I use to use a foot file but Ped Egg is easier to use and more effective imo. I also use Scholl moisturiser cream.

Bought mine off ebay for just over £2 including p&p and even DH is using it now to get rid off the hard skin on his heel.

Ok report back after using Ped Egg for the first time.

I've used every type of gadget/cream/file for hard skin on feet and this really does beat them all - feet look fantastic. Just did it with the Ped Egg then put cream on and went to bed. This morning they look brilliant, the best they have looked for years. Even my DP noticed and said 'god it really does work doesnt it'

I am transformed - thank you MrsM

I bought one today in pink

Have just used it, put some cream on my feet and cant wait to see what they are like in the morning.

It didnt feel much different to other metal files i have used, but cant wait to see results to see if it is better.

I bought one at the weekend and was quite impressed. I usually use a Scholl foot file, but the Ped Egg was much less hard work.

MrsM, you have a lot to answer for....I genuinely can't wait until Saturday when I can get to Boots and buy one of these!

I dont have cracked heels, but they are very dry and white skin if you know what i mean. I have tried everything and nothing works so I am hoping that this is the miracle

Thanks MrsM it's fabby , my toes are really smooth

Mine just arrived will try it after i collect dd from pre school

<High five's pcworld>

Just got my ebay 99p one and will check it out tonight. Rock. and. Roll!!!

<considers getting a ped egg>

Please report back. I'm still swooning over mine.

<don't-get-out-much emotion>

Oh god I lOVE my egg! I've had terrible hard skin for years, but not any longer :-P

Thanks for this just ordered one from ebay 99p hope it works!

Had been wondering if they were as good as they looked - have just bought one from Amazon - £3.75 with free delivery.

My Ebay version arrived today. the grater may not burst a balloon but the plastic packaging has sliced a chunk out of my finger!

I also bought one for a friend... do you think she'll be offended?

just bought my pink one tonight ..
Here goes....

saw them for men as well....

LOL. Well, I certainly wasn't sharing!

Ooh, his n'hers!

I am hoping they are as good as people say on this thread. Have just ordered a pink one for me and a white one for DH, who has also been complaining since he started wearing his Birkinstocks again this summer.

I just got a Scholl contoured hard skin file today and its bliss.

It's also the word 'egg'. A food word used for the production of foot shavings. It's not pretty. <vomits>

hocus, don't knock it till you've tried it

Everyone was raving about these in the staffroom yesterday. The thought of them really makes me feel queasy. I was so glad I'd already finished my lunch.

FFM, my shavings managed to escape onto the floor as well. I'm not sure if I was being too enthusiastic, using it wrong, or if I just have revoltingly large amounts of dry skin. Eww.

FFM reporting back....
I've come home and tried it, and then lavished my little trotters with Boots Intensive Foot Cream, wooo, what a difference. Why havent I tried the Ped Egg before? Highly recommended! Yay. Sparkly sandals here I come. Oh yes, one thing, I did find the erm parmesan shavings still managed to go all over the floor as well as in the egg. Maybe it was just overload....!

Reporting back.

Mine arrived this morning, and as I thought, it did indeed give me the shivers but I persevered and I'm fairly impressed. I wouldn't call it miraculous just yet, I probably need a few more goes, but there is a definite improvement in my heels.

Not bad at all for £2.59 for the Ped Egg plus a free gift of some weird sandpaper for your legs buffer gizmo.

The skin shavings come in very handy when you're out of parmesan.

ebay has one on a buy it now for 99p with £1.35 postage. bargain!

Woop, Ive just been into town and bought mine - will update tomoro.. how sad it is when this is going to be the highlight of my evening, that and watching Ugly Betty recorded from last night!

and sandwich spluttered all over the desk.

SoupDragon! :-o

lolz.

I just spat tea all over the screen. Oh dear. I really should rephrase things better.

I am noy shoving a Ped Egg up my fanjo no matter how many balloons they safely grate in the TV advert.

Maybe the Ped Egg will become the new mooncup?

Sounds like there should be some sort of Mumsnet Shrine to THE MIGHTY PED EGG....

*buys one from amazon*

just bought the ebay one ... my feet are awful since starting to wear summer sandles,

Cathpot - I have had the blade too. For some reason it has only ever been little old Asian ladies that offer. It makes your feet so smooth!

As for the ped egg - I love mine but be careful of overdoing it. I have in the past got a bit to enthusiastic and actually grated my feet so they bled

At the end of my bath I give mine a good going over with a pumice. Works a treat and all the bits go down the plug hole (and, most likely, block the drains)

Oh I heart my ped egg too, it has transformed my truly horrendous heels, think a ledge of hard skin with deep cracks into not quite baby perfection, but a huge improvement, it's brilliant.

Aren't your feet super-sensitive afterwards though?

I'm worried that that layer of skin is "helping" me walk in sandals etc. by protecting my feet a bit.

Mind you DH has beautiful feet with no hard bits and seems fine - not sure how he does it, certainly no filing going on there.

Got it, tried it, loved it! It did take about an hour to get my big hobbit feet to soft smoothness but so worth it. Much to the irritation of DH, I was doing it on the couch while watching Hugh Fluffy Wotsit, and he was so disgusted he went off to use my laptop in the kitchen. I rubbed a bit of Badger Balm onto my feet before going to bed and they are looking gorgeous this morning. I am getting the sandals out!

