the foot crack poll

I was wondering how many of us experienced those pesky cracks appearing over heels and toes. We've been talking a lot about remedies and good foot care , but never about the real size of the problem. So please stand up and get counted if your foot sores dont hurt you too much

 

hm. looks like it is mostly my own trouble.

 

Dont really get cracks as such, but i do get very dry skin on my heels sometimes which feels sore and i dont like. i file it off every week or so. But im not barefoot full time tho and itd probably be better if i was. A full week of being barefoot on holiday last year walking round town alot and the skin on my feet was much smoother and seemed to have got rid of all the hard skin. Barefoot is mother natures pedicure!

 

c'mon beautiful baresoled people , don't be footshy:hide: and vote :seeya:

 

I don't go super I-have-a-point-to-make barefoot (for one thing, you could literally cook an egg on the pavement at mid-day where I live, and the grass is no better, really, being all brown. I got first degree burns on my feet today, have had second)

But I don't get cracks. I DO get all kinds of things stuck in my feet. Right now I have at least 3 different tips of cactus spines, very sharp evergreen needles, thorns, goatsheads, or similar malicious plants stuck in my heels. One is bad enough that before walking my dog today, after trying and failing at digging it out (was just ruining my callus, not being able to move it) I simply super-glued it in place, it will eventually grow out with the callus, after much pain for a few weeks.....

So, feel lucky with your cracks.

(It was a rather hard barefoot day, I mis-timed my trip into the woods, but not woody enough to keep the sun off the path, carrying 2 gallons of water, and then found my leafy charges to have been eaten by hogs or deer. Awesome..... And then walked back through the 180 degree thorns, in 100 degree atmospheric heat)

 

I stopped getting heel cracks when i started using heel balm.

 

So, does this heel balm actually work? as much as the Vaseline every night thing helps healing the crack just a tiny bit, when I go barefoot, it opens up again.

 

No cracks due to hard callouses, ever. The only weak spot on my feet is right under my little toes, where they connect to the foot. When I still wore shoes I had a quite frequent split/crack in the skin there, not like it was permanently open but it happened a couple times a year at the very least, usually on both feet, and took quite a bit of time to get rid of. I've had a very small tear there maybe 3 or 4 times since I'm going barefoot (over 15 years), only on the right foot and it closes up very quickly. Happened once when I slipped and over-stretched the toe a bit and the other times when I'd walked in very wet conditions very long. But we get a lot of rain here and most of the time even when I do walk in the rain all day it doesn't happen.

 

here, maybe due to very dry climate, gravel everywhere, heat and sea salt galore, I used to get both heel cracks and slit toes the like of those you described. slit toes did heal a hell of a lot faster, though, while heel cracks were pests cursing me for months, Last year i found myself literally stranded on a mountain in the middle of nowhere with both feet full of slits, cracks, cuts and chestnut thorns, good that once you start to march , feet sores calm down... no cuts or cracks of sort this year... yayyyy !

 

I'm barefoot all the time and my feet don't crack, i don't put any creams etc., on them either.

I suppose different people have different skin types, some are dry and brittle some are oily and soft - like hair and nails i suppose.

 

For some reason I keep thinking the title says "The butt crack poll"

 

nope.. never do.

 

that would make a popular poll.

 

I get heel cracks and also a crack between the big toe and the ball of my foot, but I only get these in the winter. I use glysomed foot balm, seems to keep them away if I use it daily. I've never noticed any in warm weather, although I do get a little sore in the little 'valley' behind the toes, between the big toe and the other four toes, in the midfoot. Anyone else get this? It seems like every pebble I walk on gravitates to this 'valley', which doesn't seem to get as thick as the rest of the midfoot.

 

I get the same thing in the tender skin in the crack of my small toe on my right foot

Im wondering if anyone else figured a good way to repair/avoid this

Ive been rubbing my toes with baby oil at night and it seems to help but im looking for more effective ideas

 

Crack Cream..


walgreens.. or..
http://www.amazon.com/Zims-Crack-Creme-Daytime-Formula/dp/B001ET768U"]Amazon.com: Zim's Crack Creme Creamy Daytime Formula, 2.7 fl. oz. Tubes (Pack of 4): Beauty

works great, smells good... try it..

 

trying it now..after you posted i went to the local pharm and picked up a tube

its over 12 bucks here..it better work for that price

smells nice like cloves

 

Ive never been able to figure out the smell... ok cloves. haha.

Hope it works for you..

I have sandals on a lot and newer sandals will make the cracks my toes burn, and sting. I think its from the lack of oil on my new sandals.

I use the crack cream on other areas too, not just my feet.

I never liked it cause it was a MOM product.(ya know something mom buys. but it works on cracks from the cold on your hands too..

 

I've been getting these feather-like cracks on my big toe...anyone know what I should do with them?

 

try the crack cream...my toe feels better already in just the few hours



@ orison...it smells like cloves but i see the ingredients one is bay leaf oil..so i guess thats what gives it the good smell