Hard skin - treatment???

Buy a foot file or pumice stone (should be able to find these in the cosmetic section of any drugstore). In the shower every day, give your feet a good scrubbing with the foot file. Then, while feet are still moist, give them a good slathering with a heavy-duty moisturizer (don't do in between toes, but do soles, heels, and all the crusty bits). Immediately throw some cotton socks on. You can do this daily with your shower, or if you want you can do it twice daily, just soaking your feet first in a bucket of warm water or running them under the tap in the tub.

A week of doing this should make your feet nice and soft. Also works for weight training calluses.

Thx Krista. Will give it a try.

Ask your girlfriend if she would rather you have blisters on your feet.

In this country there's an ointment called Heel Balm, which is a mixture of urea in an oily base (25% urea), plus something called nipostat. I don't know what the base it. Heel Balm soften and diminished heel callouses. Of course, they can be worked back afterwards with a pumice stone.

It reminds me of an old rower's remedy for hand callouses. It works (and I've tried it), but not everyone is interested. Once a day for a week or so, wash some of your urine onto the hands (or feet) and let it dry. Wash it off a little latter and let your hands dry again. That 'tans' the palms Or heels I guess). In my rowing days that got one ready for the training season. Warning: do not urinate on inflamed or open blisters in case of infection. [Urine is generally much more sterile tap water, but some of the rowers get problem, which may or may not have been made worse].

An extra read of this is simply to let your feet get dry fairly often...

Cheers, Tom.