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How to Care for Your Fingernails
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The easiest route to healthy nails is through a well-planned regimen of diet and grooming. Eat the correct foods and protect your hands from environmental stress for strong nails.
Take a daily multivitamin to ensure that you are getting the proper amounts of other vitamins.
Moisturize nail beds regularly with a nondrying nail lotion. Rub the lotion over the entire nail bed at least once a day.
Trim cuticles once each week. Soften cuticles with a specialized cuticle cream, then trim carefully with a cuticle clipper.
Clip your nails regularly in a rounded or squared shape. The pointier the tip of your fingernail, the more likely it is to break off.
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Anonymous said
on 8/25/2006 If the area above your cuticles is torn, bleeding, or just damaged and flaking, try applying a layer of Neosporin onto it. Wait for it to completely dry then take some Medicated ChapStick® (the light blue skinned one) and apply a thick layer as well. Wait for that to dry if you have a serious problem. If not, then just leave it on for 5-8 minutes.
This is the cheaper method to healing if you can't purchase the $8 balms they have for sale since most households contain Neosporin and Medicated ChapStick® is only 74 cents.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Take 1 multivitamin every day and try to keep your nails warm, clean them continuously by tool, use a special kind of soup which cleans the skin from the black heads.
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 Grab a lemon or a lime, cut it in half, squeeze all the juices in a cup and rub what's left of the inside of the lemon onto your nails. This makes your nails stronger. I recommend you do this every day until you see that your nails are becoming stronger, then reduce doing it once a week or so. This really works, try it!!
Anonymous said
on 8/8/2006 A nice manicure kit would help to stop biting your nails. I bit mine till I was 24, and playing around with them will help you to stop the biting. Now I have nails that family and strangers admire, and I love the attention.
There are 2 products that helped me out a lot, and I still use them when I have a broken nail.
#1 is Loreal "Nail Nutritionist Plus" Growth enhancing serum (works great). #2 is "Jessica" life jacket.
They both work, and I've tried a lot of products over the years, but these are 2 of the best if you want long, healthy nails.
Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 Cut one clove of garlic in half and rub it on your nails once a day. It strengthens paper thin fingernails!