SOFTENS CORNS AND, CALLOUSES LIKE WATER SOFTENS SOAP.

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 5

SOFTENS CORNS AND, CALLOUSES LIKE WATER SOFTENS SOAP.

"Refreshing to the feet as mountain aii; to the lungs. Aches, swellings, soreness, tenderness, excessive, perspiration, &c, soon had to go,'' says Tormer sufferer from foot misery* J, who repeats a famous specialist's advice. . . ■--•■■::;

After caustic liquids, cutting, piasters and other temporary expedients, had produced great pain but no relief; I consulted a well-known specialist. He explained that callouses and corns axe simply hardened, partly dead skin' formed by shoe pressure, ' clogged pores,' and poor circulation due to feet being the farthest, extremities to which the heart must .pump blood. Such growths are without nerves or blood . vessels themselves, but they cause the acute misery by pressing on and irritating the extreniely sensitive nerve tissues beneath J-o refresh. the feet, remove callouses and take; corns out, roots and all, it is only necessary to rest them m hot "Saltrates** w . a t.sr.\ This, has no effect whatever on the structure of normal, healthy skin, but it immediately dissolves out the waxy substances from clogged pores, also" the oil from hardened skin, and leaves the latter almost as soft as a piece of watersdaked soap. In fact, I was told by the specialist who prescribed "Saltrates"' water that its action on corns and callouses is quite similar to the effect of water on a piece of soap. To prepare the 'Saltrates'f water, which is both medicated and oxygenated, simply' dissolve m .about a gallon of water a handful of the refined Reudal Bath Saltrates which is obtainable at little cost from any chemist, this being the registered name by which medical men and chiropodists prescribe the compound.*