Customer Reviews

10 Takara Detox Foot Patches - Japanese Detoxification Foot Pads Detoxify the Body While You Sleep. More Restful Sleep, Reduce Fatigue, Remove Toxins.

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I hate to throw cold water on something that might bring relief to pain sufferers. I am definitely among you with Lyme, EBV and other immune system disorders plus chronic bone infection. I've about been cured of the immune problems with antibiotics for the Lyme and Immune Care 64 (Google it) for the EBV (herpes six mostly) but the bone infection may still kill me. I looked into EVERYTHING to draw out toxicity and reduce the constant body pain. I tried six different brands of these footpads for three months.

I'm an engineer so I tend to be analytical in all I do. I contacted every company who makes or resells them asking for just one study by a recognized lab showing that the "brown yucky gunk" I saw each morning was actually from the body. I gave up. All I received were "glowing testimonials". You can get that with sugar pills from people who are desperate for relief. I finally did my own test. I researched body sweat. I made imitation body sweat with the right salts and other minerals of the body then heated it to body temperature. Dipping these pads into the imitation body sweat generated the same brown gunk.

How do they heat the foot to cause it to sweat? There are three rocks found in nature that emit heat naturally. One is radium. Much exposure to that can kill you. But there is another rock that emits heat and is harmless. Mixed with the bark of the Japanese tree used to make these pads, the rocks heat the soles of your feet as you sleep. The resulting sweat soaks into the pads and causes the bark to turn to brown gooey gunk. If it is really toxins from the body, would someone please tell me of an independent and scientifically recognized laboratory who has tested the results for body toxicity. Please, no testimonials. Every company in this business has plenty of those. But actual lab results? I have found none and I REALLY looked. And I REALLY wanted these to work to remove the toxicity that was causing me so much pain, but that was finally alleviated by a doctor diagnosing me with Wilson's Syndrome. I was put on armour thyroid. My metabolism began to work again and detox my body naturally. These pads are like many things. If they truly make you feel better then, by all means, use them. But I know of no scientific evidence that proves they draw out toxicity and I have simulated the process that generates the brown gunk you think is toxicity from your body. Take one pad and put a corner of it into salt water heated to body temperature. You'll have the brown gunk within minutes.

I purchased this because I have just gone off a medication that I want to get out of my body. I really liked the feeling this am, I have a lot of energy and do not feel as tired as I have been feeling I think since going off the medication. I also thought it was very easy I had also read on line only to use one at a time alternating feet so I did that right and luckily I have had no chance to drink so did that right too. I ordered the sample pack off of the [...]
Not sure, Amazon wants me to put that but for $3.95, you get to try two patches to see if you like them and then you can order more. I have not experienced the smell as someone else wrote it is very gross to take it off but once I showered, I have been fine all day. Maybe do not use three on a foot at a time. Very very cool product happy I found it!!!

I've tried it and will not every use it again! First of all, it's very very stink! Smells like smoke meat! In addition, it gets very sticky due to the adhesive that you must use. Even after scrubbing my feet the "glue" stays on and the smell never goes away, just like being sprayed by a skunk! I've also tested the integrity of the product because you see pictures where at first the patch is clear in the before photo and black/brown in the after photo. Well, actually I had put water on it and guess what, it turned brown. I have discovered that it is the sweat that causes it to change color. The product, like most others, are too good to be true! I suggest that you don't waste your time or money on this horrible product!

Check out the Takara Detox Foot Patch website. They have a BBB logo, but check with BBB... not a member!

They reference a Consumer Watch Review here.
http://www.consumerwatchreview.com/footpatchreview.htm

They're the top rated foot patch!!! My-oh-my, how wonderful! It's a bogus review site. Check out the root...
http://www.consumerwatchreview.com
Foot patches are the only thing they have ever reviewed.

