We take care of the hands and nails
Let's start with self-massage. It can be done in the morning: as soon as you wake up, proceed and first brush your hands with cream. Massage each finger and joint in a circular motion, as if you were putting on gloves. Then go to the massage of the back of the hand. Grabbing your wrists, continue to massage your hands, Rising to the elbow, and then to the shoulder. Make several movements with brushes, rotate them alternately to the right and left, compress into fists and unclench, simulate the piano playing.
Now can switch to self-massage forearms and shoulders. Hand out, pull your fingers into a fist. Short rhythmic strokes with the edge of the palm of the other hand, tap on the elongated one: from the fingers to the armpits. First on the inside, and then on its outer surface. To increase blood circulation, make quick lungs tingling from below upwards with two fingers: large and index. This will raise the tone of the muscles, especially the shoulder muscles, which weaken with age and sag.
We recommend that you remember several of the recommendations of on hand skin care.
Do homework, use thread and rubber gloves. Working in a cold room or on the street, you need to put on top of woolen and rubber gloves. Having removed them, warm your hands in warm water and grease with vitaminized creams. Some women suffer from hypothermia on the fingers and hands, bluish spots, swelling and even erosion. This is the so-called resuscitation. How to treat it? Every day, make warm baths from the bird cherry bark( 2 tablespoons per 1 liter of water) or alum( 20 grams per liter of water).
If the skin becomes crusty, become rough, do once or twice a week a bath of juice of sauerkraut, whey, potato broth. After lubricating the skin with a fat cream and put on a night gloves. It is possible to use vegetable oil( the same portion) for the baths, and then to get wet hands with a napkin.
To the elbows skin was soft, rub it with a brush or washcloth during a daily shower, and then grease it with a fat cream.
When sweating hands, use five-minute baths of acetic water( 3 teaspoons of table vinegar per 1 liter of water) or from the decoction of oak bark, as well as nettle and sage in equal proportions( 2 tablespoons of mixture per 1 liter of water).
Positive effect on the redness of the hands is alternating baths of cold and hot water. Repeat the procedure 10-15 times, ending with cold water. In the evening, massage with nutritious vitaminized cream.
In field work, it is advisable to protect hands with gloves. Rubber gloves in such cases are of little use: in the summer, their hands are very sweating, so depending on the work and the time of year, one should use cotton or woolen gloves.
When working on the ground, any cuts, shots, abrasions can cause serious illnesses, so with the slightest injury, the skin should always be treated with a solution of iodine, cologne or alcohol.
To disinfect small abrasions and cracks, use a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide. For the treatment of deep abrasions, immerse your hands before going to bed in a warm solution of starch( 2 tablespoons per 1 liter of water), and then apply the homeopathic ointment "Calendula".Repeat the procedure more often.
With scratches, cracks, cuts, scratches, it is useful to hold hands in warm water with the addition of several crystals of manganese( so much water becomes pink), then rub it with iodine tincture or a solution of "zelenok", and if the skin in the cut places is inflamed,with 5% -sintomycin emulsion.
If you have to work with water, brush your hands with creams "Silon", "Silicone" - they form a protective water-repellent film on the skin. After washing your hand, you must soften it. To do this in the still damp skin is good to rub any nourishing cream. Another way to soften your hands is a tray of starch. It is done this way: a teaspoon of starch is diluted with a glass of water, the resulting paste is diluted with warm water to a liter volume. Hands are kept in this solution for 10-15 minutes, rinsed with warm water, apply a little cream on the damp skin.
A starch bath is very useful for elbows, if the skin on them is dry, rough.
Corns appear? Make warm soap and soda baths with the addition of ammonia( you can not add soda to the rain water): per liter of water - a teaspoon of baking soda, 2 teaspoons of ammonia, a teaspoon of soap powder or planed soap. Keep hands in such a bath you need 15-20 minutes, then wipe dry, rub with pumice stone.
So that the skin of your hands does not darken when cleaning potatoes and other vegetables, you need to wipe them beforehand with vinegar. And you can also rinse your hands with water while brushing, which is added a little vinegar.
If, after all, your hands have turned black after cleaning potatoes, carrots, beets, take a lemon crust and rub the darkened skin areas. Slice a lemon for tea, do not throw away the tops - they can be used several times for hands.
After cleaning and cutting onions and garlic, wipe your hands with moist salt, and then wash - the smell will immediately disappear.
