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Beautiful hands require constant care, you just have to be too lazy and abandon them for at least one day, as your hands will immediately remind you of themselves with dryness, tightness of the skin, and if you do not take care of your hands for a longer time, then problems cannot be avoided. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive program for the care of hand skin and nails.

Be sure to dry your hands after washing. If moisture remains on them, then on the street the skin of the hands becomes weathered, coarsens, often even cracks appear on it. To avoid this, use after each wash (even instead of a towel, gentle tiles for hands - they soften and nourish the skin)

Before going outside, hands should be lubricated with hand cream.

To create and maintain a flawless manicure, some of us prefer to visit professional beauty salons or beauty parlors, while others do their own manicure at home. Sometimes a manicure done at home is indistinguishable from a professional manicure.

How to do a manicure, in what sequence, what tools are needed - a lot has been written about this on the Internet, and everyone already knows, but I want to focus on those tools that will give your nails health, strength and beauty: nail wax and nail strengthening cream.

Brittle nails:

Most often it is caused by various diseases of the body. These diseases can be of varying severity: from thyroid disease to lack of vitamins, in particular vitamins A, E, F, and calcium. Nails can be overdried, because the nail plates are 80% water and have a porous structure, so frost and water, the scorching sun and water can dry out the nails and make them brittle. Frequent coloring and the use of products that include acetone and formaldehyde also lead to the fact that the nails become brittle, dry and dull. Heredity is not the last factor, because fragility depends on the composition of the keratin protein.

Solution: start taking calcium containing foods. Calcium is excellent for strengthening nails. If you take pharmaceutical preparations, consult your specialist: brittle and weak nails are evidence of a lack of calcium, too dry and brittle - in the body, on the contrary, there is too much calcium, but not enough vitamins. Vitamins E and F enhance nail growth.

In addition, it is recommended to soften brittle nails, you can make warm oil baths, rub a strengthening nail cream into your nails - the formula enriched with vitamins penetrates the nail plate, and the nail is restored. And also try to use protective rubber gloves when washing dishes and household cleaning associated with dirty work.

Cream for strengthening nails is very convenient, it can even be applied to varnish. It is applied to the area near the cuticle and rubbed with light massaging movements - in this place the nail is most receptive to beneficial substances.

Let's start strengthening nails:

Cream to strengthen nails and wax to seal the treatment composition is applied after you have finished your manicure and dried your hands.

Take a small amount of firming nail cream and rub it into the nail plate, be sure to capture the cuticle area - the cream will soften it and with regular use the cuticle will grow less.

We rubbed the cream, waited five minutes and now we take a jar of nail wax.

The wax is hard, so it is better to pick it up as if scraping off with a fingernail or the tip of a nail file.

We start polishing the nail soft side of the polisher. The nail will heat up - it will be hot. Do not be afraid, this effect is only to our advantage - the wax melts and seals the nail.

Went through all the nails. They rinsed their hands with cold (!!) water and applied a nourishing and softening cream on their hands or used an oil plate instead of a towel.

The result will not be long in coming if you use a strengthening nail cream once a day, and a polishing wax with every manicure.

Hands can say a lot about a woman. Hands often give out the age of a woman. They are exposed to active mechanical, thermal and chemical irritants more often than other parts of the body. The skin of the hands dries out early, becomes thinner, loses its elasticity, and age spots and wrinkles appear on it. But well-groomed, soft hands - this is what attracts, creates an impression of a person. In ancient times, when knights could only dream of a beautiful lady, their most cherished desire was to touch the hand of their beloved. And the ladies carefully monitored the condition of their hands, so that the gentleman once again admired the velvety and tenderness of the skin.

“For a woman’s hands to be beautiful, they must be idle,” Alexandre Dumas wrote in the middle of the 19th century. Now our women are constantly working, their hands either wash the dishes, or clean the vegetables, or do the cleaning - which means that they must be constantly protected. Women's hands are almost always in sight. Women are usually emotional, they like to gesticulate when talking, they like to tap their nails on the table, they will not fail to offer their hand for a kiss if the opportunity presents itself. Especially women like to show their hands if they are beautiful. How to make sure there is something to show?

