Cooling gel for feet: description and characteristics

Fatigue in the legs is familiar to most modern women. Steady work or constant movement throughout the day, high heels, narrow elegant shoes pads, temperature changes - and by the evening feet are buzzing and poured with lead. Over time, simple fatigue can be replaced by varicosity and swelling, so it is necessary to help the feet immediately when the first unpleasant symptoms appear.

Effective means, helping to relieve fatigue, is a cooling gel for the feet. Some of these remedies are slightly chilling the skin, and some even make you shiver. There are among them simple in composition and cheap products, and there are expensive, with a curative effect. It is not necessary to try everything to choose the best, it is enough to study their composition and action.

What is included in the cooling gel

The effect of cold on the skin is achieved by adding to the composition of special components, such as mint, menthol and citrus extracts. Also menthol has the effect of relieving pain, which helps after a whole day, spent on his heels.

Most manufacturers add to their gels also deodorizing additives to remove unpleasant odor, as well as caring ingredients, so that the cream at the same time softens both the skin of the feet and feet. Often in the therapeutic creams and gels, plant components are added that help in the fight against varicose veins, strengthening the walls of the vessels. This, for example, arnica, chestnut, sesame.

The effect of the gel

Menthol and mint, which are the main component of cooling gels, not only cool the skin, but penetrate deep into the layers of the epidermis, tone up and stimulate blood flow, which in turn leads to the removal of edema and to the improvement of tissue regeneration.

Also, this cooling gel for feet removes swelling due to the effect of lymph drainage, that is, it stimulates the outflow of excess fluid from the tissues. The constant use of such gels will help to normalize this process, which will lead to less fatigue and less problems with the veins.

Deodorization, which is provided by many similar products, not only cosmetic effects, but also the prevention of fungal development. In addition, these supplements can reduce sweating, which will add comfort throughout the day and reduce the risk of calluses and injuries on the skin.

How to use it correctly

To achieve the maximum effect that the cooling foot gel will give, it should be used correctly. If you have time, then after work or on your return home make a relaxing foot bath, treat the heels with a scrub. If there is no time, then simply rinse your feet with cool water from the shower and thoroughly wipe your feet to leave no moisture on them. Do not skip between the fingers.

Next, apply a gel to the dry and clean skin with massage movements. Apply it on all legs from fingers and heels to calves. It is advisable to sit or lie down a little, so that the gel absorbed, all the components began to act, and you could just enjoy a pleasant relaxing coolness.

Budget Products

The market presents a huge number of cooling creams and gels of Russian and imported production. Many of them are quite budgetary, their cost does not exceed 200 rubles, while the quality in most cases is decent.

So, the cooling gel for feet produced by the Belarusian company "Belita" is very popular. Reviews say that the effect of its cooling is much longer than in analogues. Given the price of 81 rubles per 100 ml, this product is just a find.

Also cheap, but effective is the gel-freshness from the brand "Clean Line" with mint and lungwort. The first component cools, and the second removes fatigue. There are in the composition and chamomile, and plantain, and an indispensable chestnut. The price is only 83 rubles for 75 ml.

Not so common on sale, but the gel-balsam "Sabelnik and mint" from Floresan brand is very effective. Sabelnik in the composition helps to strengthen the walls of blood vessels and improves blood circulation. Its price is 107 rubles for 75 ml.

Products of the middle and premium segments

One of the popular products in this segment is the gel from the brand "Yves-Rocher". The cooling effect is provided by peppermint, and the French lavender exerts a deodorizing and relaxing effect. The cost of the cream is 420 rubles for 50 ml. However, the reviews on this product are ambiguous, since a small amount of mint often does not have a noticeable cooling effect. There is a line of "Ives-Rocher" and a cooling gel for feet with an extract of a luthic cleaner that removes fatigue. This product costs also 420 rubles, but its volume is as much as 200 ml.

A popular combination of mint and chestnut is also in the brand The Body Shop. In a large cooling range among scrub, spray, cream and milk, there is also a gel. Its peculiarity is that mint for the production of gel is purchased on eco-production in England. Suitable for application on feet in the evening. Price 530 rubles. For 250 ml.

Another brand of French origin Loccitane has in the lineup a refreshing gel "Exciting Verbena". It not only effectively removes fatigue and gives a feeling of freshness, but also very convenient in applying - in a tube liquid gel, which, thanks to a roller, is evenly applied to the skin. The price bites - 1250 r. For 75 ml.

An interesting product also offers the Payot brand - a talc gel for feet with a cooling effect with tapioca powder and shea butter. He not only cools and relieves fatigue, but also deodorizes his feet and takes care of the skin on them. The price is 935 rubles.

Cooling gel for feet during pregnancy

Problems with leg fatigue and swelling are often tortured during pregnancy even by women who have never experienced such problems before. It's all about the increased burden on the body and it's necessary to solve the problem immediately. However, not all products are suitable during pregnancy. Especially for this period, you need a special product that does not contain additives, harmful mom and baby.

For example, among them a cooling foot gel with menthol from the brand "9 months". In it, the action of menthol and horse chestnut is reinforced with avocado and grapefruit oil. Reviews say that the cooling effect of this cream is really noticeable and long. Its cost is about 500 rubles per 100 ml tuba.

Similar products are available from other manufacturers specializing in cosmetics for pregnant women, for example, the brand Sanosan, which does not contain harmful paraffin oil or hypoallergenic foot gel cooling and soothing Maternea. It should be noted that the cost of such cosmetics is high - at least 500 rubles per package.

Pharmacy offers

If all previous gels have only a cosmetic effect and only relieve fatigue and cool your legs, you can buy gels in the pharmacy that help in treating varicose veins and thus solve the problem of fatigue in the legs. They also have a cooling effect, but before buying it is necessary to consult a phlebologist physician.

Most of these gels have in the composition heparin, which inhibits blood clotting. The most popular drug on its basis is the "Lyoton" gel. The price of gel is about 400 rubles for 30 grams.

The analogue of the action is "Helenven Forte." In its basis, the venetizing and capillary-strengthening complex. The price of the product is about half that of "Lyoton".

Home Gels

If your problems with leg fatigue are not associated with serious diseases of the veins and you only need a cooling effect to relieve tension, then just prepare a cooling gel at home. To do this, you need any gel or foot cream with courtship properties. In it you just need to add a few drops of menthol and camphor and mix with a cosmetic spatula, the cooling effect will be excellent.

You can also take one part of cosmetic wax and two parts of olive oil, warm and combine in a water bath and add a few drops of mint, eucalyptus and tea tree oil. Get a home cooling cream.