Kinoki Detox Foot Pads

Factual Questions
1

WTF, over?

Can anyone tell me how exactly these things are supposed to work? It seems like a new take on snake oil to me.

Supposedly, you stick a pad to the sole of your foot and it sucks out all the “impurities” from your body. You too can eliminate lead, mercury and arsenic from your body painlessly overnight!

It uses natural tree extracts and “positive ions” to rid your body of toxins!

But wait, that’s not all…

While ridding your body of heavy metals and toxins, it’ll suck out cellulite, microscopic parasites… even mucous!!! The website and commercial says it, so it must be so.

What are these things? How do they get them to seem as though they work (The first couple of pads you use turn a particularly nasty shade of brown. When your body is “cleansed” they’ll remain white.)? They say it’ll also remove all copper, zinc and magnesium from your body, and that can’t be good.

So Teeming Millions, what’s up with these pads?

Site cite: https://www.buykinoki.com/?cid=409599

2

I use their competitor. It’s called a sock.

Curious… what do these things suck out of your wallet?

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Other recent threads on the same subject:

Would love to hear how this scam works…

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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=446404&highlight=kinoki

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449705&highlight=kinoki

It’s been done. Mild acid on the pads cleans your feet. Other than that, complete nonsense.

5

I’m seeing threads like this on several messageboards in the past month. What’s the deal, did they do a big marketing push? I didn’t think these were new products.

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My kid loves the Game Show Network, and the damned things are advertised on every show there, and have been for the past few weeks. I don’t know where other people are seeing them.

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Not new products, but a new brand of them, or something. And since there’s a very good chance the FDA and/or FTC will shut them down, or at least force them to change the ads to use less lies, they are doing a big marketing push now to get a lot of money.