Pedicures in Spain

A pedicure is a beauty treatment for your feet where a pedicurist massages softening and soothing oils and creams into your feet and removes dead skin, softens hard skin and shapes and treats toe-nails. Combined with massage and the use of scented oils a pedicure can also soothe and relax. You should take care of your feet to prevent skin problems such as calluses, fungal infections  and in-growing toe nails

A pedicure usually takes between 30 and 90 minutes depending on what kind of treatment you are having.  The treatment usually begins with a therapeutic foot bath where your feet are soaked and cleansed in warm scented water.

Creams and aromatherapy oils will be massaged into your feet to refresh and soften your skin and most pedicurists will give you an acupressure or reflexology-based foot massage to really relax you. Some pedicures include the use of hot stones and others use mud or wraps. You can also have an exfoliating rub with salts or minerals to slough off the dead skin.

Your cuticles will be removed and your toenails cut and shaped.  The pedicure usually ends with another foot massage and possibly another soak in the foot bath before a good quality polish is applied to your nails.  To give the polish time to dry make sure you take some flip-flops or open sandals to put on when you leave.

There are a number of different foot treatments available now in spas and below are some examples of the different kinds of pedicures you can get:

• French is a classic pedicure using clear nail varnish and tip whitener
• Intensive paraffin wax with warm wax being rubbed into your nails, feet and lower legs to moisturise and soften
• Deluxe/luxury pedicure includes a foot massage, softening paraffin wax and heated towels or a wrap to warm and soothe your feet and soften and hydrate your nails.