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Brilio.net - Many people when doing activities outside the home wear their favorite footwear. Some wear flat shoes, sneakers, heels, flip-flops, and others. Apart from supporting your appearance, the use of footwear also protects your skin from direct friction with the floor or road.
Even though it is used to protect the feet, sometimes wearing shoes that are not suitable can actually cause problems with the skin on the soles of the feet, you know. One of the things that most people experience is rough or cracked soles of the feet.
Rough and cracked soles may make some people uncomfortable, because they cause pain and make the feet look unsightly. You can't just leave the soles of your feet rough and cracked. You can treat rough and cracked soles with natural treatments.
As did the woman who shared her method on the Instagram account @manisfaceyogya. In the upload, he used kitchen ingredients including lemon, mixed with petroleum jelly, and kitchen ingredients, namely baking soda without a mixture of salt.
Compared to salt, baking soda has gentle exfoliating properties, helping to remove dead skin cells that cause the soles of your feet to feel rough. Baking soda also helps eliminate unpleasant odors that often occur on the feet, and keeps the skin fresh.
Meanwhile, petroleum jelly is effective at locking in skin moisture, helping soften and soften rough and cracked soles. Petroleum jelly also forms a protective layer on the skin, preventing moisture loss and protecting the skin from further irritation.
Meanwhile, lemon contains citric acid which can help brighten dull skin, increasing the brightness of the soles of the feet. Reporting from purplle.com, Monday (22/4), the antiseptic and antibacterial properties of lemon can help clean the skin and prevent infection in cracked feet.
So, after knowing the benefits of the ingredients above, are you interested in using this scrub? For those of you who want to use the method from @manisfaceyogya, let's look at the steps below:
photo: Instagram/@mansifaceyogya
- 1 teaspoon Petroleum jelly
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon of toothpaste.
photo: Instagram/@mansifaceyogya
1. Prepare a bowl first
2. Mix petroleum jelly into a container
3. Pour in the baking soda
4. Add lemon juice
5. Mix with toothpaste
6. Stir all the ingredients until evenly mixed
7. Scrub is ready to be applied.
photo: Instagram/@mansifaceyogya
1. Make sure the soles of your feet are dry and clean
2. Apply the scrub to the surface of the soles of the feet
3. Leave it for five minutes
4. Rub gently
5. Rinse using normal water
6. Scrub your feet regularly so that rough soles can become smooth again.
Apart from the benefits above, lemon also has other benefits such as eliminating foot odor. Lemon contains citric acid which has natural antiseptic and antibacterial properties. All of these ingredients help kill bacteria that cause odor on the skin of the feet.
Meanwhile, applying fresh lemon juice directly to the skin of your feet can help cleanse the skin and remove germs and bacteria that cause odor. Lemon also provides a refreshing fresh aroma.
The acidic nature of lemons can create an inhospitable environment for bacteria to breed. This can help reduce the possibility of smelly feet because it reduces the amount of bacteria present on the skin of the feet.
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