Varices, cellulitis, dryness, hardnesses, cracks and calluses are some of the problems that can affect to our legs and feet. To prevent them and to shine and to enjoy legs and feet in perfect S-state very simple, if daily them loans a little attention and time.

We can begin the general cares practicing as easy tasks as to walk barefoot, which aid to that they breathe better and to than the circulation of the blood flows more towards them. Also we must use shoes of the correct stature in which the foot is comfortable and comfortable, avoiding therefore a bad circulation, calluses and deformations in the fingers.

It is important to realize of habitual form exercises for the feet and legs with the purpose of to maintain them active. It does not think that this will rob long time to him, only must walk of finishing nails or on the heels, rotate, flexionar and turn the ankles, to masajear the plants of the feet, to gather marbles or to move objects with the toes. It can take advantage of any short while to stretch the legs, to lean in the heels and to make turns with the foot to left and right, and to extend them and to flexionar advanced back them and to the maximum. At the end of the day, their feet and legs will arrive more rested and relaxed.

In order to reduce to the loss of smoothness and elasticity of the legs as we turned years, it is sufficient with daily applying a nutritious cream by means of a slight massage. And, in addition, to exfoliar the legs with a glove, to pass the pumice stone through the feet or to realize a pedicura to us are some complementary treatments that we would have to do from time to time. It considers that the beauty of its feet and legs also repels in its health.

A good hygiene of the feet happens to wash them on a daily basis, mainly between the fingers, drying them carefully to eliminate well the humidity. At least once to the week, we can do an exfoliation happening smoothly a pumice stone or one files by the hardened parts, therefore callosities are eliminated that usually appear around the heels. For the feet that transpiran in excess or they are swollen because of the heat, they are recommendable the baths preparations with infusions of plants.

The nails are due to cut of straight form, but not too short, especially the corners, since they can give rise to deformations and that they nail in the skin producing wounded. On the other hand, the circulatory people with diabetes or problems must carry far the cares because they are more prone to the infection.

In order to clear the feet of the daily fatigue and when they are swollen, the best thing it is a bath alternating the cold water and the hot one, thus will manage to stimulate the sanguineous circulation. Also it can put them in high minutes, to a height superior to the one of the heart, to improve the sanguineous irrigation. In addition, he is advisable to bathe them with lukewarm water at night adding a handful of common salt or bath salts, and to friccionar them with camphorated alcohol later.

Also the summer is a perfect occasion to mimar our feet and legs: to walk barefoot on the sand is a true cure of health, since tonifica the muscles, makes agile the joints and improves the sanguineous circulation of the legs. The same results are obtained mainly if we have the opportunity to walk barefoot by a green meadow, if is first thing in the morning and the dew leaves wet the ground. It does not let pass these vacations without proving some of these two pleasures, will give well-being not only to his extremities, but to all their body and mind.

Pleasant and curative massages

The massages constitute a simple and cheap option to contribute to beauty and great benefits to legs and feet.

If we have problems of circulation and reumatismo, we can occur a massage in the legs in ascending sense with rosemary oil, and if we applied lavender oil, we will manage at the same time to smooth, to eliminate the layer of dead cells and to relax the legs. In order to maintain them smooth, it resorts to the olive oil.

In case we have the rough knees, we can smooth dampening them them and friccionando in circular sense with a little heavy salt, clarifying with lukewarm water and drying with care. Later we will rub with lemon juice and we will let dry, to finish with a massage with oil of sweet almonds. Also a massage with petroleum jello is very useful or to bathe them in olive oil, to masajear them and to rub them with pumice stone.

In order to avoid the formation of hardnesses in the feet and to relax them, he is recommendable to masajear them all the nights. A hidratante cream or an aromatic oil is obtained to a greater effectiveness using. The massages consist of stretching the fingers and realizing heaves of ahead backwards making agile them. Holding the foot with the two hands, it places the thumbs on the fleshy part of the foot and makes circular motions. It lowers to the toes and levántelos joint by joint. Later it describes circles with the great finger of the foot in a sense and soon in another one. Finally, the feet are masajean from the fingers towards the heel, raising in direction towards pantorrilla. If we found some point painful, one is due to insist on that zone until the pain disappears.

Feared varices
The arrival of the summer and the heat cause the new outbreak of circulatory problems of all type, like varices in the legs, that are the result of the expansion of the veins. They can be visible (small cords of winding passage) or of expanded veins, and hair nets, for being deep conduits. They cause sensation of slowness in the legs, pain or swelling of the ankles, and when the venous insufficiency is greater it can take to complications like the flebitis.

Its frequency of appearance is twice greater in women than in men, and half of the people who suffer varices has familiar antecedents of circulatory insufficiency. Some of the causes make worse that or increase them their appearance are: to remain many hours standing up; excessive heat; strips, leagues or some other mechanical obstacle that the circulation interferes with; and the tobacco consumption, coffee, tea, chocolate, alcohol, industrial baker's shop or sharp, because they favor, directly or indirectly, the bad peripheral circulation.

To raise to the bed in the part inferior between 10 and 15 centimeters or to sleep with a pillow in the feet, not to remain much short while standing up, to avoid the chairs with edges, not to use socks that bind tightly the leg, nor dull very narrow that strangles pantorrilla or worn too much flat, to avoid the rooms too much heated and the hot baths (the cold water allows that the blood circulates freely), to realize a little gymnastics (to pedalear, to walk much and to practice swimming) and to control the feeding are some general recommendations that will help us to prevent the appearance with varices or to avoid that they increase if we have or them.

And what we do with the cellulitis?

The cellulitis is one of the problems of the skin that more annoying to women and one of the most common upheavals of the legs. Nevertheless, it can be reduced considerably by means of the accomplishment of certain exercises.

It is possible to be begun to walk half an hour to the day and to be increasing the intensity progressively. In the market anticelulíticas creams exist that we can use to complement the results of the physical exercise. Also it can make a homemade mask with water and marine salt, and rub with her the affected zones.

Aerobic tennis, swimming and other exercises are very beneficial to reduce the orange skin. It never is behind schedule for beginning to practice them!