How to Treat Cracked Heels

Treating Cracked Heels

Treating cracked heels is always a good idea. But when summer is around the corner, and your feet will be fully exposed, it becomes an urgent matter. Dry cracked heels are normally more of an unsightly problem, than they are a health risk. Read on for how to treat dry and cracked heels.

Things You'll Need

• Bucket or Foot Tub
• Pumice Stone
• Moisturizer or Foot Cream

Instructions

1. 

   Because cracked heels are usually very dry, you need to soak them. Fill a bucket with warm water, not hot water. Hot water will only dry out your skin even more. Soak your dry cracked feet in the water for 10 minutes.

2. Towel dry your feet, paying particular attention to your heels.

3. 

   Lay the towel out on the floor. Keeping your feet over the towel, use a pumice stone to remove the dry skin from your cracked heels. Rub the pumice stone in one direction concentrating on the dry skin. You'll start to see the dead skin falling off your heel. Repeat on your other foot

4. 

   Use a thick, heavy moisturizer or foot cream, to massage all over your feet. Moisturizers, such as Aquaphor and Eucerin, are great for treating cracked heels and dry feet.

5. Repeat this process daily until your dry heels are no longer cracked. When you get to this point, you can stop the foot soaks.

6. 

   Once the dead skin is completely removed, maintain your foot care by using the pumice stone in the shower and moisturizing daily. This will help dry cracked heels in the future.