Gold Bond Athlete's Foot Swabs- Best Ive Found
By Joan Young on
These swabs are the only thing that gets rid of my athletes foot- fast!Its easy to use, dries quickly, and not messy
I have been plagued with somewhat minor, but irritating athlete's foot all my life. I've tried most every over the counter medicine, but this one beats them all. It generally clears up an open, oozing crack between my toes in 2 days.
There is enough medicine to swab between all my toes in one applicator, so I do this as a preventative when one crack begins to open. I do have small feet... on a large person one swab might do only one foot.
Instead of being moist and adding to the wetness of my feet like creams do, the clear liquid in the swab dries quickly and helps to keep the area dry. (Next to this treatment the best thing I've found is just to keep toes dry with medicated powder.)
The swab has a blue band on one end.You gently break the end of the swab at the blue band. The stick is actually a hollow tube, and when you break the one end air pressure entering the tube allows the medicine to flow down into the swab end that does not have a blue band.Then you just apply it to your foot.
The active ingredient is Tolnaftate 1%The box is very nice for traveling.It is solid and clicks shut so there is no danger of accidentally breaking the swabs in your luggage.
The only drawback I can see is that it looks like a Q-tip... don't mistake it for one!
What a good idea! I've used the creams, which are messy, and the sprays, which are cold!
I could fit that in my training pack easily...thanks for the info! :-)
Have to get these for my daughter - she has such a hard time finding anything that works! Thanks
My youngest son has the same issues it sounds..I will look for these swabs, I never knew they existed but do know I love the powder,
Shark, what a neat product! Thank you for introducing it here! Gold Bond makes excellent products for feet anyway, but this is simply the most intelligent way to deal with AF, I've seen.
My father had athlets foot when I was growing up and he had a heck of a time trying to get rid of it, tese sound so easy to use. My how times have changed, thanks for the info.
Sounds like a very easy product to use and in my own experience Gold Bond products always work great. I may suggest this to my father who has this problem.
I've never heard of these. What a great alternative. And as you said, much easier for travel too:0)
I've heard of Gold Bond before but didn't know it came in a great applicator. I will have to let my daughter know about this, she also suffers from athlete's feet. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I first want to thank you for including all of the gory details... heehee! My brother used to have an absolute horrible problem with this. I am really glad that you found something that works for you. One solution that I had heard of was to soak your feet in the original amber colored Listerine. To keep it in a plastic box with a cover, like the ones for shoes, and soak your feet in them every day until the solution gets cloudy, then throw the solution out. Tons of people raved over it. I cannot recall the soak time, I want to say 30 minutes, but if you did a google search on Listerine foot soak I am sure that it would pop up. If not and you are interested PM me and I will look it up for you as I have it noted down somewhere.