Cuticle Care: 5 Tips to strengthen your nails and reduce brittleness
Don’t settle for chipped and splintered nails – they can look pretty horrible. Give them a chance to look healthy and beautiful.
Your hands are an important feature that will always draw people’s eyes – when you write, gesture, shake a person’s hand – so it is incredibly important to keep them looking presentable. Your nails, therefore, will be noticed by others quite often. It just won’t do if your nail bed and your cuticles look less-than-healthy.
We have 5 tips on how to improve the quality of your nails.
Soak them in green tea
Believe it or not, soaking your nails in a cup of green tea can make them strong and healthy. With its high concentration of antioxidants, green tea can protect your nails and prevent brittleness. The concoction can also help to get rid of yellow discolouring.
Avoid polish removers with acetone
Acetone-based nail polish removers have been proven time and again to strip the nails of its protective coating, causing them to become brittle. By limiting your use of these products, you will retain the strength of your nails.
Add supplements to your diet
Supplements targeted towards promoting healthy hair and nail growth (such as biotin and zinc) are quite easily available in pharmacies and even supermarkets. Through regular use, these supplements can have very noticeable positive effects on the quality of your nails.
Don’t use your nails as tools
We often use our nails to pry open container lids, to scratch things, to remove labels… some people nibble on them to relieve nervousness and stress. Try not to! Constantly using our nails will cause trauma to the nail bed and weaken their growth. It is better not to rely on our nails and tools, no matter how convenient they may be.
Moisturise the nail bed and cuticles
Using hand and nail creams often can make all the different. Doing so will help make the cuticles look better as well as protect nails from breaking and splintering due to a lack of moisture. Reduce the incidence of cracking, chipping and splitting by investing in a good quality moisturiser designed for nails.
Head up to the gallery to check out some convenient cuticle creams to help you achieve lovely nails.
Angela Goh
