A quick trip to CVS, and I had the small plastic egg in hand ready to wage war with the rough bottoms and heals of my petite feet. A quick read through of the instructions, and I was on the front line, making the first move.
At first sight, the PedEgg looked like a small, hand held cheese grater. As a matter of fact, it crossed my mind to grate some Parmesan with it for my spaghetti. Okay, so not really-I have a cheese grater that I use for food-and now I have one for my feet.
My feet didn't look too terrible. They were a little rough and cracked, casualties of the dryness winter brings. I crossed one foot over the other knee and began to run the little egg across the bottom of my heal, careful to only go in one direction as a back and forth motion would leave my heal looking like it was beaten with the egg shaped planer. Speaking of the egg shape, it made the PedEgg easy to maneuver and hold onto.
I rubbed the PedEgg across the rough areas of my foot for less than five minutes before switching feet. I wasn't sure I was that impressed at first. My foot looked worse than it did before and felt like I dragged it across rough pavement. I thought this was supposed to smooth the rough not accentuate it.
I opened the egg to see if it was in fact doing anything. To my surprise, the egg was full of a fine white powder, a powder made of my nasty, dead and rough foot skin. Yuck!
The PedEgg came with two small adhesive, oval shaped papers. the papers were gritty like a very fine sandpaper. The instructions said to pull the backing off and stick the gritty paper to the grater on the PedEgg. I decided to just hold the sandpaper sheets in my hand and rub over the still rough parts of my feet. This way I could use the paper more than once, where as sticking it on the PedEgg would make it a one time use. (I think you can buy refills, but I'm a little cheap.)
After the second step, my feet actually began to feel smoother. The grit took all the flaky, hard skin off. I followed this up with a quick foot massage and lotion. Although I could still see some cracks on my heals, my feet were completely soft and smooth. They felt as wonderful as they did after a $30 pedicure.
I keep my PedEgg on the nightstand next to the bed. To maintain my softened feet, I use the PedEgg for three minutes about every other night before bed. The real test will be this summer when my feet become gnarled from wearing sandals. Come on ladies, you know
what I am talking about. Flip flop foot-dry, cracked, flaky and permanently black.
As for the icky foot war. I think I may have won the first battle.
Next: Can rubbing sand paper crystals on my legs really work better than shaving? Smooth it Away.
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