This website is for people suffering from shoe allergies.  It is the result of my personal  quest to find shoe manufacturers that do not use para-tertiary butyl phenol formaldehyde resin (PTBP-FR) in their shoes, after I was diagnosed with an allergy to this glue in the summer of 2006. This site currently includes information for people who are allergic to PTBP-FR and potassium dichromate (chrome).

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!  In order to add more shoe manufacturers to the existing lists - and to create new lists for people suffering from different types of shoe allergies -  I need your help!  If you're willing to email a few shoe manufacturers to ask them whether a particular allergen is used in their shoes, please let me know.   

SHOE REVIEWS!  If you buy a pair of shoes from a manufacturer listed on this website, please go to the 'email me' page to review it.  To read other people's reviews, look out for the 'Reviews' icon on the PTBP-FR and potassium dichromate lists.  The purpose of these reviews is to help users of this website in their shoe-buying decisions: knowing that several other shoe allergy sufferers have bought shoes from a particular manufacturer and have not reacted to them (and vice versa!) is quite helpful when contemplating what shoes to buy.  

SHOPPING GUIDES!  A new addition to the website is worldwide shopping guides for PTBP-FR-free and chrome-free shoes.  If you have located some PTBP-FR-free or chrome-free shoes in your area, please share your shoe finds with other users of the website; information can be added to the shopping guides by emailing me.

Finally, please do make use of the message board - to share your experiences of coping with shoe allergies, to ask questions, to get advice, and so on.  

Last updated 13 July 2008