As a basis of all folk recipes for hand cosmetics, simple natural remedies are used, which are in every home, or which can be purchased at a pharmacy. To get the best effect, folk recipes are recommended to be used regularly, for a long period of time. From time to time, skin care products should be changed to avoid addiction.
Traditional medicine offers the following recipes for cosmetics for nails and hands:
Mask to soften rough dry skin of hands and elbows.
To prepare the mask you need a tablespoon of shallow salt, a teaspoon of soda, a tablespoon of lemon juice, a tablespoon of sour cream or cream. Carefully move all ingredients. Before applying the mixture, make a hot bath for hands, for this you need to dissolve one teaspoon of soda in one liter of water. After that, the mask should be applied to the problem areas of the skin of the hands and wrapped in film or put on gloves. Do not rinse the mask for an hour. Wash your hands with warm water without soap and apply a greasy cream. With a particularly coarse skin, make a mask daily.
Mask for strengthening the nails.
Mix half a glass of olive oil with half a lemon juice and six drops of iodine. Daily for ten minutes to keep the nails in the mixture. After that, the nails should be wiped with a napkin or rinsed with water without soap.
Mask for strengthening the nails and softening of the okolonogtevogo roller.
Cut the lemon along the length into four pieces. In one lobule of lemon to stick all the nails of one hand, into another slice of lemon to stick all the nails of the second hand. Hold for ten minutes. Then wash your hands with warm water without soap. To nails do not separate and have got a beautiful, white matte shade, the procedure should be repeated three times a week.
Mask for dry and rough hands.
Every day, apply to the skin of the hands juice from berries of viburnum, cranberries, hawthorn, cowberry, bones, sea buckthorn, gooseberries, currants. Do not rinse the juice for ten minutes. Then wash your hands with warm water without soap and apply a fat cream on them.
Mask for dry skin of hands.
Boil two medium-sized potatoes in a uniform. Grind them together with the peel in a small amount of water in which they were brewed. Add half a glass of sour cream or fatty cream and a tablespoon of olive or sesame oil. The resulting mass is diluted with water to a consistency of sour cream. Apply the mask to the skin of the hands. Put on your hands gloves or plastic bags and wrap. Keep the mask for forty minutes, after which wash your hands with warm water without soap;
Mask for dry hands.
Take the water in which potatoes were boiled, add a glass of high-fat milk and three tablespoons of olive oil. Put your hands in the broth for twenty minutes. Do not rinse out the mask, wipe your hands with a napkin.
Mask for whitening and softening the skin of hands.
Half a pack of high-fat cottage cheese mixed with one spoonful of olive oil or any other butter, add three tablespoons of lemon or grapefruit. Rinse the hands and put on the mask for thirty minutes. Put plastic bags on your hands and wrap them around. After this, wash hands with water without soap.
Mask for brittle nails.
In a teaspoonful of fatty sour cream, add a teaspoon of red hot pepper. Apply the mask to the nails and wash off after ten minutes. Use the mask daily.
Mask for dry skin of hands.
Stir one banana, add a tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of olive oil. Mask put on your hands, put on plastic bags and wrap.
Mask for moisturizing and nourishing the skin of the hands.
Mix the egg yolk with two tablespoons of olive oil and one tablespoon of honey. Apply the mask to the skin of the hands and wrap it around. Hold for half an hour. Then wash your hands with warm water without soap.
Cream for the inflamed, cracked dry skin of hands.
Grind a bunch of fresh parsley and a bunch of basil to a puree state. Pour the resulting mixture with half a glass of olive or sunflower oil. Then put the mixture for a week in the fridge and stir occasionally. The cream should be applied daily on the hands and nails. Do not rinse.
Cream for healing of cracks and wounds on dry skin of hands, as well as for puffing nails.
Take one part of the cocoa, two parts of olive oil, infused into the root of the licorice, and add a teaspoon of sea buckthorn oil. Put the mixture in a water bath. All ingredients mix well and cool. Stir the mixture for a day before solidification. The cream should be put in a jar and put on hands every day. After applying the cream on your hands, you should wear gloves.
Cream from cracks, "pimples" and irritation of dry skin of hands.
Take the same parts of ammonia and glycerin, pour into a bottle with a tight lid. Shake the cream thoroughly before use. Apply to washed, steamed hands several times during the day.
Cream for protection from weathering of the skin of hands in winter.
Take the same parts of ethyl alcohol, ammonia, glycerine, water. Add a few drops of lemon essential oil. Every day, rub the cream into the skin of the hands, especially before going outside.
Cream for healing, nourishing, moisturizing and smoothing the skin of the hands.
Mix six tablespoons of coconut oil, five tablespoons of olive oil, two tablespoons of almond oil, one tablespoon of beeswax, and put in a water bath. Heat until the ingredients are completely mixed. Add to the mixture a teaspoon of borax, previously dissolved in two tablespoons of water. Remove the mixture from the heat and mix until completely cooled. The cream is used for strong weathering of the skin of the hands and for softening the skin of the heels, knees and elbows.
Cream for dry hands skin.
Take two tablespoons of honey and three tablespoons of soft butter, add a few drops of lemon essential oil. The cream should be applied to the skin of the hands every evening for one hour. After that, hands can be washed with water without soap.
Traditional medicine offers a very effective means of cosmetics for the skin of hands and nails, which can constitute a worthy competition to any known means for skin care of hands. To prevent and treat cracked, dry skin and brittle nails, folk medicine should be used regularly.