Perfect Feet: Caring and Pampering

by Stuart Mogul, Ericka McConnell (Photographs)

A foot surgeon and a beauty expect offer advice on keeping feet healthy and beautiful, including tips on homeopathic treatments, simple home pedicures, and soothing foot soaks.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Aurélien Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Written in collaboration by a foot surgeon and a beauty expert, 'Perfect Feet' is a straight to the point kind of manual offering tips and advices for healthily caring for your feet.

There's a whole chapter dedicated to the main foot ailments and conditions, all described alongside various remedies to both prevent and treat them. It's good, but contains nothing that cannot be found using Google or common sense, and so it's difficult to see the point. There is, above all, a whole chapter embracing homeopathic treatments and tips, and that's where I have lost it. Homeopathy is just modern quackery, and I don't give it two hoots of credibility! Useless? Nope! Just discard any supposed medicinal or therapeutic virtues attributed to such snake oils, and instead use the ideas offered for foot baths as creative ways to pamper for your partner... That should do, but is it enough to worth the whole book? Considering it's ridiculously slim on massage, pedicure, and choosing shoes, I think you can clearly do without it! Why get this, when you can find it all on Google or using common sense?

If anything, get Hand & Foot Massage: The At-Home Massage Class to Stimulate Circulation, Increase Mobility and Relieve Pain by Mary Atkinson; also peppered with alternative medicine silliness, but far more comprehensive when it comes to pampering.

[Kenya · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book searching for ideas to help reduce some foot pain that I was suffering. The book is very slim, and made for a quick read. I was able to read about several different foot conditions and treatments, though I did not find anything in this book that I hadn't read in searches on Google.

The author struggled to find consistency in tone. Some sections were very academic, and others were so conversational as to be almost condescending. One example, talking about foot baths, instructed women to light candles and read the Kama Sutra while your feet rested, then try out the book with your partner!

I did appreciate a section near the end of the book where the author included a variety of homemade foot soaks and skin treatments, but the tongue in cheek comments throughout irritated me too much for me to spend any length of time with the book.

[Charity · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite good synopsis of foot care. I also really liked that it had pictures and a nice format. It was broken down into the problem, the cause, and the possilbe solutions. I liked that. I learned new foot treatments and ways to care better for the foot and to prevent problems in the first place. I hope it will help me take better care of my family and Daniel.

[Liaken · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly a waste.