Hangnails are small ruptures of the skin located around nail plate. They not only give to hands inaccurate look, but also give the mass of inconvenience and painful feelings. How independently to remove hangnails?
It is required to you
- - nail file;
- - tweezers;
- - cotton pads;
- - spirit lotion;
- - oil solution for cuticle;
- - essential oil of citrus;
- - nutritious cream;
- - towel;
- - hydrogen peroxide;
- - cotton gloves.
Instruction
1. Carefully disinfect all manicure tools, having wiped them with cotton pad, moistened in spirit lotion.
2. Prepare hand bath. For this purpose add to warm water of 6-12 drops of essential oil. Oil of orange, lemon, eucalyptus, camomile or bergamot will approach. If you have no essential oil, it is possible to use almond, olive or even ordinary vegetable. Place hands in oil solution for 15-20 minutes. Wipe dry towel.
3. Take tweezers for removal of hangnails. It is necessary to remember that for their removal special tweezers are used - they have to have slanted edges and trihedral tips. Such design allows edges of nippers to adjoin to skin most densely. Make sure that at your tweezers the smooth course.
4. Open nippers approximately on 1 mm and apply them to hangnail. Cut off dry skin on arch, without touching live cuticle. The hangnails located from sides of nail plate are cut off by "fir-tree". Do not delay skin - try to cut off it at the basis. If you have touched live skin and on surface blood has seemed, it is necessary to process immediately cut hydrogen peroxide.
5. Apply to skin around nails oil solution for cuticle and let's it be absorbed. Grease hands with the nutritious or moisturizing cream. Whenever possible put on cotton gloves and leave them on all night long.