How to remove cuticle

What makes absolutely any representative of the fair sex beautiful? Of course, well-groomed hands and manicure. What is well-groomed? manicure? Filed nails of the same length, varnish coating, cuticle removed. It is the latter that will be discussed in this article.

How to properly remove cuticles

First, let's figure out what a cuticle is. This is the skin at the base of the nail plate that protects the nails from infections. What accumulates are dead cells, which must be removed in a timely manner so that there are no burrs, cracks, and such a cuticle will look unkempt. This is what a manicure procedure is for. Manicure happens:

• edged;
• unedged;
• hardware.

During the trimming procedure, the skin is first soaked using a bath of salt or oils, then removed with special tweezers or scissors strictly according to the rules, at a certain angle. After any manicure, hands and cuticles must be lubricated with oil or cream to moisturize the skin.

B unedged In manicures, special cosmetics are used, most often they contain fruit acids, which soften the cuticle. After this, the peel is carefully removed with an orange stick or spatula.

During the hardware procedure, the skin is not soaked with water, but treated “dry”. Moreover, the device removes only dead skin without affecting the living cuticle. But to do it at home, you first need to learn how to use the device and carefully study how it processes handles.

To get rid of cuticles, various tools are used: a cuticle remover pencil, a nail file, a trimmer, a spatula, scissors, and wire cutters. Recently, the nail file has been gaining popularity. Its surface resembles a mesh, and when applied, it does not affect the nail plates, but only grinds dead cells into dust.

What to do to prevent cuticles from growing

It would be great if the cuticle did not grow at all. However, this does not happen, but it is still quite possible to stop its growth. There are several ways, but they all require time and diligence, because nothing will happen at once.

Many cosmetic manufacturers produce special oils and gels, but they must be used every day. The use of beeswax in combination with natural oils gives a good effect. For such procedures you will need 60 g of bee product, a few drops of esters and natural oils. Melt the wax and add oil, you get a cream that needs to be applied a couple of times a day. It will help not only stop growth, but also strengthen the nail plates.

Moisturizing your hands is also a very important point for cuticle growth. Well ,  Of course, you need to give up edged manicure and switch to hardware, or unedged, because the more often and more you trim the skin, the faster it will grow.

Cuticle care

It seems that taking care of your hands, and especially your cuticles, is so difficult. But in reality it's easier simple. You just need to diligently and constantly perform all the necessary manipulations. So, how to properly care for your cuticles at home:

1. As already mentioned, moisturizing your hands with cream is the very first point in care. You need to lubricate your hands with cream at least twice a day, and preferably after each contact with water, especially in the summer.
2. Baths for nails 1-2 times a week. You can add salt, oils, herbal infusions.
3. Paraffin therapy moisturizes and nourishes not only the skin of the hands, but also the cuticle.
4. Cuticle massage using natural oils 1-2 times a day. Through massage nails will start growfaster.
5. Cuticle care products: oils, creams, gels. By the way, you can prepare the oils yourself, you just need to purchase the necessary natural and essential oils and add liquid vitamin E.