FOOT REJUV WET/DRY MASSAG EQ HEAT

by HoMedics

Product Details

Product Manual [151kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• ASIN: B000063TL9
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,329 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 9, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Filled with warm water, this electric foot bath presents a pleasing dilemma: Massage and treat the soles with infrared? Massage the feet with the bath's warm, vibrating bottom, stimulate with bubbles, and treat the soles to penetrating infrared heat? Or just treat tired, aching tootsies to a warm, bubbling bath? A control dial offers those three options--plus there are two circular insets with four spinning nodes each to deeply massage soles. This unit also has serpentine bubble tracks on the bath's bottom (which is covered in acupressure nodes) with extra air vents to double the amount of bubbles. The heat function keeps water warm but will not heat cold water. Made of plastic, the foot bath measures 17-3/4 long, 15-3/4 inches wide, and 9-1/2 inches high on soft, slip-resistant feet and holds about 3 inches of water. It carries a two-year warranty against defects. --Fred Brack

Product Description

FOOT REJUV WET/DRY MASSAG EQ HEAT

Customer Reviews

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152 of 154 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read the product descriptions carefully, December 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: FOOT REJUV WET/DRY MASSAG EQ HEAT (Electronics)

It's my own fault for not reading carefully enough, but I was disappointed with a couple of items. I expected to have everything at once: bubbles, heat, massage. It turns out that you can only have them separately.

1> the "infrared heater" is not even in the bath itself. See the palm-sized dark red thing on top of the unit, near the middle? That has some lights in it that eventually get warm. Its function, apparently, is to rest your heels on so they get warm. It is outside the water line, so you can't use this feature while having your feet in the water. I found this to be sort of lame.

2> if you look at the picture, you will see two gray circles at the top of the unit. Those are the massagers, as they spin. They are not in the bath unit, so you have to take your feet out of the bath to use them.

The whole unit vibrates, if you want it to. But this just gives you a numb feeling. Those blue squiggly tubes you see in the picture on the bottom of the foot bath.... they are stationary tubes with holes in it that release bubble if you want them to.

I guess I was mostly disappointed than anything, but I could have read more carefully. I just wanted to write something so someone else doesn't assume what I assumed, that you could get massage, bubbles, and heat at the same time. I guess you could have bubbles and vibration (but no massage) at the same time, and if you poured in hot water you could have heat too. But this is not the same as what I expected, which, again, was mostly my own fault.

101 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HoMedics FR-500 Foot Rejuvenator Bubbler Footbath, July 9, 2002

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Janice Hilts (Harsen's Island, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FOOT REJUV WET/DRY MASSAG EQ HEAT (Electronics)

My feet are getting old (but NOT the rest of me) and they really love to be pampered at the end of the day in this footbath. I think the best feature is the 2-speed spinning rollers that massage the bottoms of the feet...it feels wonderful. I use them first and then immerse my feet in the water to enjoy the benefits of the vibrating bottom and the bubbling action. If I could improve anything, it would be to make the bubbling more forceful, but I'm sure there are limits on how much can be done in a small unit like this versus a full-sized jacuzzi.

I can't attest to how well it keeps the water warmed because the weather has been hot and I've only been putting cool water in the tub. But I think that keeping the feet cool while massaging them is an extra benefit. My feet feel so refreshed after using this unit, and I would highly recommend it to others.

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Foot Rejuvenator, February 18, 2003

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Meri (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FOOT REJUV WET/DRY MASSAG EQ HEAT (Electronics)

I recently had foot surgery and my boyfriend was thoughtful enough to get this for me. This product has been a great help in the recovery of my foot. Although the description leads you to believe that you get a heater, massager and bubbler all-in-one (you don't); this product is great. The massager is on the outside of the unit as well as the heater. I know people have complained that you have to put hot water in it..but be real...is that so hard??? This unit keeps the water hot for at least 20 minutes (which is more than the recommendid time to soak) and it delivers on all of it's promises.

After surgery my foot was stiff, sore and I couldn't bend my toes. After soaking, the heat and massagers helped me gain more flexibilty and eased my throbbing foot. I recommend it to anyone who wants a great product to sooth your feet at the end of the day (or after surgery). :)