As Seen On TV Original PedEgg Review

Every year I try to get two pedicures - one in the spring when my feet are really dry and nasty from a long winter and another in late summer after they've been abused by going barefoot all summer.  Pedicures are expensive though (about $75 for a good one in my area) and I'm low on cash so I've been trying to do my own.

I have a callous shaver that I got from a beauty supply store that works really well to slice off the dry skin and callouses on my feet.  But I'm also a total infomercial junkie and could not resist trying the Ped Egg. I liked the idea of the egg collecting all the grody stuff that comes off of my feet.

So I got my Ped Egg at Walgreen's for about $10.  It looks like a large plastic egg that opens lenghwise to expose something that looks like those microplanes many of us bought for our kitchens to grate hard cheeses, spices, and chocolate.  It's the same concept, only for the feet.  The idea is to rub the grater thing across the skin of dry feet (before showering or bathing) and it's supposed to scrape off the hard bits and leave feet feeling soft and smooth.

Well it sort of works.  I scraped the thing over the dry skin on my heels.  It didn't feel like it was doing much but sure enough when I opened the egg there were skin shavings (gross, I know) inside.  They were a very, very fine powder though and not big pieces like my other tool removes.  So the Ped Egg sort of kind of works but very slowly as the evidence inside the egg shows.  The other tool takes just a few minutes to remove all traces of dry skin from my feet but the Ped Egg would take a really long time to remove that much.  In fact, I'm not really sure it has the ability to remove that much. I've sat there for long periods of time trying to scrape, scrape, scrape the callouses away but they never seem to completely go away.

Not recommended.  The Ped Egg does remove dry skin but it is a very slow process and no better than other methods.  In fact, a basic pumice does a much better job.