While in college, I had long, beautiful fingernails that
were strong. Unfortunately, time is not kind with the changes it can bring
to your fingernails if you are noticing more ridges, which are the equivalents
of facial wrinkles.
Brittleness and splitting nails can be more of a problem as
you age as well, just as lacking certain vitamins and minerals in your diet can
cause those problems. So if these changes are happening to you also,
then I thought you would be interested to learn how to strengthen and smooth
your ridges at home using ingredients from your kitchen.
Start off making a homemade protein-rich soak for your nails
and keeping them immersed for at least one half hour before rinsing while
watching television or talking on the phone will pay off. Honey, olive
oil, and egg yolk are the highly beneficial natural moisturizing ingredients
feeding those starved nails.
Try one teaspoon each of honey and olive oil to one egg
yolk for this protein-rich nail soak recipe.
Something that also will help improve the condition of dry
nails is regularly soaking them in a little bit of olive oil that you warmed
first in the microwave. This is not protein-rich as the first recipe, but
it does help nails recover more than you might expect. It also is a
wonderful treat for your cuticles. Keeping your fingernails in that oil
for about ten minutes daily will make a tremendous difference in their
condition.
Though you can try buffing ridges out or filling them in
with a product, I have another suggestion that you might want to try on those
dry, brittle nails as well. Believe it or not, ginger ale makes a great
nail soak for those kinds of nail problems. It can accomplish smoothing
and strengthening due to mono-potassium phosphate, which even helps bleach nail
stains.
All you need to do is pour some ginger ale in a small
container and stick your nails in for at least 10-15 minutes.
I hope you try these little suggestions because they can
help keep you beautiful.
