1. Like stretched skin of hands
Dry skin is a problem for many women, despite numerous hand care products. The skin of the hands does not have sebaceous glands, it is very vulnerable, and compared to the skin of the face, contains 5 times less water. That's why the hands need constant good care.
The causes of dry hands are:
1). Natural factors: in cold, windy weather, the skin of the hands coarsens, the skin thickens, cracks and redness appear. And the sunny weather on the contrary, accelerates the aging process, dehydrates the skin of the hands.
2). Various injuries - bruises, scratches, cuts and so on.
3) . Detergents destroy the top layer of the epidermis, can cause dermatitis, eczema, allergic reactions and so on.
4). Negligent care of hands, if they are not wiped dry after washing, the remaining moisture, evaporating, dries the skin.
5). Dry skin of the hands is from birth.
6). Avitaminosis in the period from winter to spring.
Tips on how to take care of dry hands
1). Even in childhood, children are taught to keep their hands clean, and this is the basic rule of caring for their hands. Wash hands with a special gel or warm water with toilet soap. In cosmetics there are additives that prevent the drying of the skin. Then you need to dry your hands dry with a towel, especially the skin between your fingers.
2). Use lotions and creams with a lot of moisturizing elements, such as lactic acid, sorbitol, glycerin. Up to 30 years you can use any moisturizing cream, and after 30 years, should be applied to the hands of the cream with light-protection filters, they prevent the appearance of pigment spots.
3). Cosmetologists advise after washing hands to apply a cream that contains herbal extracts. Apply protective cream on your hands, before each exit on the street in the autumn and winter, before putting on gloves, apply a nourishing cream, or you can grease your hands with cream or vegetable oil instead of a nutritious cream.
4). If household work is associated with strong detergents and with prolonged contact with water, you need to use vinyl or rubber gloves. They can protect hands from the harmful effects of chemicals. Before putting on gloves, you should grease your hands with butter or vegetable oil or apply a nourishing cream on your hands.
5). To clean the skin of the hands can not use acetone, kerosene, gasoline. Although these solvents perfectly wash off the dirt, they also cause dry skin. To do this, it is better to use detergents, which are manufactured by our industry, to remove strong contaminants.
6). In frosts and in the cold windy season, you need to especially protect your hands, put on mittens and warm soft gloves.
7). In the summer, you should protect your hands from the sun. Ultraviolet rays can damage the skin of hands, dry it and increase the number of cracks. Before going outside, apply sunscreen on your hands, its protective factor, at least should be 15.
8). You can make bandages with olive oil, wrap or lubricate your hands with vegetable oil. They need to be done at night, the most effective bandage will be if the vegetable oil is mixed in the proportion of 3 parts of oil per 1 part of honey. In warm condition, it is necessary to apply the mixture on hands. A mixture of honey and oil is heated in a water bath to 40 or 45 degrees, no more, as there may be burns.
With this mixture soak cotton cloth, or cotton swab that wraps in cheesecloth and put a bandage on your hands, all covered with wax paper, fix with a tubular bandage or fabric gloves. This procedure is effective for weakened or dry, weather-beaten skin of hands. If small skin lesions can be done only once such a wrap, for the sick hands apply the wrap 2 times a week, until the skin condition on the hands improves.
9). For dry hands, we prepare an effective cream at home, for this, in a water bath we will melt lamb and unsalted fat in the proportion 1: 1. The resulting cream will be poured into a jar and at night we rub the cream into the skin of the hands.
10. The mixture of 5 drops of ammonia, 3 table spoons of water, 2 tablespoons of glycerin softens the skin of the hands well. All well mixed and threated into a damp, clean hand skin, then dry up your hands with a towel.
eleven). Dry the skin of the hands with a mixture of 1 tablespoon of glycerin and half a glass of water mixed with ½ lemon juice. All thoroughly mix and dry into clean hands.
Compresses and masks for dry skin of hands
1). We put a potato mask on our hands with a thick layer of mashed potatoes, put on gloves and walk in them for 2 hours.
2). Oatmeal mask - we will cook oatmeal. Add salt to the water, add vegetable oil and hold hands in this composition for 10 or 15 minutes. We make a mask for the night.
3). Sour cream for the night : take 1 lemon, 1 cup thick sour cream, 1 yolk.
Squeeze the juice from the lemon. Sour cream mixed with egg yolk and add lemon juice. We mix the prepared mixture. In the resulting mixture we lower the gauze, moisten it and put it on your hands. Hands wrapped with wrapped cellophane and wrapped in a towel to keep warm. After 15 or 20 minutes, remove the remnants of the mixture with a piece of dry cotton wool, and put on your hands cotton gloves.
4). Honey compress: take half a glass of olive oil, half a cup of honey, 1 teaspoon of salicylic acid. Mix olive oil and honey, heat the mixture in a water bath until a uniform mass is formed. Add salicylic acid and mix well. Warm the mixture, with a cotton swab, put on the hands skin, wrap the hands with polyethylene, then wrap the towel. After 15 or 20 minutes, we remove the remnants of the remedy with a cotton swab dipped in lemon juice.
5). Mask honey-egg: take 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons honey, 2 yolks. We will use vegetable oil, honey and yolk to form a pasty mass. Put the mask on your hands and leave until completely dry. After we take off with a wet fleece.
