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Foot cream provides good care for particularly stressed feet.
Which cream for foot care is best and what you should consider when buying:
Our feet carry us throughout our lives and are often subjected to a lot of wear and tear.
This is precisely why they should receive loving care.
One ingredient is particularly important: urea.
In addition to the right cream, there are other measures you can take to make cracked skin soft and supple again.
HEIDELBERG24 explains which cream helps best against dry feet and what you should consider when buying:
Which cream is best for feet?
When it comes to a product that is smeared on the skin, you should pay closer attention to the ingredients.
Öko-Test tested foot cream with urea - with a surprising result.
20 articles were tested, eleven of which received the top grade.
The “very good” products include:
Balea foot cream with 10 percent urea
Barefoot Nature Treasures Urea Foot Cream, 10 percent urea
Be Routine Beautiful Feet Foot Cream 10 percent urea
However, there are also two outliers in the test: Two products from well-known brands fail resoundingly because various harmful substances were found in them.
Pleasing: The test winners also include inexpensive creams.
Which cream is best for dry feet?
Urea is the body's own urea, which ensures that the skin does not dry out and the pH value is stabilized.
This is why many foot creams contain urea.
Creams with over 10 percent are used to treat skin diseases such as neurodermatitis, as
Öko-Test
explains.
If your feet are very dry, you should definitely make sure that it contains urea.
Home remedies can also help against very dry feet.
A foot bath with a little vinegar and a few drops of olive oil makes the skin supple again.
A coconut treatment that works overnight or a banana mask that stays on your feet for about 20 minutes can also ensure supple feet.
Very classic: A bath with milk and honey, like Cleopatra did.
Which cream really helps against calluses?
In the fight against calluses, you should also pay attention to a high urea content.
In higher concentrations, the urea softens the hard calluses.
As
Öko-Test
explains, crack ointment contains up to 25 percent urea.
If it is used against nail fungus, it can even be 40 percent.
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However, you should keep in mind that calluses will continue to form again, even if they have been completely removed.
It occurs where the foot is exposed to friction and serves to protect often stressed skin.
However, if the callus becomes so thick that it hurts, you should remove it with a planer after a foot bath and care for it with a suitable foot cream.
What's the point of putting lotion on your feet?
The skin on the feet is drier than, for example, the skin on the face.
In addition, it does not have any sebaceous glands, but rather receives its moisture through its sweat glands.
If the skin on your feet loses its moisture, it becomes dry and cracked.
There are around 500 to 600 sweat glands per square centimeter on the skin of the feet.
Constantly wearing socks and shoes creates a warm, humid environment on your feet.
This disrupts the lipid film, the natural protective barrier on the feet, and bacteria can penetrate more easily.
This causes the skin to lose moisture and the feet become dry.
What should you pay attention to when buying foot cream?
Depending on whether your feet are simply dry or calluses and calluses have already formed, you should pay attention to the appropriate urea content when purchasing.
With ordinary foot cream this is usually ten percent.
As
Öko-Test
explains, cream with urea should not be applied to wounds and inflammations, otherwise they could start to burn.
To ensure your skin is well cared for, it is worth buying the best face cream.
Products containing urea should also be used with caution when caring for children's skin.
Creams are emulsions that have a higher water content.
Ointments and balms, on the other hand, contain more fat.
This means they take longer to absorb into the foot.
So if you have less time for foot care, you should buy a cream.
Ointment and balm can also be used for an overnight treatment.
Do your own foot care: Don’t just treat the skin
In addition to the right foot cream and home remedies, there are other rules that you should pay attention to when caring for your feet.
Not only the skin, but also the nails need to be treated properly: they could splinter with a clipper, so you should use a file instead.
Toenails should always be kept short, otherwise there is a risk that they will grow in.
Corns are calluses that arise from friction and can be painful.
They can be carefully removed using foot baths and a planer.
However, you should also take a look at the cause: Maybe the shoes don't fit properly and are creating too much friction.
You can find more tips on how to do your pedicure and properly care for your feet here.
(resa)