Using heel balms and moisturizers is the primary step to keep cracked heels away. Heel balms contain such ingredients that can retain your feet’s moisturize, as well as, exfoliate the dead skin and keep it soft. While choosing your foot balm and moisturizer online or over the counter, you should look out for the ingredients mentioned below:
You might sense a mild irritation or stinging using some heel balms, which is normal. However, if the symptom persists, you can always talk to your dermatologist. Remember, for serious cracked heel issues, you might need to use prescription drugs and/or steroid ointments to get rid of itching and inflammation, if any.
As we all know, cracked heels happen when the skin of your heels is very dry and thick (compared to the rest of the body) and tend to develop cracks when the heels fall under heavy pressure (especially, if you are overweight, or your type of daily work involves standing for long hours).
You can keep your feet soaked in lukewarm water at the end of the day, and then use a clinker to gently rub your heels to exfoliate dead cells, and finally apply moisturizer under your feet.
Alternately, you can also use moisturizing heel sleeves, which renders similar effects to soaking (mentioned above), and you can buy them online. Heel sleeves are like socks and contain vitamins and therapeutic foot oils that can soothe the dry skin under your feet.
Another option that you can use is liquid bandage especially for cracks that bleed. Liquid bandage comes as a spray that you can easily use on the cracked areas of your heels without worrying of it to come off like regular bandages. Moreover, you can get this product online, or from any drug store.
A liquid bandage will seal the affected region under your feet and will keep possible infections away, thus preventing your feet from developing further cracks.
First, the affected heels are washed clean with a mild soap, and then patted dry with a towel, after which, the spray coating is forced to the surface of the heel skin.
With its antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, honey itself is a very gentle ingredient for any beauty treatment and works as an excellent natural remedy for your heels’ cracks. Several researches have proved that honey has the ability to moisturize, cleanse and heal wounds of your skin.
Simply soak your feet for some time in warm water, and then rub some honey on your heels like a regular foot scrub, or else, just apply it all over your underfoot area, and keep it overnight covered with a pair of cotton socks.
Coconut oil, too, is an excellent ingredient to treat many infections and skin conditions like psoriasis, dry skin, different kinds of skin bleeding, eczema, ringworms, and so on. It has been extensively used since time unknown. It has the natural ability to retain the moisture of your skin and protect it from damages.
The following are a few of the natural remedies (and how to apply each one of them) that are conventionally used to treat the thick skin under your feet (but not specifically cracked heels) mostly to keep your foot skin moisturized and soft:
Soak your feet in water mixed with vinegar.
Apply directly under your feet and foot cracks.
Rub it on the affected area to maintain moisture.
Mash ripe bananas thoroughly and apply under both your feet, keeping the pack for 20-30 minutes.
Apply it under your feet and keep it for about half an hour so as to seal in the natural moisture.
Rub the mixture all over the underfoot area to exfoliate dead cells.
