Heel Balm!
Without it my feet turn into hooves in the winter, crack and bleed.
Two or three days of rubbing in plenty of Heel Balm makes them look like feet again.
No modern chemical wonder ingredients and not much of the other common ingredients, it is largely urea. I don't know why that works but it does.
If the dry, cracked skin is really bad and thick, start with a soak in Johnson's Foot Soap (which is getting hard to find) or the generic Walgreens substitute. That will make a good part of the dried dead skin get soft and soap-like and you can rub a lot of it off or scrape it off with your fingernails. But be sure to use the Heel Balm immediately after drying your feet or the hard dead skin will come back with a vengeance.
