I'm not a fan of artificial nails, I like them naturally manicured, well-groomed, without white spots and various grooves, with a beautiful and healthy cuticle around the nail beds.
So I always "plucked" my nails nicely and sanded them into a perfect shape and I was happy with them... well, nothing to pay, but a hand with manicured nails has something in it... and then suddenly there's a knock and a brittle nail is yuck. Hell, I'll wait again until it grows and you have to shorten the others so that the difference is not so visible...and so on and on and on.
That was the reason why I was looking for "something at home" that would moderate the fragility and heal the cuticle.
What will be needed?
- 13 grams of lanolin
- 6 grams of soy lecithin
- 7 grams of hazelnut oil (or other "dry" oil)
- 17 grams of mango butter
- 6 grams of beeswax
How to do it?
Dissolve and mix all the ingredients in a water bath, pour into a cup and leave to cool, stirring occasionally, as soon as the temperature drops below 40°C, add:
30 drops of essential oil – lemon, lavender, eucalyptus, grapefruit, cypress or rosemary in any combination,
if you suffer from nail fungus, I recommend using rosemary or cypress in combination with tee tree.
It will seem quite sticky, it is not a balm for the day, but for overnight regeneration, to avoid oiling the bed, be sure to put on gloves.
If you work with water, in the cold, or have extremely dry hands, then you can carefully spread a little balm on your hands during the day, it will create a water-repellent protective layer on your hands, so you don't get your hands "wet", or it will protect you from drying out in freezing weather.
Do you know it too? Dry, chapped skin around the nails, dry, brittle and brittle nails?
