For hard-working paws.
A lick-safe balm that keeps hard-working pads conditioned and flexible, not dry and brittle. Made for dogs who run hot pavement, sand, and trails.
- 👅 Lick-safe
- 🌿 5 clean ingredients
- 🐾 $1 per tin gives back
Soft pads in 14 days, or your money back
Nami's Paw Balm
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- Lick-safe and simple. Just 5 clean ingredients, nothing your dog cannot safely lick off.
- Moisture, not a heavy wax. Beeswax seals it in, shea, coconut and sunflower do the conditioning. It works into the pad instead of just coating it.
- Tough, not brittle. Dog pads are supposed to be tough, that is healthy. We condition the ones that have gone too dry so they stay tough and flexible, instead of cracking.
- Hates booties? This stays on. No straps, no fuss, just rub it in.
- The Soft Pads Promise. Softer, happier pads in 14 days or your money back. Keep the tin.
Ingredients: Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Shea Butter, Vitamin E. Fragrance-free. Net wt 2 oz (57 g).
This is pad care and recovery, not heat protection. On hot days, walk at dawn or dusk, or on grass.
"Her paws are fine, though."
That is what we thought too. Here is what changed our mind.
A paw pad is three things at once: the sole of the shoe, the shock absorber for every joint above it, and the barrier between your dog and the ground. It flexes thousands of times on a single walk.
Pads are supposed to be tough. That part is healthy and we are not trying to change it. The problem in a place like Florida is the cycle: hot pavement, then sand, then salt water, then pavement again. Heat and friction and drying, over and over.
Think of leather. Supple leather bends all day and springs back. Leave it in the sun and it goes hard, then it goes cracked. A pad that has dried out does not get softer when it fails. It gets rigid, and rigid things split.
And here is the part most owners do not know: dogs hide foot pain. They do not limp until it is bad. What you actually see, long before that, is smaller.
What you would actually notice
- licking or chewing at a paw
- slowing down on walks she used to love
- favouring one foot, or shifting weight
- sitting down and stopping partway
What a balm actually does. It reduces excessive drying and keeps the pad conditioned and pliable, so it stays tough and flexible instead of tough and brittle. That is the whole job. It is not a treatment, and it is not a heat shield.
On hot days, the real protection is avoidance. Walk at dawn or after dark, stay on grass, and use the seven-second test. No balm makes hot pavement safe.
Meet Nami
She is a mini Aussie, born on Valentine's Day, which explains a lot. She gives love in stupid quantities and would rather have praise than a treat.
Her priorities, in order: the ball, then me, then my wife. I am told the ranking is not personal.
She is a Florida dog with a Florida problem. She hates the heat. On a walk she will find every scrap of shade there is, including, once, a stranger's beach umbrella. And she still wants the beach, still wants the frisbee, still wants to run on sand and hot sidewalk all afternoon.
All that running is rough on little paws. Every balm we could find was made for snow. So we made her one for our world, with nothing she cannot safely lick off. Turns out a lot of dogs needed the same thing.
Still made for her, in Boca Raton. 🧡
Every tin helps pull a dog off the list
We are a small business, not a charity. $1 from every tin goes to dogs at real risk of euthanasia in overcrowded shelters. We do not just say it. We hit a goal, donate it, and post the receipt. Then we raise the bar and set a bigger one. Every goal bigger than the last.
We started it ourselves.
Before we sold a single tin, we put in the first $25 to Dallas Pets Alive!, a foster-based rescue that pulls dogs off the euthanasia list in Texas, where the pavement runs as hot as ours. Call it our kickstarter. The donation is real, and it's the first of many.
See the receiptThe fund is live. Every tin moves the bar toward our $50 goal for a rescue. Be part of it.
🐾 $1 from every tin · $25 already in, from us · 🕒 tracker updates as tins sell
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You buy a tin. A set piece of every sale drops into the rescue fund.
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We hit the goal, then donate it to a vetted, foster-based dog rescue.
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We post the receipt so you know exactly where it went. Then we raise the bar, every goal bigger than the last.
The receipts
- $25 See the receipt
Radical transparency, always. We would rather show you a small, real number and a real receipt than make a big vague promise.