Tips for Hand Care

Your hands are noticed more or nearly as much as your face, so they deserve to be beautifully cared for. It’s easier to hide any imperfection of face through make-up, but hands need constant grooming to give the impression of a certain quality of loveliness and neatness. If nature has gifted you with beautiful hands, be thankful and look after them with tender care to preserve their natural beauty. If the shape of your hands is not so perfect, create the illusion of their being beautiful by including them in your daily beauty-care routine.

Hands are the first to show the signs of age but sometimes, due to negligence, young women have wrinkled hands. The first step towards the grooming of your hands is to keep them scrupulously clean. Put some lotion or cream every time you wash them. This prevents roughness, and helps restoring of natural oils.

Tips for Simple Finger Care

1. To repair the damage done by rough house work, keep on rubbing your fingers with a mixture of equal amount of glycerin and rose water. You can add a dash of honey or a touch of lemon or white vinegar.
2. Keep lemon handy all the time in the kitchen as it acts as a whitener, softener and nail cleaner. Rub used lemon halves over your fingers and elbows every time you get a chance.
3. A mixture of equal amounts of honey and orange juice helps to soften fingers.
4. Equal amounts of lemon juice and white vinegar acts as hand whitening lotion.
5. Beat an egg-white and add a pinch of alum to it. Rub it on your fingers, nails and elbows.
6. Finger creams can be prepared at home. They are better than any of the preparations sold in the market. Take one egg yolk, beat it with 60 drops of almond oil (badam rogan), 1 tablespoon of rose water and about 1/2 teaspoon of tincture benzoin. Mix into a paste to rub on hands at night.
7. For very rough fingers, rub white Vaseline mixed with carbolic acid. It should be applied on hands overnight.
8. Another overnight paste is made by beating the white of an egg with about 60 drops of glycerin and 2 tablespoons of honey. After beating them thoroughly, mix enough ground barley to make a smooth paste.
9. All the above-mentioned beautifying lotions pastes are good for fingers and elbows. Select any one of them and use it regularly, if you want results.
10. Our nails, like hair, eyes or skin, indicate the state of our health. Nails lacking in colour or with white spots are indications of ill health.
11. Vitamins A, D and B complex are good for nail growth.
12. Calcium and brewer’s yeast cure split nails.
13. Gelatin dissolved in juice is supposed to be an excellent drink for curing split nails.
14. Besides improving nail growth and their general condition through diet, you can keep your nails in good shape by using bather creams on hands, nail and under nails at the time of doing some rough, manual work.

Prepare finger creams at home?

Finger creams can be prepared at home. They are better than any of the preparations sold in the market. Take one egg yolk, beat it with 60 drops of almond oil (badam rogan), 1 tablespoon of rose water and about 1/2 teaspoon of tincture benzoin. Mix into a paste to rub on hands at night.

Nail biting is out if you want beautiful hands. Usually people bite their nails unconsciously, at the time of tension or concentration, so it is difficult to change this habit. Cover your nails with nail polish, preferably deep red, so that every time you try to bite, its bright colour and bitter taste will put you off.

Gradually, make yourself “nails-conscious” and after sometime you will stop biting your nails, even unconsciously.

Too long and pointed nails look almost repulsive, so keep down the length of your nails and make them oval-shaped.