- Hi guys, welcome back to the Adore Beauty YouTube channel.
Today, we're gonna talk about all things feet related.
Yes. I said feet.
I know it's random
but I feel like it's an underrated body part,
like no one's really talking about it
and I don't understand why, because if you think about it,
our feet support us all day, every day,
and I'm sure every single person
at some point in their life has had dry, hard cracked feet.
And it's just not a nice feeling.
So I wanna do a bit of a deep dive
into why you might get those things,
what you can do to solve it,
and yeah, let's just get right into the video.
So if you're wondering why
you might suffer from hard or dry feet,
the answer is really simple.
It's just a tension and pressure
that is being placed on our feet
because at the end of the day,
our feet is supporting our whole body weight,
we're using it all day every day
to take us from point A to point B,
and over time that can harden
which is why it's really important to integrate foot care
into your whole kind of body care routine.
If you are finding that your feet are severely cracked
or really dry, it could also be a fungal infection.
So for that, I would definitely recommend
you seek medical advice because that is something
that shouldn't really be happening in the long term.
But having callouses and hard feet is very normal
and it's probably
because you haven't been integrating a foot lotion
into your routine.
I spoke about this when I did my body care routine
but I have literally been using a foot cream
or a heel balm in my routine for the last like two years
and it's really helped just make sure
keeping my feet really soft and hydrated
so that I don't get regular callouses.
If I don't take care of my feet,
then I do notice that pain that does come
from having kind of hard skin and callouses.
If you're noticing that your skin is really dry and flaky
on a consistent and regular basis,
it could also be a hereditary condition
so I know that if you do have thyroid problems
or if you do suffer from eczema
that can also contribute to kind of like heel health
and foot health in general.
So for that, I would definitely recommend seeing a doctor.
If you are someone who is a little bit sweatier
and experiencing some foot problems,
you may also have a fungal infection.
Athlete's foot is definitely something
that crops up more often than people realise.
So for that,
I would definitely recommend seeing a medical professional.
But if you are just suffering from
kind of like generally dry every now and again
and definitely kind of harder skin around your feet
then I do have some products for you.
I have been using a foot cream
in my routine for the last two years.
So I've kind of cycled in and out of heel balms,
foot creams, and at the moment,
I'm absolutely loving The Chemistry Brand Heel Cream.
So basically, it's a lotion, it smells very minty.
I mentioned it in my body care routine
and it's just really beautiful.
You apply it onto your feet at night
and it kind of eats away at the dead skin
so you wake up with softer skin.
Other things that I make sure that I do regularly
in my routine is a pumice stone.
So I have been pumicing my foot, my feet,
in the shower every day for the last three years.
And I only started this after I went to South America
and decided I wanted to climb a glacier
and realised after climbing the glacier,
I was suffering from incredible, incredible foot pain,
it was next level, I couldn't walk on my feet,
they were so hard
and I couldn't understand what was happening.
And it was because I had been wearing
the most unsupportive footwear that entire trip,
we'd been walking 20,000 steps a day for weeks on end.
And by the time I got to climbing the glacier,
my feet at the end of it just couldn't handle it
and I just sat there in an enormous amount of pain.
I managed to find a chemist that was open,
buy a pumice stone, and started pumicing away
all of that kind of dead hard skin.
And over the next week, my pain started to alleviate itself
because it'll just start to buff away any of that dead skin
that is just on the surface of your feet.
And then you'd wanna follow it up
with a foot cream in particular
just to make sure you are really kind of sealing in
that moisture and making sure that
you're keeping your feet hydrated and smooth.
I like to pop The Chemistry Brand on,
which is one of my favourites at the moment,
and then put socks on
just to really kinda like trap in all of that moisture
and allow it to do what it's supposed to do,
soak in all that good stuff, work overnight,
and then I wake up with softer feet the next day.
If you feel like you can't commit to
a foot cream every single day,
which you should be able to commit
to a foot cream every single day,
you could also be doing a weekly treatment.
So the Mirenesse brand has a heel and foot booties,
I will let Maddie put this up on screen over here.
It is a mask for your feet and your legs.
It's a treatment.
So you can do that once a week
to keep your legs really, really soft.
Other things you can do
if you wanna be super extreme is a foot peel mask.
I'm sure you would've seen them all over Instagram.
It's essentially where you get, I can't remember the brand,
but you essentially get a foot mask,
you apply it onto your feet,
I think it comes in little booties as well.
You leave it on for like 20ish minutes.
And then, over the course of the week, it peels your skin.
Like, your skin just starts to peel,
it's kind of crazy
and you like reveal all this new baby skin.
I know Joanna did at this on Instagram,
I remember seeing this on her stories.
If you are someone who wanted to take a more extreme route
that is definitely something you could do.
However, I would probably just recommend
doing a little something every day.
Like they say, consistency is key
and the best way to keep your feet happy
and healthy is just give them the moisture
and hydration they deserve
because really our feet do so much for us.
And I just feel like so many people don't take care of it.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you found some tips.
I hope you learned about some new products,
and more than anything,
I'm hoping that you guys start pumicing your feet
so you don't have what happened to me
in South America happen to you.
Anyways, that's all from me.
I'll see you guys in the next video.
And if there's anything I've missed
or if there's any products
you're absolutely loving for your feet,
please leave them in the comments down below
because I love learning
and I wanna hear what you guys are doing
to take care of your feet, bye.