How to soften hand skin at home?

The skin on the hands is particularly tender, so it needs delicate care most of all. Due to the constant exposure to various negative factors, the epidermis begins to coarse, peel and crack. Many women clutch their heads, not knowing what to do about it. However, do not despair, because there are basic preventive actions, adhering to which you can avoid problems. There are also many folk recipes that are easy to translate into reality. So, what are all the secrets of how to soften the skin of your hands at home. We will deal with everything in detail.

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Hand Care Tips

Without regular appropriate care, no miraculous masks and creams will give a stable, long-term result. Therefore:

• Make it a habit to always use rubber or silicone gloves when doing your homework. This is especially true for the effect on the skin of harmful chemicals. These may include products for washing mirrors, household appliances, floors. Gloves should also be worn while washing dishes.

Important! So that your hands do not sweat in the seals, you can put a little baby powder in them without fragrances or on the basis of chamomile.

• The most terrible enemy of delicate skin of the hands is hypothermia. In particular, this includes wind, rain, frosty air, exposure to ice. Wear woolen mittens or gloves, wear them depending on the weather. Use leather waterproof products during rain.
• Choose toilet soap taking into account the individual PH-balance of your skin. The best option would be products consisting of a quarter of a moisturizer, based on natural ingredients.

Important! When washing hands, always monitor the temperature of the water: one should not be too cold or too hot.

• Observe hygiene. Often people forget to wash their hands on time, and this is unacceptable. Get an antiseptic with a mark “for hands” at a store, or better at a pharmacy. It is produced, as a rule, in bottles of 80-100 ml. It can be carried with you in a handbag and used after leaving the car or public transport, staircase, supermarket. It is enough to squeeze one drop of the product, grind between the palms. At first you can smell the alcohol, but then your hands are moistened with the oils and esters that make up the composition.
• Not everyone knows, but dry air has an extremely negative effect on the state of the epidermis. Get an air humidifier in your apartment or office. If such a purchase is not possible for you, you can do otherwise: put a pot of water on the battery, drop 3 ml of any essential oil into water, wait for evaporation.

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Baths for softening the skin of the hands

Baths help to soften very dry skin of hands. The duration of such procedures can vary from 14 to 20 days, with a two-day break every week. The course can be repeated endlessly for both therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. Do not forget to grease your hands with oily cream or hydrogel after the procedure.

Hand bath recipes

1. Ammonia. Mix together 35 ml of corn or olive oil, 45 ml of ammonia, 25 ml of glycerin. Pour 1.5 l of warm water into a bowl and add the cooked mixture to it. Dip your hands in the bath and wait 30 minutes.
2. Linden + lemon balm. Pour 3 l of boiling water into a bowl, pour 25 g of lemon balm, 45 g of linden blossoms, 30 g of medicinal chamomile into it. Infuse the herbs for about 15 minutes, then cool the solution, pour a small amount of baby liquid soap into it. Lower your hands for half an hour.
3. Kefir. Dilute 25 g of potato or corn starch with 1.5 liters of water, pour in 125 ml of yogurt or kefir. Do a hand bath for 15 minutes. Next, wash your hands well, apply a greasy cream.
4. Lemon. Take two medium potato tubers, wash them well, cut into small pieces. Boil the potatoes, squeeze the juice of one large lemon into the broth. Cool the mixture to an acceptable temperature and dip your hands in it for 20 minutes. This tool will help not only soften the skin of the hands, but also whiten it.
5. Milk. Mix water with whole milk in a 2: 1 ratio. Pour the resulting liquid into a saucepan, heat on a stove to a temperature of 40 degrees. Put 2 ml of rosewood ether there, dip your hands in the bath for 25 minutes.

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Masks for softening the skin of the hands

Due to the natural composition of the masks, achieving a positive result is much easier.

Important! Masks are recommended to be used once every 2-3 days. It is advisable to apply them immediately after taking the baths.

