Hand care: baths, masks

In the article "Care for the hands of a mask bath" we will tell you how to take care of your hands. The skin of the hands is very susceptible to lack of moisture and fat. If the moisture content in the skin falls, lower than 10%, the skin becomes rough, hard and very dry. It is important to maintain the necessary level of humidity, which is very important for maintaining the elasticity of the skin of the hands.

On women's hands there are so many worries during washing, in the kitchen, washing, at work. They are exposed to various chemicals, cold and hot water, wind and frost. If you do not take care of your hands, this will lead to the appearance of cracks, redness, dryness, peeling and calluses. To wash our hands, we use soap that contains spermaceti and lanolin, high molecular weight alcohols, which weaken the action of alkali. We do not use household soap for washing, it can cause irritation, overdry the skin, strongly degreases, contains a large amount of alkali.

For the protection of the skin of the hands, such creams as "Silicone", such "cream-gloves" are produced, a protective film is formed on the skin, which protects against alkalis, acids, aqueous solutions of salts. Cream for hands "Silon" this cream protects the hands from heat, cold, wind, chemicals, from the action of detergents, dust.

Independent hand care includes:
- thorough cleansing of the skin of the hands,
- during the whole day intensive moisturizing,
- application of nourishing masks and creams,
- use of protective equipment in the winter.

Nourishing masks for problem skin
Once or twice a week, we will allocate time for masks for hands. We put them on for 10 or 15 minutes, then we wash off with warm water. Thanks to daily cosmetics, as masks have a curative effect and help to keep the hands in great shape.

Egg mask
Just vtrem at night in the skin of the hands of a mixture of 1 teaspoon of oatmeal, 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 yolk, we will put on fabric gloves. In the morning, wrinkles wrinkle and soften.

Honey hand mask
This mask makes the skin tender, softens the hands. Mix 15 grams of bee honey, a few drops of lemon juice, 1 egg yolk, 25 grams of olive or almond. We will put this mixture on hands and we will put on cotton gloves. We make this mask for the night.

Glycerin mask for the skin of hands
It softens flaky, fading and coarsening skin. Mix 1 teaspoon of glycerin, 1 teaspoon of honey and 2 tablespoons of water. Add 1 teaspoon of wheat or oatmeal. The mask is applied for 20 or 25 minutes.

Potato Hand Mask
To soften and smooth the skin of the hands will help potatoes. Weld 2 potatoes, pound them, like mashed potatoes with milk. Semi-liquid mass is applied to the skin for 2 or 3 hours.

"Lemon-potato" mask for the skin of hands
Take 2 potatoes, which we weld in a uniform and weed with 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. The mixture should be warm when it is laid on your hands in a thick layer. Then wrap our hands with cellophane and wait for 15 minutes in this state, then wash the mask with water and apply cream. At night, three times a mixture of 1 tablespoon of honey and one egg yolk into the skin of the hands.

"Honey-potato" hand mask
The coarsened skin will return elasticity and softness, if we impose a mixture, for this we will rub raw potato, a few drops of vegetable or fruit juice (carrot, cabbage, orange, lemon), 1 teaspoon of honey.

Oatmeal mask
Take 1 teaspoon of glycerin, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil and 1 tablespoon of hot water, 2 tablespoons of oatmeal.

Oil mask for hands
To hands become beautiful, we rub our hands with ordinary vegetable oil and put on cotton gloves.

Hand care
To soften the skin of the hands, we use home remedies. To do this, take 1 teaspoon of ammonia, 2 tablespoons of glycerin, decoction of flaxseed, decoction of the oatmeal, a teaspoon of mashed potatoes or a decoction of potatoes.

It is useful to make warm baths of herbs - burdock, sage, lime blossom, plantain, nettle, chamomile, we take 1 tablespoon of each herb per 1 liter of water. After this bath in the damp skin of the hands, a nourishing cream for dry skin or a hand cream will be used.

In case of appearance on the hands of edema, redness, rash, you need to contact a specialist for skin diseases. This all indicates that a healthy person had contact with some plants - hops, tobacco and others, or after contact with fertilizers.

Whose hands sweat, we make baths with table salt, one teaspoon for one liter of water,
or decoction of oak bark - per liter of water, we take a tablespoon of bark,
or with a tablespoon of vinegar - 1 tablespoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water.

