Nail Care Tips: Maintaining Healthy Cuticles for Beautiful Nails

For beautiful nails, we need to take care of them at least once a week. We must keep them moisturized. To protect your hands, always use gloves if you’re washing utensils or gardening. We have to take precautions as it can produce infection and can damage the skin or nails.

Use acetone free removers to maintain soft, flexible cuticles that are protected from infection. By moisturizing your hands daily with oils or lotions gives many benefits. Protecting them with gloves while doing household chores is also important. Carefully pushing back your cuticles once a week after softening, not biting or picking at them and keeping your nails clean and dry is highly recommended.

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As mentioned above, we need to take care of the nails weekly and also need to keep them moisturized. Let’s understand the weekly routine.

• To soften the cuticles, soak your hands in warm water for a few minutes.
• With an orange stick or cuticle pusher, gently push the cuticles back. Never cut them because they provide defense against illness, as per few reports.
• With sharp nippers, carefully cut off any loose skin or hangnails, but be sure not to harm the cuticle itself.
• Maintain clean and dry nails.
• Apply cuticle oil like jojoba, almond, vitamin E or hand cream daily to keep skin soft and prevent dryness, cracking.
• Drink plenty of water and eat a balanced diet rich in protein and vitamins for overall nail health.

Role of Cuticles: 

The cuticle is a layer of skin that forms a crucial barrier between the surface of the nail plate and the living skin of the nail fold. The body’s first line of defense against grime, viruses, bacteria and fungi is this seal.