Foot Health Guide
How To Do A Pedicure

The Pedicure Experience

A touch of eucalyptus will make your room smell just like a spa - burn some in candle form or a potpurri burner.

Have a few friends in and do each others feet - have a pamper the ladies evening once a month!

          How To Do A Pedicure

1. Give your feet a good deep cleaning.
   
   Place your chair behind a clean, wide bucket filled with hot water. For your foot comfort fold a bath towel into a square and place it at the bottom of the bucket.
   
   Dissolve 1/2 cup of epsom salts or the equivalent epsom salts tablet into the hot water. Epsom salts are a natural disinfectant.
   
   Get comfy and soak your feet for 5 minutes, then rest them on the edge of the bucket.
   
   
2. Dip a foot file, in the water, use it to smooth your heels, the balls of your feet and the outsides of your pinkie toes, then pat your feet dry.
   
   
3. Push your cuticles back with the edge of your nail file, then use a nail brush dipped in an exfoliating scrub to clean the area where your nail meets your skin. Do not attempt to get rid of your cuticles. Only a professional in a salon should do cuticle removal so you don't end up with ingrown toenails.
   
   
4. Rinse your feet in your bucket and dry. Massage moisturizing foot lotion into your feet and then wash away any moisturizer from your nails with soap and water.
   
   
5. Foam toe seperators will make your nail polish job easier. Apply one coat of base coat, two coats of color and one coat of top coat - they same routine the pro's use.
   
   
6. Use a Q-tip moistened with nail-polish remover to remove any polish that misses your nail target.
   
   
7. Salons always suggest that you apply one coat of top coat three days after your pedicure, then every third day after that to keep polish from chipping.

Information on foot pain, leg and lower body health conditions taken from FootSmart.com and provided by The Podiatry Institute, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in podiatric medicine and its effects on muscoskeletal health.

    

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