Horrific Heels- help!

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

Didn't know whether to put this in health, style & beauty or products, sorry.

My heels are not sandal worthy. I spend a lot of time barefoot and mostly take showers so they don't get a lot of attention and I'm a bit ashamed of them! They're dry and cracked and look vile- I tried going over them with a pumice stone in the bath but it didn't help, just left them uneven and rough.

I just bought my very first pair of Nice Stockings (don't ask) but at this rate I'll shred them to bits on my skanky trotters. Help me get lovely smooth lady-feet before I take some sandpaper to them!

chiropodist

v low effort vs sanding etc

Yes, I second MrsB - get some treatment.

And then try to take a few more baths so that your feet get a good soak, and scrub them and put lots of cream on them at least twice a week.

get some flexitol.

If you can afford a chirpodist then that is the first port of call. If not then buy a diamond file (about £8 from Boots) - they are metal files which are covered all over in diamond dust - which sounds v glamourous but just looks like any metal file. Then EVERY day after bath or shower, spend at least 5 - 10 minutes on each foot. After a few days you will see a big difference. A decent foot cream helps a lot too - I use L'Occitaine and it is great. Slather some on before bed and put a pair of socks on.

i agree first step will be chiropodist, sounds need help.
i use soap&glory heel genius, and its really is genius. my heels soft as butter

Flexitol (agree with cornsilk)

What is flexitol?

boots sell it for cheaper

Also recommend a chiropodist (even one visit at about £35 well worthwhile). If too expensive these products were recommended by my chiropodist and are excellent www.ccsfootcare.co.uk/. She also said not to soak my feet but yes to filing.

That Australian one(the name escapes me)is very good. Not suitable in pregnancy though, I don't think.

I use flexitol and then put socks on until it soaks in properly. I also go and have regular pedicures to keep my feet looking acceptable (wearing birkenstocks always dries my feet out)

If they are really bad then you would need a few chiropody appointments first to get them to a good standard before maintaining them with pedicures.

Scholl do a brilliant heel cream - called 'Heel Repair Balm' or something like that. It's about £5 for a smallish tube in Boots. A combination of pumice and this for a few days works wonders.

One visit to the Chiropodist, which cost about 18 quid, made an amazing difference to DHs really skanky feet. Home treatments never made any difference to his feet, but two sessions later they are perfectly presentable

I use Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream and find that great but it is quite expensive at £20 a tube. I haven't tried the other heel creams so I don't know how they compare.

Do they remove dry skin if you have a pedicure too? My feet are bad too and I quite fancy a pedicure but not sure it'll be emough.

thanks- when I've had pedicures in the past they've just had me sat with my feet in a footspa for a few mins, then done my toenails- they've never paid attention to the rest of my feet at all (and they weren't always this yuck, so it's not that they weren't prepared to go there!)

Chiropodist? really? I thought they were just for people with bunions or something. Can't really afford one right now.

I think I've got a tube of something similar to that flexitol stuff (highly concentrated urea blah blah) but wasn't any good. The diamond file sounds good but is it just a fancy version of sandpaper?

I once tried some heel scrub stuff which was awesome, it was in a teeny tube at someones house- anyone know the stuff I'm talking about?

Just been reading online and seeing potions made of ground up aspirins mixed with lemon juice and everything!

this looks good though, apparently it's what chiropodists use. £30 though, for a "kit"- sadly out of my price range. Might try the aspirins...

8 hour cream is very effective.Smells vile though.Or Vaseline.Put a load on, and then some cotton socks and sleep in it.I did this and after abotu 3 nights it really worked..and my feet looked disgusting before!(plus heaps cheaper than 8 hr)

The diamond file is much better than sandpaper I promise. Also mine has lasted 5 years so far so good value.