not concede a manicurist to cut your cuticles or use a razor blade to cut passed skin from your feet.

• Only concede your toenails to be cut opposite in a plane instruction to equivocate in-grown nails.

• Make certain that a salon is purify and all of a instruments sterilized after any client.

• Avoid ultraviolet light to dry, heal or harden a spike gloss (to equivocate a probability of skin cancer)

If we follow these elementary tips, your “barbed-wire” feet will be left by Spring.


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