I did one of those foot peels a week ago and nothing is happening

[MeinKraft]

And my feet are SO bad. Using the peel has made them far worse, I don't know if it's because I haven't been able to use moisturiser for a week but they're unbearably dry and cracked now. Soaked my feet for an hour morning and night yesterday and just a tiny bit of peeling between a couple of my toes. I want a massive sporny peel fest! What do I do? I'm soaking my feet again now!

These products don't work for me.

I used the Footner one two weeks ago and my feet started peeling after 5 days. It's been glorious 😋

That's what I get for scrimping on it! I soaked my feet last night and put fluffy socks on before bed. Nothing this morning. So I dampened a pair of socks and went for a soggy woodland walk. Still nothing!

Jesus Mary Joseph and the Wee Dpmkey !

Would you do this too your hands? No !

An hour is way too long to soak your feet , you'll be like a prune .

Get a file , not a cheese grater sharp one , look at something like Margaret Dabbs .- use it dry every 3 days or so (she's often a guest on QVC if you look up the products )
Use your Flexitol daily after a short (10 minutes) foot bath

Give it a month to get best effect

I'm not trying to scaremonger but the skin on the feet is tough for a reason. Your job is to keep it clean and elastic so well moisturised . If you remove it your skin will replenish it .You risk damage by over zealous removal and you can leave uneven, over reduced areas

Find out WHY you are getting all this callus .

Dryness-mpoisturise
Pressure-remove the pressure . Critical look at your footwear

See a Podiatrist , ask advice from them. It'll be the best £40 (ish) you spent

Awful spelling errors , I'm on a borrowed laptop

I used a foot peeling treatment a few years ago and dear lord - it was horrendous. Chunks of skin were just falling off. I really thought I'd have no skin left.

I would never do it again. It just seems not healthy and probably harmful. What chemicals are in that shit to make your feet disintegrate.

I have this thing now which is amazing and I folliw it up with the application with heavy duty moisturiser

I have a battery powered foot sander, it’s great! My heels used to look like Stilton rind and now they look human.

The thing with the foot peel is you don’t know what skin (and how much) will be affected.

I use footner every summer. The first week it just looks cracked and awful. After 10 days to two weeks, at the point I’ve usually given up hope, the glorious foot peeling begins!
Every year it takes way longer than I think it will but it hasn’t yet let me down. I’m on day 7 from using it this year and the peeling hasn’t started yet, but I’m expecting it by next weekend.

You're not supposed to soak them , just leave them to dry out and you'll peel like a snake!

Footner, my sil uses it. His feet were terrible, he soaked for an hour, put bags on. After a few days the peeling started. They're in much better state now. Think he bought it from Amazon.

My feet were dreadful. I slathered them with Flexitol every night and morning to no effect.

As I am disabled, I was offered an appointment to have my feet 'checked' by a nurse, just because I couldn't cut my toenails not because I'd said anything about the terrible hard skin and cracking (I hadn't).

When I saw the foot nurse I said "NO ONE sees my feet, so I apologise for the state of them and I'm really shy about taking my socks off". He had a look, cut my nails for me, and then said that I had what I now think of as 'Old People's Foot Lurgy', athlete's foot. I gaped at him. I'd never heard of athlete's foot being like that. Very common, he said, as you age, most older people have it a bit. Just use an athlete's foot spray or cream from off the shelf.......

That was about 5 years ago. My feet are smooth as a baby's bottom.

Try athlete's foot treatment for a while, save yourself a fortune.

My footner has arrived so I shall give it a go tomorrow

@Doggymummar how are your feet looking?

They used to be better. Has the formula changed? Last time I tried tried Footner it started to peel then stopped. Completely useless. I know how to use it and followed instructions for daily soaking.

I'm going to try that jux! Flexitol didn't work for me either.

Both DH and I did a Footner one a couple of years ago. It took about a week and then there was a lot of peeling and feet were quite nice for a while. But six months later, I realised it was the worse thing I had ever done to my feet, they were in a terrible condition, far worse than they had ever been before. I will never do a foot peel again.

I have the horny, scaly feet of a troll. Did nothing for me. Even when I splashed out for proper footner. If anything if made them even stronger than before. Some feet are beyond peeling, mine are those feet. Yours may be too.

This is a timely thread as I’m currently soaking my feet trying to remove dead skin that’s flaking off constantly three weeks post foot peel (not a fancy one, just came in a gift set). Annoyingly it’s just the skin on my toes and instep which are peeling while the hard skin on my heel hasn’t budged! I suspect there’s nothing else for it other than a chiropodist-grade cheese grater and foot sander!

I did a derma v10 peel and will never do another one again. Skin was coming off my feet in sheets for weeks and I struggled to play as much tennis as I normally do as my feet were so sensitive.

I think they must be. Well they were quite rough and dry before 10 days of no moisturiser and now they're fucking awful. I am going to buy a cheese grater foot file tomorrow and some of that okeefes cream I saw an advert for earlier

Footner is the best! But I have to soak my feet in hot water every day for it to work, and it takes a few days to start to peel - my daughter gets fantastically ick peeling without the soaking, I am so envious.

Footner works around 12/14 days. But, it won’t get rid of that skin that builds on the edge of your big toe. You can get podiatrist to remove, or cut the excess off with nail scissors then file

Just see a podiatrist every other month! I go for 3 infected toe nails after years of faffing with the nhs. He is sorting them out and makes my feet feel wonderful and knows what I can try and should avoid for the best foot health. I have a Urea based cream that keeps my super dry and cracked feet in fabulous condition. £45 every other month is worth it.

I used this one too and gave myself plenty time before my holiday and my feet were still peeling by the time I went away. Not a great look in sandals!

@MeinKraft cheese grater style files and hardcore sandpaper type files are the only things that have ever worked on my feet. I've got this electric one now and find it really good, but I think any similar one would do from any brand- it's essentially sandpaper on a rotating mini-belt. It takes the elbow grease out of the job!