![]() The instructions say your feet will start to peel in five to seven days, which is pretty much an eternity. RELATED: 7 Anti-Aging Products Dermatologists Swear By ![]() If you absolutely must get up, pull a chunky pair of socks over the booties. Pro tip: Pee and gather up anything you’ll need in the next hour before popping the booties on walking around in them is slippery business. After 60 minutes, I rinsed the gel off my feet. Then I put my feet up for an hour and spent some QT with my Netflix queue. After drying off, I cut the top off the gel-filled plastic booties and slipped my feet inside, securing the top with the enclosed tape strips. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĪs with the other three or four other times I’d used it, I started by soaking my feet for about 15 minutes in a hot bath. Watch a hot doc explain why your feet are peeling: Ditto people who have any cuts or open wounds on their feet. Which is why, she tells me, people with eczema, psoriasis, or even just sensitive skin, should be wary of the product since it can cause major irritation. “It’s essentially exfoliation on steroids,” says dermatologist Mona Gohara, M.D. The package comes with a pair of plastic booties that are filled with a gel made of up chemicals including salicylic acid and lactic acid that cause dead skin cells to peel. ![]() Here's what happened when I put it to the test: RELATED: Watch The Grossest (And Most Satisfying) Blackhead Removal We've Ever See So What Is Baby Foot?įor the uninitiated: Baby Foot is a foot peel that's supposed to help slough off dead skin and make your feet as soft and smooth as.well, a baby's. Because, far from being a Baby Foot virgin, I'm obsessed with this beauty product. Well.to say I volunteered is putting it lightly-I actually forwarded them photos of the last time I did the peel and pretty much begged them to let me do it. So when I heard my colleagues were looking for a guinea pig to try Baby Foot ($20, ), a cult-favorite foot exfoliant that claims to get rid of decades-old calluses and dead skin on your feet, I quickly volunteered as tribute. But with summer (read: sandal season) in full swing, I’d rather not be showing off my cracked heels and callouses every day. After all, they spend most of the day either squeezed into heels, or shoved into sweaty sneakers. Like most women, my feet can get pretty gnarly.
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