Compound W Wart Remover Pads

Let’s face it, the things we must do for beauty aren’t always pretty.

I’ve had a wart of some sort on the bottom pad of my right foot for as long as I can remember, it was only this year that I decided to “improve” the area so it looked like a normal foot. No, my right foot was by no means hideous or unhuman-like, but over top of my wart (let’s call him Ed from this point on) was a mound of callused skin that protruded ever so slightly (and by ever so slightly I mean big and hideous). Unfortunately, I don’t have the gory pictures that I had meant to take during my journey to normal-footted-dom, but I think this review on the Compound W Wart Remover Pads will do.

So the callused area was approximately ¾ of a centimetre long and then more thick, callused skin surrounding it. I’ve tried soaking my feet then filing off the dead skin but the skin was so tough that all my efforts were thWARTED (get it? Haha). I ended up going to a podiatrist and he sliced off the callused skin covering Ed, then stabbed Ed with a q-tip soaked in liquid nitrogen. Apparently my body doesn’t take pain all that well decided it would be better to pass out three times (not even joking! I wish!). Anyways, I ended up limping around for about a week and a half, and it was suggested that I come in every 2 weeks for a treatment…riiiight. I decided that the insanely painful route just wouldn’t cut it for me, and on top of that, it’s not even guaranteed that I would be completely Ed-free after however many treatments!

Thus my quest for a non-painful way to remove Ed. I settled on these pads as it’s non-invasive and had a high concentration of salicylic acid...40% to be exact. Twenty pads, one pad per two days. It was actually neat seeing the havoc that these little pads had cause my feet. After removing the pads, soaking my feet and then scrubbing the area, you could tell that the acid was eating away at my dead skin, let’s face it…it was actually pretty gross. At one point (I must have been through at least 12 pads) the skin area was all white and flaking off, I decided to peel at my dead skin (no I don’t condone this as I’m sure it could cause damage…but I’m impatient!) and then eventually peeled off a giant piece of thick thick thick dead, white skin (seriously, the skin was at least 3mm thick, gag)…showed it to my hubby…he was not impressed :p

I got down to two pads and decided that my foot was almost home-free of Ed! Decided to celebrate with a pedicure and was informed that the wart may still be under my almost-normal-foot-skin *sigh*. Which makes sense because apparently the roots are black and would fall out had I gotten the whole wart. Anyways, long story short, I’m going to buy another box of pads and continue on in my quest to completely rid myself of Ed. Here is a picture after my pedicure, looks meh, but trust me, it’s a HUGE difference from when I started! I would imagine that these pads would be more effective on someone with a wart that doesn’t have a bajillion layers of callused skin on top.

If you’re in the market to rid yourself of Ed’s family members, do give these a try, cheap and pain-free! Will write an update after I complete another box. Happy Ed hunting!