Nails Your Way

What Are Therapeutic Manicures, Pedicures & Facials?

The word therapeutic is an adjective that means having healing or curative qualities. It also means a treatment or activity intended to remedy or alleviate an undesirable condition. Are your hands and feet looking a little dull? Is your skin dry and flaky? Therapeutic manicures, pedicures, and facials provide revitalizing exfoliating treatments that help shed a few extra layers of dead skin, improving the appearance of your skin making it more soft and moist.

Deluxe therapeutic pedicures can solve skin problems such as dry, chapped heels, ingrown toenails, toenail fungus, corns, and calluses. Heels take a beating because they feel the brunt of our weight with every step we take. Age, improperly fitting shoes and certain skin conditions can cause the skin on heels to become dry and crack.

Preventing the skin on heels from thickening and cracking is simple. But it requires not only therapeutic pedicures but also home care that regularly exfoliates and hydrates the skin. Whether your heels are mildly callused or hard and thickened, therapeutic exfoliating pedicures can help. The use of a liquid callus remover will gently break up the layers of dead skin. Credo cutting blades should not be used on calluses because it causes the skin to grow back quicker and thicker. For thick calluses, weekly or bi-weekly therapeutic pedicures are recommended in order to safely and gradually reduce calluses. A home foot care kit contains safe exfoliating products and complete instructions needed to heal dry cracked heels.

The skin is the body's largest organ, and it consists of three layers: the epidermis, dermis, and sub-dermis. The epidermis is the outermost layer that you see, and it is made up entirely of cells. The cells closest to the dermis are called basal cells, and basal cells divide rapidly, with the new cells continually being forced upward toward the surface of the skin. As these cells move upward, they absorb more and more keratin (the protein that makes up the hair and nails) into their structure. By the time they reach the outermost layer of skin where you can see them, they have filled completely with keratin and died, protecting the more delicate live cells below.

As the skin continually repeats this cycle, these dead cells shed from the body as they are pushed out of the way by new cells moving up from below. This shedding is called exfoliation. As we age the cycle slows, so does the replacement of these dead cells, which tend to build up and give the skin a thick, dry, dull appearance that requires exfoliant treatments which boost the skin's natural renewal cycle by mechanically removing the uppermost dead skin cells to reveal smoother, fresher skin below. Therapeutic manicures, pedicures and facials use exfoliating treatments such as micro-dermabrasion, alpha-hydroxy, salt & sugar scrubs, and lavender warm wax dips that stimulate the skin's production of collagen, which boost skin's elasticity and firmness making it look and feel younger. Make an appointment today for a therapeutic manicure, pedicure, or facial.

Read Jeanne's Latest Monthly Article In Chapel Hill News & Views.

Nails Your Way
Jeanne Grace Curtis
5900 Orchard Road
Douglasville GA 30135-4726

Look for the Hand Sign pointing at the gate!
(All the way at the end of Orchard Road)

Click on Map for Printable Copy.

By Appointment Only

770-949-3113