Any woman always wants her fingernails to always look alive and healthy, have a natural sheen. And for this it is necessary to monitor and care for them. Now in pharmacies and specialized stores you can buy a variety of creams, masks, lotions for nail care. However, there are also various folk remedies for nail care.
Folk remedies for brittle and brittle nails
The juice of cranberries, lemon, red and black currants are ideal for strengthening the nails. It is very useful to rub any of them into the skin and the nail plate. Do this regularly.
It helps to strengthen the nails and the mixture, which is quite simple. Take vegetable oil (1 teaspoon), lemon juice (10-15 drops), a little honey and rub the resulting mixture into the nails. Do this until 3 times a week, rub the mixture for 10 minutes. Then, do not wash your hands for a while. It is necessary that the mixture is well absorbed.
It is possible to cut off 2 slices from the lemon (the thickness of the lobules is 1 cm) and stick all the nails on the right and left hands in them at the same time. Leave hands for a while in lobules, then rinse with water.
A natural mask of lemon juice and salt is good for nails. Dissolve a little salt in lemon juice, mix and apply on nails for 20 minutes.
Return healthy nails to the nails and strengthen them will help a variety of trays with herbs (for example, with chamomile, mint, string). You can prepare a bath with the usual tea leaves, cabbage juice and mineral water. To do this, you need 2 tablespoons of tea leaves, half a glass of mineral water and as many fresh cabbage juice.
A wonderful action for nail care is beeswax. Preheat it in a water bath, and then immerse the fingers in it. You will have waxy "thimbles" on your fingers. It is desirable to save these "thimbles" until morning.
For fragile and brittle nails, a mixture of lemon oil (3 drops), jojoba (10 ml) and roses (2 drops) is suitable. Pour this mixture into a bottle of dark glass. Then 2-3 times a week smear this mixture of nails. Do these trays every 2 weeks.
To strengthen the nails are very suitable and vegetable infusions. You can make a bath with the juice of raw potatoes and cabbage. Effectively strengthen the nails will also help the juices of different citrus (grapefruit, orange, lemon, etc.).
Means for the care of exfoliating nails
With the delamination of nails, the mask of red pepper (1 teaspoon) and the same amount of vegetable oil copes well. Apply for five minutes this mixture on the nails (and can be for a longer time), then rinse.
You can take the egg yolk (steeply cooked) and beeswax (4 grams). Melt all this mass in a water bath and add a little peach oil until the mixture becomes a cream. To rub this mixture of nails is needed every night.
Pine, incense, bergamot, sandalwood will help to eliminate fragility, fragility and delamination of nails. You can make baths from vegetable oil.
Means for giving smoothness to nails
To give smoothness to the nails is a simple folk remedy. You need to take half a glass of potato peel (cleaned) and as much flaxseed. Mix all this and pour 0.5 liters of beer. Put on fire and cook until thick slurry forms. Then apply for 15 minutes this compound on the nails, and remove the remainder of the mixture with fleece.
Gives smoothness to the nails a mixture of boiled potatoes (1 tuber), milk (a quarter of a glass) and the same amount of beer. Stir the potatoes and mix with beer and milk. Apply 30 minutes of the mixture to the nails, and remove the excess with a cotton swab.
You can prepare a mixture of 1-tuber boiled potatoes, 4 tablespoons of milk and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. Stir the potatoes and mix with warmed vegetable oil and milk. To stir thoroughly. Apply for 15-20 minutes on the nails. Remove excess mixture with cotton wool.
However, many problems with nails can be associated with health. And then the people's means are unlikely to help you. In this case it is necessary to consult a specialist (dermatologist). And yet, do not forget to give your nails, at least occasionally, a breather (do not apply varnish on them). And, of course, watch your food.