4 Reasons the Percentage on the Tube Never Mattered (Count the Hours Instead)
Ten per cent, then twenty, then forty. Concentration was never the variable. Contact time was, and nobody has ever put that number on a page.
Ten per cent did nothing, so you bought twenty. Twenty did nothing, so somebody on a forum told you to find forty.
The cream was never too weak. It was never there long enough. Here is the number that actually decides it.
Count the hours on your own heels
Visibly softer heels in fourteen nights, or keep everything and we refund you in full.
1. A cream only works while it is touching skin
Heel skin is the thickest skin on the body, and soles have no oil glands at all. Everything that keeps a heel supple has to come from sweat or from whatever you put on it. That is why heels dry out and harden when other skin does not.
A heel cream works by sitting on that thick outer layer and drawing water into it. Hard skin is like a dry sponge: rigid and brittle when dry, soft and bendy when it holds water. But it only takes water up while the cream is actually there.
Every tube in the drawer has the same rule. The moment something absorbent comes between the cream and the heel, the clock stops.
2. Under a cotton sock, forty per cent becomes about twenty minutes
Cotton is made to pull moisture off skin. That is capillary action, the same thing that makes a towel work. It cannot tell sweat from a £14 tube, so it draws the cream into the knit and spreads it out, away from you.
Which means the strength on the front of the tube stops mattering. Forty per cent that is on the skin for twenty minutes does less than ten per cent that stays there all day. You were buying concentration when the thing you were short of was time.
| Under a cotton sock | Under a Solen Base Day Sock |
|---|---|
| About twenty minutes of contact | On at seven, still there at six |
| Most of it in the knit by morning | Held against the heel by the coating |
| A stronger tube next month | The tube you already own |
3. Change the sock and the same tube gets a working day
The Day Sock has bonded silicone across the whole footbed and heel on the inside. Silicone does not absorb anything, so the cream has nowhere to go. It stays on the heel through the school run, the commute and the shift.
And because the shoe holds the sock still, there is no sheet rubbing it off and no duvet pulling at it. The hours you are already on your feet become the hours your cream is working.
- Closed toe, invisible under work shoes
- Nothing infused, nothing to react to
- Machine washable at 40 in the mesh bag
Visibly softer heels in fourteen nights, or keep everything and we refund you in full.
4. It costs less than the next tube up the ladder
The next rung on the ladder is always another tube, a stronger one, a pricier one. And it goes into the same sock.
Three pairs is £55 with the Night Sleeve and wash bag free. That is about 15p a night across a year, and you never need a stronger cream again, because the one you have finally gets the hours it needed.
How it works
- Your usual cream on your heels at seven.
- The Day Sock over it, shoes on as normal.
- Off at six, into the mesh bag, washed at 40.
The offer
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One pair · £25
your choice -
3 pairs · £55
Most chosen · Night Sleeve (£14) and mesh wash bag (£8) free · save £42 · about 15p a night -
5 pairs · £89
everything, twice over
Why now: every week on a cotton sock is another tube going into the laundry.
Visibly softer heels in fourteen nights, or keep everything and we refund you in full.
Free UK delivery · No subscription · Machine washable at 40 · Working life 3 to 6 months
A textile accessory, not a cosmetic or a medical device.
Same cream. Fourteen nights. A sock that cannot drink it.
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