{"id":6834,"date":"2014-12-22T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2014-12-22T00:32:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:32:58","slug":"purnail-is-an-expensive-scam-likely-rebranded-fungisil-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/purnail-is-an-expensive-scam-likely-rebranded-fungisil-snake-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Purnail is an expensive scam, likely rebranded Fungisil snake oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purnail is a toenail product to treat nail fungus. It’s active ingredient, undecylinic acid is available for about 1\/40th the price<\/strong> at your local CVS!<\/p>\n

For example, $13 for 1 ounce of 25% undecylinic acid in Fungicure<\/a> vs $60 for 0.3 ounces of 10% undecylinic acid in Purnail. <\/p>\n

Purnail is a scam. I’d like to give you better news but modern science doesn’t have a cure-all for nail fungus. Feel free to browse my site for ongoing real discussion about nail fungus cures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Short form: orals sometimes (50%?) work but they can be toxic to your liver. Any topical has a low (10%?) chance of success at curing. Some people say one formulation has done better for them than others. Don’t hold your breath and don’t spend a ridiculous amount of money on treatments: if it seems to good to be true, it is. Keeping your infection at bay with an inexpensive topical might be the best you can do. <\/p>\n

Purnail is almost definitely just a rebrand of another product made with the same ingredients with the same bottles and the same marketing. Take a look at the two product pages, do you notice any similarities?<\/p>\n

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Purnail is a toenail product to treat nail fungus. It’s active ingredient, undecylinic acid is available for about 1\/40th the price at your local CVS! For example, $13 for 1 ounce of 25% undecylinic acid in Fungicure vs $60 for 0.3 ounces of 10% undecylinic acid in Purnail. Purnail is a scam. I’d like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}