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Wed May 09, 2007 4:53 pm  |
My fault...summer to me, means YIPPEEE..no more shoes...
I put lotion and sox on at bedtime...
My heels still look like sandpaper.
Anyone have good treatments...
Please dont tell me to put shoes on...I really dont want to  |
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Wed May 09, 2007 5:22 pm |
| Have you tried Gehwol foot balm? you will see the result immediately. |
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Wed May 09, 2007 5:42 pm |
| I find doesn't really matter what you use, most body creams are of similar key ingredients anyways, the key is to treat them EVERY night. The persistency will be paid off. |
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Wed May 09, 2007 5:51 pm |
| I use a foot file to remove the dead skin around the heel and then slap on a rich foot cream. |
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34, oily acne-prone skin, Toronto, Canada |
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Wed May 09, 2007 5:54 pm |
After a bath or a foot soak, I exfoliate and/or use pumice stone, then dry my feet. Then I slather on Candessence Therapy for the Sole, and cotton socks for the night.
Baby's rear in the morning.
By the way, your subject line made me laugh! |
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:14 pm |
| Yen wrote: |
| I use a foot file to remove the dead skin around the heel and then slap on a rich foot cream. |
Ditto! I use this Tweezerman Professional Foot Rasp ... love it! Then I slather on some foot cream ... usually peppermint scented (I have different brands). Doing this once a day really makes a difference and in no time your feet should be summer ready.  |
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:24 pm |
Hi SandraG!
I will chime in and agree with Cedar that the Candessence "Therapy For The Sole" is wonderful!  Given that I live in Arizona and much of the year we do without shoes (or just wear sandals), Candy's treatment is truly a must have for me!
Mary  |
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43, Confirmed desert rat (Scottsdale, AZ), animal lover (3 kitties and a pup) and hopeless product junkie (I blame EDS...lol!) |
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:55 pm |
try grating your feet with the microplane kitchen grater *shudder*
there was a thread started on it this week and apparently it beats all foot files ever made, and does not actually grate your feet, I just say that to be dramatic. |
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mid 20's, dry in winter, combo in summer, acne prone, dehydrated, rarrrr! |
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Wed May 09, 2007 6:59 pm |
All are excellent suggestions. In the meantime, if you need a fast fix, pour 1 cup of white vinegar in a footbath or a plastic tub just big enough for both feet and about 6 inches deep. Fill it the rest of the way with very warm water and soak your feet for about 30 minutes. Use a foot rasp on the stubborn areas every few minutes and return the foot to the bath. When finished, dry with an old towel (you'll see major exfoliation and softening of the skin on your whole foot so be prepared) and use a lotion or cream for moisture.
Just a suggestion.
Ari |
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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh Crap, She's up!" Unknown |
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Wed May 09, 2007 7:12 pm |
| Arielle wrote: |
All are excellent suggestions. In the meantime, if you need a fast fix, pour 1 cup of white vinegar in a footbath or a plastic tub just big enough for both feet and about 6 inches deep. Fill it the rest of the way with very warm water and soak your feet for about 30 minutes. Use a foot rasp on the stubborn areas every few minutes and return the foot to the bath. When finished, dry with an old towel (you'll see major exfoliation and softening of the skin on your whole foot so be prepared) and use a lotion or cream for moisture.
Just a suggestion.
Ari |
thanks for this suggestion...my feet are soaking in the vinegar solution as we speak! |
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46 yrs old, I live at the beach and love being out in the sun. |
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Wed May 09, 2007 8:24 pm |
| Avon's Cracked Heal Relief cream will solve your problem. It solved my feet problems. |
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Wed May 09, 2007 9:02 pm |
My heels still look like sandpaper.
 we have the same problem! |
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Wed May 09, 2007 9:11 pm |
| Along with cream I keep a hand held foot file (like they use in pedicures) in my shower. I use it daily after I've been in the shower a few minutes (when the skin is soft) and this keeps my heels from building up. Before I did that, it was a problem for me too. |
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Wed May 09, 2007 9:23 pm |
| I use olive or sunflower oil, just rub it into your rough skin after bath. As for a diet, try to include vegetable oil with salads. Flax and fish oil is also good. You can buy them at any drug store. |
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Blond, blue eyes.Skin: Normal, sometimes oily, during winter very dry. Very sensitive. Occasional breakouts. Very fair. |
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Thu May 10, 2007 1:16 am |
I never go barefoot except in the house. Grandma made me paranoid by telling me I'd get hookworm 
I use those gel socks from Bliss after a long soak in the ionix detox footbath. |
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Blond, Swedish/Cherokee, normal/dry skin, a sucker for products, gizmos, and treatments that are "age-defying." Just hit the big 4-0 |
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Thu May 10, 2007 7:35 am |
since we're on the subject of feet.... does anyone have a remedy for dry ankles???
