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A foot file or pumice stone is used to smooth and exfoliate the dry skin and callous on the bottoms of your feet. I highly recommend that you find a Swedish Clover Fot File, made by Flowery. These are without a doubt the best foot files made. They last forever, they absolutely will not break, and they get all that dry skin off your feet like you wouldn’t believe! They can be a little tricky to find–Sally’s Beauty Supply in the U.S. carries them though.
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Nail Tech Secrets » Tools and Implements for the Spa Pedicure
December 4th, 2005 at 6:14 am
[...] o Foot File or pumice stone [...]
Agathe
December 4th, 2005 at 8:34 am
Checking Ebay for one right away.
Christina
December 4th, 2005 at 9:23 am
Good move, they are the best, by far!
Nail Tech Secrets » Spa Pedicure Step Six: The bottoms of your feet
February 8th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
[...] Now you will move on to taking care of the bottoms of your feet. Remove that first foot from the bath again, dry it off, and grab your foot file. If you have chosen my favorite foot file, you grab the end of the file without the sandpaper on it, find the courser side, and start filing. Pay attention to the area around your heel, and the ball of your foot, giving extra attention to the more calloused areas. After all of this soaking, you will most likely sling all kinds of skin bits around, so be sure and have a towel under your foot. You may have seen the razor type of implement that is supposed to be used to cut off very hard calluses, but I do NOT recommend the use of these, for exactly the same reason as I don’t recommend cutting your cuticles — it will cause scar tissue, which is tougher, and harder to remove than even the hardest callous you can imagine. If you cannot get off all of the callous that you want to this time, you can soak your foot a few more minutes and try again, OR, my recommendation is to do another pedicure in a couple weeks, and do another thorough foot filing. A little bit of filing at a time over a longer time period is less likely to cause scar tissue than aggressively removing it all at once. [...]