How it works
Your feet carry you through life – and they have to endure a lot.
Corns, pressure points, blisters, dry heels, cracks, ingrown nails or unpleasant foot odour?
Lebewohl's reliable products are designed to address common foot problems, offering a comprehensive solution for your needs.
For well-groomed, healthy feet – step by step back to greater well-being.
Ointment & cream
The care products provide intensive moisture, promote regeneration of dry, cracked skin and fissures.
Nail and Skin softener gel
Nourishes and softens cuticles in cases of ingrown nails.
Foot and shoe spray
To prevent unpleasant foot odour and for hygienic freshness in everyday life.
Corn Removal Plaster
For the treatment of localised calluses (keratolysis), such as those that can occur with corns and calluses.
Corn tincture
The Lebewohl Liquid Tincture is the ideal alternative to corn plasters for treating corns and calluses when you are on the go.
Pressure protection rings – round and oval
Protect sensitive areas of the foot with Lebewohl pressure protection rings. They alleviate painful pressure on the foot.
Mechanism of action of Lebewohl corn plasters
1. Plaster bandage
The asymmetrical plaster bandage optimises adhesion. Together with the skin-friendly polyacrylate adhesive, this prevents slipping. The air vent creates a moist environment, allowing water to penetrate the callus and soften it further.
2. Pressure protection ring
Noticeably reduces the pressure exerted by the corn.
3. Plaster core
Ointment active ingredient core consisting of a combination of salicylic and lactic acid and the natural excipients copaiba balsam, spruce resin, turpentine and violet saponins. Removes the corn in up to 10 days.
(I.C.3. Clinical report on Lebewohl corn plasters, 28 August/3 September 2003)
(Statement on the mechanism of action of Corn Goodbye Plasters, 27 November 2013:
Expert Office Dr. Lautenbacher GmbH, state-certified and qualified food chemist, 82166 Gräfelfing;
How Lebewohl Corn plasters work
The aim of the treatment is to peel off the corn. To do this, the skin must be softened and the surrounding cells must die off.
The effect of Lebewohl corn plasters is essentially based on three components:
1. Air exclusion
2. Pressure relief
3. Active ingredients
- The airtight seal creates a moist environment, allowing water to penetrate the callus and soften it.
- The corn penetrates the foot in a cone shape and causes pressure pain. The pressure relief provided by the pressure protection ring minimises painful irritation.
- The combination of various active and auxiliary ingredients in the core of the plaster softens the skin and causes the cell layers in the immediate vicinity of the corn to die off. (Statement on the mechanism of action of Hühneraugen Lebewohl plasters, 27 November 2013: Sachverständigenbüro Dr. Lautenbacher GmbH, state-certified and qualified food chemist, 82166 Gräfelfing).
Formation of corns
A corn (clavus) is a thickening of the skin on the feet, especially on the toes. It consists of calloused epidermis that penetrates deep into the skin with a central cone. Pressure on corns can therefore cause pain.
Wearing shoes that are too tight or poorly fitting can cause such thickening to form on the foot. This thickening of the epidermal cells consists mainly of dead cell material.
The aim of treatment is to soften this calloused conglomerate and separate it from the surrounding living cells so that the corn can be removed.
The active ingredient salicylic acid contained in corn removal products suppresses the body's own mediators, which play a major role in the development of pain and inflammation.
Another active ingredient, lactic acid, regulates the pH value so that the salicylic acid can penetrate the tissue more effectively.
The excipients copaiba balm, spruce resin, turpentine and violet saponins support the local death of cells in the vicinity of the corn. This allows the clavus and the surrounding cells to be removed from the tissue structure. (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Michael Wink, Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology, 69120 Heidelberg, 18 February 2001)
Our history
Dresden, 1905 – Carl F. W. Becker, a trained chemist, is one of the leading pioneers in the development of corn plasters with a special ointment active ingredient.