i'm afraid that even when i was rockclimbing and such, my feet have always been pretty soft and supple so all this foot filing stuff just baffles me. never needed it in the past, hopefully never will.... but my poor little protruding ankle bones get rubbed by boots, carpet (sitting on the floor), and nearly everything in sight. those are as dry as i imagine most peoples feet are.. would a foot balm or Candy's therapy work for the ankle area? would the vinegar soak work for it along with rubbing from a loofah (i am not using a file on my ankles, thank you very much!)? |
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Thu May 10, 2007 8:05 am |
| Yen wrote: |
| I use a foot file to remove the dead skin around the heel and then slap on a rich foot cream. |
This is what I do as well. I like Barielle's foot cream. It's rich and soothing. I use the Tweezerman foot buffer. It's ceramic but feels like pumice so it'll last forever. |
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Early 50s, blonde hair (natural) with red streaks (mid-life crisis), blue eyes, fair skin, small pores, very dry skin, some pigmentation (thanks to growing up in Miami), starting to see fine lines. Love my NuFace and Quasar SP and the CPs and Retin A are working as well. |
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Thu May 10, 2007 12:26 pm |
| I used the Vinegar last night...what does the Vinegar do ~except make a gag when I smell it?? |
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46 yrs old, I live at the beach and love being out in the sun. |
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Thu May 10, 2007 12:40 pm |
I posted a reply but it's not here! Okay, what I said was. The vinegar & water bath should have exfoliated your feet right then and there and softened the dry spots so the rasp could just buff them away. I do this every 2 weeks because I spend my summers barefoot or in sandals.
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Try this again. |
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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh Crap, She's up!" Unknown |
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Thu May 10, 2007 5:12 pm |
| I love Gold Bond Healing Lotion. It really works quite well and is inexpensive, too! |
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Thu May 10, 2007 8:30 pm |
I agree with moisturizing internally and externally. Internally: drink plenty of water and take Omega 3-6-9 supplements (or use the oils in salad dressing, etc.). You may also want to try taking a hyaluronic acid (HA) supplement (there are a couple threads at EDS on the use of HA internally).
Externally, exfoliate feet with something like the Microplane Foot Orb (it's especially good because it collects the flakes as you use it), then use a moisturizer.
You may want to use an extra creamy moisturizer with socks overnight or get spa gel socks like the ones Bliss makes. |
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42yo, natural strawberry blonde so fair skin, blue-eyed, and dry skin |
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Thu May 10, 2007 8:53 pm |
| As many have said, a good file and rich cream. Last summer, this didn't even help me much though. Since its gotten warmer here in Colorado, I had one bout of rough skin on my heels and bottoms of feet a few weeks back. I currently bought Johnson and Johnson Extra Care Healing Softcream to use on my hands as I wash very often, and decided to put this on the rough skin on my feet. The morning after, it was gone. Maybe it's the addition of mineral oil (or I believe any oil would do the job if not better than mineral) but I'm excited to try it again to see if I have the same 'response' (but I need to wait until they become rough again...). So, maybe you can try something like this.....good luck. |
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20; light/ fair-toned with freckles on cheeks/nose since I could remember; combo skin w/ Oily forehead, chin prone to acne. Green/brown eyes; growing to love my medium/ dark brown hair. |
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Thu May 10, 2007 9:24 pm |
| i think that cracking is mostly genetics so i would suggest that ask those people who have the same problem. Cuz I believed that even the most epensive cream would not doit |
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Fri May 11, 2007 11:28 am |
I think exfoliaion is definitely the key...
I use exfoliation gloves (rialto brand) as my louffah everytime I shower so my whole body, including my heals stay smooth.
and then I just use aveeno moisturing for extra dry skin all over...the stuff is great. |
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41 years,normal to dry, can be sensistive to products |
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Fri May 11, 2007 11:55 am |
| Try using a lotion with AHAs to maintain your soft feet once you get rid of the dry skin build up. i use Neostrata 10% glycolic acid body lotion on my feet but someone mentioned a less expensive lotion in another subject post called St. Ives Renewal cream...I think. |
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