Nail Care Tips

Nails are very important part of our hands and feet. When it becomes dirty then it looks ugly. Dirty nails are unhygienic. So we should clean our nails regularly. Proper cleaning is not enough so we must cut and moisturizes our nails. Clean and healthy nails are looks beautiful. Nail care is a part of our life and our personal grooming. The nail is made of a hard protein called keratin. Hand nails help us to pick some objects. Generally men’s nails are harder than women’s nails. It has a trend to grow faster than women’s nails. Most of the person’s nails are grow an eighth of an inch per month. If we want to know the actual growth of our nails then we must take care of it. Here are some nail care tips:

1. File nails regularly and keeps them short.
2. Wear hand gloves to protect our hands from virus and bacteria.
3. Don’t use nail polish remover more than once a week. We must remove old nail polish from our nails. Otherwise our nails become ugly.
4. Nail biting is a bad habit. It is very harmful for nails. Those people who have this habit, they should avoid this bad habit. It may cause many kind of nail problems like- bacterial infection, warts around the nail beds, bleeding, permanent nail damage etc.
5. After washing hands and feet we must dry our nails properly.
6. Use Hand and Nail Cream. It moisturizes our nails. We should do manicure and pedicure at least twice a week
11. Always use a nail polish remover which contains hydrating oils.
12. Don’t use nails as a tool. It may damage our nails.

These are not enough so we need more care of our nails:

13. The nails are often a reflection of our health and nutritional deficiency. Vitamin-A deficiency makes our nails peel. So we need this vitamin.
14. Natural oils are necessary for our nails.
15. We should take fruits and vegetables, nuts, fish and eggs. These are all makes our nails healthy.
16. Always take foods which contain calcium and zinc. Some times we saw white spots on our nails. It indicates the deficiency of zinc in our diet. So we need zinc containing foods like- egg, beef liver etc.
17. Vitamin-A, B, C, D and E are essential for our nails.
18. Extreme fragile nails indicate an iron deficiency. So we need iron containing foods like- leafy vegetables, prunes, pumpkin seeds, liver etc.
19. Herbal tea makes our nails strong. It also reduces brittleness of our nails.
20. We can massage coconut oil or caster oil to make our nails shiny and beautiful.

Nail protects our fingers. If we don’t take proper care of our nails then we may suffer from many kind of nail diseases like- Paronychia, Pseudomonas (a kind of bacterial infection), a fungal or yeast infection, Tinea Unguis ( or ring worm of the nails), Koilonychia, Melanonychia, Pterygium, Psoriasis etc. Nail problems may indicate serious disorder such as asthma, heart diseases etc. Some herbs like horsetail, nettle and oatstraw are helps to improve the health of our nails.