To use superglue on cracked feet.....

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Exactly as it says in the title! My feet are extremely cracked on the soles and it's agony (yes I've tried EVERYTHING)..... I've seen superglue as a remedy on the Internet and wondered if anyone had actually tried it??..........

Once you’ve sorted them out, make sure you keep looking after them.
I’m someone that neglected their feet for a long time.
Now my biggest tip is to keep your foot cream in your sock drawer, and I put it on every time I put on my socks.

I suffer periodically with dry/split heel skin and if I’m not diligent with the old foot moisturising cream nightly and hard skin removal, I end up with an open crack and limping with the pain.

If the split is particularly bad, I use that brush on plaster stuff - Germolene/New Skin - which is antiseptic and gives the open wound a chance to heal from within whilst keeping infections out. It stings like when the liquid first gets into the crack but quickly dries and forms a seal.

Agree with the poster who mentioned sand in a bowl. I’ve actually sat on a beach in the shallows rubbing sand all over my feet! Makes them beautifully smooth for holiday sandals.

You need a cream with urea in it. They are not the most glamorous creams, and they often smell a bit funky, but they work! You do need to be religious with it though. But if you do it every day, or even twice a day, you'll see good results within a fortnight.

Podiatrist
Pedicures regularly
Or those Korean baby feet treatments are amazing

And footlogix cream

Flexitol is amazing

I've been using the Asda foot cream (25% urea). £3 a tube, and as effective as Flexitol.

Good luck OP: your poor feet!

I haven't used cream but I soak mine in the bath, use any moisturiser cream and use "nother scrubber" off Amazon and they are much improved

Against the grain of the thread but I used superglue on my horribly cracked feet following year of neglect. Then I used the scholl velvet foot to whizz off all the dead skin. It was too sore to use it otherwise as it would cause the cracks to hurt/ elongate. It took a couple of weeks and regular foot cream. I used loctite but I think you can buy medical grade stuff on Amazon.

Just imagine the sort if feet they might see if someone has neglected themselves or diabetes for example. Yours look clean but sore. Maybe you have done too much filing as it doesn't look dry and hard.
I had one last summer and they are so annoying. Wear socks, no flip flops or sandals at all until healed. That seemed to help.

I wouldn't. There's a risk you may never get your shoes off again.

Vaseline isn't any good, it's a barrier not a moisturiser. Same technique, only get a good foot cream. I get bad cracks sometimes and it really is agony, I feel your pain. I do what you're doing, a few nights really thick foot cream with socks. It's hard to remember to use the cream every day!

Most people who go to a podiatrist do so because they have a problem with their feet.

I always think mine are a bit manky but when I go to the podiatrist twice a year she always raves about what good condition they are in.

Go and get them seen to properly by a professional, then maintain with six monthly visits and regular Flexitol.

I can vouch for Footner, pretty amazing actually but I think OP should see the podiatrist first, use the creams recommended and then when back to regular hard skin use Footner, otherwise it might really hurt on the broken skin.

My friend used to do this. I was always fascinated. Seemed to work for her

Podiatrist will sort you out, but a good routine for me is using an electric foot file at least once a week at this time of year then foot cream with urea, higher percentage if they are dry or crack because I've been slack. I also got some healing socks from Amazon they have a silicone/rubber layer inside I put the cracked heel balm on then those before bed and they are brilliant. I'm also a nightmare for walking around at home with bare feet (hardwood floors and tiles downstairs) and in the garden. This definitely doesn't help, wear socks or slippers

Vaseline won't do anything. It's a barrier ointment not a moisturiser. Get a tube of O'keefes working hands cream and apply 3 times a day. That'll sort them out.

My DD suffers with cracked heels feet due to having dry skin and exzema. We actually had to sellotape her feet once as she had a football match. Pharmacist recommended soaking feet in Epsom salts and then a good quality foot cream and cotton socks.

I used cellotape for a while 🫣

definitely go and see someone!!

DoubleBase gel at night. It’s a very boring cream but doesn’t need rubbing in and doesn’t mark bed sheets.

Vaselines an occlusive, it will never moisturise because the molecules are too big to penetrate the skin.

Keep us posted OP! I second Flexitol by the way. Excellent stuff.

Superglue……about as sensible as using creosote as a tanning agent - to get that warm holiday glow.

Not sure it is a bad idea.
Originally developed by the military to mend cuts.

Mine were worse that that and the podiatrist sliced off all the dead skin and I haven’t had a problem for a few years.