Hand mask recipes:

1. Cocoa. Buy natural cocoa powder, fill it with hot water per 100 ml of liquid, 30 g of the composition. Stir until completely dissolved, add 25 g of gelatin, 15 ml of liquid glycerin to the mixture. After the mixture swells, apply the mask on your hands, wait 30 minutes.
2. Aloe vera. Take two fleshy stalks of aloe vera, wash them well, pass through a blender to make a pulp. Add 25 ml of olive oil, 40 ml of liquid honey. Apply the composition on the skin of the hands, leave for 15 minutes.
3. Sour cream. Steam 80 ml of boiling water with 40 g of flax flakes, let stand for 15 minutes, and then drain the excess water. Add 10 g of edible gelatin and 50 g of fat sour cream, stir, leave to swell. The mask lasts 30 minutes.
4. Cottage cheese. Buy a badger or fish oil in ampoules at the pharmacy. Take 45 g of cottage cheese with a fat content above 25% and add the contents of one ampoule there. Mash a half-bunch of fresh parsley under the press, add to the curd mixture. Such a mask is done for 20 minutes.
5. Honey. Melt in a microwave or in a water bath 60 g of honey and pour 15 ml of liquid glycerin into it. Add 10 g of gelatin and freshly squeezed carrot juice. After swelling, cover hands with the mixture and wait 25 minutes.
6. Avocado. Peel the two medium-sized avocados, take out the seeds and cut them into pieces. Grind into porridge using a blender and add one quail protein. If your mixture is liquid, you can add a little oatmeal. Put the mixture on your hands for half an hour.
7. Carrot. Peel and mince one carrot or grate it. Add 50 g of fatty cottage cheese and 45 ml of cucumber juice. The mask is done for 45 minutes. After removing the mass, apply olive oil to the skin.
8. Bread. Take three slices of fresh white bread and soak it in milk. After swelling, mash it and add 40 g of fat sour cream. Dip your hands in the mixture for a quarter of an hour.

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Hand scrubs

Experts do not recommend the use of scrubs more than once a week. Means are designed to eliminate coarsened areas and calluses:

1. Coffee. Take 120 g of coffee grounds and add to it 35 ml of baby liquid soap and 40 g of sour cream. Massage the skin of hands with this composition for 5-7 minutes, then rinse your hands well with water and apply cream.
2. Sugar. Mix the thick honey with cane sugar so that a pasty mass is obtained. Put it on the hands and rub against each other. The procedure is done for 5 minutes.
3. Sand. Take 200 g of sea or river sand without shells and rinse it well in boiling water. After drying, add 70 ml of corn oil to it and rub it with your hands for 5 minutes.
4. Salt.Mix 50 g of fat sour cream with 50 g of coarse sea salt, add 12 ml of any essential oil. Rub your hands with massage circular movements for 5 minutes.

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Salon procedures for softening hands

Modern beauty salons offer a variety of various hand care treatments. But we will consider only the most effective ones that can soften the skin of the hands quickly.

Hand spa

It includes the following main steps:

• Surface peeling;
• Deep peeling;
• Moisturizing.

First, the first peeling layer is applied in a circular circular massage, then the second layer is applied on top in the same way. Plastic gloves are put on the hands and wrapped in a warm towel. This procedure is carried out for 10 minutes, then the product is washed off and moisturized.

Hot manicure

This procedure is specifically designed to soften the skin of the hands:

1. A special lotion is poured into the electric bath and heated to 50 degrees.
2. Hands are soaked in this lotion for 25 minutes.
3. Then, using a napkin, the remaining lotion is removed.

Paraffin therapy

For this procedure, paraffin and paraffin wax are needed:

1. Hands pre-scrubbed are dipped several times in a row in melted paraffin.
2. Then it is wrapped in polyethylene and a warm towel and left for 15-20 minutes.
3. After completing the procedure, hands must be treated with a moisturizer.

Important! Do not try to do such procedures at home, because it requires equipment, special tools and the experience of a qualified specialist.

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Are you convinced that there are many different products that can help soften your skin at home quickly and effectively? Then go for it! Choose masks, scrubs and baths from those products that are at your fingertips, alternate different recipes, and the result will not be long in coming. The skin will gratefully accept your efforts.