No matter how comfy shoes or sandals are when you try them on in store, you won’t know what they’re going to do to your feet until you’ve been walking around with them on for a few hours. This is when people normally find out that they start experiencing pain and blisters begin to develop. There is no real way to really avoid this happening but luckily there are measures that you can put in place to help protect your feet. Here are some of the things you can do to try and help prevent getting blisters with new leather sandals.
How to Avoid Getting Blisters with New Leather Sandals
The easiest way to ensure that you don’t get blisters is to break in your new leather sandals but breaking them in is what usually causes your feet to blister. This is due to your shoes rubbing against your feet, creating fraction, which can eventually lead to painful blisters.
Here are some steps to help you avoid getting blisters while you break in your new sandals;
Get Support
There are many different types of support that you can get for shoes when trying to break them in. including;
- Insteps
- Comfort liners
- Blister patches
- Plasters
Prep Your Feet
There are products out there that are designed to use on your feet prior to wearing new sandals to help protect your feet. An example is Blister Elixir; this is a foam that is designed to moisturise and lubricate your feet in order to prevent painful blisters from forming. This solution has amazing customer reviews and is non-greasy, non-staining and can last for up to a whopping 8 hours.
Stretch Them
Although you don’t want your shoes to be too loose, you also don’t want them to be too tight, as this can also cause blisters (I know, you can’t win). To help combat this, without having to wear the shoes yourself, you can get shoe stretchers. If you don’t fancy splashing out on one of these devices, you can get a zip lock bag, fill it with water and close, put the bags in the sandals and put them in the freezer. When the ice freezes the bags will expand and will stretch the shoes in the process. Leave this overnight and by the morning you will hopefully have blister free sandals.
Put Deodorant on Feet
Putting deodorant on feet will not only help keep them smelling fresh. It will also help prevent them from sweating as much – which can cause them to rub more. Roll-on works best and it’s as simple as putting it on, waiting for it to dry and away you go. You may want to consider using a separate on for your armpits and your feet.
Dress Rehearsal
Your mum would have likely told you to wear new shoes around the house to break them in. If you take this advice and do it, then you can determine where the trouble spots will be for when you do go out in them, this will allow you to prepare and protect your feet from the get-go. It should take about 30 minutes of wearing and walking around in new sandals to determine where the problem areas are likely to be.
Horace is a health and wellness researcher with expertise in holistic medicine and evidence-based treatments. His writing covers everything from nutrition and fitness to emerging healthcare technologies.