Foot mask peels off dead skin and calluses to reveal baby-soft feet

• Foot-peeling masks work as a chemical peel for your feet, peeling off calluses and dead skin.
• Insider producer Celia Skvaril decided to try the Dermora Foot Peel Mask For Baby Soft Feet.
• She spoke to Podiatrist Dr. Marion Yau about the safety of these masks and whether or not it worked.

Following is transcript of the video:

Celia Skvaril: Today, I am trying this Dermora Foot Peel Mask for Baby Soft Feet. It has been a long time since I've gotten a pedicure, and my feet are very scaly, very calloused, and very dry. It actually hurts when one of my feet rubs up against the other one. So I am very hopeful that this mask is going to give me baby-soft feet. So, the directions don't say this, but from reading the reviews, people say to soak your feet in warm water 30 minutes before you put on the mask. Ooh. It's kinda burn -- ow! It's burning the cuts, and like, if I -- it's burning my nails.

I accidentally used three of the things here, so it's very wet in here. Santa socks with sunglasses. I'm supposed to sit for an hour and not move my feet, aka do not do what I was just doing, but, like, [plastic crinkles] just listen to that. I really don't like the feeling. It feels really wet and kinda gross. My feet are burning. Like, the tops of my feet. I'm not sure if it's because I have, like, a lot of dry skin up there, but, yeah, it's not feeling too great. It's been an hour. It's time to take the booties off. Next step is, you're just supposed to wash them off with soap and water. Now we wait. We wait until it starts to peel, like a snake. Shed like a snake.

So, it's been six days, and we've started to get some peeling on the toes, specifically. Don't mind my nail polish. The peel took it off. So, I'm coming to you on Christmas Eve, because I just took my sock off, and this is unreal. Look at this. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look at my skin. And it's not even all done. Oh, my God. Like, my sock bits are mixed in, too. According to some of the reviews, people said it really worked for them to also soak their feet every night, so every time I showered I made sure to soak my feet.

So, I just got out of the shower, and this is what I see. I think this is why they say you're supposed to soak your feet. So, you can see the fresh skin underneath. Everywhere I would step, I would lose skin. If I took off my sock, a bunch of skin would come flying out. It is pretty much the end of all peeling. I still get a little bit of skin coming off after I shower, but I have a surprise -- or a horror, for people who don't like this stuff -- but... I have two ziplock bags full of skin. It looks like really big pieces of sunburn, if you've ever peeled your sunburn before.

I'm really interested to see if how the peel worked on me is how it's supposed to work and if it's safe for you, so I'm going to speak to podiatrist Marion Yau.

Marion Yau: I think they're really good for people who have very little bit of dry skin, a little bit of callous, but not for people that have massive loads of dead skin, because I don't think it works for them. If you are considered high-risk, such as diabetic, or very sensitive to the fruit chemicals or salicylic acids and things like that, then it's best not to use them, because the effects of them is that they peel too much of the skin off. So, from the pictures I saw, you had -- your feet weren't too bad, to be honest.

You had a bit of dry skin on your foot, a little bit on your heels, a little bit on your big toe, but actually, generally, your feet, it wasn't too bad at all. So, from the microscope, what I saw before, when you used the peel, was that the skin was extremely dry, it was extremely cracked, and you can see kind of white discoloration. Afterwards, it's amazing, because a lot of the dead skin is gone. It's less kind of cracking, it's less dry, but there's still a little bit still there, left. Again, nothing wrong with it, but it didn't completely remove all the dead skin. But it was a good transition from what you had before to what you have now.