Exercises for the hands
To maintain the flexibility of joints and fingers, to remove puffiness and increase blood circulation, to remove fatigue, we carry out a small set of exercises. We conduct it several times a day.

1. Strongly squeeze each hand into a fist and sharply squeeze, repeat 10 times.
2. We do rotational movements of the hands in and out, 10 times.
3. Make a circular motion with your thumbs in both directions, 10 times.
4. Put our fingers in the "lock", tightly squeeze and squeeze them, and so 20 times.
5. Firmly press the fingers and palms of both hands to each other. The elbows are held at shoulder level. Do not unclench your fingers, take your hands away, so that your elbows and wrists part, return the brush to its original position, do it 10 times.
6. Brushes of hands raise and lower, we do 20 times.

This gymnastics for the hands takes you 5 or 10 minutes, and then you will feel that your hands are rested.

Tips for the care of hand skin
1. It is best to wash your hands with water at room temperature. From cold water, the skin becomes stiff, flakes, hot water, degreases the skin, makes it rough, dries the skin.


2. Washing, weeding, washing up, cleaning are done with gloves, because the chemical substances that are contained in detergents are not effective on the skin of the hands. After all, these substances can remove fat, you can only imagine what they will do with the skin of our hands.

3. We wash our hands with a special gel or toilet soap. In such cosmetics contain various additives that prevent the drying of the skin.

4. After any contact with water, we wipe our hands well, this will relieve us of burrs.

5. Every day, we lubricate the skin of the hands with cream.

6. Since the skin on the elbows is often stiff and dry, it needs special care. Elbows during washing wipe in circular motions with pumice, then grease with a fat cream, which we mix with lemon juice.

7. The bath for the hands will make the skin supple and soft. For 2 liters of warm water, take 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Or for 2 liters of warm water, take 1 tablespoon of glycerin and 1 teaspoon of ammonia. The procedure is carried out for 15 or 30 minutes, for 10 or 15 consecutive days, a month later we will repeat or conduct a course of some other procedures for the care of the skin of the hands.

8. With rough, coarse skin it is useful to make baths from whey and from sauerkraut juice. Then we will lubricate the skin with a fat nutritious cream.

9. If on hands there were corns and cracks, we apply baths from starch, we shall take on 1 liter of water, 1 table spoon of starch. After 15 minutes, rinse your hands and smear with a nutritious cream. Such baths are useful in the case of calluses and cracks on the soles of the feet.

10. If you sweat your hands, try to make a salt bath. We divorce in 1 liter of warm water, 1 teaspoon of sea salt. We hold hands every day in such a bath for 5 or 10 minutes, for 10 or 15 days.

Masks for hands at home
"Honey-oatmeal" mask
Mix 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of milk, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 3 tablespoons of oatmeal. We will put a mask on 1 hour on hands to get the best effect we will put on gloves.

Oily and Yolk Mask
Mix 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, 1 yolk. Let's sit on your hands for 15 or 20 minutes. Smoem water, we will put on the nourishing cream.

"Honey and Yolk Mask"
Mix 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 teaspoon of oatmeal, 1 yolk. We grease with such a composition and put on cloth gloves. Mask smoem in 15 or 20 minutes, then smear hands with a nutritious cream.

Potato mask
We shall weld 2 or 3 potatoes, we will raze them with milk. We put on the hands of gruel and put in this mass of hands until completely cooled. Smoem water, we will put on the nourishing cream.

Masks for nails and hands at home
1 recipe. Home mask for softening the skin on the elbows
Mix 1 teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of fatty sour cream or cream, ½ teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of salt. We will spread out our elbows, spread this mixture and wrap it with cellophane for 45 minutes. Then smoem and smeared with a fat cream. We do 1 or 2 procedures until the skin becomes velvety.

2 recipe. Natural mask for strengthening nails
Take a couple drops of iodine, a few drops of lemon juice, a few tablespoons of olive oil. Let's drop our nails into this mixture and hold for 5 or 10 minutes. Smoem water without soap.

3 recipe. Iodine from the bundle of nails
For the night we will spread the nails with iodine. If we do this in the evening, since it is quickly absorbed, the nails will not be yellow anymore.

4 recipe. Lemon for strengthening nails
Cut 2 lobules from the lemon, 1 cm thick. We put all the nails into each lobe, into one lobe - the nails of the right hand, in the other hand - the nails of the left hand.

