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How do I sort my cracked heels out?

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Pinkjenny · 11/06/2009 15:17

They have never really recovered since my last pg, and as I am pg again, I can see lots of flat shoes in my future. Does anyone have any quick and easy ways to whip them into shape?

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FluffyBunnyGoneBad · 11/06/2009 15:19

Ouch, these are painful. Have you tried splatting moisturiser on them and using cotton socks before you get into bed and leaving them? It should help to soften the skin, then rub the dead skin off with a pumice stone. I think you can buy cream to do this but I can't remember what it's called.

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JamInMyWellies · 11/06/2009 15:21

hello lovey.

Got to Body shop and buy a foot file file away for hours and it will get rid of the worst of it then Bliss do dome fab cream and brilliant foot gloves which are brill for horrid feet.

If they are truly heinous get an app with a chiropodist they managed to fix my mums absoloutely disgusting feet they were proper manky.

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ThriceWoe · 11/06/2009 15:22

Flexitol Heel Balm. It really works. Put a little bit on each morning and evening and within a few days you'll be sorted. Honest.

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blondissimo · 11/06/2009 15:24

Another vote for flexitol heel balm - a miracle cream

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EyeballshasBackBoobs · 11/06/2009 15:24

Pedegg and some aqueous cream. My heels have gone from a dirty ingrained grey with huge cracks to beautifully soft and pink in about two days I kid you not. The pedegg is fab and I had tried lots of things before to no avail.

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Pinkjenny · 11/06/2009 15:27


I have an irrational fear of foot files. Flexitol heel balm it is!
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meep · 11/06/2009 15:29

I used Lansinoh - 'twas the only thing at hand one night while feeding and realising that my heel was so cracked it really hurt.

worked a treat!

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MrsMerryHenry · 11/06/2009 15:30

I hear bumsex is good for cracked heels

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EyeballshasBackBoobs · 11/06/2009 15:30

Flexitol is like pus though. I couldn't bear it!

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Pinkjenny · 11/06/2009 15:32

I can't deal with the filing of the feet

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MacaroonIncident · 11/06/2009 15:33
  1. go to chirpodist ( not beauty therapist) and get feet shaved
  2. put flexitol on night nad day for about 2 weeks
  3. then reduce to nightly
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SOLOisMeredithGrey · 11/06/2009 15:35

I don't think you can use Flexitol when you are pg though...I used that Assie one before being pg and it says on it, not to be used during pregnancy. Best to check the label first.

I would plaster mine in Melrose over night and wear soft cotton socks in bed...

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SOLOisMeredithGrey · 11/06/2009 15:38

Aussie, not Assie! It could be the Flexitol.

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Pinkjenny · 11/06/2009 15:40

Grr. Back to the drawing board. Macaroon - I just cannot deal with a chiropodist, with the foot file and the fiddling with the feet. Noooooooooo.

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Jux · 11/06/2009 15:48

Flexitol Heel Balm, from Boots. Recommended by my mum's chiropodist who says you need a cream with lots of urea in it (ordinary moisturisers don't have any). You need to do it every day. You can file away as much as you like, it'll help but won't sort if. Really slap it on thickly at night.

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Jux · 11/06/2009 15:50

I've just looked at my tube of Flexitol. It doesn't say anything about not using it while pg. I would ask when in Boots.

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fairylights · 11/06/2009 15:52

i have just started using scholl cracked heel cream and it really does what it says on the packet! its fab

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BusyBeeWithThree · 11/06/2009 16:38

tis excellent

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KristinaM · 11/06/2009 16:54

confused at idea that foot cream could cross the placenta?????

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wastingmyeducation · 11/06/2009 17:01

Foot file and Flexitol. It really, really works.

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ManicMother7777 · 11/06/2009 17:36

Scholl Cracked heel cream is good - made from urine apparently! But smells OK.

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Blackduck · 11/06/2009 17:42

flexitol flexitol flexitol....... twice a day and its WORKS....nothng on my (mega large) tube either about pg...

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pania · 11/06/2009 17:45

Whose urine?
Am now contemplating wrapping my feet in ds's wet nappies for a couple of days to see what happens....

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niche · 11/06/2009 20:43

Avon pedi peel pads once a night and followed by Avon heel softening cream, reapply the cream in the morning.

Lasts ages so very good value for money and has honestly turned my hoofs around in a way nothing else has and I've tried most things.

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