It can't cope with my hard feet. I was most disappointed.

Vulgar are you using the cheese grater bit or the brown emery bit you stick on? The cheese grater is what you need.

I know I'm banging on about it but my white crusty rough heels and toes are baby pink and adorable now. All for about £2.

I found the ped egg made my feet really rough and horrible and it took ages to sand down with the emery bit. Or are my feet beyond help?

I've got so much hard skin my feet are like Mr Tumnus'.

cathpot - i've had "the blade" too. I loved it but it was quite creepy seeing all the shavings., I've avoided shaved parmesan ever since.

HaventSleptForAYear - they don't have to be bad at all. I go for a pedicure with a chiropodist once every 3-6 months and come out feeling like I am walking on air every time. Do go, you'll never look back. Take your nail polish off though they always seem to tut if you have any on.

Went for pedicure once in backwater of the UAE and hugely grumpy lady asked me did I want BlAAAADE?

I'm sorry?

BLAAADDDEE??

I'm so sorry? What?

BBLLAAADDDEEEEEEEE

I, erm, dont know?

Much exasperated huffing and she pulled out a naked razorblade on a sort of shaving razor handle and proceeded to shave my feet like she was attacking a parmasan cheese. A parmasan cheese that had inexplicably irritated the hell out of her.

I stayed very very still.

That was the the softest and loveliest my feet have been since babyhood and I can never go through it again.

I may need this egg thing.

steep=soak.

steep your feet?

They do them in pink. Why do no one tell me this before I bought a boring white one!

You are supposed to do it on dry skin though, not damp

I'm still admiring my heels

just did my feet tonight with this, I think hte secret is to steep your feet before doing it, I intend to do mine every night as not only is it awful looking its dam well sore at times as well

I got one quite cheaply on Amazon - think it was less than £4 and was impressed. I didnt fancy the idea of shavings but like people have said, its a fine dust and seems better in their than all over your floor. Only problem for me is mine is a bit stiff so I havent managed to open it yet anyway. my feet were really bad and it has improved them but there is still a long way to go .... need heavy duty cream too. Off to do another shot at it!

ohhh will get one tomorrow in boots. I have walked past them for months now and must admit I was nearly persuaded when they came out in pink (yup, sad I know..) but now I will give one a go.!!

The thought of it turned my stomach too until I tried it. Now I can't wait for the hard skin to come back so I can have another go.

We sell loads of them at work. TBH the thought of it turns my stomach! I shall stick with my Flexitol hard skin cream and heel cream for the time being I think!

Spurred on by this thread, I looked mine out this morning and used it - but despite half filling the thing my feet don't feel any softer.

I bought mine a long time ago when they were £9.99 here, but have since seen them for less than half that price, so just thinking about the ped egg normally puts me in a bad mood!

The thing I think makes the most difference to having better looking feet in summer is nail varnish.

How bad do your feet actually have to be to go to a chiropodist?

I have tried pumice, and a scarey-looking metal scraper thing and lots of flexitol.

Feet look ok in shoes etc. but there are still some bits bothering me.

But do my feet have to be covered in corns to go to a chiropodist ?

There are plenty in our old-lady market town.

It would probably be enough if you combine it with something like Flexitol or Scholl cracked heel cream wouldn't it?

If you are a real horned hoofer a ped egg is NOt Enough. ime

Thanks for the tip Tidey, I will be off to Watt Brothers to get mine. My scary hobbit feet need some TLC pronto!

i suppose for the money i should have risked it but i was scared it would cut my feet to shreds or something.

I bet it will still work. Mine's probably a fake, it was so cheap. But I don't care

<twirls on tippy toes>

i saw one at the market but i think it was fake.

hippopotamouse thanks!

Avon do one for about £4 and its good too.

i've just ordered one thank you mrsmaidamess. but actually my heels haven't acquired their usual summer extra layer yet....

Saw them on the market today. Could you get the same effect from a nutmeg grater?

Ooh do report back

Well, as I'm easily persuaded, I just bought one for £2.59 off eBay! Now all I have to psyche myself up to use it once it arrives

If any of you are in Scotland and near Watt Brothers they have them starting at £2.99. Also have the twin packs with the handle for £7.99.

I thought that too, but it was fine. it feels more like sandpaper than anything really. Go on, get one, you won't regret it

I've been thinking of getting one as I have horrible dry skin on my heels, but I have an aversion to nail files/emery boards, they make me go cold all over, nails-down-a-blackboard style. Is it anything like that? I just get the impression that it would make a nasty grinding sound.

This post makes me sound even more of a loon than usual.

I need one.

Its a fine powder. It's compelling actually. The only difference is you catch them rather than have them all over your carpet or bathroom. Mine were grey!

oooo yes. it does work.

just the thought of those skin shavings makes me go queasy. I shall stick to my fish shaped pumice and some nice foot cream.

at QOD.

Mine is white. I wanna pink one.

lol , yes I had big toe wedges too, I hated them. My heels are like a baby's now. <preen>

I bought mine on ebay for a couple of quid. (It was second hand).



JOKE

ha, its even reduced my huge big toe wedge LOL
great arent they? I have a pink one, i find it really funny that we dither over the colours!

..which were not pretty about an hour ago and now I can't stop pointing my toes.