5 recipe. Sour berries for the care of nails and hands at home , such as cranberries, currants, cranberries. Juice berries grease the skin around the nails and the nails themselves.

6 recipe. Vegetable oil with the addition of lemon juice to strengthen the nails
We will put on the nails a mixture of vegetable oil with the addition of squeezed lemon juice or a drop of essential oil of lemon. We apply daily for ten days.

7 recipe. Homemade jelly mask with glycerin and corn flour for hands
It is good to do those whose hands are damaged by detergents. In 40 ml of boiled warm water, stir 56 grams of glycerin and 4 grams of corn flour.

8 recipe. Homemade boiled potato mask
Let's break 2 boiled potatoes and add 1 teaspoon of olive oil, 1/3 cup of milk. Puree lay out on a cloth napkin or folded several times gauze. Then we'll turn this "sandwich" and put it on steamed hands. Top with the paper for compresses, then we stretch the polyethylene net bags, and tie them with ribbons or rubber bands for the hair to the wrists. After 40 minutes, remove the bags and rinse your hands with warm water.

9 recipe. Olive Oil for Hand Care
We will moisten our hands with olive oil, put on cotton gloves and lie down in them. Or let's take it, on top of cotton gloves, we'll put on rubber gloves, and we'll do household chores. After 20 minutes, the skin will be velvety and smooth, like a child's.

10 recipe. Home hand mask with sunflower oil and cottage cheese
Take a few drops of sunflower unrefined oil. To return a smooth color to your hands, wipe them with a slice of grapefruit, orange, lemon.

11 recipe. Iodine net from the bundle of nails
In order not to split the nails, we will do an iodine grid on the wrists.

12 recipe. Mayonnaise for the care of hands
Take the mayonnaise, put it heavily on your hands, then put rubber gloves on your hands and get down to business. After 30 minutes, remove the gloves and wash with warm water.

13 recipe. Vitamin E from brittleness and stratification of nails

Take vitamin E in capsules, it is sold in a pharmacy, and we lubricate our nails every day. To do this, we'll open the capsule, anoint and rub all the nails, after a week the effect will be visible, and after a month the nails will be like steel.

14 recipe. Iodine and salt for strengthening of nails
On a glass we will put 1 table spoon of a large table salt and some droplets of iodine. Wet the cotton wool in a solution and rub it into the nails. The same effect is observed after a rest by the sea.

15 recipe. Cream and red pepper to strengthen fragile and layered nails . We impose on the nails a mask of 1 teaspoon of any cream, and 1 teaspoon of red pepper, for 5 minutes. A good effect gives this mask with fragile and layered nails.

16 recipe. Lemon for the care of the knees and elbows
It is useful to wipe your knees and elbows with the remnants of a cream, do not rinse.
17 recipe. Home mask for smoothing wrinkled hands
The wrinkled skin of the hands becomes soft and supple if a mixture of 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 egg yolk is vomited into it at night.

18 recipe. Natural mask with salt and lemon juice, to strengthen nails
Soluble in lemon juice a little salt, for this we squeeze a saucer or spoon a few drops of lemon juice, mix and apply for 20 minutes on the nails.

19 recipe. Natural mask from the coffee grounds, for the hand
The skin of the hands is very common with cracks and irritated. Effectively, if we make a mask from the coffee grounds, hold the mask on your hands for 5 minutes. Then we will apply the cream to the hands.

20 recipe. Home Mask from Marigold for Hands
For the night we will smear hands with ointment of calendula, we will put on cotton gloves, in the morning we will wash off the remains of ointment. The main thing is that the procedures were regular.

21 recipe. Ointment for hardness of nails
Take steeply cooked yolk and 4 grams of beeswax, melt in a water bath, pour a little peach oil, until we get the ointment. And this ointment every night rubbing marigolds.

22 recipe. Natural wax for weak nails
Fingertips put into the melted on the steam bath clean wax and immediately drop the nails into the cold water. After that, the fingers get "thimbles", put on cotton gloves and go to bed. We stay up all night. This procedure is done 2 times a week. In total there will be 6 procedures. Nails will strengthen well, and one course will be enough to save yourself from the brittle nails for life.

Now we know what should be the care of the hands of the mask bath. Following these tips, caring for your hands, making masks and baths, you can make the hands skin beautiful, and the fingernails of the hands will become beautiful and strong enough. And all thanks to daily cosmetics, as masks have a curative effect and help to keep hands in great shape.