Marketing aside, I have one and it works really well. I use it on my feet and my hands (esp. weightlifting callouses). Not bad for $10 at Bed Bath and Beyond.

I like to use my foot shavings as a low cost mulch.

"someone should also sue PedEgg for the gross-out shot when they dump all the foot shavings in the trash. See the full commercial inside."

Thank God someone said it! I keep telling my wife that is grossest thing ever, to see them dump what I call "a pound of foot" into the trash. I love my wife. As soon as I told her this, she goes to Walgreens and buys one! I told her it's fine as long as she doesn't show me her "pound of foot".

Ben,

THANK YOU for pointing out the grossest part of the commercial.

Yes, I was eating dinner the first time I saw the ad, and when the open up the product, enough stuff dumps out to represent the calcified bunions of the entire cast of Riverdance. Blech. Wouldn't a belt sander be faster?

And what marketing whiz came up with the name?

Sounds like what a pedophile chicken lays.

@catdogpigduck: Or you can always dump the shavings into an Arby's roast beef sandwich.

Reminds me of when I had my cast removed from my leg, and soaked my foot for the first time in water for 6 weeks.

It's gross but then again so are gnarly feet. It works, and I get sick pleasure out of accumulating large quantities of foot shavings!

They should really recycle the foot mulch. Like in a protein shake or a zesty sauce for pasta. /sarcasm

Seriously though what company that has before and after shots is not deceptive? They all do as much as they can to trick the consumer into thinking that theirs is a wonder product.

Picture 1: Lady covered in boils sores and with a hunch back in Detroit in the rain

Picture 2: Model playing volley ball on a beach in the south pacific to a sunset

"I use Colgate whiting strips and my smile is now sparkling"

*gag*

The totally fake one that gets me are all the mascara commercials. In the after shots the women are always wearing comically huge false eyelashes.

wouldn't a cheese grater work just as well? Well, not on the balloon.

Bought a PedEgg a week ago. My heels are baby smooth. Although I may have inhaled large quantities of powdered foot. *eek*

All I can think of is how hard it must be to walk around barefoot after a couple of months of shaving off all your calluses.

The commercial might be gross, but this is one infomercial product that actually works and I think that should be applauded. I got mine for $10 at Rite-Aid.

I love that you can hear someone make a "gaaahhh" gross-out noise when the foot shavings are emptied.

Also: parmesan cheese!!!

Yes, the commercial's a little gross and sketchy, but this product is awesome. It's well worth the $10; it'll save you a ton of money on pedicures.

@CumaeanSibyl: Yeah. I stand on them for several hours a day, aren't they supposed to be toughened up to handle that kind of use?

@alexander: Yea especially since the only time i have seen this commercial was during dinner...

Pound o' Foot aside, I have to say that this product works really well. I eternally have trouble with my feet due to a medical issue, and wearing sandals was always embarrassing. Not now.

I bought one for my boyfriend as well, as a present. Not as a suggestion that he had gross feet (many men do--it doesn't bother me), but just something nice, since he was always putting lotion on them and it did not do much good. Before he used it, he thought it was rather silly. Then he couldn't say enough good things about it.

I did wonder whether he would continue to use it for the first time, and, shocker, he did.

If you soaked powdered foot in water, would it rehydrate and form a new foot?

Now come on. PedEgg, what a pedophile Chicken lays.

That's really good. Not one guffaw from anyone?

I'm pouting now! (But my feet are smooth and pretty).

Yeah, the foot shavings make me wanna throw up. How convenient!

I just use a pumice stone in the shower...does this molesting chicken fetus do better (I enjoyed that joke Skokie) because I'll throw caution (and $10) to the wind to try it.

One day I took the greatest poop of all time. I thought it'd be a great idea to show my fiancee. So I called her and let her gaze upon my 134 Couric Poopzilla.

Much to my suprise she was grossed out beyond all belief. However, she took it rather well and smirked.

Later that evening she called me in the bathroom, I assumed she was going to return the favor. Instead she dumped some dust on me. Upon finding out what it was, I vomited (true) and took a shower. It was her greatest relationship moment since I got mad and told her I was the John Locke of this house and then she looked me in the eye and told me that she was the f*cking island.

Our relationship has been great since that point.

