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where to buy a pumice stone in Phnom Penh

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I have a problem with an injury to the sole of my foot that requires regular scraping of the hard skin that forms and prohibits proper healing.
I have tried many pharmacies etc. looking to buy a pumice stone or the Dr. Scholl equivalent.
Does anyone have an idea where I might buy this other than my waiting until I go back to Europe in July?

Thanks in advance for any helpful answer
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jimpson wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:47 pm I have a problem with an injury to the sole of my foot that requires regular scraping of the hard skin that forms and prohibits proper healing.
I have tried many pharmacies etc. looking to buy a pumice stone or the Dr. Scholl equivalent.
Does anyone have an idea where I might buy this other than my waiting until I go back to Europe in July?

Thanks in advance for any helpful answer
I use a 80 grit sand paper. Even after a year or more of getting it wet in the shower it's still perfectly OK, in-fact does the job better than pumice that I have used in the past.

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This doesn't answer your question, but, anyway . . . . . . . I have callouses on the balls of my feet which get very painful after awhile, so I carefully slice off the hard skin with a razor blade, then smooth it over with a piece of coarse sand paper.
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Duncan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:58 pm
jimpson wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:47 pm
Even after a year or more of getting it wet in the shower it's still perfectly OK, in-fact does the job better
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i do not think pumice is very common because its not relaly a local material to Cambodia. If you go to a medical supplier or perhaps paharmacie de la gare you may find a chiropodists scraper
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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

The xxxxxxx's at my work suggested letting my wife loose with an angle grinder!

I will try paharmacie de la gare to find a chiropodists scraper, failing that the wet and dry paper is a possibility.

To those at my work who suggested an angle grinder I will get retribution in time!
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update on where to buy a pumice stone.

I went to Pharmacie du Gare and they referred me to the nearby Bayon Supermarket where I was able to buy a stone scraper similar in use to a pumice stone.

Thanks to all who helped.

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Try Pencil (Norodom) and Thai Hout (Monivong and BKK). If you've never been upstairs in the BKK Thai Hout, you've been missing a lot.
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jimpson wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:46 am update on where to buy a pumice stone.

I went to Pharmacie du Gare and they referred me to the nearby Bayon Supermarket where I was able to buy a stone scraper similar in use to a pumice stone.

Thanks to all who helped.

James
That is so weird. is it local or imported? Do you remember which section it was in?
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The section in Bayon Supermarket that I found the pumice style scraper stone was in the area where they sold hygiene items like nail scrubbers, shower caps, etc.
The form was a rectangular shaped stone about 12cm long by 5 cm wide ribbed on one side and flat on the other side. Did the job OK though.
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A hungry rat will do it.
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