Walking barefoot on the floor, feet get nasty. I can't do it. Dog hair, cat hair, whatever came in from the yard: by bedtime the bottoms of my feet were grey. One woman put it in 6 words on our survey: "Dirty feet from floors and carpets." Another: "I luv to walk around the house and outside barefoot but I don't like my feet to be dirty."

These put a thin rubber sole between my foot and the floor. What I wanted was exactly what she wrote next: "cleaner feet when I go to bed." And that is what I got.

I like the feeling of nothing on my feet. I just do not like what comes with it. One woman wrote that she likes something on her feet, but it must have the barefoot sole. That is these: the top feels like a sock, the sole is thin enough that I still feel the floor.

The reviews say it the same way, over and over. "They are like going barefoot, but protected." "Feel barefooted with protection." "Sooo comfortable like being barefoot." Your feet need some protection, and this is the only kind I will wear.

The fix for a dirty floor used to be socks, and socks on tile or hardwood are a slide waiting to happen. "I slide in the kitchen and on the floor too," one woman wrote before ordering. Another: "Love to walk barefoot but not without socks. Thought these were a good option to prevent slipping!"

The rubber sole has a honeycomb grip. One customer said it keeps her from slipping all over the place trying to wear socks on her hardwood floor. Super stretchy, rubber soles so you won't slip. That is the whole point.

This was my question before buying, and it is the one I see most in the comments: are they machine washable? Yes. "If they get dirty, easy to pop in the washer too," one review says. Another woman's only hope on our survey was that they "hold up to repeated washings." They do.

So I wear them from the first coffee to the last light, to the mailbox and back, and when they have been outside they go in with the towels. A fuzzy slipper never saw the inside of my washer. These see it every week.

2 pairs, 2 colors. One by the bed and one by the back door, which is where bare feet actually happen. Every order comes with easy returns, no questions asked.

One woman wrote that she goes to homes that want you to take your shoes off and she can't go barefoot, so now she can take these slippers with her. That is what the second pair is for. They already sold out of my size once, so if yours is showing in stock, I would not wait.