Winter season is here and it also fetches in the several skin and foot issues. In consequence, majority of us might think that it is usually one`s hair and skin that bears the most and ignore our feet, which actually hurts due to persistent dryness which may give ascent to many fungal and bacterial infections and even worse corns or calluses in your feet.
Corns are dense fortress of dead cells which develop either over or below the skin. Corns or calluses are progressed as a result of body’s resistance mechanism to guard itself from intense and recurrent friction be it from shoes, slippers, socks or any other outer factor.
Here are few simple and easy tips to treat yourself in protecting your feet from corns naturally:
- Never ignore to wash your feet with clean water along with any antibacterial soaps such as Dettol or Savlon before going to bed at night.
- Rubbing in with castor oil can work well as it behaves as a softener.
- -Alternatively, you can also apply cotton soaked in vinegar above the corns and then leave it aside overnight. Next day morning, you will notice that the dead cells have been allayed and then they can be eliminated using a pumice stone.
- Exfoliate, scrub and moisturize your feet before going to bed so as to slay bacteria growth and to ward off fungal infections.
- Avert wearing tight foot wears and also it is better to trim down your nails short as it can prevent it from yielding more muck and bacteria which in turn can bring in fungal infection in your feet.