Why do we need hand masks?
Masks can be an addition to weekly self-care, or turn into an express complex of 5-10 procedures designed for emergency moisturizing, whitening and restoration of the skin in the off-season, in critical conditions of increased dryness or before an important event.
Depending on the choice of ingredients, the prepared compositions will help cope with dryness, flaking, withering and loss of tone, in the presence of age spots. There is also a separate category of medicinal preparations for carrying out masks for medical reasons, as part of complex treatment.
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Prevention
Mix medical alcohol, glycerin and water in a ratio of 1: 1: 1. Use this balm every day, spraying your hands 3-4 times a day. The result will be visible within a week: glycerin will make your hands soft and beautiful. We will give you some general tips that will help you keep your hands in order and not think for a long time about their treatment: - Systematic manicure is the key to good condition of your limbs. Preventive baths will provide your hands with reliable protection and protect them from the negative effects of the environment. — The use of creams will help maintain the water balance of the hand - the skin will not dry out under the influence of chemicals. The oil film repels acid and alkali particles from the dermis. — Wash your hands with warm water. Avoid dry, rough skin with treatments that use too hot or cold water. Ideally, water for hand washing is filtered. - Use a hand scrub several times a week to remove dead skin particles. Don't forget to apply cream. The best cosmetic product is silicone based.
— Analyze your diet: limit spicy and salty foods. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and drink plenty of water. Take a vitamin complex.
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Rules of application
Simple rules for performing procedures make it possible to obtain the desired result and not damage the epidermis.
Follow the recommendations of cosmetologists:
- Make masks 2-3 times a week or as a complex for 5-10 days daily.
- Before application, it is recommended to clean the skin with soap and a soft scrub.
- Application time – from 10 to 40 minutes.
- Before using specific products, conduct a test for sensitivity and susceptibility to an allergic reaction.
- The composition is applied under polyethylene or cotton gloves or mittens.
- It is recommended to wrap mixtures with oils in heat to obtain the best effect.
- After the procedure, you can remove the composition with a dry or damp cloth. Alternative: rinse with warm water.
- Be sure to apply nourishing cream after the end of exposure time.
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Dry hand skin and causes
Hands are a girl’s business card. Few people know that it is also a kind of sensor of the state of the body.
Dry skin can be caused by several factors:
- poor nutrition;
- lack of vitamins and microelements;
- diseases of the circulatory or endocrine system (anemia, iodine deficiency);
- change in weather, strong wind, snow, etc.
- lack of proper hand care;
- working with chemicals or detergents without protective gloves.
Dry hand skin
Even in the cold season, try to eat more fruits and fresh vegetables, be sure to take vitamins, this will not only support your appearance, but also improve the internal condition of your body.
If the creams sold in stores are somewhat expensive or do not inspire confidence, then you can make moisturizing and nourishing hand masks at home.
Be sure to do a manicure and pedicure at home once a week: trim rough skin, remove cuticles, and shape the nail. Follow the recommendations for caring for the skin of your hands and nails, and then you will not be in danger of dryness or cracks.
When working with detergents, lubricate the handles generously with cream, and then put on gloves.
Video: Making a hand mask at home
Types of masks
They are divided into categories based on their effect on the skin.:
- Moisturizing.
- Restorative.
- Rejuvenating, anti-aging.
- Nutritious.
- Whitening.
- Healing, healing.
- Toning.
Let's look at the most popular categories with available ingredients.
Nutritious
The most common ingredients used in nourishing hand masks are base and essential oils, vitamin E, glycerin, potatoes, honey, oatmeal, and cream.
In the off-season, cold season, they are mandatory components in home care.
With potatoes and vitamin E
Boil 2-3 medium potatoes and crush into a homogeneous mass. Mix with the contents of two vitamin E capsules. Apply warm paste to cleansed hands, wrap in warmth and leave for half an hour.
With honey, rolled oats flakes and rose oil
Pour boiling water over small oat flakes until it becomes a paste, add a tablespoon of honey and 3-5 drops of rose oil. Distribute the mixture and leave to act for half an hour. Wrap in plastic and heat.
