How to care for your hands and nails

Your well-groomed hands and nails create an impression of you. After all, hands are a woman's calling card. The condition of your hands and nails will emphasize your neatness, attitude towards yourself, and at the same time will make others treat you with respect or doubt you.

Daily hand care - this is not overkill. The skin on your hands is subject to contact with various substances during the day, so you should pay attention to the conditions of your work, this also applies to your home. Chemicals, solvents, resins and other substances, as well as frequent contact with water, all affect the condition of the skin of the hands and nails. And yet, the same is done by low-quality nail polish. Therefore, when performing such work, you must use rubber gloves. And at the end of the work, hands must be washed and lubricated with a nourishing cream.

If you have problems with hands and nails that have nothing to do with your work, if the nails have lost their natural color, exfoliate, become rough and brittle, this means that you urgently need to check your health.

What should be the nails? Hard, pink and smooth, well-groomed.

Brittle and brittle nails can be strengthened with trays: add oily vitamin A, 5 drops of lemon juice or 3 drops of iodine to warm vegetable oil. Place your hands in the tub and sit for 10 minutes. These baths can be done 1 - 2 times a week.

Nails and the skin around them can be improved by rubbing regularly lemon juice or juice of cranberries, black or red currants, you can table vinegar. Every other day, it is useful to make baths from sea salt, you can also from table salt. Nails will be beautiful and strong if, in addition to external care for them, you monitor nutrition. You need foods rich in proteins, mineral salts, vitamins - A and D, as well as gelatin. Gelatin contains jellied dishes and some dessert dishes, you can simply add it to hot soup.

If you are a woman who smokes, your nails may turn yellow. It is best to quit smoking in order not to harm not only beauty, but also health. And there can be no beauty without health. And yet, women who smoke can whiten their yellowed nails by rubbing them with a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution or lemon juice. But this must be done daily.

Manicure improves the appearance, but from time to time leave your nails unpainted, let them "breathe" air, "warm" in the sun and strengthen.

But what about those whose hands are neglected and their nails are not well-groomed? If you have a desire to fix everything, put your hands and nails in order, then consider how to do it.

If you want to have snow-white handles, you can use some of the following recipes:

1. Massage every night with a mixture of equal parts starch and glycerin.

2. To whiten the skin of your hands, you can use a mixture of boiled potatoes with milk. To do this, mix the named ingredients so that you get the consistency of liquid sour cream. Apply to hands and hold for 5 minutes, then rinse with water and lubricate with cream. Do this procedure 2 times a week. This hand mask is especially useful in winter if your hands are prone to chapping.

3. If calluses have formed on your hands, daily soda baths with rubbing these areas with a pumice stone will help. At the end of the procedure, lubricate your hands with cream.

4. Milk whey or curdled milk has a good effect on the skin of the hands. Soak your hands in the serum for 10 to 15 minutes. After that, rinse them with warm water, pat dry with a soft towel and brush with a protective cream.

5. Whitens the skin of the hands and cucumber juice mixed with sour cream. To do this, it is enough to grate a medium-sized cucumber, mix it with sour cream and grease your hands with the resulting mixture.After 15 - 20 minutes, rinse with warm water without soap, grease with nourishing cream.

6. Now many people decorate their homes with flowers that they grow themselves. After such work, it may turn out that the earth has eaten into the skin and remained under the nails. True, the British say that the one who has earth under his nails loves flowers. But such hands still need to be washed, although it is difficult. The following remedy will come to the rescue: add one teaspoon of granulated sugar, one tablespoon of milk to the soap foam. Now - wash it off. When the dirt is gone, rinse your hands with warm water. If your hands are very dirty, you can make a soap bath with baking soda. Make lather by cutting some soap with a knife and pouring boiling water over it. When the soap dissolves and foam forms, and the water has cooled slightly, add two teaspoons of baking soda, then immerse your hands for 10 to 15 minutes. Then wash, pat dry with a soft towel and brush with nourishing cream.

Essential oils will also help you in caring for your hands and nails. For example, revitalizing creams:

Lavender cream - 2 drops of lavender oil, 2 drops of sage, 2 drops of lemon, 3 drops of chamomile, mix with two tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Cream for adult women - 4 drops of sage oil, 4 drops of lavender, 4 drops of chamomile, 2 drops of eucalyptus, mix with a small amount of hand cream.

Day cream - 1 drop of geranium, 2 drops of chamomile, 2 drops of lemon, mix with one tablespoon of vegetable oil.

Night cream - 3 drops of peppermint oil, 2 drops of geranium, 1 drop of incense, 1 drop of fennel, 1 drop of grapefruit. Mix everything with a teaspoon of baby cream.

In conclusion, a few simple rules should be recalled:

1. Wear gloves or mittens in freezing weather.

2. Wear rubber gloves when handling various detergents.

3. Use a protective hand cream to keep your hands from reddening and drying out if your hands have to be in frequent contact with water or in cold weather.

4. Do not wash your hands often with soap, even very good soap washes away the grease that makes the skin firm and soft.