The Home Foot Care Kit And What It Means To Us Men

While something few men can attest to (or at least, few men will admit to),
the physical and physiological benefits of a salon pedicure have long been
enjoyed by women the world over. But they're expensive, take time and effort
to attend, and for men, well, let's face it, it's just a little bit embarrassing to walk into a salon and demand the finest pedicure money can buy! Even in this, the age of the metrosexual man. The arrival of home foot care kits solves this problem manfully (if you'll excuse the terrible pun), by allowing women and men alike to treat themselves to all the benefits of a salon pedicure -- or most of them anyway -- in the comfort of your own home.

A basic home pedicure kit will contain many of the products necessary to keep your feet healthy, feeling good, smelling nice and you feeling better about yourself (that's not actually in the kit mind you, but it's a nice side-effect we think). Although the type and brand of product will vary significantly, feetcare kits most often contain skin softening treatments; dry skin removers; moisturizing lotions that refresh and disinfect; a callus sander and for the footcare neophytes among us, a step-by-step instruction manual. You know, just in case you forget which end of the nail file to hold.

Because we believe in giving feet all the pampering they deserve, we've gone ahead and listed the basic steps to follow when giving yourself a home pedicure. So whether you're just curious or have been doing this for years already, get out your foot care kit and get your feet into perfect shape.

Basic Pedicure Steps:

1. Soak your feet in warm water for about fifteen minutes; add foot soaking
lotions and treatments if desired.

2. Clip your nails across the length of the toe. Don't get overzealous. A slow steady hand can help prevent nasty ingrown toenails. A can of worms you
certainly don't want to open!

3. Using a nail file, smooth any rough edges. File the nail in a smooth
motion, don't saw back and forth!

4. Massage your feet with a moisturizing lotion and use a pumice stone to
exfoliate dry, dead skin.

Ladies, of course, can carry on further and apply nail polish and such, but for us guys it's probably best to stop right about now. Getting in touch with your feminine side is one thing, but there are limits! And nail polish is where most of us should draw that line. So there you have it, the quick and easy guide to getting your feet looking better than ever before. Your
significant other will love it, that we can guarantee, but maybe it's best you don't go telling your mates just yet; we'll keep this between us.

And to keep this on the down-low we've taken the liberty of adding links to the right of this article to all the home pedicure kits and other foot care products you'll need to get yourself up and running.

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