There is nothing worse than when your feet are not feeling good. Most of us don’t realize exactly how much we rely on our feet to carry us from one place to another until there is something wrong with them. Whether it’s pain on the skin, in the muscle or tendons, or in the actual bones when your feet aren’t right the world isn’t right. In recent years a potential treatment for all foot ailments has hit the market with some great claims. The product is detox foot patches. These patches claim that they can take all of the toxins out of the foot while you sleep, restoring foot health and allowing you to go about your life like you did before the foot pain started.

The Detox Foot Patch Phenomenon

Whether you’re watching television or reading a magazine or just browsing the internet chances are you have come across detox foot patch advertisements. If you have ever experienced foot pain you have probably looked into them to see what they could offer you. The claims of these detox foot patches vary from product to product, but generally they promise that they will help pull the toxins out of the skin, making your feet feel better in very little time. The trick is to continue to use the product until no more toxins appear on the patches.

Many of the detox foot patches don’t only claim to help heal foot problems, but to help heal many different health problems. Many of these patches claim that they will absorb pesticides, tar and nicotine, cholesterol, trans fats, sodium, additives from food, and more. The claim is that these foot patches are really popular in Asia, where people are generally more health conscious than they are in other countries.

There are a lot of different detox foot patches and they may or may not relieve health problems, especially foot related health problems, but it has been shown time and time again that many of these offers are fraudulent. The food and drug administration does not support any of the claims made by these companies and it has been shown that the patches will continue to show that toxins are being pulled from the body, even if they never touch an actual body! Tests have been done with distilled water to show that many of these patches simply turn color, even in the absence of coming in contact with a toxin laced surface.

Many people find that even though the detox foot patches are not capable of detoxifying the body as promised, that they make their feet feel better, and so they continue to use them continually. A lot of the patches contain products that could help the foot feel better, such as Japanese vinegar, wheatgrass, and even peroxide, all of which soothe the skin, so it’s not that these patches cannot provide any relief, they just don’t seem to provide the relief that is promised by many of the manufacturers.