With coconut oil, banana and grated carrots
The hand mask not only nourishes, but also rejuvenates the skin thanks to the effects of vitamin A contained in carrots. Crush half a ripe banana into a homogeneous mass, combine with 1 grated medium-sized carrot and 2 tablespoons of coconut oil. Apply to skin and wrap in warmth.
Creamy curd
Small fat or low-fat cottage cheese, 75 g, mixed with 50 ml of heavy cream. Distribute evenly over the skin of your hands, wrap in plastic and heat. Recommended time is 20-30 minutes of exposure.
With egg yolk, glycerin and raw potatoes
The yolk nourishes and restores the skin of the hands, glycerin creates a protective film on its surface, and raw potatoes increase elasticity. Mix 1 yolk, a dessert spoon of glycerin and grated, squeezed raw potatoes. Apply the resulting mixture to your hands in a thick layer. Wear plastic gloves or wrap in bags. Wrap yourself up warm.
With honey, bran and almond oil
Mix about 30 g of bran with a spoon of honey and a spoon of almond oil. The resulting mixture resembles a scrub in consistency, so you can do a light peeling with massage movements, and then wrap your hands in plastic and heat for 10-30 minutes.
You can add 3-10 drops of your favorite essential oil to any of the above recipes for aromatherapy and cosmetic effects.
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Honey based masks
Honey is widely used in cosmetics: it is an indispensable component in many masks and creams. Even at home, from ordinary products, you can prepare healing compositions based on honey that clean and moisturize your hands well and effectively combat skin aging.
Along with honey, the mask may also contain other components - egg yolk, glycerin, lemon juice, vegetable oil.
Depending on the condition of your skin now, the following masks are recommended.
Honey mask
Suitable for any skin. It softens your hands and your skin becomes softer. You need to mix 15 g of honey, 1 yolk, add 25 g of oil (olive or almond) and add lemon juice. It is better to keep the mask on all night.
Honey-glycerin mask
Used to soften rough or cracked skin. You need to mix 1 teaspoon of honey and glycerin with 2 tablespoons of water. Add oatmeal - 1 spoon. The mask lasts 25 minutes.
Egg mask
Effectively fights wrinkles on the hands. Prepare a mixture of one yolk and a tablespoon of honey. Simply rub into the skin of your hands overnight.
Moisturizing
The most popular moisturizing ingredients for preparing homemade masks for dry hand skin: aloe, cucumber, olive oil, honey, parsley, yogurt.
To consolidate the effect of the mask, the subsequent use of a nourishing or protective cream that restores the lipid layer is mandatory.
With aloe and honey
Cool the aloe leaf, peel the peel and mix the pulp with 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply to hands, distribute with massaging movements and leave for a quarter of an hour under polyethylene in a warm place. Rinse with water and apply nourishing cream.
With banana and cucumber
Grind a quarter of a ripe banana into a homogeneous mass and mix with half a coarsely grated and squeezed cucumber. Spread the resulting composition over the skin of your hands for half an hour under plastic gloves.
With young zucchini and yoghurt
Combine a tablespoon of plain yogurt with a handful of grated young zucchini. Apply the composition to the skin of your hands and leave for 20 minutes. Wash off with water and fix the effect with a nourishing cream.
With melon and essential oils
Crush the melon pulp into a paste and mix with 9 drops of essential oil and the same amount of any base oil. You can mix several oils to choose from: lemon, rosemary, tea tree, mint, grapefruit, lavender. Apply to skin and leave for thirty minutes.
With yolk, parsley and oatmeal
Crush or finely chop the parsley, mix with one yolk and add a tablespoon of oatmeal to thicken the composition. Massage onto the skin and leave for a quarter of an hour.
With almond butter and vegetable or citrus juice
Mix a dessert spoon of almond butter with 50 ml of carrot, potato, zucchini or cabbage juice. Add juice or fresh juice of half a lemon or orange. Massage onto the skin and leave for 20 minutes.
