Foot care product recommendation

[rebrascora]

As diabetics, foot care is really important and as someone who has suffered with dry skin and keens on my hands and feet all my life I wanted to share information about a product that I discovered a few years ago thanks to a friend of my sister who very kindly gave me my first pot of the stuff.
The product is Margaret Dabbs Foot Hygiene Cream and as far as I am concerned it is worth it's weight in gold. I have tried many products over my lifetime including Flexitol which is pretty good but seems to encourage/speed the development of callouses.
The Margaret Dabbs is part of a range of spa type treatments and appears expensive but you use such a small amount it lasts a very long time. It has multiple benefits including preventing athletes foot and keeping skin supple and moisturised and it smells lovely. It contains tea tree oil and emu oil as well as salicylic acid. It comes in the form of a solid pot of waxy oil with a little spatula to scrape some off but liquefies on contact with the skin. If I shop around (usually on ebay) I can get a 150ml pot for about £25 including p&p and it lasts me a whole year and my feet have never been in such good condition.
I survive on low income and spend very little money on life's luxuries as I am a down to earth, outdoor, tom boy type but this is the one luxury item that makes my life so much less painful and is a pleasure to use... feels good and smells good. I really can't rate this stuff highly enough and was surprised that a search of the forum for it did not bring up any hits, considering that foot health is such an issue here. Anyway, I just wanted to recommend it to others because it makes my life so much more comfortable. It makes a great gift if you feel it is too expensive to treat yourself but have a birthday coming up and your significant other is looking for ideas.

 

[KARNAK]

Thankyou @rebrascora for your recommendation, birthday in 3 weeks time, on the list.🙂

 

[Kaylz]

Sounds good but really is a shocking price, as an unemployed lass that just not long had a £676 unexpected vet bill I could never afford it, I stick to what I can realistically afford and works great for me which believe it or not is a £1 tube of cream, cools the feet as well and is intensive, consultant certainly had no problems with how my feet were looking either, not trying to shoot you down but sometimes cheap is just as good xx

 

[Ljc]

Thank you I suffer with terrible dry skin, I will give it a try

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Try cow udder cream it works wonders 🙂

 

[Kaylz]

Try cow udder cream it works wonders 🙂

Have you ever used it on broken skin? Your post made me take a look for it as Bruce is suffering terribly with dry and badly cracked hands with being in and out of the thinners at work etc, he tried to get an appointment with the Dr but couldn't get until next month, he's not a weak person but he's been in tears with his hands lately so was just wondering if it might help him xx

 

[mikeyB]

Best thing Bruce could do is use Derma Shield barrier cream at work, but for relief now plain old Neutrogena is as good as anything in my experience. Derma Shield is expensive, around £38 for a 500ml bottle, but that should last a year. One application lasts about 5 hours.

For my sins, when I was a student I got a job in the electroplating industry, so I was in contact with degreasers, dilute acids and all sorts of toxic rubbish, so I know what he’s enduring.

 

[Kaylz]

Best thing Bruce could do is use Derma Shield barrier cream at work, but for relief now plain old Neutrogena is as good as anything in my experience. Derma Shield is expensive, around £38 for a 500ml bottle, but that should last a year. One application lasts about 5 hours.

For my sins, when I was a student I got a job in the electroplating industry, so I was in contact with degreasers, dilute acids and all sorts of toxic rubbish, so I know what he’s enduring.

Cheers hun but none of the over the counter hand creams are helping at all, I think it might be Derma Shield his work provided him with before but cant say I'm 100%, he's tried the likes of Neutrogena and other brands when he gets in from work but they just don't help at all, the Dr's are reluctant at giving him any more steroid creams as he's had a lot in the last few years so understandable, I know exactly what it can be like as my hands were just as bad when I was younger and my OCD was really bad, just feel useless xx

 

[rebrascora]

Whilst it is marketed for feet, I do use it on my hands as well because I suffer with keens on my hands and feet in winter and I know that feeling of being in pain just trying to do everyday things with your hands like open a bottle or fasten a button. I have certainly used it on open keens and it has helped me. The important thing seems to be to soak them in warm water to make them supple first and then dry thoroughly and apply the Margaret Dabbs Foot hygiene cream and ideally a pair of cotton gloves/socks. Ideally this should be done before bed so that they have the maximum undisturbed time to heal.
I've tried both Neutrogena and Udder cream on my hands and feet and sadly neither work for me.... Neutrogena actually makes them worse. I used to bulk buy Flexitol Cracked heel and use that on my hands and feet and it did help but it also meant that I had thick yellow skin on my hands and feet unless I rasped them regularly and that made them prone to more keens, so it was a constant battle.

I am also a big fan of using Germolene in keens on my hands and then tape over it with several layers of Micropore..... I buy the latter by the box of 12 rolls... essentially making a finger poke. The Micropore holds the lips of the keen together and protects it until it heals. Germolene has a mild anaesthetic in it as well as antibacterial, so it can take the edge off the pain.

 

[Kaylz]

@rebrascora thanks but unfortunately its too painful for him to wash his hands in stuff he was given from the Dr so soaking them isn't possible and yes he wears cotton gloves after applying cream every night xx