How to get rid of rough skin

What woman doesn't want velvety and delicate skin? Everyone wants her, but for some reason the skin itself does not always reciprocate. Most often, the skin becomes rough on the feet and elbows. Why this happens and how to get rid of it - we will tell in this article.

Why does the skin get rough

Every day, almost the strongest load is given to the legs, nevertheless, not everyone is in a hurry to take care of the skin of the feet. Often all this care comes down to the use of pumice and sharp blades, which simply cut off rough skin. But this technique does not play in any way in a positive way, but rather the opposite. The problem of rough leather is especially acute in summer, when the season of open shoes comes and street dust begins to get on the skin, which dries it very much and makes it rough.

If we talk about why the skin coarsens on the heels, then the main reasons are:

• The most common cause of rough skin on the heels is a standing lifestyle, so this ailment mercilessly affects sellers, hairdressers, etc.
• Uncomfortable high-heeled shoes, due to improper weight distribution, can also cause roughness on the skin of the heels.
• Walking barefoot on the ground makes the skin very dry and rough.
• Excess weight, especially if the woman is wearing heels.
• The habit of wearing slippers that constantly slap on the heel, thereby roughening it up.

However, cosmetic factors are not always the cause of rough skin of the legs; it happens that in this way a symptom of a disease of internal organs or malfunctions of systems is manifested. Often this is a malfunction of the thyroid gland, a lack of a group of vitamins and minerals. In such cases, in no case should you be engaged in amateur performances and you need to seek the help of a specialist. Often the cause of rough heels is fungal infection... In this case, in addition to roughness, the skin often begins to crack and hurt.

If we talk about dry and rough skin on the elbows, then the reasons here are somewhat different from those described above:

• Change of seasons and abrupt transitions in temperature. This problem is especially common in the off-season, when the sebaceous glands begin to change their rhythm of work, which makes the skin dry.
• Problems in the functioning of the endocrine system. Here, the cause of rough and dry skin becomes hormonal disbalance... However, if this is the reason, then in addition to dry and rough elbows, other problems will also bother you: shortness of breath, profuse sweating, weight gain, irregularities in the cycle, etc. In this case, you should immediately consult a doctor.
• Lack of vitamins. Another common problem. Namely, you need to pay attention to vitamin A and E. In case of a serious deficiency, the body, in addition to the elbows, will signal through lamination of nails, flaking on the skin and hair loss.
• Excessive hot baths and showers. Do you like to lie in a hot bath or stand under a hot tap? But your skin doesn't like it at all. It's one thing to sit from time to time, and quite another to turn such gatherings into a habit. Hot water helps to lose moisture from the dermis, which then manifests itself in dry and rough skin.
• Eczema is an unpleasant disease that always manifests itself with dry and rough skin. Some types of ailment can appear after prolonged contact with chemicals and synthetics. Only a doctor can help here.
• Mechanical side. Very often, the skin on the elbows begins to coarse in those people who sit at the table for a long time, relying on their elbows. The longer the problem is ignored in this case, the more severe the consequences in the form of skin exfoliation and cracking.
• Poor quality care, or even its absence at all. Remember that the skin is constantly in need of hydration, neglecting which the skin begins to become very dry and rough.

Before proceeding with the treatment of the skin, it is very important to identify the provocateur of the problem and do everything so that it does not arise again, otherwise there will be no sense from such treatment.

How to moisturize your skin

For the skin to be beautiful and velvety, it needs to be deeply moisturized. For this purpose, special creams are used, the choice of which is very large, here you need to try and find something of your own by trial and error. However, just applying the composition to rough skin will not have such an effect. Before cosmetic procedures, it is imperative to carry out baths. These can be the simplest formulations of a decoction of chamomile, string, calendula or oak bark. Whichever you like best.

Humidification should go not only from the outside, but also from the inside. To do this, you need to observe the drinking regime and consume at least 1.5 liters of liquid per day. Dehydration of the body, by the way, can also manifest itself in the form of dry skin, not only on the legs and elbows, but also on the whole body and face.

How to remove rough skin

Rough leather on the heels

• Soak cheesecloth in apple cider vinegar and wrap it around your legs. Put on plastic bags and socks on top. The procedure should be carried out before bedtime, and the compress should be removed only in the morning. Then you need to very carefully peel off the skin with a pumice stone. All this can be continued from night to night until the skin becomes normal. After that, you need to carry out preventive procedures at intervals of once a month.
• Pour a handful of onion husks with a couple of liters of boiling water and let the composition stand for about an hour. Pour the finished tincture into a basin and add a large spoonful of baking soda and salt. The water temperature should be as hot as you can handle. Keep the limbs in the liquid until it cools, then wipe your feet dry and grease them liberally with vegetable oil. Put on plastic bags, warm socks and go to bed, take everything off in the morning. After 4-5 procedures, the legs will become like a baby's.
• Mix the yolk of one egg with a large spoonful of vegetable oil and a small spoonful of vinegar. Mix everything. With the ready-made composition, you need to lubricate your feet every time after a bath and place the limbs in polyethylene and warm socks for the whole night.
• Chop the plantain roots and pour boiling water over them. As soon as the composition cools down, lower your feet into it for about 20 minutes.
• To get rid of small cracks on the heels, you can regularly lubricate the affected areas with the simplest hygienic lipstick.

Rough skin on the elbows

• Mix equal amounts of honey and almond oil. Heat the composition in a water bath and apply it warmly to your elbows. Wash everything off after twenty minutes.
• Brew a large spoonful of mint with a glass of boiling water and let stand for about an hour. From the finished tincture, you need to make ice cubes, with which you need to wipe your elbows daily.
• In half a liter of warm boiled water, dissolve a couple of large tablespoons of the most common starch and mix. In the prepared bath, you need to lower your elbows for a quarter of an hour. And at the end of the session, apply a nourishing cream to dry skin.
• To combat rough and dry skin, it is good to use flax, almond and olive oil. They nourish the skin and make it soft. They can be taken one by one or prepared from several at once. The application options are also different. The easiest is to use them as a cream, applying oils to the problem area. But it is even better to do oil baths, pre-heating the oil in a water bath until it is warm.

In order to continue to prevent coarsening of the skin, you need to provide it with constant care. To do this, it is necessary to limit sitting in a hot bath, regularly do scrubbing and moisturizing procedures. Lubricate the skin with nourishing and moisturizing creams. However, in addition to external care, you need to monitor your diet, trying to saturate the diet with vitamins as much as possible.

Creams for hardened skin

• Dr. Biocon. This balm is called one of the best that quickly cope with rough and dry skin of the heels. The main active ingredients are salicylic acid, calendula and shea butter. It perfectly moisturizes and softens, promotes healing of cracks.
• Balm Flexitol. It is very effective against rough and dry skin. This is the third time of use that serious results are visible. The main ingredients are aloe, shea butter, Vitamin B5 and E, lanolin.
• Neutrogena cream with a very oily structure nourishes and moisturizes even the roughest dermis. There is panthenol, glycerin, and aloe.

You can get rid of dry skin and do it quite realistically even with your own efforts, but only on condition that the defect is not caused by problems in the functioning of the body. Therefore, first of all, it will be useful to undergo a diagnosis by a specialist.