Anti-aging masks
The condition of the skin of the hands almost always indicates a woman’s age. In home cosmetology, there are a considerable number of variations of masks for smoothing rough and rough skin:
- Potato mask. Boil a small amount of potatoes and mash them. Add butter (two to three grams) to the puree (forty grams). Apply the prepared mixture to the skin of your hands, leave it for as long as possible for the best effect.
- Egg mask. Beat 2 chicken yolks thoroughly, pour in olive oil (twenty milliliters). Distribute the resulting mass over the entire area of your hands and leave for half an hour. You can store leftover product in the refrigerator.
- Linen mask. Beat the chicken yolk with flaxseed oil (twenty milliliters), pour in melted honey (ten milliliters) and a few drops of lemon juice. Before applying the hand mask, you need to moisturize your skin with water and apply night cream. Leave the mask on overnight.
The use of anti-aging masks will give the skin the effect of softness, tenderness and velvety, and will slow down the aging process.
Restorative
In the off-season, with frequent contact with water and chemical detergents, the skin requires not just systemic care, but also restoration. Microcracks, peeling, redness - you will need recipes for masks with active ingredients.
Restorative oils include essential oils of chamomile, tea tree, honey, aloe, coconut, almond, sea buckthorn and olive oils, whey, panthenol, vitamin A and E in capsules.
For microcracks, it is not recommended to use ingredients that contain acids.
With aloe and vitamin E
Mix the pulp of one aloe leaf with the contents of two vitamin E capsules. Apply the resulting pulp to your hands and wrap it in plastic and heat. Exposure time is up to 30 minutes. The mask can not be washed off with water, but wiped off with a paper napkin.
With panthenol and tea tree oil
Combine a handful of panthenol foam with 4 drops of tea tree oil and a teaspoon of any base oil for the base. Apply the mask to your hands and leave for a quarter of an hour. Wash off with warm water and fix the effect with cream.
With glycerin and sea buckthorn oil
A nourishing mixture of fatty components allows you to restore the lipid balance of the skin and provide it with reliable protection from external factors. Heat one teaspoon each of glycerin and sea buckthorn oil in a water bath and distribute over the skin. Leave in a warm place for half an hour. This mask transforms the skin if you extend the exposure time throughout the night.
With vitamin A capsules and banana pulp
Mix the contents of two capsules with half a banana, mashed into a homogeneous paste. Apply for 15 minutes and then rinse with warm water. The vitamin heals small cracks, redness, and removes dryness.
With linseed oil and boiled potatoes
Flaxseed oil is a strong antioxidant that triggers metabolic and regenerative processes in the skin. Mix the pulp of one boiled potato with a dessert spoon of flaxseed oil. Leave the warm composition on the skin for 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water and fix the effect with cream.
With milk and rye bread
Pour warm milk over the rye bread crumb and mash into a homogeneous paste. Apply the warm mixture to your hands and leave for half an hour. Rinse with warm water and fix the result with cream.
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Hand baths
If your hands are chapped and flaky, you can take therapeutic restorative baths.
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You can also do it with regular serum. Hold your hands in the solution for several minutes - it heals cracks perfectly.
Ammonia-glycerin bath
If your skin is so rough that even cream does not help, you can prepare such a bath. One tablespoon of glycerin and one teaspoon of ammonia are diluted in two liters of warm water.
Herbal baths - chamomile, linden or sage - have a life-giving effect on your hands. Soak your hands in the prepared broth for ten minutes, then lubricate with your nourishing cream.
Starch baths
Useful for softening hands. Dilute one spoon of starch in a glass of water. The paste is then diluted again in a liter of heated water. Hold your hands in this bath for 15 minutes, then rinse with warm water. It can also be used for dry and rough elbows.
Anti-aging
For rejuvenation, ingredients that actively influence the growth and renewal of skin cells, increase tone and nutrition are most often used. Among them are essential oils of rose, rosemary, lavender, mint, starch, almond oil, oatmeal, egg white, cream, aloe.
With vitamin A and starch
Combine the contents of 2 vitamin A capsules with warm brewed starch, about 100 ml. Distribute the composition with soft massage movements and leave for a quarter of an hour. Rinse off with warm water.
