What sort of toxins, you ask? Well, the Kinoki foot pad can remove:
- Heavy Metals
- Metabolic Wastes
- Toxins
- Parasites
- Chemicals
and… - Cellulite!
How does it work? Well, the pads have “all-natural tree extracts and powerful negative ions,” and um. “When the blood circulates to the soles, the Kinoki Detox Foot Pad can absorb toxins released from the acupuncture points.”
Skeptical? “This independent study proves Kinoki Food pads lower toxic materials in your body! Isn’t that amazing?”
Amazing.
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Actually, the negative ion thing’s sound.
Same deal as an ioniser, for whatever reason, dirt is usually positively charged. Not that I’m saying this works. Fuck, anyone who advertises like this doesn’t deserve their idea to flourish.
@jurisenpai: Yeah, I noticed that too, in between sniggering at the rest of the commercial, when I saw it on TV. That’s something they could have at least tried to get right without too much effort, right? I mean, ask babelfish or something!
Is it bad that after watching this I totally want to try it? Is it worse that I’m a bio major?
What, you guys all missed the references to reflexology?
i saw this on tv. i couldn’t stop laughing for ten minutes. i kid you not. This is the dumbest thing i’ve heard in a long time, and believe me, my life is full of stupid crap.
@jurisenpai:
Wow, I didn’t even notice until you mentioned it.
Stop using a language for 6 or 7 years and you start forgetting crap.
Where is David when we need him?! I’d love to see him review this item on “Fight Back! with David Horowitz.”
They even misspell a whole bunch of shit. “Alchohol”, not alcohol. Hmm.
@jurisenpai: Or you could look at the second pair of characters as “sap” (jueki). Tree sap: Good for your feet!
When I saw this commercial, I didn’t laugh. It isn’t funny. It just makes me mad. Furious even. In this day and age we still have snake oil salesmen, and the products that aren’t poisonous are potentially deadly all the same. How many people with actual heavy metal poisoning “avoided” treatment with these pads?
If you want to detox, you have to do it from the inside out, not the outside in, LOL. Try consulting someone who has experience with homeopathy before buying something that sounds too good to be true.
I saw this ad on TV for the first time last week and I laughed so hard. I honestly do feel sorry for any chump who thinks this is legit.
I got free samples of these things once. They feel warm when used, and turn really brown and wet after just putting them on overnight, not even sweating. Smelled sort of like camphor and wood, looked like a used teabag.
I did not taste it.
I’ve actually used products similar to this (not kinoki brand) YEARS ago. As a matter of fact, yeah, I still use them. I don’t know if its a hoax or not…However, I did notice a difference. I have very poor circulation in my feet, and I hold all my stress in my feet…if that makes any sense. Back to the point, I started using a similar product years ago. When I first started, I was told the same thing – use them every night until they’re lightly stained or white. It took about 8 days. They don’t just react to sweat – I thought it was that as well. Anyway, the commercial is stupid, but I’ll keep buying my brand that I like.
Haters :]
Damn straight! This outright fraud deserves serious hate! The backers deserve jail time! And the fraud is soooo blatant that any TV station that runs it should be indicted and their FCC renewal should be put in serious jeopardy.
We need to make individuals responsible and not let them hide under the protection of a group or company structure. Only jail time will do, fraudsters don’t fear the slap on the wrist fines and refunds that allow them to keep the majority of their profits.
IMO
I used kinesiology on the foot pads and found they were bullshit.
(look it up)
@ CARY
I dunno, that would only tell you if you were “allergic” to them. But, kinesiology as the suffix “ology” in it so it must be scientific…or at least that’s what an iridologist told me.
To those that noticed the spelling errors with “alchohol” — also notice that “methyl alcohol” is now “methyl alcholol”. That’s an entirely different thing altogether. “That’s an entirely different thing.”
And after checking out the website (www.buykinoki.com), how can I NOT trust someone under the testimonials whose credentials are “Name, Age”?
*applause*
@wallspray: thats what i want to know.
Ungh. Can you imagine the casting meeting for the role of “woman who does not like her traditional detox method”? What sort of mutants were left of the casting room floor of that one? How does the poor actress feel that she has now been type-cast as a person who looks like they need toxins removed from their body, but are not smart enough to use the MAGICAL FOOTPADS to do so?
I mean, where’s the CSI or Law and Order guest star role for her?
So, if I use these then does that mean it’s OK for me to go ahead and eat the lead-tainted Chinese toys?
TechnoDestructo: I’ll bet that “toxins” means the evil autism-causing mercury from the vaccines we all got as kids.
Could be…lucky for those dead kids who died of polio back the 40s that they never got those dangerous vaccines, never mind that every major epidemiological study has show that there is zero correlation between childhood vaccination and autism.
Apply directly to your forehead.
Interestingly, if these actually did remove all those toxins, it would be illegal for you to throw them away, and you’d have to take them to a hazardous waste certified dumping station.