I'm sure the PedEgg works great, but I've been using a callous rasp that contains the foot shavings and works exactly the same for 5 years.
It's got a handle and is not shaped like an egg, however. I would definitely consider it ergonomically designed just like the PedEgg commercials claim, it fits every single claim in the commercial, in fact.
It a regularly stocked Dollar Tree product they've had for years and costs...dum de dum....one dollar.
They last quite a while, too.
When I saw the PedEgg commercial, I rolled my eyes when the model says, "Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?"
If you guys all want to give me your ten dollars, I'll go to the Dollar Tree, get each of you the one I use and love, and I'll pocket the profit.
Unless you are really, really attached to egg shapes.

@Wormfather is Wormfather: It was her greatest relationship moment since I got mad and told her I was the John Locke of this house and then she looked me in the eye and told me that she was the f*cking island.

I scratched my head on that one for a few minutes before realizing you meant LOST. I was leaning towards "Thomas Hobbes" or something like that.

Two minor things . . . Sorry, but I am a language geek.

1. Airwaves, not airways. Airways are the companies that operate aircraft, synonymous with airlines.

2. "Horreur", not "horreru". This is French, not Japanese (though I suspect this to be a simple typing transposition).

Thanks for bearing with me.

@KleineFrau:

Did you get him the men's version? I recently saw that in stores? It's black and little bigger than the original.

@Bladefist: A big tool file works really well, the ones with the multiple grades of file? My husband's kind of pissed I took his and wrecked it with grossness.

@Wormfather is Wormfather: I laughed so hard my ass has literally fallen off and is lying on the floor looking forlorn.

@Wormfather is Wormfather:

I don't know if that story is awesome or horrifying.

@Eyebrows McGee: lol thats hawt

@Wormfather is Wormfather: I am actually LOLing

@Chris Walters: agreed, that was probably the best part!

I'd rather have something akin to armor on the bottom of my feet, thanks.

I'd also like to have great metal tusks, but that's a bit harder to grow.

@Wormfather is Wormfather: Your GF rocks!

@AD8BC: That's where the feet in Canada are coming from.

@Wormfather is Wormfather: Awesome!

My dog loves to eat the PedEgg shavings.

@KleineFrau: Yes, amazingly that thing works really well. My wife loves it.

@dorianh49: *GAG - falls over, dead*

I hear this thing works - but I'm afraid I lose a layer of skin that I actually need for, y'know, walking and stuff.

But I do hope that those fellas win their lawsuit. If they said internets-only, then dammit internets only!

In the famous words of Jay-Z: Fuck you. Pay me.

@anaisnun:

I have the rasp and the pumice stone. Neither work as well as the PedEgg. The only thing that works as well as the PedEgg is a pedicure where they razor the callouses off.

I'm too embarassed to buy one

@shorty63136: You know that when Jay-Z said that he was borrowing the line from Goodfellas, right?

*eyes image* is it just me or it looks like the exact same picture with the brightness boosted up?

PS: We brilliant girls use pumice stones. You do that in the shower or bath so the junk gets washed away and there's no mess. Really... Who does that while sitting on the frickin' toilet over the bathroom rug? Lady, come on.

And it does a marvelous job in only a few uses, and used regularly you will never have rough foot problems ever again.

Was I the only one that thought upon seeing this commercial that there is no place in this crazy world of bizarre "health boosting" products for a foot grater?

"It's a [foot] grater, or as I like to call it, sponge ruiner" - Mitch Hedberg

@Wormfather is Wormfather:

It was her greatest relationship moment since I got mad and told her I was the John Locke of this house and then she looked me in the eye and told me that she was the f*cking island.

I want one. And I'm going to surreptitiously mix my foot shavings into my boyfriend's weed.

You have to understand that for these actors and such, they are paid residuals depending on HOW their final products are distributed. If your commercial is only shown in a local market, then for each viewing you get say... $10. But if it's in a national campaign, then you might get $1000 per showing. Residuals on the internet are usually calculated a flat rate and don't scale via the number of showings. Thus these actors should be getting compensated for much higher amounts since they were deceived into thinking the campaign was going to be an internet only one. Residuals especially for these kinds of struggling actors is very important and can represent a significant portion of their income.