If you’re having trouble seeing results with home remedies, try an over-the-counter cream meant to treat corn and calluses that contains salicylic acid. Just remember, as Giurini mentioned ...

The patient applied a topical multivesicular cream formulation of 6% salicylic acid (Salex, Healthpoint Ltd., Fort Worth, TX) to one foot b.i.d. The physician was blinded as to which foot was treated.