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The Right Way to Remove a Callus

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A callus is actually pretty easy to remove. You just need the right products, regimen, and a little patience. Think of a callus like a deadbeat roommate: occasionally, they're useful as a buffer against the outside world, but mostly, you just want to get rid of them. Fortunately, it's easier to remove a callus than it is to evict a roommate. You just need the right products and regimen, and a little patience. So the next time your feet blister over and harden into a mound of thick, dead skin…we’re here for you. These pointers will have you back on your (smooth, healthy) feet in no time. Soak the callus nightly Every night, soak your foot in a bucket of warm water and baking soda—this will break down the dead skin cells and soften the callus. You can also take an Epsom salt bath , to soothe the skin as it softens. Either way, it’s important to dry the skin entirely after a soak. While the warm water helps , lingering moisture can lead to fungal infection. Slap some lactic acid ...

The Gentle Art of Poverty

I am an old man in his sixtieth year. I have entered that decade of life which destroys the last illusion and beyond which lies death, swift or lingering, actuarial or real. I am also poor, incontrovertibly, humiliatingly poor, for the first time in my life. My total annual income , from a modest pension ($1980) and the interest ($168.75) from an equally modest savings account , is 6 percent of what I earned in my prime-and less than two thirds of the property tax I once paid on a five-bedroom home with swimming pool in Westchester County, New York. I am divorced and living alone in an alien city of 800,000 strangers. My aging body betrays me day by day; the ground I am losing now I lose forever. So I perceived myself, at any rate, when the plane from a foreign country dropped me in San Diego one night seven months ago. Behind me stretched an aimless, six-year, expatriate trail through the South Seas, Asia, and Latin America that began when divorce and its inevitable byproducts-seco...