Essential Care for a nurse after night shift!

Hello again!

In this entry I'm gonna share my care routine after night shift, when I do go to sleep in the morning, most of the products are handmade, well, all expect for one, and I've been looking for a good handmade replacement, but I can't seem to find one!


Here are all the products I use: a tired legs lotion, a high hydration moisturizer for my face, intensive lip therapy balm, hand cream and feet cream.




The tired legs lotion is the only one of all the products that is not handmade, but from a supermarket brand, and at least is not tested in animals... I have been looking for a similar product on Etsy, but I haven't really found anything like this... It gives a super fresh feeling to your legs when you massage them with it, and soothes my poor tired legs after a 10 hour shift!




I also change a lil my regular facial routine, instead of using my Velvet Face or Night Repair, I go for the Pure Hydration facial creme from Dress Green, since it's a very thick & highly hydrating cream that helps my skin recover from the dryness at work with the heating or AC, and it doesn't feel right to me to apply a night cream at 9 am, even if I'm going to sleep then!




I spend most of my work hours going around the ward, and my Happy Feet cream from RightAsRain Creations is a must for me every day after work, even more so after night shift, and even though since I have my Crocs my feet don't hurt, they do get tired! And this cream is pure bliss for them!




Dry air at work, due to heating or AC translates on dry face, and particularly on dry limps, and though I always have a lip balm with me, I always do some extra care when I'm going to sleep after work. I use the Intensive Lip Therapy balm by Mirasol Farm, and it works like a charm! No more waking up with chapped lips, and I've also noticed that it works great when I get my stress rash in my upper lip, so it never gets as bad as before, no more using cortisone creams for it!






And last, but surely not least, it's taking care of my dry and damaged hands. As a nurse, I wash my hands hundreds of thousands of times in each shift, both with regular soap & water, but also with the alcohol-based solutions, and even though they're great for killing germs, they aren't kind to my hands! So, I use my hand-saver cream from Mirasol farm, the Sweet Orange Calendula Cream, just the thing to daily treat my hands and help them recover!

Skin Journey; Destination: Happy Feet!

You might be thinking, feet again? But feet are icky!!

I'm not a particularly feet=icky person, but I sure haven't really been caring as much as I should, or as well as I should for my feet. But that's changing with the wonderful range of handmade products I've found!

I've already told you about the amazing cooling cream from Right As Rain creations that I've just ordered (in 4oz size!) and the fantastic foot herbal milk bath from Morgan Street, but today I'm gonna talk about another two products I've found that compliment those perfectly!

I've had the Skin Journey etsy shop for a long time in my favourites, but during the EGCG Easter Egg Hunt, I browsed more the shop and added a few products I really wanted to try to my favourites, and did the usual bit of reading around: profile, shop policies and feedback. And during one of her special SNS sales, I got a really nice discount on her foot care products!

I got the Overnight Foot treatment and the Stimulating Foot scrub a week ago, and after trying them I have to give them TWO big thumbs up!

My routine has been combining them with the 15 min milk bath with warm water (I recomend not too warm water, just warm enough so the feet don't feel the shock of the water too much).

Then 2 mins scrub-a-dub lower legs and feet with the Stimulating Foot scrub (it has pumice stone and jojoba beads, which are very exfoliating, but very mild at the same time, and doesn't feel harsh at all for the feet).

And then for the final treat, 2 or 3 times a week, use the Aloe & Hydroxy Acids Overnight foot treatment for very soft skin! This is a very thick cream, and a little goes a long way! You don't need much for each feet, but it's better if after applying it, you put some cotton socks on and off to sleep you go! You'll find yourself in the morning with healed, softer skin (and less icky feet!).

For the rest of the days, I'd still recommend using the cooling foot cream at night, cause it'll moisturize and sooth tired feet after a long day!

That has become my routine for my feet care, twice a week, milk bath, scrub & overnight cream, and for the rest of the days, nightly dose of cooling cream! And I can assure you, I have HAPPY FEET!

EGCG Swag Bag: Right As Rain Creations

As Brooke already told you, we both marked our calendars to make sure we could grab one of the fantastic Swag Bags by the EGCG Etsy Street Team.

When I got it, I was amazed at the amount of products and the size of them! Very generous-sized samples, and some full sized too! I started my way to trying them all, lil by lil, and also, my way to taking pictures of them all!

One of the very first things I started using was the Peppermint Foot Cream, by RightAsRain Creations. I had been looking over Etsy for a moisturizing & refreshing foot cream, and had a few of them in my favourites, so when I got this one, it couldn't have had a better timing!

It's a 2 oz wide jar, so you can dip in without fuss, and the texture is thick but creamy, and non-sticky. Doesn't leave a greasy residue in your hands after applying it, and a lil does go a long way! After checking her shop, I saw it was one of the two sizes she offered, so it was not just a sample!

Since first try I've fallen in love with these cream! It goes on smoothly, smells so refrenshingly of peppermint that all of you, not only your feet, feel rejuvenated! Once applied it gives a very cooling feel, which is perfect for tired feet! I can't wait to use this after a night out wearing heels, cause it has worked great on my tired feet after a long night at the ward!

I've loved this cream so much that I'm already looking at buying the two available sizes at her shop, the 4 oz for keeping at home, and the 2 oz for travelling purposes!

If you're looking for a cream to soothe and cool your poor tired, dry, mistreated feet, this is it my friends!