Nail care is part of the process in enhancing our fingers’ beauty. Taking care of your nails is crucial to prevent brittles and cracked nails. Malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, lack of moisture and absence of nail care are some of the leading causes for brittle and cracked nails. The other possible causes of nail cracked included prolonged exposure to harsh chemicals, such as dish wash cleaners.

Thus, knowing the correct ways of healing your brittle nails are vitals, here are some cures you can follow on. Brittle nails are mainly the result of lack of hydration. Hydrating our body does not just improve our body’s metabolism, water are always a crucial to our body, as well as our nails. It can internally help our nails to be more moisture; as for external protection, you can apply vegetable oil for home based treatment. All you have to do is just soaked a cotton in vegetable oil, then rub it on you whole palms and feet, include fingers and toe nails, then massage gentle for few minutes. A housewife always expose to chemicals, thus lotions and moisturizer are important for brittle nails prevention. It is a must to apply lotion or hand moisturizer after cleaning or washing.

Food consumptions are also one of the causes we must not miss to remember. Calcium is the most important minerals that we must not miss to be include in our food in order to avoid brittle and cracked nails. Yes, it is true, lack of calcium is one of the leading causes of cracked nals, so we must include calcium-rich food in our food, such as celery and broccoli. Another rich source of calcium is almond. Beside calcium, another essential minerals that you must include in your food consumption, which are Vitamin A, B-12, and C. Your nails should be protected, shouldn’t be abused them to open containers or aluminium tin containers!