Femme Facade

Don’t worry there are ways to dramatically soften your feet so they will be silky smooth in that hot new sandal you just bought!

Every night wear apply body and hand lotion or a thick cream to your rough feet. Put on socks and sleep in them overnight and your feet will be so soft in the morning. Let me stress again, every night, this is key. Consistently applying the lotion every night will work wonders.

(I have been doing this all winter and I am very surprise how much this helps to make my feet softer! I take my showers in the morning and apply my lotion all over my body, then at night time I apply my thick cream to my feet. I also apply the cream to my delicate chest area too, why not make them soft as can be as well:)

AHA Lotions

There is also AHA lotion that you can use to exfoliate your feet, but if you put it on the top of your feet make sure to put sunscreen on the top of your feet during the day. Because AHA lotion makes you more photosensitive to the sunlight. But hey, wearing sunscreen on the top of your feet will only help your feet to stay younger too!

(I am going to have to try to remember to put sunscreen on the top of my feet even if I don’t wear AHA lotion, especially since it is summertime and I am wearing sandals more now.)

Exfoliating Your Rough Feet

Exfoliating your feet with an upper end pumice stones work well too, remember to wet the stone and use an exfoliating scrub with it. Be gentle though, don’t scrub too hard, or you might hurt yourself. Exfoliating with a foot file works even better than the pumice stones, specifically the Microplane in the orb style.

Exfoliating with the “As Seen On T.V.” Ped Egg also gets great reviews too, more so than the pumice stones. I think the ped egg looks kind of painful, but they say it works really well. Although, they can all be painful if you scrub your feet too hard. So be gentle yet firm with your rough feet. I have heard that more people like the Microplane foot file, but it is up to you if you want to splurge on your precious feet that work hard everyday to hold you up, or not. Yes, your feet work hard all day long, so give your feet some attention every night. Treat them right and they will treat you right, and they will be soft. If you have severely dry feet and you get cracked heels, then you need to pay extra attention to your feet. Check out that link to my other post for some great tips! 

Apply More Body Lotions

A cream with with 40% Urea in the ingredients list will work well. If you want to get specific about the cream to use, try Topix Urix 40 it is one body and hand lotion to buy that contains that much urea. Just plain petroleum jelly or Vaseline will work great too. I even wrote a post about 12 ways to use Vaseline. Petroleum is a very moisturizing ingredient that will soften your feet. Apply the lotion, slather on the petroleum jelly, put on your socks, and have a good night sleep dreaming about your soft as a baby’s feet in the morning.