One of the key essentials to maintaining soft, smelly-free, and healthy-looking feet is to give them a little care every day.
Understanding the causes of dry, cracked feet, and avoiding them, will eliminate smelly feet issues.
Here’s how to take care of your feet:
The skin on the feet is naturally dry — the soles of the feet do not have their own oil glands, so you need to keep your feet hydrated. They do however have over 250,000 sweat glands, in each foot. Feet are sweating all the time, and bacteria is naturally present on our skin.
Sweat doesn’t smell bad when it’s produced. However, if sweat remains on the skin (when wearing runners or shoes with non-breathable linings), skin bacteria breaks down the sweat. This produces the characteristic smell of sweaty feet, which is then trapped inside the shoe unless it’s aired and dried immediately. Often shoes are put into a cupboard and if not dried the smell in the shoes remains.
If your feet are not dried completely, especially between your toes, after bathing, the skin can easily become soggy and bacteria can breed.
Many people who have skin peeling between the toes is caused by dry skin. If the skin between the toes are either kept moist from the sweat, or they are not dried and moisturized after bathing, the skin dry’s and cracks, the bacteria gets in and you end up with itchy and inflamed skin between the toes and this can lead to tinea (also known as Athlete’s Foot).
Only use moisturizer between your toes and on your heals if you’re not going to be wearing shoes or socks. It’s best to use a hydrating moisturizer at the end of the day after bathing and allow your feet to be relaxed and open to the air. Bed socks will make your feet sweat!
Having a spa salt foot bath will assist with smelly feet. Dry thoroughly and use our “Rejuvenating Foot Balm” as a deep nourishing treatment. Our “Peppermint & Blue Gum Foot Cream” will cool hot, tired feet and can be used daily. Just allow a few minutes for this to be absorbed into your feet before putting on shoes or socks.
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