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You
may keep your face under a 'burqua' still someone may fall
in love with love because of your beautiful hands and nails.
In fact a shy fellow cannot look to a beautiful face many a
times but he may be impressed with the soft hands of his
fiancé. He touches your hand first. And many would repent
for not touching your hand if it is beautiful.
We would discuss hand care in three sections.
Remedies for Dry and Rough Hands
Manicure & Nail Care
Hand and cuticle care
Remedies for Dry and Rough Hands:
A hand gets dry whenever there is scarcity of oil and
moisture. As a result the hand gets rough. Rough hand is odd
looking and persistent uncared hand may cause medical
problems in the long run. To maintain soft and pretty hand
you should follow some instructions.
To keep hand soft:
Keep 250 gm. of oatmeal in the very little warm water so
that it can soak only and leave it for 4 hours. After then
strain it. Mix olive oil, rose water, glycerin, lemon juice
and diluted ammonia each in one spoonful with the above
liquid. Preserve this lotion and use at least twice a day.
To repair damages by detergents:
Mix equal amount of rose water and glycerin. Rub the mixture
at least twice a day.
Preventive of dry hand:
Mix lanolin, cocoa, butter and almond oil in equal
proportion. Massage your hand with the liquid.
For very rough hand:
Vaseline (petroleum jelly) mixed with carbolic acid or only
Vaseline should be applied on the hand surface for over
night.
Manicure & Nail Care:
To beautify your hand it is necessary to manicure and take
proper care of nail. To manicure in home you require the
following items:
1. Nail polish
2. Cuticle cream or Vaseline
3. Emery Board
4. Cotton Wool
5. Nail clipper
6. Nail polish remover
7. Nail buffer or a truth brush
8. Orange stick with its tip wrapped in cotton wool
9. A bowl of warm soapy water
After having the above articles you are required to follow
some steps to get your manicure done at home.
Step 1: First clip your nail then file your nail to make it
a "U" using emery board. Do not file the corner of
the nails. Do not use metal file to shape your nail.
Step 2: Remove old nail polish using nail polish remover
with the help of a piece of cotton.
Step 3: Use a soft nailbrush and soap water to remove the
nail polish thoroughly. Wash your hand in cold water and
make it dry.
Step 4: Use Vaseline or any other cuticle cream for
massaging the sides of the nails.
Step 5: After five minutes soak your hand into the warm
water again.
Step 6: Push the cuticles back gently with the cotton
wrapped orange stick.
Step 7: Shake up the nail polish bottle and apply a thin
coat as the primer.
Step 8: After two five minutes interval you apply second and
third coat.
Hand and cuticle care:
You should follow the following steps to care your hand and
cuticle.
Care 1: Put a Vitamin E capsule into warm olive oil. Massage
each part of your hand with that olive warm olive oil for
ten days.
Care 2: Take two calcium lactate tablets with a glass of
warm water. Calcium strengthens bones and nails.
Care 3: Clean and wash your nails and hand every day massage
a cream into your hand and nails.
Care 4: Apply a little Vaseline in your hands and nails as
many times as possible in a day. Vaseline is a good medicine
for brittle and rough cuticles.
Care 5: Do not keep your hand wet for a long period. Use
gloves for working with water. Take out your gloves for a
while after a regular interval.
Care 6: Wash your hand properly after chopping vegetables.
Vegetables and lemon juice cause harm to hand and nail.
Care 7: Put gelatin in warm water and get that dissolved.
Care 8: Strong detergents should be avoided.
Care 9: Buffing improves blood circulation.
Care 10: To remove stain on nail use lemon juice.
Care 11: Vitamin C and Vitamin D are important for nails.
So, lemon, orange, cabbage, milk are good food in this
regard. Iodine improves blood circulation in the nails. So,
iodine in any form may be good for nails.
Care 12: Keep your nail nail polish free periodically for
the relaxation of your nails.
Reference:
1. "Beauty and Body Book ---- the Natural Way" By
Chho Dev. Published by Hind Pocket Books (P) Ltd, Delhi.
2. "Beauty solutions … from top to toe" by
Tanushree Poddar. Published by Pustak Mahal, Delhi.
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