To eliminate the smell of herring, it is necessary to moisten your hands with a weak solution of vinegar, and then wash it.
After washing with washing powder, wash your hands with soap and rinse, rinse with warm water, then apply a softening cream to avoid irritation, dry and itchy skin. If the skin is particularly sensitive, apply a protective cream or wear rubber gloves before washing.
To work in hot water with your bare hands - and sometimes it is necessary - an unpleasant occupation. Two-layer gloves will help to protect your hands from burns. First put on a thin woolen, and on top of them rubber.
Before dirty work, try putting on your hands invisible protective "gloves" of soap. Hands densely soap and dry for a few minutes. Then these "gloves" are easily washed off.
Heavily soiled hands can easily be washed off if a vegetable oil with sugar is rubbed into the skin first.
After working with odorous liquids( kerosene, acetone, etc.), the hands retain the smell of liquid for a long time. You can get rid of it by washing your hands in a warm solution of mustard powder.
With a shovel, ax or other tool, you can quickly rub the calluses on your hands. Mittens protect their hands, but working in them is not always convenient, especially with an ax, when greater accuracy is required. We recommend to put on the palm of the foam rubber ring - it protects and does not interfere with calluses.
In order to keep the skin of the hands gentle and supple, periodically perform the following procedure: before going to bed, grease your hands first with vegetable oil, then abundantly with a nutritious cream and put cotton gloves on for the night.
If you do not take care of nails, then from work in the field, on the site, around the house, in the kitchen, they will fade and flake.
Nail care is simple, but one condition - it must be permanent.
In each house it's nice to have a special manicure set. It includes a saw blade, large and small pliers-pliers, scissors with curved ends, a blunt spatula, a wooden or bone stick. Of course, all these tools must be kept clean: boil or wipe with alcohol, cologne.
Nails need to be cut at least once every two weeks, giving them an almond or oval shape. Leaving long nails is not worth it, they easily break. Beautiful if the free edge of the nail protrudes by about 3-4 mm. If the nails are cut shorter, their shape changes, the fingers seem shorter and thicker.
After trimming your nails, be sure to smooth out the sharp( scratching) edges with a special saw. Move it easily, without pressure, only towards the middle, trying not to grind the smooth surface of the nail.
The length of the nails on both hands should be the same - the disparity gives the impression of untidiness.
The skin roller surrounding the nail sometimes grows to almost half its size. It's unhygienic and ugly. In this case, hands should be held for 5-10 minutes in warm soapy water, lightly wiped with a nutritious cream and a special scapula( they are in each manicure set), carefully move the platen downwards so that the nails freely "breathe", look better.
If the nails are loose, wipe them daily with lotion "Crystal".For the night, brush your hands and nails with any nourishing cream. Thin, easily broken nails will become stronger if they rub lemon juice or vegetable oil. Try also, at least temporarily, not to deal with washing powders.
Every day, remove dirt from under nails with a wooden or bone stick, on the end of which a thin layer of cotton wool soaked in soapy water is wound. You can use a special brush. If there is to be a dirty work, for example, with the ground, we advise rubbing your fingernails about a wet piece of soap, and then remove a surplus of soap with a cloth or fleece. At the end of the work, the soap is washed from under the nails.
It is necessary to slightly ease the care of hands, as the overgrown nail cuticle easily tears, small scratches appear. If they are not disinfected immediately( iodine, Castellanian liquid, "zelenok", manganese), then it can threaten with a purulent infection.
It happens that, despite the systematic care of hands, hangnails are still formed. They need to be cut with scissors or bitten off with forceps, and then necessarily disinfect these places. Many people help to get rid of the hangnails systematically rubbing any fatty cream around their nails.
After finishing the nail treatment, apply the nourishing cream on your hands and massage lightly.
Well-groomed nails are beautiful in themselves, but if you want to paint them, then make sure that the nail polish, rouge and lipstick are sustained in one tone.
In order for the lacquer to lie evenly, it is applied necessarily to dry nails, pre-warmed hands. As a basis, you can apply a colorless varnish, and after drying it - a color.
Use of varnish is not always recommended, periodically need to rest your nails. Dark lacquer applied in the middle of the nail, as it shortens it, and the nails, completely covered with a colorless or slightly colored varnish, seem longer.
By the way, you can change the shade of nail polish by adding a few drops of "Rainbow" ink to it. The blue ink muffles the bright color and gives the varnish a slightly violet tone.