Detergents and cleaning agents, washing powder, soil when working in the garden have a bad effect on the condition of the skin of the hands. Without special care, their skin becomes dry, rough, cracked, flaky.

The skin on the back of the hands contains very few sebaceous glands, and on the palms they are absent altogether. Therefore, the hydrolipid film of the skin, which provides it with natural protection, is very weakly expressed in the area of ​​the hands. In addition, the epidermis of this zone contains little water - 4-5 times less than the skin of the face. As a result, the skin of the hands is very often dehydrated.

The first thing to follow if you want to have beautiful and well-groomed hands is to keep them clean and dry. Wash your hands with warm water and toilet soap, which contains fats and alcohols, which weaken the action of the alkali in the water. Prolonged external irritation leads to a weakening of local immunity and the occurrence of viral lesions of the skin of the hands, including warts, papillomas, keratomas. Daily remove the dirt from under the nails, for this, use a special stick or brush. Wrap the end of the stick with cotton wool and carefully remove the dirt that has accumulated under the nail. Do not use sharp and metal objects for cleaning - they can damage the inner sensitive part of the nail. If your hands are heavily soiled after doing some work, wash them with a soft brush that does not scratch the skin.

After washing, dry your hands with a terry towel and rub them with a nourishing cream or oil. While rubbing the cream, massage your hands from the fingertips towards the hand, which improves blood circulation and is very beneficial for the skin.

To nourish and soften the skin of the hands, use creams specially designed for this. They soften and moisturize the skin of the hands, make it velvety, smooth and elastic. Most hand creams contain substances necessary for the skin: fats, vitamins, enzymes and extracts of medicinal plants. Applying the cream to the cuticle area with active massaging movements perfectly activates the blood circulation of the nail bed and smooths out all the bumps and small burrs.

In addition to the growth of the cuticle, a careless attitude to the nails for a long time leads to another trouble - the growth of barbs. If the skin on the hands is cracked, has become rough, you need to use a cream that has a bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effect.

Massage of the cuticle area is performed with a very soft brush, pre-soaped with glycerin or baby soap. In this case, light peeling occurs, freeing the cuticle from dead skin flakes and, most importantly, preventing the formation of unaesthetic cracks, where dirt can subsequently clog.

If the hands are running, it is better to use a special cuticle oil.

Improper nail care leads to the formation of hangnails, which spoil the appearance of the hands and interfere. Burrs are an indicator of the condition of the skin. They can not be pulled out, it is better to carefully file and grind.

In addition, it is necessary to make baths and, of course, you simply need to protect your hands. For this gloves, protective creams and pastes are used. Not everyone can work with gloves. But it is worth getting used to doing the dirty work in them. A week of training is enough, as the work begins to argue in your hands, and the skin will not crack and peel off, giving you discomfort, the nails will begin to break and exfoliate less.

The size of the gloves should match the size of the hands. Gloves that are too small compress hands and tear easily. Very large gloves create inconvenience during work.

Before putting on rubber gloves, hands are thoroughly washed, dried well and sprinkled with talcum powder. After finishing work, the hands are washed with gloves, then the gloves are removed, rinsed inside, dried and sprinkled with talc or starch on both sides. Gloves are stored in a dry place away from heating devices, fire. Keeping your hands in gloves for a long time is not recommended, as the sweat released under them irritates the skin of the hands.

After removing the gloves, the hands are washed in warm water, dried, and a greasy cream for dry skin, or a special hand cream, is rubbed into the skin.

By the way, gloves have an ancient history, which I would like to tell in passing.

Even in ancient Egypt, women protected their hands while working and eating with special bags. Already at that distant time, gloves were more likely not an ornament, but a necessary part of the wardrobe, and not so much in countries with a cold climate, but in countries where it is not as warm all year round as in Egypt. But being a utilitarian object, gloves, like any thing, bore the imprint of both their century and their owners. The Middle Ages do not yet know gloves with five fingers. However, then the gloves clearly testified to the well-being of their owners: rich people embroidered them with precious stones, embroidered them with gold and silver thread. Such gloves belonged to the upper strata of the population - kings and the highest clergy.

