Fragrant happy feet. (The Body Shop Peppermint Foot Lotion)

Member Name: Bryn Pearson

Product:	The Body Shop Peppermint Foot Lotion
Date:	02/05/02 (203 review reads)
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Advantages: really does wonders for feet.

Disadvantages: hopeless if you don't like mint.

There's a whole alternative therapy devoted to the importance of feet. Reflexology largely deals with the way in which feet influence the rest of the body. If your feet feel good, you feel better, if on the other hand, your feet are tired, sore and uncomfortable, you feel much worse. Healthy feet are good not only in their own right, but also for your general wellbeing.

One of the best foot care products I have ever encountered is Body Shop's Peppermint Foot Lotion. It contains peppermint oil, menthol, almond oil and cocoa butter to ease tired toes.

What do you get: Standard Body Shop sized pots, the smallest being 60ml, going up to 250ml, in which is a thick pink cream. It smells very strongly of mint - quite appetising. You don't need much of the cream to revive a foot. All you do is massage it in (or get your other half to - which is even better.)

Effects: The mint does have a cooling effect on feet which refreshes them. The minty smell takes away any residual cheesey pong, and does last for quite a while, so your feet stay pleasantly perfumed for a while - I would imagine that how long this lasts will vary from person to person. Rough skin is softened and smoothed, dry skin moisturised. Feet are happy.

I've also found an additional use. I'm quite an enthusiastic walker, and from time to time, this means I get blisters. There aren't many good ways of dealing with blisters except not to walk on them until they've healed, but this is seldom a realistic option. However, using this footbalm does seem to ease the initial suffering and help the healing process along. After repeated experimentation, I am sure that the lotion does help me recover more quickly. This is remarkable, because its the only thing I've found that actually helps.

I have sensitive skin, and this works fine on me - I've enver had any trouble with it. And you can apply it to blistered feet without nay additional trouble
. I would be wary about using it on broken skin though.

The cocoa butter is community trade, so the bean growers aren't getting ripped off, the pot can be taken back to the shop for re-use - so it's ethically a good product as well.

I heartily recomend this one for anyone with tired feet who likes the smell of mint. If you despise mint, I'm afraid its going to be a none starter. I don't go on holiday without it though, and since my first encounter, have never been without a pot.

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