Aesthetic pedicure: how is it different from the curative one?
The aesthetic pedicure is ideal for making your feet beautiful and soft: it is the right technique if you do not have particular foot and nail problems and especially if you only have a little dead skin to remove and no particular corns or calluses. One of the ways to finish off an aesthetic pedicure with a nice color of nail polish, maybe a semi-permanent polish Watch the video!
The magic of the pedicure: soft feet and manicured nails
It is not enough to rely on a beautician only in the summer before putting on sandals. The pedicure must be a periodic and constant treatment, if you want to have soft and healthy feet and beautiful and well-groomed nails in every season. So, in addition to relying on an expert professional, you also need to know how to manage it alone, when you don't want or have time to go to a beauty center. The aesthetic pedicure includes softening of the feet, cutting with nail filing, smoothing, moisturizing massage and nail polish. Unlike the curative one at home or by the beautician on feet and nails without any particular problems or pathologies and is exclusively aimed at the aesthetics of the foot and nails. The curative one, on the other hand, should be carried out by a specialized pedicurist, if you are in the presence of thickening of the skin, ingrown nails, small calluses, partridge eyes, hardened heels, accumulations of skin between the toes, or by a podiatrist for more serious problems.
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DIY homemade aesthetic pedicure
An aesthetic pedicure first of all includes a foot bath for a quarter of an hour. Use lukewarm water, adding baking soda and coarse salt and a few drops of refreshing and emollient essential oils, excellent those of lavender and mint. Then remove the nail polish with a non-harmful oily solvent, start massaging one foot at a time with a natural homemade scrub, with products from your pantry, to remove superficial calluses and smooth the skin, leaving the other foot to soak. You can also use bristle spatulas to remove thickening and exfoliation or scrub dry skin with pumice stone and then rinse. Finally, dry both feet thoroughly, including in the area between the toes, and put on some soft after-shower slippers. Now begins the phase of cuticles, cutting and filing of the nails. With an orange stick, very carefully and gently, move the cuticles towards the skin to free the nails from dead skin. Turning to the cut, never cut the corners of the nails too much, make a straight cut or round it with the double file. A straighter cut prevents the nail from becoming ingrown and from being raised too high on the sides. To get rid of a few spots or thin out some thicker ones, use the buffer. Another fundamental step is to soften the feet with a moisturizer: start from the toes, going up to the ankle, massage the sole and instep, until it is completely absorbed. When the nails are also dry, you can move on to the polish. Choose a polish that is perhaps lighter than that of the hands if it is not summer, apply the base first, so as not to damage the nails, then the polish and finally the top coat that protects it and makes it more resistant. Never leave the nails too long long and cracked heels. Always take care of your feet consistently, even in winter, always moisturize them with a good cream, in order to prevent blemishes and pain especially with closed shoes. Taking care of your feet also means preventing fungal infections, calluses, joint pains and ingrown nails. If you want to have feet that are not only healthy, but beautiful, soft, hydrated and with perfect nails, you must be very regular and constant in your pedicure and rely on professed onists. The price of an aesthetic pedicure with nail polish is about 30 euros, if with permanent nail polish 60 euros. The aesthetic pedicure costs around 30 euros with nail polish, and around 60 euros. The curative pedicure usually costs 40 euros.
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The curative pedicure
The curative pedicure is not a medical treatment. It is performed by specialized beauticians and is used to remove or treat corns and calluses. To become a beautician specialized in pedicure it is necessary to have attended a course that can be two (qualification) or three years (specialization). After having taken the eligibility exam, a certificate is obtained. Those with the qualification can work as an employee, those with the specialization can also open their own business.When you are faced with major problems, very ingrown nails, blisters, infections, mycosis, you must go to the doctor, i.e. the podiatrist, a professional with a three-year degree in Podiatry, qualified to diagnose, prevent and treat all pathologies of the feet from plantar hyperkeratosis or from the treatment of a tiloma, a deeper thickening of the skin, to the axial deviation of the toes, from the care of the diabetic foot to that of the baby's flat foot. The podiatrist releases his diagnoses with a visit and use of electro-medical instruments. Like doctors and health personnel, the podiatrist has the obligation of professional updating. He will decide the frequency of treatments and possibly prescribe drugs or medications. Like doctors and health personnel, the podiatrist has the obligation of professional updating. He will decide the frequency of treatments and possibly prescribe drugs or medications.
Hyperkeratosis: difference between corns and calluses
The skin to protect the foot from pressure or rubbing thickens with a "hyperkeratosis, which causes corns and calluses, sometimes painful foot blemishes, often caused by correct posture or poor quality shoes. Sometimes, these hyperkeratosis compromise. also the joints of the knees, which assume, while walking, incorrect antalgic positions. Calluses form under the sole, but also
but also on the heels and sides of the foot. Calluses are caused by strong pressure on the foot; they have a rounded shape, with a harder central part, which goes inward, peripherally inflamed; they press on the nerves and cause pain, unlike corns, which are larger but usually not very painful. To treat corns, an aloe vera gel is very useful to use every evening after a foot bath in warm water. It is always advisable to soften them with a foot bath before cutting the nails. Passing the transparent base of the enamel, it is good to pass it also on the cuticles, residual so as not to irritate or raise them.
The fish pedicure: a new way to do the pedicure
It is a way of carrying out the pedicure, which is only now spreading in Italy, at least in large centers. This treatment, suitable for renewing the skin, especially from cracked heels, or in cases of psoriasis, involves immersion of the clients' feet in tanks containing Garra Rufa fish, called cleaners. These little animals without teeth cleanse the dry skin of the feet with a Painless and relaxing scrub massage. Each session costs about 30 to 40 euros. This technique is very common in the Mediterranean countries, especially in Turkey. Contact with fish is not dangerous. The only perplexity concerns the cleaning of the tubs and therefore, arouses perplexity as regards hygiene. It is therefore necessary to ascertain whether the hygiene rules are respected, before trying these somewhat unusual treatments.
The pedicure in antiquity
The pedicure was already practiced by the Egyptians and also the Greeks and Romans were particularly keen to take care of their body. The Greeks did therapeutic baths and massages and treatments to eliminate the imperfections of the feet. The Romans very frequently underwent thermal treatments. Hippocrates, who has always been defined as the Father of medicine, believed that foot care is fundamental for the health of the human organism, as is also claimed by Eastern philosophies. In the nineteenth century pedicure was given importance only as a medical tool, to relieve foot pain and facilitate walking. During the twentieth century it was no longer considered only a medical treatment, but also an aesthetic cure for the beauty of the feet.