The Renaissance introduced a new fashion for gloves. For the first time, the five-finger gloves we know appear: along with knitted stockings, knitted gloves also come into fashion. If in the 16th century they are knitted, then in the next two they are also embroidered. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, women's cotton gloves occupied a firm place in the fashion industry. During the day, ladies wore gloves with fingers, while in the evening they wore gloves without fingers, thus showing that they are an elegant detail of the image.

White gloves were worn to the ball, black - to the mourning costume, yellow - to hunt. The length of the glove depends on the length of the sleeve: the shorter the sleeve, the longer the glove. The women's evening dress, baring the shoulders, was accompanied by mittens almost to the middle of the shoulder.

The rules of etiquette clearly describe what to do with gloves in different situations, and these rules are connected with the symbolism of hands. Previously, there was a custom to take off the right glove when approaching the altar in the church or to a noble person, thereby showing his humility and humility. After all, a glove is part of a protective vestment, primarily the vestment of a warrior who acts with his right hand. Taking off her glove, you disarm before God or before a person higher than you in rank. And a glove thrown in the face or under the feet is an insult, a challenge to a duel.

"Glove" etiquette brought true torment to men of past centuries. The man preferred to carry this toiletry item in his hands so as not to blunder and violate any point of the rules of etiquette, for which he would be considered ignorant. The Spanish nobleman did not dare to wear gloves in the presence of the pope and the king, in church, at funerals, during mourning and celebrations. In other countries, it was impossible to take off gloves with your teeth, give them a hand, and generally take something with gloves. In a word, there was a set of rules when a man belonging to high society had the right to wear gloves.

As for the woman, it was almost exactly the opposite. If she, giving her hand to a man, takes off her glove, this is a sign of disposition and mercy, but by no means slavish humility. Strict etiquette protected a woman's hands with gloves, like her legs with a long skirt, for many centuries. Back in the 19th century, the question was seriously discussed in Russian society: should a lady constantly wear gloves, or at home can she afford to show herself to the eyes of her family and servants with her bare hands?

In Kievan Rus, it was customary to take gloves in payment of customs duty. And in the villages, after the wedding, for which mittens were always given, the bride took them to the cage so that they would bring a rich harvest. In general, in the popular mind, mittens have good power. A pair of felted mittens guarded the bride's dowry from an unclean spirit. They even cut their hair in mittens, believing that this would make the latter grow better.

However, the inventive human will is capable of using such an innocent object as gloves for evil purposes. The French Queen Catherine de Medici presented the wife of the King of Navarre with gloves scented with poison, from which she soon died.

Nails? are derivatives of skin cells. Nail growth begins at nail bed where is located matrix. The cells of the nail are formed in the matrix. The visible part of the matrix is nail hole. The condition of the nails is directly related to metabolism and overall health. General metabolic disorders or diseases of the cardiovascular system affect the process of nail formation. Therefore, thickened or deformed nails are often an indicator of serious diseases.

The edges of the nail plate are covered cuticle- a layer of epidermal cells with a protective function. But the excessive growth of the cuticle leads to the formation of burrs, dirt accumulates under the exfoliated edge of the cuticle. Hands look messy, but in addition, contamination can become a source of infection. The skin rollers on the sides of the nail have the same purpose as the cuticle, and in the same way, they can, by overgrowing and drying out, become the cause of pollution and the formation of burrs.

The nail plate itself consists of keratin A protein that is synthesized in the body from amino acids. This protein is the main element of not only nails, but also skin and hair. The keratin contained in the nails is denser, due to the presence of more sulfur in the keratin molecule, or rather, the amino acid cysteine. The qualitative composition of keratin is specific for each person and is largely determined by genetic factors. That is why some nails are hard and hard, others are thin, etc. Keratin is located in the thickness of the nail in layers, between which there are lipid-like substances and water. These layers give the nail plate elasticity and shine.

Nail hygroscopic, that is, it has the ability to absorb water, while it increases in thickness and becomes less solid. In addition to sulfur, the nail contains other trace elements: calcium, chromium, phosphorus, selenium and zinc. Most often, there are enough named elements in the body, however, as a result of a violation of their absorption by the nails, disturbances in the structure of the nail may occur.

