This year, as I do every year, I received some awesome and at times off-the-wall Christmas gifts. I’ll be conducting my own consumer tests with some of them and reporting back over the next few blogs.
First up? The All Over Moisture Gel Booties!
This was a great gift idea for me and here is why. One of my New Year’s Resolutions (yes, I’m finally going to create some) is going to be that I resolve to take better care of my feet. I have a little bubbling foot spa and have received many nice gifts such as lotions and soaking salts because I have a real and well known desire to take better care of my poor feet! Painful joints and a foot surgery should be enough motivation for me but I don’t do a very good job of it. This will change in 2012! So the All Over Moisture Gel Booties are terrific!
Tonight I settled down and slathered my feet with Ms. Pedicure Moisture-Rich Heel Cream. Smells minty!! Then I took the All Over Moisture Gel Booties out of their package. First of all, they really ARE gel booties! The inside is all squishy and it gave me a little shiver as I was pulling them on. But they feel great! So the plan is to slip them on, write a little, read a little and then take them off and drift off into pleasant dreams with perfectly moisturized feet.
I am one of those unique people who actually read the directions on the back of packages so the first order of business was to read about these booties. One sentence alarmed me. “Remove the booties at least 3-4 hours daily (within a 24 hour period) to allow skin to breathe.” Yikes! Are there really people out there who would wear these nonstop for days at a time?? Ewwww! I mean they feel great and all but I can tell that there is no moisture wicking properties and no breathable qualities. They are made to hold the moisture in! So to keep them on for 20-21 hours in a day? Whew!! Even the minty fresh, rich moisture heel cream wouldn’t be enough to make that a pretty proposition!
You have to believe that someone out there must have tried it and developed some funky skin situation which prompted the company to put that little tidbit of advice on the back of the package. Geez.
I have had my booties on for a little over an hour. An hour is the minimum time recommended to wear the booties for best results. As I’m taking them off, I can definitely tell that my feet are more than a bit warm from the cozy, gel-filled, non-breathable environment. But the good news is they feel really, really soft!! I can’t wait to see what they feel like in the morning. Hopefully still soft! I’ll be ready for sandal weather in no time! Based on the climate where we live, I have PLENTY of time to get ready!
More fun to report later!
Keep on smiling!
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