A Pedicure That Uses Natural Ingredients (Review !)

Pedi Care's professional pedicure line By Gena

Like skin, feet absorb what they come into contact with. So when you're slathering harmful chemicals all over your tootsies, those chemicals are actually being absorbed through your feet. This might pose serious problems to your overall health because foot care products often contain harmful ingredients like parabens. Even the "fragrances" commonly found in all sorts of skincare products can be harmful. Some of the "fragrances" listed on the ingredient label in skincare products contain hormone disruptors.

Since I'm on a personal mission to live a happier, healthier life, I try to avoid using cosmetic products, including pedicure products, that may contribute to health problems. I've actually had some luck with a more natural-based pedicure product line and have since stopped using my foot creams and soaks that were full of questionable chemicals and replaced them with this little pedicure kit by Gena.

I'm not sure who Gena is, but she makes my feet very happy. 


There are two main reasons that I love Gena's Pedi Care kit: 

  1. The products contain natural, effective ingredients like tea tree oil to exfoliate, refreshen, and soothe your feet.

2. The results (soft, silky, soothed, clean tootsies) make this pedicure worth putting aside extra time for.

The Pedi Care Sloughing lotion with peppermint oil is great for removing dead skin and the peppermint oil soothes and relaxes the tension in your tootsies. The best part is how soft this leaves your feet.
 

The sloughing lotion works on your feet the way an exfoliating facial scrub works on your face. You just massage into your feet. As you rub you can actually see the dead skin rolling off! I know, sounds gross, but that's what fascinates me the most.  If you don't like the feel of dead foot skin on your hands, you can use a wash cloth or foot scrubbing brush, which work just as well.

The  Pedi Soft Foot And Leg Lotion with natural botanicals and fruit acids also helps remove the rough, dry skin from your feet and legs.

I have to say, I didn't exactly love the smell, but it's not terrible. No worse than most pedi products. The thing I love most about this lotion is you can warm it up and it feels wonderful on cold feet. Even better if you have someone who's willing to rub the warm lotion on your feet for you!

The Pedi Soak Foot Bath cleanses, relaxes and refreshens feet. My favorite part about this foot soak is that it contains tea tree oil, a natural anti-fungal and anti-bacterial. Tea tree oil has many medicinal uses and is used to treat a variety of skin ailments, but it's also a powerful fungus killer. In other words, if your feet tend to have an ... aroma, then this is going to be your best friend.

The foot gel relieves achy, tired feet. (this little guy isn't pictured because I seem to have misplaced it before I began taking photos.) The cooling gel is the perfect ending to a fresh pedicure.

Then there's the Pedi Septic Foot Spray with eucalyptus, menthol and tea tree oil. This basically adds even more protection from the pungent aroma your tired, achy, sweaty feet can develop. The menthol is cooling and it works to relax the muscles in your feet while tea tree oil, again, kills fungus and odor.

Overall, this pedicure line has the basics covered and is worth the price.

My PeArL of the day - for a cleaner pedicure

 I've been sick lately and under a lot of stress so today, I decided to give myself a much needed pedicure. While I was mixing my own nail polish to create a new color, I thought of my PeArL of the day...

 Before you paint your nails, use olive oil, vegetable oil, or a great foot lotion (I use Gold Bond's ultimate healing, as I posted on previously) Use the oil or lotion thickly all over toes or nails, then you paint them. When you are finished painting nails, use your fingers to clean the polish up. The greasy texture of the oil or lotion will make it wipe right off instead of sticking and staining skin.

 This keeps the polish from staining your skin around your nails and nail beds. You can spend hours on a pedicure only to have it ruined by polish that gets on the skin around your nails. And with the unsteady-ness of my hands, I had to find a fix for this!

 I've used this solution for years and swear by it! Nothing cleans up a pedi better.

My PeArL of the day

 Today, my PeArL of the day is...

Gold bond ultimate healing lotion is My PeArL of the day. I love this product! This is the best lotion I've yet to find. It's not greasy, or sticky or thick. I always have an issue finding good lotion that doesn't feel sticky and heavy on. And, the best thing about this stuff is you won't need to fork over $35 dollars for a pedi anymore! That's a huge plus. It works incredibly well on dry, cracked feet no matter how severe the condition!




  Now, for my not-so PeArL-of the day:

People who promote a game where you torture and kill animals on their blog. That is disturbing and it got me irritated enough to blog about it. Why would we want our kids playing a game that teaches cruelty to animals. It just sickened me to see this blog. It actually said "everybody needs to play abc game. you go around killing animals and slaughtering them, it's so fun and it's hilarious!" They also wrote various ways you can torture the animals on the post but Im not posting that. But, seriously, what is hilarious or fun about being cruel to animals? But, hell, I still don't understand that one game where you have sex with hookers. Maybe it's just me that doesn't get into those things. I just think that's taking away from children when they play those games. It teaches wrong behavior and teaches zero morality.