Create your own high-performance foot care products to soften, smooth, and hydrate your feet, giving yourself a thoroughly relaxing and rejuvenating home foot spa experience!

Unlike the skin on the rest of our bodies, the skin on our feet tends to thicken. This thickening occurs because the skin cells in the dermis and epidermis levels differentiate at a faster pace due to the mechanical stress of carrying our body weight. This process results in a thicker stratum corneum.

This condition is known as hyperkeratosis, where the stratum corneum thickens due to the overproduction of keratin, which is a protective protein. Hyperkeratosis manifests as thickened, rough, or cracked skin and can lead to the development of calluses and corns on the feet.

While a typical emulsion can moisturize dry skin, it may not effectively address hyperkeratosis. To soften hard skin and hydrate extremely dry areas, more advanced ingredients are needed, such as keratolytic agents.

Keratolytic agents work by softening and loosening keratin, the protein that binds skin cells together in the stratum corneum. This encourages the natural shedding of dead skin cells and enhances skin softness.

In this class, you’ll work with a variety of keratolytic active ingredients, including:

• Salicylic acid
• AHAs
• Urea
• Allantoin

You will learn about each ingredient in detail. We will also share methods for stabilizing urea in your formulations to prevent pH drift, as well as tips for effectively solubilizing salicylic acid.

You’ll also discover a range of other ingredients that hydrate, promote skin cell regeneration and skin smoothness.

In this class, we’ll share four high-performance foot care formulations designed to treat dry, rough skin, hyperkeratotic skin, as well as calluses and cracked heels.

Herbal Foot Soak - with urea and allantoin to soften the skin with their keratolytic properties.

Refreshing Foot Scrub - a non-greasy, gel-based scrub with ground pumice, as a natural physical exfoliant.

Anti-Callus Foot Lotion - a light, quickly absorbed lotion with urea and salicylic acid for their keratolytic, skin softening properties.

Softening Foot Cream - a two-in-one product that exfoliates rough skin and hydrates dry skin. Formulated with lactic acid as a chemical exfoliant and panthenol to promote skin hydration and regeneration.

You’ll receive a beautiful PDF textbook to download and you can watch us make the Refreshing Foot Scrub in our detailed step-by-step video demonstration.

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