Cuticle oil: recipes with your own hands

Beautiful well-groomed nails - this is the component of the image, which must always accompany a woman. But it is impossible to have them with an unhealthy form of the cuticle. It requires constant care and nutrition. This can be done with the help of oil for the cuticle, made with your own hands.

To avoid the above problems, you need to find the oil that is right for your nails, and help to cope with the problems that have arisen with this skin growth.

• First of all, the oil should have antiseptic properties, and help protect the nail from infections and fungal diseases.
• Dry skin of the cuticle requires constant nutrition and hydration, and the composition should have these properties.
• The composition for cracked skin must have regenerative properties so that its composition contains panthenol.
• And also in the skin care products around the nail should include vitamins and trace elements that will be responsible for the growth of the nail, and here the main component is vitamin E.
• Although you have problems with the cuticle or not, it needs care. And if it doesn’t bring you any visible trouble, the usual one-component oils, for example, castor, almond, burdock, jojoba, wheat germ, will be enough for you.
• If your cuticle is damaged and requires extra care, use a mixture of components, adding essential extract to your main tool.

Essential oils for the cuticle are never used in their pure form. They must be mixed with the base.

You need to put a few drops on the area of ​​the cuticle and the skin of the finger. Massage in circular motions until completely absorbed into the skin.

Despite the fact that in the oil made at home there are no preservatives, it has a long shelf life during which it can be used. This is due to the absence of water in the composition, which is a favorable medium for the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms and bacteria. But oils of natural origin tend to be rancid in the air by light. Therefore, the composition is better to store in a dark glass container in the refrigerator, with a well-closed lid.

Shelf life oil, made with your own hands, is about six months, but you will not need that much time. Usually the consumption of this composition in a volume of 10 ml takes 3 months, with a frequency of its use 2 times a week.

Of course, you can buy ready-made composition. For example, very good oil Domix. But you can cook it at home by yourself.

Direct-pressed olive oil is daily rubbed into the skin near the nail, thereby softening the cuticle and prevents cracking and the formation of burrs.

• In 2 tablespoons of jojoba oil add 10 drops of essential extracts of myrrh, lemon, lavender. All mix well. We apply 2 times a week.
• 2 teaspoons of almond and apricot kernel oil. Add 5 drops of geranium essential extract and 2 drops of rose essential oil. This type of oil is great for daily use. Ideal to use a few drops in manicure trays.
• 1.5 tablespoons of almond oil combine with 2 drops of lavender extract, and add 1 drop of essential oils of myrrh and peppermint. Massage the cuticle and nail daily before bedtime, until the ingredients are fully absorbed.
• Mix 2 tablespoons of almond oil with drops of lemon extract and 20 drops of lavender extract. All thoroughly mixed before each use and use every day.

Here, the basis is better to take apricot oil in a volume of 2 tbsp. l Add 2 drops of essential extracts of wheat germ, lavender, myrrh. Rub as described previously.

As a base, take 2 tablespoons of vitamin E on an oil basis, and add 10 drops of essential extracts of myrrh, lemon, lavender. All ingredients are placed in a dark container and mix well. It should be applied 1-2 times a week using the method described above.

After the manicure, the cuticle should be cooled. To do this, use 2 tablespoons of sweet almond oil and 10 drops of essential extract of tea tree. This procedure will soothe irritated, reddened skin around the nail.

And now the video recipe of cooking oil for cuticle at home.

Despite the fact that the modern market is filled with cosmetics, including for the care of the cuticle, many people use folk remedies and say that they are much better produced by well-known brands. Even the use of ordinary olive oil gives an excellent effect of softening the cuticle, not to mention the result that can be obtained by mixing it with AEVIT, or using other complexes of essential extracts, especially since it is not difficult to prepare such compositions at home. The price of the folk remedy will be several times lower than that bought in the store perfume and cosmetics.