Originally Posted By: NightHiker
Try a Spenco Second Skin blister kit, really good stuff.

Or bite bullet and give it a nice coat of tincture of benzoine.


+100! Spenco Second Skin is simply the best stuff there is for blisters. It takes one from being a hobbled invalid to feeling as if there is nothign wrong. I first used this stuff playing football in high school, many moons ago. When breaking in a new pair of cleats, you often got blisters. We'd put some Second Skin over the blister, secure it with athletic tape, and we were good to go.

Last fall, I gave it to someone 1000 feet from the summit of Mount Washington, and the pain went away, allowing her to finish the climb.

Two weekends back, DW's nephew had a ceremony marking his high school graduation, to which we had to go black tie. The boyfriend of DW's niece was being attacked by his shoes and was not walking well. A little Second Skin, and all discomfort was gone. He wanted to know why he never used the stuff when playing soccer.

It is the stuff. If you have a blister and need to keep going, settle for nothing else.