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HOW TO GET RID OF CRAKING, SPLITING AND SPONGY NAILS?
"Have you any advices to prevent my nails from spliting all the time?" The nails, at their best condition, are compounds of 18% of water and 5% of oil. (The others 77% are keratin) A nail with too much water will be spongy. A nail that does not contain enough water will be fragile and succeptible to breakage. Nail are composed approximately of 100 layers of dead keratin, in terms of the toenails the number turns around 150. Keratin is very important to ensure the flexibility of the nail. When you shower, and the nails are exposed to water for too long they become spongy.
But what produces the lack of hydration? When you wash your hands with soap (full of sulfate), it removes the oil from your nails, resulting in the evaporation of water. Water and oil are supposed to ensure flexibility of your nails, which is why once the liquid are evaporated nails are dry and brittle. In addition, dissolvants that you use are also involved in the drying of your nails. Some claim that the acetone-free nail polish would be safer and less drying but this idea is wrong. Acetone is even better since it runs faster. Be careful not to use your remover more than once a week.
But why nails split? Simply because when the nail is exposed to water for too long the 100 keratin layers separate when drying. How to fix it? Always thinks of getting rid of your soaps that contains sulfates and if it is still not enough; Oil it! But be careful; as I told you previously, the oils are not all the same! Avoca oil, canola oil, mineral oil or olive oil (for example) will have no effect.Molecules of these oils are too large to penetrate the nail. The solution? Jojoba oil! Molecules of jojoba oil have the same size as those of the sebum. The nail will absorb the oil so that the nail is more flexible, but as the oil is absorbed much more slowly than the water it evaporates more easily than water. Jojoba oil will show its effects in the long term, so you simply have to apply it daily on your nails.
But what produces the lack of hydration? When you wash your hands with soap (full of sulfate), it removes the oil from your nails, resulting in the evaporation of water. Water and oil are supposed to ensure flexibility of your nails, which is why once the liquid are evaporated nails are dry and brittle. In addition, dissolvants that you use are also involved in the drying of your nails. Some claim that the acetone-free nail polish would be safer and less drying but this idea is wrong. Acetone is even better since it runs faster. Be careful not to use your remover more than once a week.
But why nails split? Simply because when the nail is exposed to water for too long the 100 keratin layers separate when drying. How to fix it? Always thinks of getting rid of your soaps that contains sulfates and if it is still not enough; Oil it! But be careful; as I told you previously, the oils are not all the same! Avoca oil, canola oil, mineral oil or olive oil (for example) will have no effect.Molecules of these oils are too large to penetrate the nail. The solution? Jojoba oil! Molecules of jojoba oil have the same size as those of the sebum. The nail will absorb the oil so that the nail is more flexible, but as the oil is absorbed much more slowly than the water it evaporates more easily than water. Jojoba oil will show its effects in the long term, so you simply have to apply it daily on your nails.