Summer Legs as well as Keeping Up Appearances

I bet yous were thinking that this was a post service well-nigh leg lifts, squats, in addition to lunges.

Nope.

It's well-nigh skin. Leg peel in addition to feet skin, to live exact. Let me permit yous inwards on a secret: highly groomed women discomfit me. Or perchance it's to a greater extent than accurate to state that I discomfit me inwards the presence of such women. I mean, I'm certain that the objective for said women's attending to personal preparation has null to exercise alongside me in addition to my comfort. But I digress.

I'm non peculiarly scruffy, it's merely that beingness good groomed is a never ending battle. My feet hold off awesome today - smooth, nails painted. And side yesteryear side week.... Ugh, chipped polish. H5N1 petty crude closed to the heels. And let's non fifty-fifty verbalise well-nigh shaving (at to the lowest degree non yet). In my mind, having a skilful pilus / outfit / makeup / smooth legs / attractive feet type of presentation is the equivalent of the homo at the circus who spins all the plates at the same time. And damn, parenting toddlers in addition to infants is already similar herding cats. The complexity of these mixed metaphors is itself an accurate portrayal of the reality, I think.

And despite the pinkish background on this blog, I am non a "girly girl." I would rather drinkable a cocktail in addition to read a majority inwards the bathtub than exfoliate, depilate, or whatsoever other -ate. Unless it is merely plainly eating, in addition to if that's the case, so I'll cause got my calories inwards liquid form, equally per above.

I know what you're thinking, "Mary, this is non a sex issue. You are merely lazy." Yes, yes, I am that, too, in addition to I acknowledge it.

So I ask:

What's a busy, slightly lazy daughter to do?!

Well, I've discovered a few cheap in addition to relatively quick, tardily ways to locomote along upward appearances.

Skip the lotion in addition to larn straight off for the trunk cream. Lotion in addition to trunk cream are both composed of H2O in addition to oil; their departure lies inwards the proportion of each. Body cream has a higher content of oil, in addition to so is a to a greater extent than concentrated (read: effective in addition to longer lasting) moisturizer. Smooth some on your legs, arms, in addition to feet afterwards every shower when pores are nonetheless dilated from the warm water.

Use oil jelly (also known yesteryear the most mutual build nurture Vaseline) on the roughest, driest spots. While trunk cream is an emollient (meaning it moisturizes in addition to smoothes), oil jelly also effectively traps wet inside the peel in addition to prevents it from evaporating. Smooth it on elbows in addition to knees. Spread liberally on crude feet, set on duad of socks, larn to bed in addition to awake the side yesteryear side twenty-four threescore minutes catamenia alongside significantly softer feet. H5N1 pocket-size tub of the materials is closed to a dollar at the grocery store, so larn wild.

Use a pumice rock every twenty-four threescore minutes catamenia for a few seconds inwards the shower, concentrating especially on the heels. It may cause got to a greater extent than fourth dimension at first, especially if your feet are really dry out in addition to cracked, but in ane trial things are nether command this is all it actually takes for maintenance. And don't pass much on a pumice stone; notice them at the dollar store for a dollar (surprise!). Replace equally necessary, when yous laid out to notice decreased efficacy.

Use a scrub earlier shaving your legs (just rub, rinse, in addition to so larn ahead alongside your regular shaving cream). The tabular array salt or saccharide grains exfoliate the peel in addition to the oil inwards the scrub moisturizes it. The termination is a closer shave in addition to smoother, softer skin. You tin ship away easily build scrubs from inwards the kitchen ingredients (check out these recipes) or purchase it pre-made. I late won a scrub from this company inwards a giveaway (which it turns out, is owned in addition to operated yesteryear a one-time college mate, pocket-size world!), in addition to it is the best scrub I've e'er tried. For real.

Keep a cocoa lotion bar handy for quick fixes. A lotion bar is a solid, concentrated, quick means to deliver wet in addition to protection to irritated skin. Rub the bar over the effected expanse in addition to the warmth of your peel melts merely the correct total of emollients onto the spot. I scream upward nosotros cause got all had the sense of realizing at the terminal infinitesimal that our hands or knees or elbows or heels are super dry out and/or ashy. I locomote along this lotion bar inwards my pocketbook for merely such moments.