Comments on: Can Kinoki Detox Foot Pads Save Your Sole?

By: Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:10:45 +0000

Well, all I can say is that I've used them several times now. The skin on the bottom of my foot seems softer and smoother. Also, several tiny planter warts seem to be getting smaller EDIT: Note - Comments on this post have been closed due to the fact that they are slowing down the system. If you would like to discuss the topic further, go to the Kinoki Foot pad discussion on our forum.

By: Left Brain

Left Brain — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:29:53 +0000

Skeptical

We haven’t responded because you haven’t provided any proof for anything you say. Your opinion and heresay means nothing. I don’t think you’ve added anything significant to the conversation beyond your own, unsupported opinion.

For example, you say the footpads will change color when exposed to “any” liquid. What’s your proof of this? Certainly you haven’t tested every liquid possible so what liquids does it react with and not?

I say that your conclusions are based on a faulty premise. The idea that these footpads work though “far-infrared radiation” is far fetched. Where is your proof that these pads emit an appreciable amount of FIR? And where is the proof that this FIR has any beneficial effect? We’re supposed to take your opinion for this. Please provide some peer-reviewed research. And the ideas of meridians is just silly. There’s no proof that the body has such thing. You’re explaining the “science” of a fairy tale. It’s hardly worth responding to.

Incidentally, there is no Pyroligneous Acid listed in the INCI dictionary so to say that there is a cosmetic grade is not correct. (At least not in the US or EU).

Dennis, it would not be difficult to explain through a chemical reaction.

By: skeptical

skeptical — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:20:48 +0000

03-30-08 10:19EDT
To fauncemil and Dennis Lee … it’s easy to understand why you might not have read the whole thread, but I do recommend you scroll up a bit and read my two or three other posts.

This thread and the “brains” conclusion was based on a faulty premise (I notice none of the brains have posted since I exposed this).

Footpads change colour when exposed to liquid – any liquid – and it is not due to toxins leaving through the feet.

That is not to say however that the pads have no effect – they do – simply not the way Kinoki (and others to be fair) is marketing them.

I have been using the pads for four years and I am in regular direct contact with a major manufacturer of this product in S.Korea – I know as well as any layman does the theory behind the value of the product, as well as the intricacies of the manufacturing process.

Feel free to post your questions and I will do my best to answer them.

EDIT – Note: Comments on this post have been closed due to the fact that they are slowing down the system. If you would like to discuss the topic further, go to the Kinoki Foot pad discussion on our forum.

By: Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:30:16 +0000

The scientific method would be to buy 2 or 3 sets and try them. Then see if the dark color gets lighter. This would be difficult to explain if it were simply some chemical reaction hoax.

By: fauncemil

fauncemil — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:37:46 +0000

I’m not totally swayed either way on the the foot patch detox .But let me say this I was given a few patches 6 of them to try by my sister in law .I suffer from planters feet very painful at times both feet hurt so I expermented using the 6 patches for 6 nights on my right foot . I do feel relief from using them but i’m not pain free yet .I would like to see before and after lab test on the ingredents of the contents .To see if after use there were minerals and toxins in it that were not there before use. But I know your skin is like a screen you can sweat and absorb though it a lot of todays medicines are given in patch form. After spending time in water your skin becomes water logged looking pale and wrinkled.