Calluses are hardened layers of skin that are normally formed due to pressure on feet or due to some type of frictions. They have affected many people around the world and can be irritating or painful at times, but are usually not harmful.
However, they are irritating because when you walk, they are pressed on the underlying skins and this often results in swelling and tenderness of the foot accompanied with itching and burning sensation. This sensation can become painful especially when you walk for longer distances. Therefore, getting rid of calluses or getting an idea of how to remove calluses is important. Otherwise, you’ll be walking in pain all your life.
Let’s look at some of the most proven and effective home remedies and natural ways for removing calluses.
Soaking Your Callused Feet:
There are four alternatives to soaking your callused feet:
You should soak your callused feet in chamomile feet for close to 20 minutes. This will help soften the hardened skin. Don’t worry if your feet get stained as you can remove the stains easily with soap and water.
Add two tablespoons of baking soda to little warm water and soak the callused feet for about 30 minutes. This will melt and dissolve the hardened dead skin and begin the healing process. It will take some days of soaking to remove the calluses fully.
Add a little amount of Epsom salt to warm water and soak your feet in them for a few minutes. The warm water will soften the hardened skin while the salt will aid in scrubbing the calluses away.Apple cider vinegar:
Soak a small bread slice in little apple cider vinegar for about half a day until it forms a paste. Apply this paste to the affected area before going to bed and firmly wrap it securely using a bandage. Wrap it on in a plastic sack and leave it on your feet overnight. You can remove it in the morning and rinse your feet with water.
Scrubbing Callus.
There are two options to scrub the calluses away:
soak your feet in warm water for 10 minutes and after that rub the calluses away using a pumice stone. You can also use a file or pumice stone to rub off the calluses at the end of the shower.
Rub the affected are with vigorous but circular motion. If you had a severe callus, you can often rinse your feet in the water as you continue rubbing the remaining calluses. You can also rinse the pumice stone so that it can get wet again. This will increase its grip to enable it to remove the dead skin easily. For best results, work on your calluses until your skin turns pink.
Option two to get rid of calluses is by walking on sandy, wet beach while you’re barefooted. This will scrub away unsightly your calluses.
Fill a basin with warm, soapy water and then add a glass of apple cider vinegar. Soak your feet in that water for at least 15 minutes. This will soften the calluses and hardened skin enough to be scrubbed away with a pumice stone. After scrubbing the calluses, apply some castor oil to the affected area. They should peel away after ten days of treatment.
Use Onion To Remove Callus.
At times, solutions are very close to us but we never recognize them. Onion, a simple ingredient in most of our meals can help with calluses. You just need to pour white vinegar over a piece of white onion in a glass container. Leave the glass container in a warm place for 12 hours, and then cover your callus, or the affected area with onion before going to bed.
Use a bandage tape or a bandage to hold it in place overnight. Repeat this procedure on the affected area softens enough to be scrubbed away easily.
Use Lemon To Remove Callus.
Lemon, just like apple cider vinegar, has acidic qualities. Natural acidic substances can be brilliant softeners to hard calluses and are not harmful to your skin. Therefore, before retiring to bed, cut a slice of lemon about an inch or two, and place the peel over the callus. Sure it with a bandage or bandage tape and cover it up using a cotton sock overnight.
Follow this procedure for some days until it the callus disappears. However, it may dry up your skin, and thus it’s important to mix it with a something that will restore the snatched moisture form the skin. Olive oil can be a good moisturizer, and also you can use other recommended oils such as coconut oil.
Vitamin E and A To Remove Callus.
Vitamin A and E can be good callus removers. Therefore, before going to bed, use a needle to pierce vitamin A or E capsule, and then rub the oil into your callus. After it has settled in for a few minutes, secure it using a white cotton sock and let it stay there overnight. Repeat this every night until the callus has disappeared.
Pineapple remedy To Remove Callus.
Pineapples are growing in popularity as many kinds of research are finding out its many beneficial properties. This sweet fruit has a very helpful peel that can help with calluses. One of the enzymes found in pineapple peel has properties of accelerating the softening of the calluses thereby making it easier to remove it.
All you need to do is to take a piece of pineapple peel that is big enough to cover the affected are. Place it on the callus in such a way that the inside of the pineapple peel touches the callus. Secure the peel by wrapping it up using a cloth. You may secure it further by wearing a cotton sock or a bandage tape. Leave it overnight, if not at least for several hours so as to soften the callus completely. Repeat this procedure every day so that to get rid of the callus completely.
There are several things you should never do:
- Never remove the calluses using sharp tools such as razor blades and knives.
- Never attempt to remove the calluses on your own if you have diabetes.
- See your doctor if the above ways of how to remove calluses fail to alleviate your callus or if the procedure becomes very painful.
