It's that time of year for spring cleaning and outdoor gardening.
While our hands and fingernails are an integral part of these chores,
you don't have to ruin your manicure.
Consider the following nail
care tips and your nails will never show that you have been digging in
the dirt or scrubbing that kitchen floor.
1. For spring cleaning
and daily household chores that require you to get your hands wet, wear
cotton-lined rubber gloves to protect your nails. Why? Our fingernails
swell when they get wet and shrink as they dry, which causes our
fingernails to have less strength. Cotton-lined rubber gloves will help
absorb moisture while keeping your hands and nails dry.
2. While
working in the garden, it is important, as with cleaning, to wear the
right kind of gloves. When dealing with damp soil, chemicals, or liquid
fertilizers, it is best to wear rubber gloves that are water resistant.
For gardening projects such as digging or weeding, consider wearing
thicker gloves made of cowhide.
3. Before putting on cleaning or
gardening gloves, apply some lotion on your hands or apply cream on your
cuticles to moisturize. Try hand creams that contain oils such as shea
butter, eucalyptus, flower or jojoba.
4. To help prevent cracks in
your nails, rub moisturizer that contains alphahydroxy acids or lanolin
into nail tips. For another moisturizing agent, you can also massage
vitamin E oil into your cuticles. Tip - keep a bottle of vitamin E oil
next to your bathroom sink to remind yourself to apply it to your
cuticles.
5. When filing or buffing your nails, always go in one
direction. If you file or buff your nails back and forth, this will
cause splitting.
6. To promote nail strength and flexibility, eat
foods that contain folic acid such as whole grains, berries, kale, and
citrus fruits.
7. It is also important to drink plenty of water. This is necessary for fingernail health because it keeps the body hydrated.
8. To avoid breaking nails, don't use them as tools, such as digging or picking.
9. Use products containing alcohol sparingly. These products can make fingernails prone to breaking.
10. Do you file the corners of your nails? This may weaken the nails and cause them to break more easily.
Nail Polish Tips:
*
To prepare your nails for polish, wipe them with nail polish remover.
This will remove any grease from your nails and help your polish last
longer.
* Be sure to let nail polish dry completely before applying another layer.
*
Apply several thin coats of nail polish to your fingernails instead of
one thick coat. This will allow the polish to dry faster and last
longer.
* To avoid drying out your nails, try not to remove and reapply nail polish more than once or twice a week.
*
Consider using a nail polish remover that contains moisturizers. This
will help moisturize your nails while limiting the damage of the
product.
* To keep your nail polish bottle from becoming glued
shut, use a cotton ball and wipe the top of the bottle with nail polish
remover after each use.
* The experts believe the best place to
store your nail polish is in the refrigerator. If you store your nail
polish in a warm place, it will change the consistency.
* If you
don't have time to polish your nails or choose not to wear polish, you
can rub on a buffing cream and then shine them with a chamois buffer.
This is a very pretty and natural look.
By following the above
tips and making an effort to have healthy and beautiful nails, you will
have better-looking hands. You might also want to consider getting a
hand massage. This will help boost circulation, encourage nail growth,
and best of all pamper you, your hands, and your fingernails!
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Brittle Nails – Causes, Symptoms and Healthy Nutrition Tips
10:22:00 AM
Brittle nails are usually not associated with a medical disease. Brittle fingernails are a common condition, occurring in about 20% of people; more women than men develop brittle nails. Brittle nails usually break or peel off in horizontal layers, starting at the nail's free end.
The signs and symptoms of brittle nails include:
• peeling at the nail tips
• easy breaking
• inability to grow the nails out
What Causes Brittle Fingernails?
Everyone has brittle nails to some extent, some more than others. Aging can cause slowed nail growth and dull, brittle, or yellowish nails as the flow of moisture and natural oils to the nail bed declines. A lack of moisture or too much moisture can worsen an already brittle condition. Dry heat, detergents, nail polish remover, or harsh chemicals encourage cracked and dry brittle nails. On the other hand, too much moisturizer, hand lotion and a lot of time underwater leaves nails too soft for tearing.
The nutrition for dry, brittle nails includes the establishment of a healthy diet and ways that continuously enhance the condition of the brittle nails of the person and the increasing desire to stay away from fatty, junk foods.
Dry, brittle nails is a problem that thousands of women face. Nails dry-out in the winter time because of intense hand washing to stay healthful and because of all the dry air that is around generated as a result of heaters. Health Nutrition aids to control your fingernail health and provide a cure for dry, brittle nails. A inadequacy of B-complex vitamins, specifically biotin, will create ridges along the nail bed. A diet deficient in calcium inflicts to dry, brittle nails. Quite a number of vitamins and minerals have been proposed for the prevention of brittle nails.
The nutrition for dry, brittle nails and hangnails through a diet rich in vitamin C, folic acid and omega-3 can be classified into four major elements: the efficacy of the nutrition control and management procedures, the level of involvement of the people concerned, the guidelines and policies for nutrition control and management, and lastly, the control of potential dangers and hazards linked with the nutrition management.
For people with mild or intermittent brittle nails, a cosmetic moisturizer may be enough to keep the skin from feeling dry. Use a glass file or an emery board instead of a metal nail file. Also, make sure you file only in one direction. Therapeutic moisturizers, which have been shown to act as a barrier that keeps water from evaporating from the nails. Calcium-rich foods include all dairy foods, especially yogurt, dark green leafy vegetables, almonds, beans, and sardines.
Refrain from biting your nails. To help, kick this habit keep nails short, and paint them with a dark coloured polish. (Every-time you bite you'll be conscious of chipping the polish).
Nail polish remover. Using nail polish remover more than once a week, especially one containing acetone, can cause your nails to become dry.
Nails, should be neatly filed and shaped on a regular basis. For under the nail cleanliness use a nail brush and for smooth and shining nails use a nails buffer. Try a cuticle softener, for it might prove worthy.
Author: peterhutch
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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