Foot Baths - heated foot bath
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Customer Reviews of Foot Baths - heated foot bath
Customer Review: A Great Product
Summary: 4 Stars
With all the options out there, purchasing a foot spa can be tricky. Some will lure you with fancy wording, cheap prices, and seemingly attractive features. I spent a lot of time doing research, and ulitmately chose this foot spa.
I bought this with my fiance in mind about a year ago. She wears heels almost every day, and with that comes sore feet. I wouldn't no personally, you ladies can back me up on that. Anyway, after trying this out, my fiance LOVED it and couldn't get enough! She said her feet felt rejuvenated, and after trying it myself, wow, this thing WORKS!
The heat is fantastic. No need to preheat water as the heater works fast. The jets are powerful and massaging. The remote is a great feature for the ultimate control in turning the heater on and off, as well as the jets. The spa holds a good amount of water without splashing it everywhere, and it holds my feet with just a little bit of room left, which are a men's size 11.
If you do your research you will see many many complaints about other products, and I feel if you are looking for something good, but realtively inexpensive, Brookstone has the foot spa for you.
Only down side, you cannot add anything like bath salts or any of those other skin products. However, I bought my fiance some awesome foot cream, and the combination has her pleased! Definitely recommended!
Customer 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.
Customer Review: Big enough for size 13 feet but too slow to heat
Summary: 3 Stars
I am constantly surprised at the differences in the reviews, not as to how many stars the product deserves, but on the objective facts. How, for example, can people differ on something like size, which can be measured. Well, without wasting more words on this, I can only say that I wear a size 13 shoe, and the foot spa was big enough for me. In other words, I didn't have to squeeze my feet in, and my feet didn't touch the sides, or the back or front, when I was using it. What else can I say?
Water heating capability is another thing people disagree about. Personally, I was disappointed, even though I gave the unit a head start by filling it with warm to hot water before using it. Even so, it took so long to get the water hot that I thought the heater wasn't working. Finally, though, after fifteen or twenty minutes, I began to notice a rise in temperature. My advice for using this product, then, is to either fill it with hot water or let it work for, say, twenty minutes before climbing in. The first alternative is obviously the better of the two.
I just got the unit today, so I haven't completely explored its usage, so I'll just say that it only got three stars from me because of my disappointment with its heating ability.Foot Baths - Heated foot bath
Customer Review: one is no good without the other
Summary: 2 Stars
a foot like that was one of my dreams i though had finally come n true.the food blew my mind when iopend it,it like hsving having the car of your dream,but for your feet,when on it suggested two item most people bought when they ored thr foot tub for total pampering i had a bundle price if you got the foot soak with it.when you purchase something you wish they made so you could soak your feet in soothing oil and pampering foot soaks.i pulled it out read the directi9ons and my new car became like my old care you the old car you could put foot soak and things to make yourfeet nice and soft total relaxation,but that old car you had to keep adding hot water that was a pain. but my new car keeps the water hot but you cant put any foot soaking oils or salt noth for dooth the feet ,all you can do is put you feet in nice warm water,i bought even though i really coulnd afford it that day,i though they would be all gone i ordered it in august birthday slash christmas ppresent,so i didnt open it until october.so its in the closet,and im using the old car again,i wasted over a hundred dollars..let others know its only good for plain water soaking
Customer Review: Stopped working after 3 uses
Summary: 1 Stars
It must be very difficult to make a reliable foot spa. Noting the high failure rate described in reviews of other models, I bought this one for my wife. I concluded that the much higher price of this Brookstone model would be worth paying if the unit would last and perform better.
It did not. The first three times she used it, it worked well: it heated the water, the jets and remote operated correctly, and, although she didn't care for the bubbles, they functioned.
The next time she plugged it in, the unit failed to heat the water and would not change jet speeds.
We called the Brookstone service line; the agent told us to bring it to the nearest store for replacement. However, the sales managers at the Dulles Town Center store in Virginia curtly refused to cooperate, or even to contact customer service to work out an arrangement.
I'm willing to pay a premium for the promise of better functionality, higher reliability, and better service. Brookstone failed to deliver on this promise.