Broken and fragile nails.
Broken and brittle nails can be the result of vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition. Also, such nails can talk about a lack of calcium in the body. Dairy products, such as cottage cheese, will help to restore its deficiency. To date, there are many calcium preparations that you can choose together with your doctor. If the cause of brittle nails in the lack of trace elements and vitamins, then you need to consume as many fresh vegetables as possible.
Baths for strengthening of nails.
A few drops of lemon juice should be added to the warmed sunflower or olive oil. The finished mixture is used in the form of a bath for weak nails. To strengthen the nails, you can also use lemon juice, rubbing it into the surrounding nail bed. Good nourishment of the nail plate is a mixture consisting of equal parts of the oils of vitamins A, E, D and cream. To your nails quickly grew and were strong, you need to eat gelatin. A large amount of gelatin is contained in the chill from the pig's ears, legs and beef tail. With the help of gelatin, you can strengthen not only nails, but also bones and hair.
Strengthen weak nails will help salt baths. 1h. l. sea or ocean salt dissolve in warm water. In this solution, keep hands for 20 minutes. The course of procedures is 10 days. After a month, the treatment of the nails can be repeated. This salt bath will be useful not only for nails, but also for the skin of hands.
You can strengthen the nails with a compress: 70 ml of water, 25 g of glycerin, 5 g of alum. To strengthen the thin nail plates, you need to rub in them with vegetable oil or lemon juice. Housekeeping, such as washing and dishwashing, must be done with gloves. This way you will avoid delaminating your nails.
Useful apple compress: soft apple cut in half and stick the fingertips into the flesh for a few minutes. Then you need to apply the cream on your nails and massage them.
How to whiten nails with folk remedies?
If the nails have a yellowish tint, lemon juice will help you. It must be rubbed into the nail plate. You can also use the juice of red currants, black currants, cranberries or table vinegar. Bleach the nails with a mixture of 1: 5 glycerin and hydrogen peroxide.
Masks for nails.
Mask honey-yolk: it is necessary to stir carefully one egg yolk, one tsp. oatmeal, one st. l. honey. Ready mixture put on hands and put on cotton gloves. Keep the mask for 15 minutes, then it is washed off with warm water, and nourishing cream is applied to the nails and skin of hands.
Mask iodine-salt: stir in a glass of water 1 tbsp. l. large salt and add a few drops of iodine. In this solution, moisten the cotton swab and rub it into the nails.
Potato mask: 2-3 pcs. boiled potatoes crushed with milk. Ready mixture put on hands and keep until fully cooled. Remove the mask with warm water and apply a cream.
Ointment for nails.
This treatment with traditional medicine should be done every evening. Boil hard-boiled 1 egg. Take the yolk and knead it with a fork. Add in the egg 4 g of beeswax, pre-melted with a water bath. Add the peach oil until a thick ointment is formed.
Herbal decoction.
Perfectly strengthen your nails decoction, prepared from medicinal raw materials. It is necessary to mix in one part of the shepherd's bag, nettle, the co-occurrence of gray alder, two parts of the rhizome of creeping wheatgrass, and three parts of the flowers of black elderberry. 1 tsp. The received collection is poured in a glass of boiling water, it is infused in a thermos 6 - 8 hours. Next, you need to strain, take half a cup three times a day.
Nail massage.
Violation of blood circulation can cause aging of the nails, make them weak and ugly. In order for you to have excellent blood circulation, you need to apply self-massage. You can do it in a sitting and standing position, three times a day for five minutes. If you are doing a standing massage, then the wrist should be pressed to the stomach, and if sitting, then put the brush on the hip.
To begin self-massage is better with stroking your hands. It is done by a free hand. Stroking begins from the nails and rises gradually to the wrist joint. This manipulation is done 3-4 times. Then, with the edge of the palm, knead the brush 5-6 times. All this must be done with the other hand. Then the fingers of both hands must be compressed into fists, connect the middle phalanges of fingers and rub them in a direction upwards downwards. Then rubbing is done backwards. When you rub the nail phalanx, the fists should be loosened slightly.