Kinoki Foot Pads

How Kinoki Detox Foot Pads® Work
Working quicker than other detox methods and using the natural cleansing power of double distilled bamboo vinegar, Kinoki draws harmful substances out your body. You’ll feel the results right away!

Remove Toxins While You Sleep
Simply place ONE PAD on the SOLE of your FOOT (or a targeted body part such as the shoulder or knee) before going to bed. By morning, the pad will have absorbed toxins accumulated in your body, turning the white pad to a shade from gray to black. Use a fresh pad each night until the color on the pad becomes lighter and lighter when removed in the morning.

Yeah, whatever.

Coverage on Wired.

Vinegar?  Ooooo!  Pickled feet!  That will help get rid of foot fungus, I suppose.

So will formaldehyde…

So will a chainsaw…but hey, I’m no scientist.

Well, the chainsaw would lead rather soon to a drastic increase in fungus on the feet. . .it just wouldn’t be your concern any more.

I wonder if these people have considered just eating lots of pickles instead?  All that vinegar, plus nutrition as well.  It would probably be a lot less expensive, and since it’s actually working from inside of you it would naturally be all the more effective, right?

There is a lot of salt in pickles, though.

Maegan - 29 January 2008 09:08 AM

There is a lot of salt in pickles, though.

Perfect!  Salt tends to be a good antibiotic!

*makes plans to start a web-based company selling special detox antibiotic nourishment units for $20.00 each*

salt is good for you

Thank you for posting about this. I keep seeing those stupid commercials for these things. My husband said he wanted to try them just to see if they work. I told him its a waste of money. Hes not going to get them. I think hes just curious to see what happens. Like how much stuff actually ends up on the thing.

red_dragon_girl_69 - 29 January 2008 01:16 PM

Thank you for posting about this. I keep seeing those stupid commercials for these things. My husband said he wanted to try them just to see if they work. I told him its a waste of money. Hes not going to get them. I think hes just curious to see what happens. Like how much stuff actually ends up on the thing.

I guess that would depend on how often you wash your feet.  I’ve seen people who would turn the things black in a matter of minutes.  If they could peel their socks off their feet. 

I have a friend who downs a shot of apple cider vinegar every morning. He swears by it.

badmongo - 29 January 2008 03:36 PM

I have a friend who downs a shot of apple cider vinegar every morning. He swears by it.

By it, or at it?

Julius Caesar was known for drinking vinegar, too.  In the Winter he’d get really luxurious and have it heated up, though.