Keeping your nails perfect is an important beauty ritual.
However, what helps keep your nails really strong?
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This beauty ritual usually sends us to the beauty salon every week and makes us avoid certain household chores just to keep our nails strong and in the best condition possible.
Still, nails often break, peel and become weak. That’s where our tips come in today: to maintain strong nails, you need to have strong nails, and that starts at the root – literally.
Check out 5 infallible tips that we’ve put together today that will help you always have strong nails.
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Tip 1: Moisturize your nails after wetting your hands
The number one cause of brittle nails is dryness and dehydration, which happens after your hands are exposed not only to cleaning products, but water as well.
Washing the dishes or washing your hair, for example, can have harmful effects and you can say goodbye to strong nails.
Whenever you wet your hands, moisturize them immediately afterwards. Naturally, pay special attention to your nails and cuticles.
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Tip 2: Stay away from your cuticles
If you want to have strong nails, you should stay away from your cuticles. This means leaving them as they “came into the world” and not pushing them, much less removing them.
If they exist, it is for a purpose. Cuticles are not an ornament on your nails. They serve to protect them against fungi and bacteria. Once you remove them, you compromise this protective barrier, and your nails can weaken much more easily.
Additionally, removing cuticles can cause redness, swelling, and peeling skin. Even worse: This can lead to serious infections that cause permanent damage to your nails. No, thank you.
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Tip 3: Opt for gel nails in moderation
The harsher chemicals used in gel nails can wreak havoc on your nails over time.
You don’t have to permanently ditch gel nails if you want strong nails, but you should remember that prolonged use can cause long-term damage.
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Tip 4: be careful with sandpaper
If you don’t file your nails properly, you can end up with cracks in the surface which, in turn, can lead to major breakages.
To ensure strong nails, always use quality sandpaper and change them when you notice that they are old.
To further reduce damage, instead of filing your nails in a back and forth motion, file carefully in one direction at a time.
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Tip 5: check the composition of your nail polishes
In recent years, “4Free” nail polishes have become excellent allies for women who want to keep their nails strong, as consumers have become aware of how toxic certain substances can be.
4Free nail polishes are free of toluene, DBP (Dibutyl Phthalate), formaldehyde and formaldehyde resin. These substances, in addition to being able to cause allergies, also harm and weaken your nails in the long term. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
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