With yogurt, honey and aloe
Combine all ingredients in equal proportions, one dessert spoon of each, and apply for 25 minutes. If the composition turns out to be liquid, you can thicken it with small oat flakes and ground flaxseeds.
With egg white, cream and oatmeal
Combine ground rolled oats with 50 ml of cream and one egg white. Place the mixture in a plastic bag or gloves and immerse your hands in it. Wrap in heat for 15 minutes.
With ground walnuts and coffee
Mix the remaining ground coffee with walnuts and add cream or glycerin, 30 ml. Mix until smooth and spread the mask for 20 minutes. Remove residues with warm water.
With cosmetic clay, banana and aloe
Combine white cosmetic clay with the puree of half a ripe banana and the pulp of one aloe leaf. The composition should not flow down, but should be evenly distributed. Wrap in plastic and heat for half an hour.
With apricot, cream and coconut oil
The latter can be replaced with glycerin. Grind the fruit pulp, add cream and coconut oil. Leave to act for 45 minutes.
Features of hand care
When you need to protect the sensitive skin on your hands, you need to follow a few simple recommendations. Cosmetologists advise:
- It is necessary to minimize contact with the aquatic environment. Household chores should be done with gloves, and if you are frequently exposed to water, use protective creams.
- Don't get carried away with antibacterial care products. Soap or gel tend to dry out the epidermis; they deprive the skin of its natural protective barrier.
- Regular peeling helps to take care of the nutrition of the epidermis of the hands. Without such a procedure, keratinized particles will prevent the full penetration of cosmetic resources into the layers of the epidermis.
- The basic rule of hand care is constant hydration and nutrition.
- On frosty days, it is customary to wear gloves on your hands, and in sunny weather you cannot do without sunscreen. Active sun ages the skin twice as fast.
To improve skin care for your hands, you should use not only store-bought creams, but also make recipes at home. After all, not only the face needs care, the hands simply need care!
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Homemade masks can be made two, or preferably three times every seven to eight days. You need to keep the self-made product for at least 25 minutes. If the time is kept longer, the efficiency will be better.
For the mixture prepared according to recipes, you need to wear gloves, mittens, and wrap it in compression paper. The masks are washed off with water, after the manipulations, the hands are thoroughly wiped dry and a protective cream is applied.
You can combine long housework with applying a mask. First, make the mixture and put on thin cotton gloves. To work, you will need household gloves - they are worn over cotton gloves.
Whitening
Whitening masks are suitable for those with age spots or dull grayish skin to refresh and even out the tone.
Popular whitening ingredients: apple cider vinegar, starch, soda, ammonia, lemon, orange, grapes.
With lemon juice and oatmeal
Brew Hercules with boiling water, wait until it cools a little, and squeeze lemon juice into it. Stir and apply to skin for half an hour. Do not use on small cracks and wounds.
With starch and orange
Combine a glass of brewed starch with freshly squeezed orange juice to form a porridge that is convenient for application. Leave to act for 20 minutes.
With cabbage and cottage cheese
Mix finely grated fresh cabbage with low-fat cottage cheese in equal proportions. Exposure time is 25 minutes. Cabbage also has a tonic and rejuvenating effect.
With apple cider vinegar and banana
Mix a teaspoon of vinegar with the same amount of olive oil and half a grated banana. Apple cider vinegar can be replaced with lemon juice or half the amount of table vinegar.
With grapes and apple
Grind the grapes, add half a grated and squeezed apple, a tablespoon of olive or almond oil. Fruit acids even out skin tone, lighten age spots and act as natural keratolytics, softening rough areas and calluses.
Honey masks to soften hand skin
Honey has many beneficial properties: it allows you to quickly cure hand diseases and restore them to their former beauty. Here are some effective honey solutions: - In a plastic bowl, break 1 chicken egg, add 20 g of any honey. However, mustard honey is the preferred product if it is different. variety is ok. Stir the substance, add a drop of essential oil and a pinch of salt. Distribute it over your hands and cover them with a warm towel for 30 minutes. Manicure gloves are also suitable.