The growth rate of nails is approximately 3 mm per month. A complete renewal of the nail plate occurs in about six months. As you know, the rate of nail growth varies from person to person.

During the period of growth of the whole organism, as well as during periods of increased production of hormones (transitional age, pregnancy), nails grow faster. Reflexively accelerates the growth of nails and with their regular grinding or mechanical irritation. It can be regular massage, work, fingers, as well as the habit of biting nails.

After reaching puberty, the nails grow more slowly. Their growth also slows down with a lack of blood circulation, as well as in cases of metabolic disorders.

Beautiful hands require constant care, one has only to be too lazy and abandon them for at least one day, as the hands will immediately remind themselves of dryness, tightness of the skin, and if you do not take care of your hands for a longer time, then problems cannot be avoided. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive program for the care of hand skin and nails.

Morning care. Hands are washed with warm water or room temperature water and soap. Ideally, soap should not contain alkali, now there is a large selection of liquid soaps on the market that do not injure the skin of the hands. Washing hands in very cold in hot water also degreases the skin and makes it rough.

Be sure to dry your hands after washing. If moisture remains on them, then on the street the skin of the hands becomes weathered, coarsens, often even cracks appear on it.

Before going outside, hands should be lubricated with hand cream. In winter, do not forget about warm mittens.

Day care. Hands are washed before eating and, as they get dirty, with warm water and soap or rubbed with lotion. Cleansing wipes can be used to care for the skin of the hands and cleanse it, but this does not apply to washing hands before dinner. In summer, if your hands sweat, wipe them more often. To nourish the skin, rub the cream into it several times during the day.

Evening care. Hand skin care in the evening is more complete and thorough.

Hands are washed with warm water and neutral soap. For better cleansing of the skin, baths are made: warm with a solution of acetic acid or lemon juice, saline. After washing and bathing, dry your hands with a towel.

To preserve the beauty of the hands, massages and creams are required. The cream is rubbed with movements similar to those when putting on gloves, that is, from the end of the fingers to their base and beyond? with the whole palm, then with one hand, then with the other. After rubbing the cream, the skin is massaged with similar movements. During the massage, stroking, rubbing, kneading and patting the skin are sequentially performed. In the evening, more oily creams are used to lubricate the skin of the hands. At the same time, during rubbing, it is recommended to do some simple gymnastic exercises for the hands.

1. Squeezing and unclenching the brushes.

2. Sit down at a table and imitate playing the piano, making sure that all fingers move separately. Raise your fingers as high as possible.

3. Rotate the brush first in one direction, then in the other. Repeat this exercise several times on each side.

4. Stretch your arms forward. Rotate the brushes 10 times clockwise and 10 times counterclockwise.

5. Put your palms together and push them hard towards each other.

6. Rotate your arms above your head.

7. Raise your arms up and down sharply, waving them like a bird's wings before taking off. Repeat 10 times.

8. Hold your hands palms down, interlace your fingers, slowly, in a circular motion, turn your hands palms up, at the same time opening your fingers. Repeat the action in reverse order.

9. Put your hands down and shake them vigorously? at first only with brushes, then to the elbow and, finally, with the whole arm.

Good finger exercises are typing, playing the piano, and sewing.

Hand exercises are best done when the hands are warm. Do the exercises have to be done very carefully? never let the joints stiffen and become too tense. To strengthen your fingers, try clenching your fists with spools of thread in them. After exercising, rinse your hands with cold water.

Hands often suffer from insufficient circulation. Many women have cold hands - this is proof that the peripheral circulatory system does not provide for the needs of the body. Improved blood supply accelerates the regeneration of the skin, therefore, improves its appearance. Massage of the hands has a beneficial effect not only on the condition of the skin, but also on general well-being, improving tone and calming the nerves, since a large number of nerve endings are concentrated here.

Before starting the massage, lubricate your hands with a nourishing cream or vegetable (preferably olive) oil. When performing a massage, it is important to strictly follow the sequence: first you must massage first And fifth fingers, then second And fourth and finally third And first. Start massaging with your left hand.

1. In a spiral motion, massage your fingers in the direction from the nail to the base, continuing to move along the back of the hand to the wrist.