6). Mask for hands with lemon and egg whites: take 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 medium lemons, 2 egg whites. Mix the vegetable oil, egg white and lemon juice. We mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Twice a day, we rub the skin of the hands with this mixture.
7). To soften the dry skin of the hands, apply a few drops of linseed oil and well rub out the brushes and fingers from the bottom upwards for 15 or 30 minutes.
8). Helps with weather-beaten and dry skin of hands a mask from the leaves of mother-and-stepmother. To prepare well, we will wash the fresh leaves of mother-and-stepmother, crush them and mix with fresh milk, add 2 ml of milk to 2 tablespoons of gruel. The mask is kept for 20 or 25 minutes, then we wash it off with warm water and apply a nourishing cream.
9). A good remedy for softening your hands is a tray made from a plantain infusion (for 1 liter of boiling water, add 1 tablespoon of ground leaves of plantain). In this infusion, we hold hands for 15 to 20 minutes, then dry it dry and smear with a fat hand cream.
10). Effective decoction of celery for the care of dry hands. Take a medium-sized celery, fill with a liter of water and boil for 30 minutes. The resulting broth wipe the skin of the hands, do this as often as possible.
2. Weathering, flaky skin of hands
Rough hands become due to lack of fat and moisture. Cold water, cold dry winds, destroy the fat barrier and the skin of the hands, so it becomes dry, if you do not take care of your hands, then they begin to peel off and small cracks may appear.
If the skin began to peel off, remove the dead skin particles with the help of hand scrubs, the procedure is done 2 times a week. Also we use gels-peelings, exfoliating masks for washing hands. For the peeling skin of the hands, creams that hold moisture and moisturize, with components such as silicone and mineral oils, are suitable.
With strong peeling of the hands will help the bath
1). The oil bath will help for very dry skin. In the water we add sunflower, olive or vegetable oil, we keep hands in it for 15 or 20 minutes. After that, we will grease the hands with cream.
2). Sour-milk baths. We hold hands in milk whey or in curdled milk for 15 or 20 minutes, dairy products will be slightly heated. After the procedure, hand the cream.
3). Potato tub: put your hands in the water in which potatoes were cooked, help with flaking skin of hands and cracks, relieves redness of the hands, which is caused by low temperatures. The duration of this procedure is 20 or 30 minutes.
4). Oatmeal bath: a warm broth made from oatmeal flakes softens the skin and removes its peeling. The duration of the bath is 10 or 15 minutes.
5). Excellent soften the skin of a tray of 1 tablespoon of starch or whey per liter of water.
6). To soften the rough rough skin of the hands, do twice a week, at night, a bath of sauerkraut juice. After the skin we will grease with a fat cream, at night we will put on cotton gloves.
Compresses against skin peeling
1). Raspberry-camomile wrap. For its preparation, take 2 glasses of water, 200 grams of raspberries, ½ cup dried chamomile flowers. Shredded chamomile with a glass of boiling water, cover with a dense cloth and put in a warm place for half an hour. Raspberry brew the remaining glass of boiling water and put in a warm place for half an hour, covered with a dense cloth. The resulting infusions are filtered and mixed. We moisten the gauze in the prepared solution and put it on our hands. After 7 or 10 minutes, we will again moisten the gauze in the infusion and repeat the procedure. Change the compress at least 3 or 4 times. Compress helps with weathering, rough skin of hands.
2). Compress of burdock leaves. For a hand compress, you need 2 cups of water, half a glass of raspberries, a burdock leaf. The burdock leaf is cut into several pieces and brewed with a glass of boiling water. After half an hour, let's strain the infusion. Raspberry berries brew the remaining glass of boiling water, let us brew for 20 minutes, drain. We mix 2 infusions thoroughly. We will moisten the gauze in the prepared infusion and put it on the hands for 15 or 20 minutes.
3). Compress of parsley and raspberry. Take half a glass of water, 200 grams of raspberries, a bunch of green parsley. Brew boiled water with parsley and leave to infuse for 20 or 25 minutes. We will lay raspberries in enameled ware and we will break it with a wooden spoon. Mix well the puree with strained parsley infusion. In the prepared liquid, we moisten the gauze and put a compress on our hands. We hold at least 15 minutes, then we will wash off with warm water and get wet with a towel. Compress helps with flaky, weather-beaten skin.
Masks with flaky, weather-beaten skin
1). Mask oil and chamomile: take a glass of water, 2 tablespoons of chamomile flowers, 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil, 3 tablespoons of wheat flour. Chamomile fill with boiling water, let us brew for 1 hour to one and a half hours, then cool and filter. Add to the infusion flour, stir to the state of gruel. In the resulting mixture, let's mix the vegetable oil and mix everything. We put the mask on clean hands and hold for half an hour. Wash off with warm water and apply cream.
2). A mask of olive oil will help. Take 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a few drops of lemon juice. The mask will be applied for half an hour, then the remains of the mask will be wiped with a dry napkin, and the hands will be smeared with cream.
3). Honey-oatmeal mask: mix 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of milk, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 3 tablespoons of oatmeal. We will put the mask on for an hour, and in order to have the best effect, we will put on the gloves. Wash off with warm water and smear hands with cream.
4). Oily yolk mask: mix 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, 1 yolk. Votrem in the hands of the mask and hold it for 15 or 20 minutes. Wash off with water and apply a nourishing cream.
Knowing how to care for dry skin of hands, with regular care, with masks and compresses, you can turn dry hand skin into a smooth, moisturized and elastic skin.