Ointment for beautiful feet against fungus and cracks
Do your feet suffer from unpleasant fungus or painful cracks? Ointment with nimbus and rosemary for beautiful feet quickly relieves itching, softens unsightly hardened skin and heals all abrasions and blisters!
A little love and care for our feet
Legs and feet. We rely on them from morning to night, but we often don't give them as much attention as they deserve. This is over! Come pamper yourself and your feet a little and make this simple but extremely effective ointment for beautiful feet with us. Now, after the summer, when we spent a lot of time barefoot, in flip flops and sandals, our feet deserve love and care many times over. :)
Satisfied feet once and for all
Mold, cracks, hardened skin, unsightly nails... all this has probably troubled most of us more than once. Visits to pools and swimming pools, walking in non-breathable shoes or all-day hikes are perfect for developing various skin problems.
This ointment is a great prevention, but also a healing aid against all the discomforts afflicting our feet.
The base of the ointment consists of shea butter, cocoa butter and beeswax. All three ingredients soften, heal and protect the skin and supply it with the necessary nutrients and vitamins.
Our beloved nimbus oil, to which we have already sung odes many times (we even devoted an entire article to nimbus), plays an essential role here. It is antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory. It perfectly regenerates and hydrates the skin, reduces itching and helps with the treatment of infections. So it can deal with almost everything that often bothers the feet.
Rosehip oil is loaded with vitamins A, C and E, which also makes it a great fighter against skin infections. It contains a high amount of omega fatty acids 3 and 6, which are essential in the process of skin cell renewal. For sore, damaged and cracked, it hits the spot (or orange?)! :)
Another extremely effective ingredient that deals with fungi and bacteria, which cause, among other things, unpleasant foot odor, is bentonite, a fine clay that is sometimes nicknamed Aztec clay. Bentonite can draw in all the microorganisms that often like to feast on calloused skin and that we don't want and don't need on our bodies.
Rosemary essential oil in the company of tea tree and eucalyptus will not only reduce the very specific "smell" of nimbus oil, but will also enhance the healing and preventive power of the ointment. These oils have already been proven several times to have an antifungal effect, and are thus a great supplement or alternative when treatment of toenail and toenail fungus.
Since there is no water in the ointment, there is no need to add a preservative. For a longer duration and for its excellent regenerative properties, we have added vitamin E to the composition, which acts against rancidity of oils.
What does it take?
- 50 grams of shea butter
- 20 grams of cocoa butter
- 5 grams of beeswax (or soy for a completely plant-based version)
- 15 grams of nimbus oil
- 10 grams of rosehip oil
- A teaspoon of bentonite (be careful, bentonite does not like metals, so we work with plastic, wooden or glass tools)
- Half a teaspoon of vitamin E
- 20 drops of rosemary essential oil
- 10 drops of tea tree essential oil
- 10 drops of eucalyptus essential oil
How to do it?
We will prepare a water bath, so a slightly larger pot into which we pour three to five centimeters of water. We put it on the stove and start heating the water. We dip any heat-resistant bowl into the pot. Put the weighted shea butter, cocoa butter and beeswax in a bowl and let everything melt.
While the butters and wax are melting, prepare a cooling bowl that is large enough to fit the bowl in which we are already heating the butters and wax. We fill a suitable cooling bowl about halfway with cold water and ice cubes - do not skip this step, we will cool the ointment while mixing, thanks to which we will get an unmistakable soft texture and fine consistency.
When the butters and wax are dissolved, remove the bowl with them from the water bath and add nimbus and rosehip oil to the liquid butters and place the bowl in the prepared cold water bath. Mix thoroughly for about a minute. Then we add bentonite, vitamin E and essential oils. Stir until a "trace" is formed - soap makers know, non-soap makers will wait for a wooden spoon or other stirrer to leave behind a faint trail - the mass is just stiff enough that after mixing in the mixture, the wooden spoon's mark will be visible for a while. The consistency is similar to, for example, honey or homemade caramel (which is almost strikingly reminiscent of buttermilk).
At this stage, we can start dosing the cream into a suitable container (we mix about 100 ml of ointment from the specified amount).
Then let it harden for at least 6 hours (but be careful, don't rush and don't put the ointment in the fridge). Then we lubricate our legs as desired, ideally every night before going to bed.
Are you giving your feet the care and love they deserve? Or do you neglect this part of your body a little? :)