2. Slowly knead each finger from tip to base. Then successively rotate your fingers, while holding them by the tips, first in one direction, then in the other direction.

3. Put the massaged hand on your elbow, lift your fingers up. Place the palm of your right hand on the back of your left, and the first finger? into her palm. Go down to the middle of the palm, fixing lightly with the first finger. Move down to the wrist. Now go to the side of the palm and move up to the elbow.

4. Intensely tug 3-4 times, as if vibrating, fingers, holding each by its tip.

5. Put your hand on the table, and with the palm of the other, smoothly slide over it from the fingertips to the base of the hand, as if stroking it.

6. Turn the hand over with the palm and phalanges of half-bent fingers of the other hand, perform 3-4 rubbing rotational movements.

Finish the massage with stroking.

After massaging the left hand, move to the right hand and do the same with it. Remove the rest of the cream with a damp cloth.

In spring and summer, our lovely women are busy with chores in the garden. After such work, the skin tightens, dirt gets into the pores, which is almost impossible to clean with ordinary soap. Here a good helper can be lemon acid or sorrel leaves. Pour a little citric acid into your palms, add a few drops of water and rub your palms. After a few seconds, the dirt will come off. If you decide to clean your hands with sorrel leaves, you can simply rub them on your palms. If the dirt has eaten too much, then you can try to rub your hands a slice of lemon. To clean and strengthen your nails, cut a lemon in half and dip your fingers into each half. Hold for 5 minutes.

However The best way to clean your hands is to keep them free from dirt..

For this you can do artificial "gloves": take 1/4 cup warm water, 2 grams of edible gelatin, 15 grams of starch, 20 grams of talc, 2 grams of boric acid. Mix everything well, apply on hands and dry. Now you can work, and when you're done, just wash your hands.

Sometimes, when performing repairs in the apartment, despite gloves, it gets on the skin of the hands dye. If there is no solvent, then you can use the following method: pour a little (1 teaspoon is enough) washing powder into your palms, add 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil and rub your hands with the mixture - the paint will come off.

Pastes and ointments for hand protection

Pastes and ointments protect the skin of the hands from irritating substances. They are applied to the brushes in a thin layer.

When working at home, hands are most often protected. Our good old silicone cream is quite suitable for this. But there are many other, more modern and effective means, both domestic and imported. The main thing is not to forget that the protective cream is applied for a while and after doing dirty work it must be washed off. When using each new cream, a sensitivity test should be carried out to avoid undesirable effects in the form of irritation or allergic reactions.

homemade ointment based on beeswax has a beneficial effect on the skin of the hands. To prepare it, you need to hard boil an egg, take out the yolk, mash it, add 4 grams of beeswax melted in a water bath to the yolk, and add peach oil until the mixture reaches the density of the ointment. Use the ointment every evening.

Another secret to good hand skin is the cleanser you use. Choose non-alkaline or low-alkaline soap, liquid soap when cleaning your hands. This soap is the most gentle for the skin of the hands. To maintain acidity, it is useful, at least before going to bed, to rinse your hands with acidified water. To obtain such water, dilute 1 teaspoon of table vinegar in 1 liter of boiled water.

Baths are used to restore elasticity and softness of the skin, prevent its rapid withering and the appearance of wrinkles. Along with baths, nourishing masks are used.

Hands are washed with warm water and soap and wiped dry, the mask - gruel - is applied to the skin of the hands in the same way as the cream. After applying the mask for better absorption, her hands are bandaged for 1-2 hours or longer.

The duration of the bath depends on the available free time and lasts from 5 to 30 minutes.

Milk bath. Pour 0.5 liters of warm milk into an enameled or glass dish and immerse your hands in it for 10-15-20 minutes. After the bath, rub the cream for dry skin, massage and do hand exercises.

Oil bath. Immerse your hands for 30 minutes in heated vegetable oil (olive, peach, corn). After the bath, blot them with a soft, well-absorbing napkin, then rub the juice of half a lemon into the skin with massage movements, do massage and gymnastics.

Salt bath. Dissolve in 1 liter of water (and even better in an infusion of herbs: 2 tablespoons of a mixture of chamomile, sage, mint, dill, lime blossom, brew 1 liter of boiling water, leave for 15-20 minutes) 2 tablespoons of sea salt. After the bath, do a massage and gymnastics for the hands.

