Secret to Beautiful Hands

The fragile structure of your hands makes the skin especially vulnerable to aging, but you can slow the process. The skin on the backs of your hands has few oil glands so it shrivels and chaps easily upon exposure especially around the joints. Protect skin with gloves in winters and use moisturizer and sunscreen all year round.

Thinning bones and shrinking fat cells cause skin to sag. Keep bones strong with calcium supplements. Also moderate exercise will pump blood and it's nutrients back into hands and feet. Production of collagen and elastin proteins that make skin supple also slows with age. Oral vitamin C protects these component.

• The skin of the hand is so thin, protect the skin.
• Pamper your hands with your personal hand lotion, 4 times a day.
• Exfoliate once a week with a face exfoliater.
• Use once a week your face night cream also on your hands before you go to sleep.
• Get accustomed to using rubber gloves whenever you do housework.
• Prevent your hands from aging or abusing.
• Protect your hands from dry weather as well as protecting them from the sun.
• Use daily a protective barrier.
• If your hands are itchy and rashes seem to erupt inexplicably then consider the following culprits.
• Orange peels: contain oils that can inflame skin, if you are sensitive, have someone else peel off the fruit.
• Onion and garlic: contain a chemical that can be irritating to the touch. Avid cooks who are constantly in touch with them are vulnerable.
• Shellfish: such as crab and lobster can cause a condition called contact urticaria, which results in hives.
• Nickel: in coins, doorknobs, pens and foods such as lettuce and asparagus-causes red, cracking skin or blisters in 5% of the female population.
• Carbon less copy paper: used in credit card receipts and many office forms contain tiny capsules that release skin irritating solutions. Constant friction can cause rashes.
• In order to keep your hands looking young and fresh see our foot therapy section and treat yourself to a manicure to give your hands the essential groomed look.
• After your bath or any washing , always massage your hands with a lubricating cream. In fact, barrier creams should always be used when tackling particularly dirty and greasy jobs.
• Get into the habit of giving yourself a weekly manicure, which will make your hands look good along with helping them to combat annoying problems like chipping, splitting, peeling and cracking.
• If your nails persistently split and chip, then they probably need strengthening by regular use of one of the many nail hardeners in the market.
• Every night, before bedtime, massage your hands with a cream for few minutes.
  For an emergency treatment for coarse, rough skin, apply cream lavishly at bed time and go to sleep with cotton gloves on.
• AVOID NAIL BITTING!

As you can see I have Highlighted Manicure twice! Manicure done by Professionals is really important and helps in hand and Nail grooming :) So after every 14-17 days pamper your hands & nails with a nice Manicure :)

Home-made Hands Exfoliater:

Mix 1 teaspoon sugar with 2 teaspoons oil. Any unused cooking oil will do. Rub well into hands for a minute or two. Wash in warm water using a mild soap.

Tip for Dry Hands:

If you have dry skin on your hands then wash with soap then wet hands again. Pour salt on them then scrub under water. Dry hands then put lotion them.

Give some Exercise to Fingers and Hands:

To stimulate the proper blood circulation, with the help of palm, massage the back of hand the fingers by stretching them and giving a normal calisthenics to them. Hand exercise not only stimulates proper circulation, it also helps in maintaining the perfect shape of hand and fingers. Do not reapply too much nail polish remover. The agents present in removers can discolor the nails and can often make them fragile.

These are my favorite ones if I have to pamper my hands at home. Hands very often are treated roughly. People treat them badly while washing clothes, dishes, scrubbing floors and working in the garden. Hands are so beautiful and important but one probably feels no need of taking care of them. One must take proper care of the hands. Hands are the most noticeable part of the body. One must give proper attention to them as one gives to the face.

So I hope you will take good care of your hands from no onwards :)

Stay Beautiful ;)
AK