Footner Exfoliating Socks (from Bescot Health)

Footner Exfoliating Socks

How I Got Them

I was made aware of a testing opportunity through their website and made my interest known via email. A few weeks later they emailed saying there were socks on the way! Easy! 

A couple of weeks later, I had an envelope in my hand that contained a shiny silver package with the socks in it, and a sample of ReSkin, a re-usable blister prevention bandage. I haven't used it yet, and I can't really understand how it's reusable, but that's not why we're here, is it? 

Nope! It's because of SOCKS!

The Product

There's really not a lot of information on the package. The front has the product name, footner exfoliating socks, and a little shield saying it's dermatologically tested. 

The back has pictographic instructions which show:

1. cutting the top off something foot shaped
2. putting your foot in
3. leaving it on for an hour
4. washing your feet off under water 
5. feeling how wonderful your feet are now

It also states the contents: 2 x 20ml, and Ingredients: Aqua, Alochol Denat, Aloe Barbadensis Extract, Glycerine Butylene Glycol, Canola Oil Polydexterose, Cucumis Sativus Extract, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Lactate, Lactic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Glycolic Acid, Methylparaben, Collagen and Parfum

That's a LOT of chemicals. I can see from the contents (alcohol and acids) that it will probably soften the skin by eating away the top layer of skin, then soften with the aloe, canola polydexterose and collagen. It's nothing worse than what I've spilled on my own self in organic chem, so I'll try it out. 

I also determine I don't want to get this stuff on my clothes and change into something that won't go near my feet. 

The Testing 

Okay, so lets do this. 

While we're here for the socks, I will mention that the nail polish on my toes is a gel polish, and is much harder than a regular nail polish. I have to soak it in 100% acetone to get it off, and this stuff stays nice for a couple months on my toes. This will be important to know later.

I open the package and pull out two plastic, foot-shaped sealed baggies that contain a clear gel.

Out come the scissors. I cut the top off and the first thing I smell is the alcohol. It's very strong. The cut piece is leaking from the gel trapped up there and I quickly throw it out. On to the foot it goes. It's cold, as expected, but warms up before I can really think to complain. It's big for my feet and doesn't really touch the toes, so I wrap it up and put an elastic around. Then repeat the process for the other foot.

And we wait.

I can't lie. It's hard for me to sit for an hour. These socks are not built for walking around in, so I chill out and read a bit. Once and a while I feel a little bit of pain in my feet and around the 45 minute mark I get a bit of a bigger pain in my right heel. I tough it out and go the full hour. I can't lie; I was looking forward to talking these off. 

While I was waiting, I did more product research. I usually like just using the package for information, since that is what most of the regular users would use, but was feeling a little out of the loop, so I hit up the website. It reads in the information section "Footner Exfoliating Socks activate the skin's own natural peeling effect, causing the upper layer of the skin to peel off, thereby removing the hard skin build up. The exfoliation process begins 5-10 days after wearing the socks and lasts for a total of 5-10 days. After just one 60-minute application of the socks, your feet will exfoliate the hard, dead skin and leave you with baby soft feet."

Wait. Whoa. I have a week and a half to 20 days of foot peeling to look forward to?! I really hope that it doesn't mean I'll have to cover ugly feet. We don't have that long of a summer, and I'd like to wear my open toe pumps as long as possible!

Anyway, time was up, so I washed up. As soon as water hit my feet there was another strong wash of alcohol smell. I immediately notice that my nail polish has lifted and will be coming off tonight. It's unfortunate because I just did them two weeks ago, and had another month and a half left out of the colour before I had to do them again. Oh well.

At this point in time, my feet don't look any different, other than the lack of toenail polish. But the packaging says it can take 5-10 days before the exfoliation process will start to take place.

So, more waiting. 

Days Later...

A few days later and my feet really don't look any different. I'm still sporting my pumps. 

Normally in the summer I'm a socks free and heels kind of girl, but for my work, occasionally I have to do socks and runners all day. 6 days after my initial Footner Sock use, it was a running shoe day, all day. I really didn't think anything of it, because my feet by this point in time didn't look any different than they did before I tried the socks. I went about my business, ran around for 16 hours and eventually made it home. I started to remove my socks and stopped about half way through because it looked like my feet exploded in there, with skin flakes galore! I put the sock back on and take the entire process over to the bathtub, where I sat on the edge and started over. After shaking out my socks (eeeeeeew!), and scrubbing my feet a bit to get rid of all of the hangy bits, I'm hoping to see beautiful, soft skin. 

It looks normal.

Utterly normal.

The peeling only happened the one day, and that was the extent of it, so at least I wasn't forced into premature socks!

The Verdict

After soaking my feet in chemicals, acids and whatnot, dealing with my feet exploding in my runners, and having to change my socks in the bathtub, I really didn't see a difference in my feet versus regular care and exfoliation that can be done with a pumice stone in the shower. 

While I do appreciate the opportunity to try and review this new product, I'm afraid that I will not be purchasing this item in the future.