Product Reviews for Foot Baths - heated foot bath

Foot Baths - heated foot bath

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Product Reviews of Foot Baths - heated foot bath

Product Review: Nothing better
Summary: 5 Stars

This puppy just plain works, and is worth the price. The heat gets to be just a tad too hot if you leave it on--meaning you have real temperature control for once! We haven't had ours long, but out of the box it worked as promised. It's also much quieter than we expected, even with the jets on full blast. Try the Earth Therapuetics Tea Tree Oil foot soak (salts) and Foot Balm; they worked impressively well on my poor wife's feet--and my hands!

Product Review: Pricey, But Pretty Powerful & a Nice Foot Massage
Summary: 4 Stars

I have peripheral neuropathy, which is a painful nerve condition in my feet. I was looking for something to stimulate circulation and warm my feet.

This unit does that. The twin jets are pretty powerful and the heat feature allows me to extend my massage time significantly over units without the heat feature.

However, the unit is slow to heat room temp water and at 1200 watts, it consumes a lot of electricity to get it to spa temperature. I recommend adding lukewarm water to start and use the heating element to keep the water as hot as you like.

The "massagers" are just rollers on the base of the unit, that do very little, especially with people with large feet like me (size 13). You have to roll your feet over the rollers and there is hardly any room for me to do that.

And Brookstone does NOT include a battery for the remote. Of course it is a button-type so you have to make a trip to Radio Shack to buy it, instead of raiding your home battery supply drawer.

I use the unit in my whirlpool tub (I used to do a whole body whirlpool, but sometimes just wanted my feet massaged). I run the water till lukewarm, put the unit in the tub and fill it. Then I sit on the side with my feet in the unit. It makes it easy to drain as well, being in the whirlpool.

Overall, it is a keeper for me.

Product Review: Quality Product
Summary: 4 Stars

I am also disappointed that the instructions say no salts. I told my wife to give it a year before we try to put salts in it. At least let her get some use out of it before we put it to the test. Other than that she has had no complaints and the salt thing doesn't bother her a bit. The product works as advertised; very well. I will write back in year and let you know about the salt experiment.

One warning: Make sure you pull the power cord out before you fill the tub with water. I'm sure others will agree...

Product Review: Quit working after 6 uses
Summary: 1 Stars

I use the foot spa infrequently, primarily for helping to recover from foot surgery.

I've had the unit for over a year, but have used it only about 6 times (and being careful not to add anything to the water per the directions).

This morning, I pulled it out, filled it with warm water, plugged it in and started it up in anticipation of helping a foot recover from another, recent operation. The unit worked for about 5 minutes and then the air pump quit functioning properly, making only a clicking sound and providing no air jet flow.

The only advice from Brookstone customer service is to take it to a repair shop.

I am extremely disappointed that such an expensive unit has failed and requires repair after just 6 uses.