Not only that, check out some of thermographs & other photos from the 5 "contenders". You'll find some of the exact same pictures on the "competing companies" websites. It's the same people selling the same product on different websites from different "companies" from different addresses (I assume). Look for the foot & hand thermographs in the Takara, Detoxion, and Dtoxpatch websites -- exactly the same! Detoxion and Dtoxpatch have the same photos of someones foot (look under medical lab photos for the Dtoxpatch).

I've also noticed all foot patch companies products (including Kinoki that's not in the "review") seem to look exactly the same. The little packets and the sticky bandage look like they all came from the same place. Could be a coincidence? Could be they all bought the bandages and empty packets and stuffed it with their own ingredients?.... I think they're ALL bogus!

And yes, I did try the Takara packets. The patches did not lighten. Looked exactly the same from the 1st used patch to the last after 2 weeks. Hmm... maybe I'm just overloaded with toxins and need to fork out more money to buy a YEAR supply before I notice the patches starting to get lighter.

Trying to get a refund now.

Will post again if I have the time and energy to find more "crap" from the websites. Check the websites (including the BBB) yourself and post anything you might find, as I know many people don't have the time and energy looking into these things on their own. I know I should have posted more website references to make it easier....

Don't take my word for it... check it out for yourself... PLEASE!!!

I recently received a box of the Detox Foot Pads for Christmas and I was a little skeptical at first, but after using them for only a few days I can tell a major difference.

When I walked I use to have a tremendous amount of pain in my left knee, it felt like my bones were going to disconnect at the knee joint and start poking through my skin. It hurt so badly sometimes that I couldn't even sleep without feeling pain running from my left knee up to my lower spine.

Now after using the pads, my knee feels much better. I posted my testimonial at: http://hubpages.com/hub/kinoki_detox_foot_pads

These things are all hype. They do nothing. The pads do not get lighter as you use them, they look the same after every night. From what I can tell, the dried vinegar in the pads absorbs your sweat, oxidizes (which makes it look that ugly brown), and stinks. That's all.

I bought this product after reading some reviews on detox foot pads and the positive results people have had with them. This is what happened.... When I opened the package, I noticed a distinct odor from the product. Not too pleasant to my senses, but tolerable. I placed the pads on my feet as directed on the package insert (3 patches to cover the top, middle, and bottom of each foot - which is different from how it is shown on the box) and crawled into bed. Almost immediately, I noticed a very "stinky" smell every time a moved around in the sheets. The smell was coming from my feet!!!! Needless to say, it was hard getting a good night's rest because the smell seemed to get worse as the night went on. The next morning, I could hardly stand the smell of my feet. I pulled off the pads and GROSS!!! There was this nasty brown goop on the pads. So the pads did "something." I jumped in the shower but no matter how hard I scrubbed my feet, I could not get rid of the smell! I tried to neutralize the odor by spraying mint foot spray on my feet but it didn't help. And right now, the smell is still not going away! It has been 8 1/2 hours since I scrubbed my feet and I can still smell the nastiness while I type this!!! (and no, I am not holding my feet underneath my nose) So, even if the product works, I cannot use it because of how it interacts with my "foot chemistry." Shooo-eeee!!!! (I don't think my body is that "polluted" but who knows...) In the meantime, I am off to look for a ideas on how to get rid of this horrible smell.

Don't waste your time or money. Totally ineffective - did nothing but make me feel foolish for putting them on my feet every night and giving my feet a funny smell everyday.

I did not really like these pads. I bought 2 at the same time to compare the 2 and these left my feet so sticky that they picked up every piece of dirt off the rug. And they stank way more than the other product "body relief" that I bought. They did seem to work but the smell was a unwanted side effect.

I bought a ten pack. I am not too sensitive to smells, so the smell didn't bother me too much. What I had a problem with is following directions late at night to try and figure out how to put these on correctly.
I did it wrong at least twice. I felt like I wasted my money.
I didn't notice any results the times that I got it right, (and the adhesive still came off in the night).