Baby Foot Exfoliant Foot Peel, Lavender Scented

I have dinosaur feet. I didn't always have them but after returning from a Virgin Islands trip 10 years ago I began to notice my feet becoming really rough in spots (heel, lower side section of big toe and side of pinky toe). I went to a podiatrist and she tested for fungus etc but found nothing. So, my days of scraping and moisturizing and wearing socks to bed because I was embarrassed for my husband to accidentally touch my feet during the night began.The best product I had found before I discovered a blurb in a magazine about Baby Foot was pure Shea Butter. It was a daily process however and if I skipped a day I noticed it would take 3 days of constant use to "catch up" with fairly smooth feet.I had read enough positive reviews of Baby Foot to decide to give it a try. I was a bit leery of it being a Japanese product but then realized I was probably being paranoid because of radiation fears (yeah, that is a whole other story). The product I received came from Liberta U.S.A. Inc. so I am guessing they are the U.S. distributor now for this Japanese product.The product I received came in the red box with American English print with a photo of a woman's feet (not the photo of a leg shown on the red box here at Amazon currently). It says Lavender scent on the front. The instructions on the back say the booties will fit Woman size 4-12 and Men 4-13 (American I am assuming).After reading all the inconsistent reviews of results I decided to compare the ingredients in the different packaging types and found differences. Some of these differences were in ingredients themselves and some just in the order of the ingredients (we all know the listed order of the ingredients determines the percentage of the ingredient in the product). I won't go into all the different ingredients or order differences but I will compare here a couple of really noticeable differences in the Liberta USA Inc. product I received and the red box American text with the womans legs and her hand on her calf. One of the first differences in MY box and the box shown here on Amazon is the ingredient Salicylic Acid. Now we ladies all know that ingredient from our facial masks and creams. It is a good ingredient (unless you have ultra sensitive skin or a condition such as Rosacea) to have in a product that promises to get rid of dead topical skin. Amazon here lists it as ingredient number 9. My box lists it as ingredient number 32! In fact, there are so many oil and extract ingredients listed on MY red box list before ANY of the acids (with exception of the lactic acid) that it is clear that the U.S. distributed product is a completely different product than what the Japanese had originally produced. I don't know if this is because our FDA deemed the actual acid concentration too high for sale in the U.S. or if it is just because Americans are just economically dumb and will buy anything made more cheaply even if it is ineffective.So, that said, I opened the package and found two clear, thin, boxy booty bags. The gel was visable inside. I had to use scissors to cut the very top of the booties. I cut the tops of the booties at the same time. I recommend you cut and put on one at a time however because it could get messy. I was very careful and inserted each foot. I didn't notice any type of offensive or chemical type odor but I didn't really detect Lavender either (and I use a LOT of lavender products so I am well acquainted with it). My box came with a strip of plastic sealing tape pieces. The plastic did feel very thin and I wouldn't be comfortable walking around in just them or even propping them up for fear that the gel could leak out somehow. Fortunately, I own a pair of large furry booty slippers that make me look like a muppet from the calf down so I slipped my bagged feet into those.The instructions on MY box says to leave them on for only 1 hour. Then wash feet with soap. The dead skin cells will begin to peel 2-7 days after initial application. I left product on for two hours after I knew that the amount of acid was reduced in this version. I really don't understand why the leave on time is LESS time with LESS acid ingredients? You would think the less effective ingredient list would require MORE time on the feet. Anyway, after two hours I removed the booties and washed my feet and thoroughly dried. I didn't feel any weird tingling or burning of any kind. My feet did feel a bit warmer to the touch than usual however but that is probably because they were in baggies inside muppet slipper boots for two hours.I dried my feet and didn't apply any moisturizer of any kind at first. The instructions do say that if your feet feel dry you apply a small amount of moisturizer. It took 3 days to start noticing a bit of sloughing. My feet didn't get scaly but there was not a "dramatic" amount of peeling after 3 days. It looks more like if you are in the tub 10 minutes too long and you start getting that whitish soft ring around the edge of the heel?I am writing this on day 3 because I wanted to get the differences of the product information out to you guys now. I will be updating in about 3 more days and then give you my final thoughts/results after a full 14 days after the initial use of this product. I will let you know what I am using in addition to this product in the next 11 days as well. I am going to do nothing to one foot (as a "control") and then if I use Shea Butter etc I will use it on the other foot exclusively.EDIT: It has been 7 days since I first applied the product. My heels feel like they are sore. Not a burning sore just like if I have been standing all day. My feet are finally starting to slough and peel. However, only the tops of my feet. A thin layer of skin can be peeled off much like the skin after a sunburn except there is no redness. The bottoms of my feet are not visably peeling nor are they softer. I suspect it is because the Baby Foot product I purchased is a different formula then the original Japanese product that comes in the box with the Japanese writing. I have not tried the product packaged in the Japanese box but I know that there is far less acid in the Baby Foot product that I received. I think this less acid is the reason there is no sloughing on the bottom of my foot. The way the bag booties fit with the gel inside makes it impossible to concentrate the gel solely on the bottoms of the feet.EDIT: 9 days after applying product. I woke up this morning to the bottoms and sides of my feet finally peeling! I am peeling off large pieces of skin to reveal new baby soft skin. I had to scrape with my nail a bit to get the heel sections off but my skin didn't tear like I was afraid it might. So, it worked after all. It just took longer than I expected. I do recommend this product but as others have mentioned, make sure you give yourself a good two weeks after initial application before you have to reveal your feet to anyone. I would like to have the gel formula in a jar or bottle so that I could apply it to my heels only sometimes.EDIT: Someone asked me today if I noticed my feet getting rough again after the initial effects of the treatment. YES. Two weeks after the initial smoothness (meaning after all the peeling was done) my feet were close to being right back to where they were before the treatment. This is why in my review I mentioned that it would be nice to have a bottle of the solution alone for periodic maintenance. I am back to having to apply creams such as shea butter nightly. As it stands now, plan on this method of softening to be for an event or vacation because it isn't a long term solution.