Rent a house in Santiago. Perfect place to tele commute from 1GB symmetrical connection. Camino Cups. Other: , CP tbc. Frank66 said:. Click to expand Donating Member. Past OR future Camino I have heard of this before, it was very popular in my parents time but I have also heard that it can make you feet hard and prone to cracking of the skin.
I do not know the real answers to this but I would recommend a product called "Gloves in a Bottle", available from Boots, and I have found this to be excellent for preventing blisters, for those coming from Australia, a similar, and in my opinion a better product, is SILIC I have also been told that ordinary Vicks is as good as anything. Buen Camino. GreatDane Veteran Member. I have heard of this before..
GreatDane said:. I've also heard to soak your feet in tea every evening and they'll toughen up. I've tried neither. Custom Camino Paintings. Peterk Member. My daughter, who is a podiatrist, advised me to use moisturising cream on my feet nightly but in between toes use surgical spirit. It has worked a treat on many levels, preventing ailments and ensuring healthy, happy toes! Sixwheeler Active Member Donating Member. I'm lead to believe that Surgical Spirit was the 'go to' solution for foot sore squaddies doing their National Service back in the s.
I've tried it although I never quite did NS and can't say it helped me much. Anemone del Camino Guest. Lemon also works. Part Primitivo Oct Portugues from Porto June Robo Veteran Member Donating Member.
Many moons ago in my previous life in the military we used to do this. And I seem to recall always getting blisters. In reply to Pesda potato: Aluminum oxide will dry and crack skin It may be bad????????????? In reply to Pesda potato: Get a bucket of sand and repeatedly shove your hands into it. This is a guaranteed solution. Cheers LD. Baron Weasel 15 Apr In reply to Pesda potato: Climb On is good stuff and in my experience makes the skin stronger - apparently it smells the same as some expensive Elizabeth Arden vitamin E cream.
NottsRich 15 Apr In reply to Pesda potato: I've surgical spirit to harden skin on feet. A dab with cotton wool each day for a few weeks did the job. Not recommending it, but it worked for me.
Talcum powder after a long day in boots really helps to dry feet out. Perhaps put some talc on your hands before putting gloves on? Someone suggested cotton liners but you said it would reduce dexterity too much.
I don't know what you do, but I've used liners and nitrile gloves for some pretty fiddly things and been fine. The liners are very thin Copyright Podiatry Station.
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GDav said:. Click to expand Bugsy7 said:. There are many ways of toughening up your feet. The feet and ankles are more likely to harden up and also get ready for stress of marches etc if you walk around the house barefooted. This is how our cavemen ancesters lived and is the natural way to strengthen the feet. Nicko Clanker. Once knew a lad who religiously S-S'd the soles of his feet till they were rock-hard bone-dry.
The problem was, on exercise he developed blisters between his hard, dried out and pretty much dead soles and the rest of his foot In agreement with others here, conditioning, NOT hardening is the way forward Enjoy the blisters. Post reply. Similar threads T. Joining - Armoured Corps and Cavalry. Replies 1 Views Replies 79 Views 5K. I just need someone to tell me it's going to be ok Replies 24 Views 2K.
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