How to keep feet soft and gorgeous

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I look after my feet well but they are still dry and calloused at the heel and toes. They look fine. Everyday I wash them with a brush and a quick file down, weekly a more through file and then a pedicure every so often.

I use a urea cream every so often. I think this is what I need to do but what cream and how often.

I want lovely soft feet!

Margeret Dabbs Foot file. Soap and Glory foot cream every night. Weleda Skin Food twice a week.

I think a lot of it is down to genetics. My feet are always soft, I just put cream on every day after my shower. But it’s literally a pain having soft feet. My feet get blistered and ripped to shreds with every pair of shoes I wear.

Genetics play a massive role. My partner has baby soft feet that have never seen a foot file or moisturiser.

I think I evolved to run bare foot over flinty/rocky terrain. Any attempt at filing makes the skin comes back harder and faster.

Urea cream every day is the only thing that helps - and even then my feet are smooth but have never been baby-soft. Socks at night are good if you can stand it - I can’t bear them and kick them off in my sleep.

I mean, you do you but I would just feel embarrassed to have horrible manky feet on display. Plus having cracked, dry skin on the feet is sore and uncomfortable. I can get careless about my feel over the winter, and then have to work to get them looking passable in summer. They feel so much better when I treat them well.

I hate the greasy, sweaty feeling of creams on my feet, and especially hate hot feet. Cream and socks at night just isn’t going to fly.

I recently tried these:..

https://www.superdrug.com/skin/foot-masks-and-peels/superdrug-footsock-pack-candyfloss/p/845428

They really worked.

You don't have to put on socks at night. Just use a foot file, scrub your feet down in the shower, and put cream on once a week or so. Plus keep nails trimmed.

I appreciate soft, pedicured feet a lot, especially in the summer. The main solution is visiting a proper podiatrist (not a pedicurist) who'll shave off all of the callused and dry skin with a scalpel, remove ingrown nails, cut off dry cuticles and properly cut and shape your nails. You can visit a podiatrist every 5-8 weeks, depending on how dry your feet are. I usually go once every 4-5 weeks in the summer and every 7 weeks in the winter.

every podiatrist I've spoken to HATE foot files - they've told me they actually produce more hard skin due to the hard friction. They say it's much better to use a pumice stone in the shower when the skin has softened.

A really good foot cream is also key. All podiatrists I've been to in my country basically use a foam foot spray from Allpresan, but I personally like CCS's foot care cream. I also like to use a nail oil pen to moisten the toe cuticles.

These I could get behind! My feet are too far away these days for filing. I’ve tried over the years but the consistency of doing something I really dislike is a struggle. I’m very lucky, the tops of my feet are positively baby like. I get my nails done a couple of times a summer.

How much does a podiatrist charge for that kind of thing? DH needs to go. His have moved past the dry and flaky stage.

Footner foot peel twice a year .Feet are baby soft!
No rubbing with a cheese grater, no greasy creams. Just wear for an hour and then behold the magnificent peel and silk like skin afterwards.

I've tried nearly everything going and the only thing that works is Vaseline...every single day

Foot Mender from Boots is brilliant cream - try it

Due to having foot problems caused by having them operated on a few times I walk flat footed and callous build up was so bad, the pain they caused made it difficult to walk at times and getting them removed by the podiatrist was getting costly.

To get rid of them first I used those compeed callous removal gel pads, other makes just weren't as good and fell off pretty much immediately after applying them.

A good foot cream, as said contains urea so CCS cream morning and night was my go to but that has short up now since the original £4.99 to out of my reach prices.
I have however found a foot cream in Savers with pretty much the same ingredients as CCS, top four identical so thought I'd give it a try and it not only softened the soles of my feet but I much prefer it to the CCS cream for removing any hard skin and leaving them soft, and although only a 75ml compared to 175ml of CCS it's only £1.25 tube which to me is much better on the pocket compared to CCS at £9 in my local Boots chemist.

On a side note I read about cutting the top sealed end of the tube off once you think you've finished the cream, it's really surprising how much is left in there that you'd normally bin by not doing so.

I do it because cracked heels hurt and I don’t like how they look on myself or catch on bed sheets etc
it takes me 2 mins at night to do hand and foot cream and then washing daily with exfoliating sponge

I don't live in the UK so not sure what the prices are like over there. But over here it costs pretty much the same to see a professional podiatrist as it does to get a pedicure in a salon where they just file your feet and scrub them. So, I choose the podiatrist.

It sounds like your husband could benefit from being treated be professionals who are trained in working on difficult feet that need more than just a foot mask and a bit of lotion. I definitely highly rate podiatrists.

Filing wet feet makes no sense. Hydrating the dry skin means you can’t see where it begins and ends. That’s what makes it’s worse. Filing into live skin. Everything changes when wet. Toenails, cuticles. The dry skin just turns into mulch. You don’t soak your hands before getting a manicure.

Margaret Dabbs do a medical pedicure that works on completely dry feet. It’s transformative. Expensive but good to get you back on the right track.

My feet are always in good condition. I dry file once or twice a week and use a 40 or 60% Urea cream every other night.

Buy an aloe Vera plant. Swipe feet daily for a while then less often as needed.

DS has a problem when he was very young. I was told by a nurse to soak feet in old fashioned soap flakes and water, then rub the spongey skin off with a towel.

That has worked for years to prevent splits and discomfort.

I agree you can’t file it when it’s soft and spongey. I’ll have to investigate exfoliating sponges, I haven’t heard of that.

Fascinating. Genuinely why? Do you want to touch your feet? Do you want others to touch them? Or do you just want to know in theory if they were touched that they were soft?

I find those big cheap aggressive nail files used by nail technicians are great for filing dry skin on feet. Currently experimenting with tallow and pure lanolin at the moment to keep my feet in good condition.

Another fan of CCS cream which I buy from Boots or Amazon, whichever is cheaper. This cream totally transformed my crusty cracked thick skinned feet and now I just apply every other day to maintain.

For those fans of the CCS cream, there is an offer on it on the boots £10 Tuesday for a foot cream and a spray

CCS cream is excellent. I tried Boots coconut foot cream but it's not nearly as good.

For me because dry hard cracked skin is painful. It catches on the bed sheets. I don’t like how it looks or feels. And yes my DP rubs my feet
I like the rest of my skin on my body to be well cared for and that includes my feet