Ped Egg Review

June 6th, 2008 by The Capitalist

I usually don’t do reviews.

But after buying a Ped Egg Pro, I realized I was actually equipped to write one. So here it is.

My Ped Egg Review:

AD CLAIMS:

    Safe to touch
    Beautiful feet after ONE use!
    No mess

Ped Egg Pro Ad

So, could it put up to the claiming? Here’s what I found:

Safe? Yes, with normal handling. It is a type of blade, though, so if you try hard enough to cut yourself with it, it could happen.

Beautiful feet with one use?? Well…that depends on your feet! If you usually wear shoes outside, and slippers inside, then yeah. The Ped Egg will have no trouble taking care of that, and the “emery pad” will put on a nice, smooth finish. If, on the other hand, you are like me and like to go barefoot everywhere…using shoes only to gain admission into stores, rather than for style or to protect your feet, then it will take several uses to get the buildup of callus off.

On the other hand, if you do like to go barefoot all the time, you won’t *want* all the callus off, since that is nature’s “shoe” that is protecting your feet.

It is easy to control how much callus you remove with the PedEgg, so you can take it all off if you want or leave some so that the gravel doesn’t feel like knives when you go outside barefoot ;)

I would recommend applying some kind of moisturizer after using the Ped Egg. Your feet will detect the increased moisture loss (callus does not lose moisture as fast as “new” skin) and form a hard surface quickly, if a lotion, petroleum jelly, or the like is not applied to keep that moisture in.

No Mess? It’s a lot less messy than a method that doesn’t have some kind of container, that’s for sure! But the Laws of Physics still apply–if you hold the Ped Egg with the openings (the “blade” side) down, some shavings will leak out. However, most of the callus-shaving operation can be done in such a way that the openings aren’t facing directly downwards.

The egg shape does make it easy to hold and control, and it’s very easy to use.

Overall I give the Ped Egg Pro 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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