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Boots Advanced Footcare Intensive Foot Softener
by cha97mw
I suffer a lot with my feet. The skin gets very dry and cracked, and it is really difficult to treat this problem and stop my feet feeling sore and uncomfortable. This is always worse in summer months as I spend more time with my feet in flip flops and my feet get exposed to the air. I haver tried out a few creams in the search for ... something to help it.
This cream is only available in Boots, and is currently £5.99 for a 150ml tube. It is quite a wide tube more like a face wash tube than other foot creams I have used. It has a flip top lid, and it is easy to dispense a suitable amount out of the tube.
The cream is designed to be applied to clean and dry feet. I find that the cream is dense enough to not run off my fingertips when I am applying it, and it rubs into my skin easily leaving the heels feeling less sore. I do not like this smell of this cream. There is no fragrance added to this one, and it just smells a bit chemically and not that pleasant to apply to my skin. Luckily this does not linger.
I also find that this cream leaves a sort of residue on my fingers which I feel the need to wash off with soap as I can't bear it on my hands when I am doing anything else. Luckily this does not feel like it on my feet, or not that I notice once I put my socks over the top of them.
Overall, I find that the cream is good value as other brands are similarly priced for a 125ml tube. For some people I am sure this is brilliant. However, for me, I would rather buy Scholl's cracked heel cream at this price as it is one that definitely works for me.
I am only going to award this one 2 stars, as it prevents the dryness spreading any further, and would probably work well on people with less problematic feet. However, for me, there isn't even a nice smell to redeem it and make it nice to use.
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Boots Gorgeous Feet Cracked Heel Repair
by daniella2202
This was an item that I pinched from my mum's load of bits in her bathroom. She must have had it for over a year and she had not used it up so I thought someone might as well!
I have only just noticed in the last year how my heels and feet require a lot more care than they used to. I came back from a trip to London and the ... soles of my feet had been burning with all the walking I had done as well my shoes rubbing on my toes. So my feet needed a really good pamper.
I also noticed that the soles of my feet were getting quite rough. This cracked heel repair is by Boots own brand and it says on the front of the tube 'visible results in just 3 days.' Well that does sound pretty good but I would not agree entirely. Yes my feet were smoother after 3 days but they would be with anything if I had suddenly gone from not moisturising my feet at night time to suddenly moisturising them every night. But I would say it took about 2 weeks for me to see that my heels were not as cracked but I also used a foot file which I think helped a lot. I think it was necessary to use both the cream and the foot file together to see the best results.
It also claims to make the skin on your feet 4 times thicker which again is not something that I have noticed but I am unsure how you would notice this really.
I have applied the cream all over my feet not just on my heels, this is because it claims to be intensely moisturising which the whole of my feet needed not just my heels.
The crack heel repair in this particular tube is no longer sold by Boots online but it is still sold in my local Boots store. But it looks like there is a slightly new and revamped version of it called Boots Gorgeous Feet Rapid Cracked Heel Repair. From what I have read about it, it seems like exactly the same product but just in a slightly newer packaging which is why I carried on with writing this review because it still seems like the same product inside of the tube. It is a 100ml tube which cost £4.99. I have used it continuously for about 2 months now and I am nearly at the end of the tube.
For some reason which I cannot explain I am not a particular fan of the smell of this product even though other reviews seem to rave about the smell. It smells very strongly of shea butter which was an issue I had with a similar foot cream from Avon which I bought to use with the socks which you can wear overnight to intensively moisturising your feet after putting on the foot cream. So for that reason I would not purchase this foot cream again.
But since using the cracked heel repair I am now in the routine of looking after my feet so I am on the look out for a new foot cream. If this was fragrance free or had a different smell I would repurchase it because it is intensively moisturising and rich, and my Avon foot balm is not a patch on how moisturising this product is.
It gains 3 out of 5 stars from me: it loses 1 star for its smell and the other star for me feeling that its claim of 'visible results in just 3 days' not keeping its promise.
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Boots Gorgeous Feet Cracked Heel Repair
by freud
OK this may sound stupid but the past few weeks I've been packing and sealing loads of cardboard boxes as I've (finally) moved and am unpacking the last few.
What's all this got to do with cracked heel cream I hear you ask? well, if you remember a few weeks back it was unseasonally warm and humid and being constantly on the ... go with thick socks on I soon noticed that my heels were really painful and sore especially when running up and down stairs all day. I'm not an expert, but I'd say that hold clammy feet are one of the reasons one gets cracked heels as they do not get 'aired'?
Anyway, enough was enough, so I hobbled down to our local Boots to see what they had in the way of heel repair. I was tempted to by the Scholl , but being short of cash I opted for Boots Gorgeous Feet Cracked Heel Repair which cost £4.29 and promised 'visible results in just 3 days'.
It's a rather sexy looking tube and a good size too - 100 ml - and it is advised that you apply the cream every morning and evening for a week to see optimum results.
It stated that you should notice an improvement after the first application and I guess that this is correct although the improvement was not as fast as I had hoped and it was about 3 weeks later that I was absolutely happy and pain-free but I have to admit that my feet look and feel better than they have done in ages.
The cream is fairly thick and easy to squeeze out just the correct amount. I used twice the amount they suggest and popped on a pair of cotton trainer socks for extra comfort and protection. There is a nice smell of apricot which is not overpowering and does not linger too long and the lotion itself is easy to massage between the toes and top of the feet if you have any left on your hands.
Boots provide a long list of ingredients on the back of the tube but there are so many and the print is so small hence I have not listed them Dooyoo friends - they do not make any sense to me either! But, they are provided if you're the sort of person who likes or has to know what is going to seep into their/ the family's skin.
Personally, I trust good old Boots so if they stock it that is enough for me - I am too old to worry about ingredients!
In conclusion ten, I would say this is good value and is worth persevering with. The product, although not giving immediate relief, is easy to use and does,eventually, do the job of relieving the discomfort whilst nourishing the feet.
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