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Apply the pulp of a ripe banana on the affected area, leave it for 10 to 15 minutes and wash it properly. It helps in fast healing.<\/p>\n
Massage your heels with coconut oil before going to bed in the night. Scrub properly and rinse off in the morning. Apply sesame oil on your cracked heels before sleeping in the night. It is a best home remedy for cracked heels.<\/p>\n
Olive oil to the cracked heels. To heal dry and cracked heels use olive oil for your feet religiously. Before going to bed rub olive oil into your dry, cracked heels and remember NOT to rinse. After applying olive quickly wear a pair of socks. Leave the socks on overnight, as it help the heels immensely to absorb all the moisture and you will
find them to be soft and supple in the morning.<\/p>\n
Sesame, mustard and coconut oil have all fabulous effects on cracked heels. Apply it to your feet before you go to sleep, wear cotton socks then rinse it off in the morning.<\/p>\n
Honey has many soothing effects, rubbing your feet with it before going to bed will reduce the pain; your cracked heels give you. Wear thick socks at night then rinse it off in the morning.<\/p>\n
Apply lemon Scrub
After the foot soak in warm, soapy water for 15 minutes, wash and dry your feet completely. Then take one teaspoon of Vaseline in a bowl and add lemon juice to it. Rub this mixture on your feet mainly the cracked areas and let the skin absorb this mixture thoroughly.<\/p>\n
Alternatively you can also cut a lemon and rub it directly on your feet. While rubbing lemon add few drops of Vaseline to it to to make rubbing smooth.<\/p>\n
Besides practicing these natural home remedies the other important thing to be kept in mind is proper diet.<\/p>\n
Healing Mixture
Make a healing mixture by mixing one teaspoon petroleum jelly with the juice of a lemon. Thereafter, make a soapy solution by mixing four parts of water with a little amount of liquid soap or shampoo. Place your feet in the soapy solution for about 15 minutes. Rinse your feet and pat dry them. Apply the healing mixture onto the cracked heels. Do this daily and look for the positive change!<\/p>\n
BROWN SUGAR FOOT SCRUB<\/p>\n
Ingredients
2 tbsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsp Ground Oats
2 tbsp Aloe Vera Gel
1 tbsp Honey
1 tsp Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
1 tsp Almond Oil\/ Olive Oil<\/p>\n
Instructions
First of all, you need to grind the oatmeal, in a coffee grinder or food processor, to a sandy consistency. In a large bowl, put ground oats and add all the other ingredients. Mix them well, until the mixture resembles a paste. Your brown sugar foot scrub is ready to be
used.<\/p>\n
STRAWBERRY FOOT SCRUB<\/p>\n
Ingredients
7-10 strawberries
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon of coarse salt<\/p>\n
Instructions
Mix all ingredients into a paste, massage into feet, rinse and pat dry<\/p>\n
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