W Drops - Corn and Callus Solution

W-drops from Hofmann & Sommer are the proven solution against calluses and corns. For almost 100 years, the combination of active ingredients of salicylic acid and lactic acid has been used against calluses of the skin.

Corns and calluses

Calluses, commonly referred to as calluses, are caused by pressure or friction on heavily stressed skin areas such as hands and feet. The self-protection of the body thickens the skin on these areas. If calluses on the feet, the cause is often unsuitable, too tight footwear or too high heels. Therefore, care should always be taken to wear shoes that allow the feet and especially the toes with sufficient space and freedom of movement.

In the relatively harmless initial stage, regular foot care or foot baths are usually sufficient with the help of pumice stone arrows to remove the calluses. Preventively you can also cover the skin areas with special foot creams. However, if the calluses are already several millimetres thick, these simple methods are no longer sufficient or require several weeks of use.

Especially close bone skin areas on the toes or the sole of the foot then often thicken towards a callus cone (medical hyperkeratosis). This grows in a cone shape into the lower layers of the skin and creates the painful shape of the corn.

Corns are usually only a few millimetres in size, sometimes cause severe pain when walking due to the deep reaching callus cones. If the stress on the skin remains, the corneation can drill deeper to the leather skin.

In order to avoid a doctors visit and to create a quick remedy, the W drops from Hofmann & Sommer can be used. The proven callus dissolving active ingredient combination of salicylic acid and lactic acid achieves peeling of the affected skin areas.