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To think that no one should be allowed to wear a sandal without some proper foot grooming?!

289 replies

williaminajetfighter · 02/06/2013 20:48

It's that time of year again... Ah summer and its long days of sunshine. I so love it but the one thing I fear most in this change of season? The sandalled "foot claw"!

Suddenly everyone is wearing heel, toe and full foot exposed foot-wear. And the exposed foot often is a scary site to behold: yellowed toe nails, bunions, fungus, severely cracked heels, dry skin. I am constantly shocked by how many people so casually don sandals with their feet looking a hot mess. Certainly not for public view.

AIBU to expect people to invest in a little foot grooming in the summer? Have people not heard of a podiatrist or a pedicure?

This is an honest question as the flagrant disregard for foot hygiene drives me nuts.. But I may be the only person who feels this way?!

OP posts:
amigababy · 02/06/2013 21:53

melty I was fascinated by the thread about using Vicks on nail infections, it might be worth a try

Talkinpeace · 02/06/2013 21:53

Melty
Garlic.
Rub raw garlic onto and around and under the nail every day, twice a day.
When you are at home of an evening, packe crushed garlic onto the nail for an hour or two.
It will stink. But it will work.
THe nail will start looking better pretty quick and will slowly grow out.

NorksAreMessy · 02/06/2013 21:53

Just popping in to say feet are all disgusting, even groomed ones.

Plus, Vicks vapor rub works on toenail fungus.
Plus, I am so old and creaky and tubby around the middle that I can hardly reach my feet
I have read this thread with a face like this Confused. I can only just care about my own feet, let alone other people's BUT I do get judgy when people pick at their feet when they sit on my sofa (ick)

Talkinpeace · 02/06/2013 21:54

agree with vicks by the way : but found that garlic was even better ....

LEMisdisappointed · 02/06/2013 21:55

Melty - have you tried tea tree oil on your feet? I think you have to put in on every day for about ten years Grin but it does have some improvement to my DPs fungal nail infection, which to be fair, is becoming part of him, he too has tried everything! To my horror i caught it too, but i just kept cutting my nails as short as i possibly could and it seemed to go. A friend suggested to me those nail foils that you can have put on in the beauty parlour to cover the yellowness but i was lucky and it disappeared on its own.

Infamouspoo - you are right (wtf re your name??) hard skin is protective for your feet, i had (another) friend who used to run alot, she used to put white spirit on her heels to harden them up Hmm

Babycino81 · 02/06/2013 21:56

YANBU! It is my pet hate and if money is a problem people need to learn pedicure DIY!!!

Melty · 02/06/2013 21:56

Raw garlic?
Do you wash it off afterwards? Or leave it to dry?
I've heard of people Vicks too, but I've not used it as not heard of it actually being effective in the long run.

LEMisdisappointed · 02/06/2013 21:57

Ohhh, forgot about the vicks, but might get DP to try the garlic - am now thinking vampire feet!

Dawndonna · 02/06/2013 21:57

Melty
Have you tried Vicks? Yes I do mean the chest stuff, it's amazing for fungal toenails!

Salmotrutta · 02/06/2013 21:58

No. They don't need to do any such thing Babycino81

Salmotrutta · 02/06/2013 21:59
DoTheBestThingsInLifeHaveFleas · 02/06/2013 21:59

Salmotrotta, yes I probably was being a bit feeble, but they stank and had very long dirty thick toenails and I was only 12 and had never seen anything like it before. Plus they were on the rug and next to food. Honestly I was transfixed and my mum could tell what was the matter with me because she feels the same. Anyway I am sure I ran off and played rounders and had fun, I just remember missing out on walnut cake because it was nearby he feet Wink

Talkinpeace · 02/06/2013 21:59

melty
leave it on as long as you can - it stings : wash feet really well each day
dawn
vicks was definitely what made mine turn the corner to repair - but research told me that it was the aromatic oils that were doing the job, hence my switch to garlic ....

NorksAreMessy · 02/06/2013 22:00

Ooh, and Vicks also works on ringworm...whilst we are talking grim and nasty ickiness :)

DoTheBestThingsInLifeHaveFleas · 02/06/2013 22:01

salmotrutta

HesterShaw · 02/06/2013 22:04

I thought it was obvious that the OP was talking about basic foot hygiene.

You're wrong: she wasn't. She was judging the appearance of people's feet and the effect they have on her, and most people have said get a life they don't actually care about the appearance of other people's feet.. She was not talking about keeping your feet clean and healthy which is what hygiene is. Hygiene is not the same as vanity.

Binkyridesagain · 02/06/2013 22:06

Vicks, fungal nail infections. I don't give two hoots what the OP was about or the past 6 pages, my life could be changed forever thanks to MN.

All I need to find now is the vicks, I know its somewhere in the house but i can only ever find it when I don't need it. Does olbas oil work? I now where that is.

OP if you don't like my feet, tough, don't look at them.

infamouspoo · 02/06/2013 22:09

might try the vicks. ds has a hideous yellow toenail. He has really poor circulation in his feet - they often go purply black ( he cant walk) and despite massage and airing them, that toenail wont change.

Talkinpeace · 02/06/2013 22:09

binky
Olbas : quite possibly - the medical reason is that the aromatic oils are highly fungicidal ....
I like garlic because its really cheap! a bulb lasts a month and costs 30p :-)

IsItMeOr · 02/06/2013 22:11

YABU

Not particularly because you don't like to look at bits of other people's bodies you find unpleasant, but because you think that is their problem when it is actually yours. Literally nobody is perfect, and none of us should be inhibited from getting on with living our lives because of the thought that some shallow person is judging us.

I think the only time that I can recall noticing somebody else's feet was in the shopping centre one day, when a woman was sitting down in the comfy chairs, with no shoes on, and toenails which were so long that they continued for an inch or more off the end of her toes (can't be precise, as I know that it's rude to stare). I didn't know toenails could grow that long - mine would probably catch on stuff and break off.

Binkyridesagain · 02/06/2013 22:14

I might try the Olbas oil until I find the vicks. I would have to check with the dog to see if garlic is okay before i give that a go, he gets a 'look' in his eyes if I apply, what he thinks, are tasty things to my feet. He has a foot butter fetish at the moment.

amigababy · 02/06/2013 22:18

poor ex dh had chronic infected ingrown toe nails for years. They were impervious to treatment and operations and he was very self conscious of them.
I wouldn't wish that in anyone, and definitely not the OP. Truly it wasn't pleasant.

amigababy · 02/06/2013 22:19

I meant OP seeing them, not having them

InsanelyBrainDeprived · 02/06/2013 22:28

I've got thick yellow big toe nails. I also have psoriasis which you can't see as it only targets my knees and nails..... Sunlight helps.

I also get my nails and feet professionally seen to by a chiropodist once a month throughout the year.

Are you saying I would repulse you op? Thank you. You have succeeded to make me feel even more self conscious

NorksAreMessy · 02/06/2013 22:32

Am proud at delivering Vicky goodness to the trotters of MumsNet and will sleep well tonight :o

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