Potato bath. Boil potatoes for dinner, and drain the water from it into a separate container. When the broth has cooled to a temperature of 37 degrees, immerse your hands in it and hold for 10 minutes. After that, the skin will become smooth and velvety.

Herbal bath. Prepare a decoction of chamomile, sage, mint, or flaxseed. To pour 1 tablespoon of any of the herbs listed above with 1 cup of boiling water, cool slightly and place your hands in a warm decoction for 10 minutes.

Oil-vinegar bath. Mix 1 cup of any warm vegetable oil and 1 cup of apple cider vinegar. Soak your hands in the bath for 10 minutes.

Iodized bath. In 2 cups of warm water, add 2 teaspoons of iodized salt, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Dip your hands in the liquid and hold for 10 minutes. The bath has a good effect on the skin of the hands.

Bath against corns. In 1 liter of warm water, dilute 1 teaspoon of grated laundry soap. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of ammonia. Such a bath helps to eliminate calluses, so it should be applied only to the inside of the palms. After the bath, thoroughly clean the corns with a pumice stone, and then lubricate these places with boron petroleum jelly or anti-inflammatory cream.

Softening bath. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of baking soda in 1 liter of water with shampoo. Immerse your hands in the liquid for 10 minutes. This bath helps to get rid of calluses. After holding your hands in it, carefully remove the calluses with a pumice stone and lubricate the skin with a nourishing cream.

Cabbage bath.

Mix equal amounts of sauerkraut juice and whey. Immerse your hands in the liquid for 10 minutes. This bath is useful for rough, rough skin. After the procedure, lubricate the skin with a nourishing oily cream.

Healing bath (for chapped hands in the cold). Pour 1 tablespoon of flax seed into 0.5 liters of hot water and shake for 10 minutes. Soak your hands in the liquid for 20 minutes.

Starch bath. Add 1 tablespoon of starch to 1 liter of water. Soak your hands in the liquid for 15 minutes. After that, rinse your hands and grease with a nourishing cream. Such a bath effectively fights cracks and calluses not only on the hands, but also on the soles of the feet.

Baths for sweaty hands. 1. Boil 1 tablespoon of oak bark in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes. Wait until the broth cools down a bit and dip your hands in it for 5-10 minutes.

2. Pour 1 tablespoon of sage into 1 cup of boiling water. Wait for the broth to cool slightly, and dip your hands in it for 5-10 minutes.

3. Pour 2 tablespoons of vinegar into 1 liter of warm water. Immerse your hands in the liquid for 5-10 minutes.

Do these baths 3-4 times a week.

Bath for redness of the hands. Contrasting baths of cold and hot water will help with redness of the hands. Place your hands in hot water for a few seconds, then in cold water, alternate baths up to 20 times. After that, lubricate the skin of the hands with a greasy cream.

Bath for cracks and cuts. Soak your hands in warm water with a few crystals of potassium permanganate. Add enough crystals to make the water pink. After that, grease the cracks with iodine tincture. If the skin in the cut areas is inflamed, make a bandage with a five percent synthomycin emulsion.

Paraffin therapy

A paraffin mask or wrap is a very effective hand skin care procedure. Recently, she has been very popular in beauty salons. The essence of the procedure is that after a cleansing bath, exfoliation and massage, liquid paraffin is applied to the hands covered with a layer of cream, which hardens at room temperature. Cellophane gloves are put on top, and then hands are wrapped or terry mittens are put on. It turns out a "compress", which has a beneficial effect on the skin of the hands.

Rice Paraffin Therapy

Warm skin opens pores, it increases metabolism. As a result of thermal exposure, deep warming of the hands occurs, muscle and ligament tension is relieved, pain in the joints subsides. Softening, moisturizing and nourishing the skin. The skin of the hands becomes smooth, toned and elastic.

Paraffin mask restores skin that has been exposed to cold and moisture, has a rejuvenating, regenerating effect, moisturizes and nourishes it. This procedure is also therapeutic, because paraffin applications are used to treat myositis, arthritis and arthrosis.