Ingrown Toe Nails

Ingrown toe nails are often caused by bad toe nail trimmings. Toe nails should always be cut across straight. The first sign of an ingrown toe nail is inflamed skin. See a doctor immediately or else the infection may spread and an operation may be the only answer.

Calluses and Rough-spots

These can best be avoided by using a pumice stone daily. Each time you have a bath, rub the calluses gendy with the stone. Remember to cream or oil after bathing. Any of the creams that you use on your hands or your body are also good for your feet.

Bunions

More often than not, the reason for bunions is badly fitted shoes. Bunions are joints in the foot, that, subject to external pressure become raw, swollen and tender. What really happens is that the bone which joins the big toe to the main foot-arch gets out of alignment.

For relief from bunion soreness, be careful of your choice of footwear. Make sure that your shoes do not cramp you across the ball of your feet.

* Also paint with equal parts of iodine and castor oil for instant relief.

* Homoeopathic medicine Sulphur 6x is also known to give bunion relief.

Sprinkle flowers of sulphur in the feet of socks or stockings. Bunions can also be removed surgically.

Corns

Discard any shoe that is uncomfortable and may cause corns. Look up the Chapter on Make Your Own Cosmetics where home remedies for corns have been given.

* Garlic cloves used as compresses on the corns relieve pain.

* Try soaking your feet in a pan of warm water to which some salts has been added. Then massage your feet with castor oil.

* A piece of lint soaked in turpentine oil and then bandaged over the corn will cure it.

For Tired Aching Feet

* To give immediate relief to tired aching feet, soak them in warm water to which one ounce of sodium sulphate, three ounces bicarbonate and four ounces regular salt has been added. A bonus relaxed for both tired feet and legs is to lie down for about ten minutes with your feet at a level of about one foot above the level of your head.