Super Soft Feet Treatment - Yay or Nay?
I found this pin on Pinterest, I get bad callouses on my feet and don't really have the money at the moment to go to the Chiropodist, so I thought I would give this a go.
The ingredients (if you can call them that), seemed inexpensive and easy to get hold of.
Epsom salts - £2.99 at Homebargins, Asprin - 99p at Homebargins, juice of 1 lemon - I cheated and bought lemon juice from Lidl for 60p, Cotton socks - everybody has these and moisturiser - I'm using what I have left of my Champneys Spa Treatments Foot Butter, but any moisturiser will do.
I used a small mug full of Epsom salts in warm water and soaked my feet for 30 mins. The instructions don't say how much of the Epsom salts to use, so I guessed.
The instructions also say a bottle of asprin but asprin isn't sold in the UK in a bottle so I bought 1 pack with 12 in and used that. I crushed up the asprin and add a tablespoon of lemon juice and stirred it together. It didn't really make a paste as the instructions said but I did coat both feet with the mixture, which was more of a scrub than anything else.
I left it on for the requisite 6 hours, after covering my feet with cling film and socks. I think I had a bit of a snag with this stage as I check on my feet after about 4 hours and found that the cling film has split in the socks and the soles of my feet had been bare to the sock for - must've been a couple of hours. At this point I added more lemon juice and re-covered my feet, double covering this time but when I removed the socks and cling film later on, I wouldn't say that my feet peeled or looked any softer than if I'd soaked them in warm water and used a foot scrub.
I will have to try this again, with more asprin and possibly crushing the asprin to a fine powder, mixing the lemon juice in a little at a time to get the right consistency and double covering my feet with cling film or maybe plastic food bags, as they're thicker and shouldn't split like the cling film did.
Who knows. If I try this again I'll let you know what happens, but for now I'd say this treatment is a bust.
Xoxo
Rhix
