The skin of the hands is considered the most vulnerable part of the body, because it contains much less moisture than, for example, the skin of the face. The skin on the hands is practically devoid of sebaceous glands, and they could form a protective layer and emit grease. It is the skin on the hands in the first place subjected to peeling, drying, on it there are cracks. Quite often, hand care only comes down to eating their cream overnight. However, this is not enough, since our hands are subjected to aggressive external influences on a daily basis.
How to protect your hands from negative effects
Especially the skin on the hands suffers from cold in the winter, from earthworks in the summer season it coarsens and often crack. Less aggressive, but also have a negative impact and household chemicals - cleaning detergent powder, liquid, dishwashing gel, etc. Therefore, our hands require additional protection. Home work that involves the use of chemical drugs, you need to do in protective rubber gloves. This will help to protect the skin from dryness and possible allergic dermatitis. Working at the dacha site on the ground, hands are also required to protect with knitted gloves or apply a layer of special protective cream. Going out on the street in winter, you need to put on gloves, you can not use moisturizing cream before going out to frost.
What to do when the skin on his hands began to crack?
How to quickly bring the skin of the hands in order to make it young and elastic again? For the cracked skin of the hand, regenerating and nourishing creams and masks will help, paraffin and glycerin are especially effective. You can also trust specialists and use the help of a beauty salon or conduct medical procedures yourself.
Masks for cracked skin of hands
When the skin cracks on your hands, special masks made from ordinary foods - sour cream, honey, potatoes, fruits, vegetables - are helpful. Masks impregnate the skin with moisture, bleach, soften it, possess a healing quality. In most cases, one procedure takes up to 15-20 minutes. For effectiveness, the procedure is required to be carried out regularly, and at least twice a week. To save time, you can do the mask, for example, in the process of watching TV. Preliminarily, it is desirable to treat the hands with peeling or to make a bath. After the procedure, the skin of the hands should be smeared with cream.
The potato mask moisturizes the skin well, making it velvety. For its preparation, take two boiled potatoes and mash them. Add a little lemon juice, sour cream or olive oil. Sour cream and oil, soften the skin, and lemon juice has a whitening effect. In tepllvide potato mask put on your hands. Such a mask will cool down more slowly, if it is covered with a film on top of it, then with a towel.
Honey mask rejuvenates the skin of the hands and makes it supple. It promotes the healing of small fissures on the hands. Mix olive oil and honey (on a tablespoon), add the yolk and whisk. Apply a thick layer on your hands.
Milky-oatmeal mask is a nourishing mask. She can not be better suited for cracked skin. In severely critical cases, this mask should be done every other day, held for about an hour. The main component of the mask is oatmeal. On the coffee grinder or blender, oat flakes are ground. Three large spoons of oatmeal will be required for a single mask, also necessary: one spoonful of milk, olive oil and a small spoonful of honey. Components must be grinded until a homogeneous mass is obtained, then put on hands. When the mask is absorbed, you can put on your hands soft gloves that are made from natural tissue.
Baths recommended when the skin cracks on the hands
Special handbaths are an effective procedure that allow you to bring your skin on your hands in perfect condition. You can do them with the addition of medicinal herbs (decoctions of them). Chamomile, lime flower, nettle, sage reduce irritation, redness, soothe the skin. To make a tray of herbs, you need to spoon dry raw materials (table), fill with a bucket of boiled water and let it brew. After a while, when the water is slightly cool, they lower it into 15 pieces. If the skin on the hands is very cracked, the best restoring property will be glycerin, paraffin and starch.
Starch is considered the most affordable, as well as an effective ingredient for such trays. Starch promotes healing of small cracks, wounds, returns elasticity to the skin of hands. A tablespoon starch solution in a glass of warm water. After the volume of liquid, bring to a liter - add more warm water. Put your hands in a prepared bath for 15-20 minutes. Then rinse with running water with a nutritious cream.
Paraffin baths are easy to prepare, it is required to allocate two small containers, which will be placed in the hands and stocked with a special cosmetic paraffin. It will take about two kilograms of paraffin. It can be used repeatedly, only by heating and melting before the forthcoming procedure.
Place paraffin in any bowl and melt in a waterbath until liquid. Pour into two containers and allow it to cool to burn the skin. For this time, rub your hands with a scrub and lubricate with a moisturizing cream.
For 5 seconds, put your hands in liquid paraffin, let the layer cool down a little. Then again, lower the seconds by ten. Repeat this 5 times so that a thick paraffin layer is formed on the hands. And this layer must be warm. Then oversat polyethylene gloves, and up warm mittens. Keep the mask-compress for 20-25 minutes. After the paraffin remove, wipe your hands with a napkin and apply a nourishing cream.
Paraffin baths perfectly restore the skin on the hands for a short time. For prophylactic purposes, do them every two weeks. Freezing weather is slightly more frequent. Believe me, then your hands will always be well-groomed.
Trays of whey help fight small cracks and rough hair. Heat 0.5 liters of milk whey and put it on your hands for 20 minutes. After blot with a towel or a sachet and apply cream.
Glycerin baths are prepared in the following way. In 1.5 liters of hot water mix the lard (table) glycerin and ammonia (teaspoon). There, add a glass of milk or chamomile. Knead into a healing fluid for 15 minutes. After blot with a napkin and grease with a moisturizing cream.