works well on dry cracked heels [SEP] i have for years dealt with dry cracked heels and i have tried a number of things to correct the issue while my heels haven t hurt or anything they have been ugly in a search for solutions i found this foot scrubber and decided it was likely going to work better for me than a foot rasp and i ordered it it s a great tool and it works well though i do offer some caution for those who haven t worked with a foot scrubber or rasp in the pastthis is an odd looking instrument vaguely similar to a comma in shape the scraping side somewhat resembles a mirror with a patterned rough edge it feels a lot like an emery board though it has more of a bite to the surface if that makes sense the overall size and shape make it easy to grip and hold even when wetthe first time i used it i scraped away a fairly large amount of dead skin to the point that i had feeling in parts of my heels where i have had no feeling for quite some time it left my heels soft pink and looking much better however i did discover that one can overdo and i had nicked myself on each heel in one or two places just enough to require blotting but not enough to really be a concern it was less serious than a cut while shaving i discovered the following day what happens when you remove too much dead skin and don t put enough lotion on an area that deals with weight and stress my heels split in a couple of places and i ended up having difficulty walking without pain for a couple of days i had put high quality lotion on my heels but apparently not enough that was entirely my mistake and it was a painful oneafter that finally healed up i tried again i have fallen into a daily routine where i gently scrub my heels for a couple of minutes each then apply lotion my heels now look much better they re not splitting when i put weight on them and i have avoided nicking myself at least in my case this is not a tool that gets used intensely every couple of weeks but rather it is a daily tool that gets used very gentlyi got curious and put this tool under a digital microscope to see what the rough surface looked like the roughness resembles a series of crescents not dissimilar to a rasp but much more finethis thing really works and it does a good job it s slightly more expensive than the average foot rasp but it seems to work well i do recommend using some caution when working with this instrument as it is possible to overdo if not careful which is probably very true of any tool of this type