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Spa Pedicure -- At Home
How to give yourself a professional pedicure, with all the comforts of home?
- Soak away stress.
Fill a tub or foot bath with warm water and drop in a 1/2 ounce of your favorite bath salts (sea salts are a good substitute if you don't have bath salts on hand). Add a tablespoon of olive oil and soak your feet for 10-15 minutes. The salts will soften up dry skin and calluses, while the olive oil moisturizes.
- Banish dead skin and calluses.
Massage an exfoliating body scrub such as Tend Blends Creative Juices Sugar Fix ($28.50, tendblends.com) into the bottoms of your feet. Leave the scrub on, and use a pumice-like surface to buff down calluses and slough away dead skin cells. Rinse your feet with cool water.
- Trim nails and care for cuticles.
Trim toenails, cutting them in a square shape to prevent ingrown nails. Gently push back cuticles with an orange stick. Never cut your cuticles -- they are necessary for keeping bacteria from entering the skin.
- Moisturize and massage.
Dry off your feet with towel and apply an invigorating foot cream such as Dr. Scholl's Peppermint Foot and Leg Lotion ($4.69, drugstore.com). Massage in long upward strokes, moving from your toes to your calves.
- Finish with polish.
Apply a base coat and two coats of your favorite polish, followed by a top coat. Let your nails dry for at least half an hour, then rub a dab of oil into your cuticles and nail beds to moisturize them.
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