Horrid feet .. turning into hooves .. what do I do?

[Twiglett]

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Try Boots Botanics overnight foot treatment - it is really good

Bodyshop do an excellent terracotta foot thing - its about £5 and it rubs all the hard skin off your foot

get one of those foot pumice stone things (from Body Shop)and use it twice a day then out on loads of moisturising cream (not lotion.) Try and find a "Foot Scrub" cream which you rub in and it actually takes off the dead skin with it. If all else fails, have a chiropody pedicure - try a Scholl shop. Good luck

Attack it with a "corn knife" if it's that bad, then use pumice, vicious scrub and moisturise.

Go to a scholl shop - it'll cost you but it gets rid of it
then keep it up with a body shop pumice and either Body shop foot lotion or preferably martha hill's - more expensive but v v v v effective
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I do the above and I have lovely feet!!!

Rub some baby wee on, the urea softens the skins

Do everything recommended here, and then once your feet are in a near-human condition moisturise EVERY NIGHT with a heavy duty cream. I sue the Neutrogena hand (not foot) one made for Norweigan sailors.

LOL twiglett, I have the exact same problem. go for a long walk on the beach barefoot if you can. I am off to attack mine with a sandpapery thing I got in the bodyshop last year. Thanks for the reminder.

Really, Tinker? How did you work that one out, then ?

It's nice to moisturise your feet every night when they're on show all the time - really makes a difference.

edam - my friend's granny told me - she'd be about 100 now. She was an nurse. Then when I looked at the ingredients for some foot cream I noticed that urea was one of them . Weird hey?

If I don't, they peel and snag and are generally revolting. As it is, they are really quite nice feet.

Er...moisturise, not get the baby to pee on them. Which I could, I suppose, if I either waited long enough or rubbed my feet in her nappy. Could I do the job myself, in slightly contortionist manner?

If they are really bad on teh heels, Flexitol foot blam works wonders (and yes it contains urea) Then scrub in teh bath or shower and apply moisturiser whilst still damp. And if they are still bad, apply lots of petroleum based moisturiser (like Neutrogena) and put a pir of cotton socks on before you go to bed.

I used Flexitol (Australian foot balm) and it really does work wonders. Need to see chiropodist first though. First time I went, she scalped so much hard skin off my heels I went down half a shoe size

Or you could always see a blacksmith??

every now and then after I moisturise them at night I put on a pair of dh's cotton whitesocks ( horrid things!) But in this weather it's soooo hot to keep socks on! Sally Hanson do a really nice foot scrub, but I have never seen it over here (in the UK I mean) I buy it in bulk when I'm home!

found this very exciting website today, well it's exciting if you're a fellow mega-dry-skin on your feet sufferer
it's got some of the creams for sale already mentioned here. neutrogena never touched mine, btw, it was only when i bought CCS heel balm that I noticed any difference at all.

homebird, i grate alone in the bathroom immediately after bath onto floor (tiles though, not carpet) and clean up with tissue/anti bacterial spray immediately afterwards. then apply the ccs heel balm. and socks.

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i went to one of the scholl shops for a cheese grate and stuff - they called it a chriropody treatment but if you dont have corns, bunions etc it's pretty much like a pedicure..

I've seen Pedikur Hand & Foot Care (product no.215653, from QVC)on the TV and it looked very satisfying in a yucky sort of way!Not tried it myself,but if it's no good you can send it back after you've tried it