Follow these tips for hand care:

Follow these tips for hand care:

While doing any household work involving use of harsh detergents and soaps like doing laundry or dish washing, wear cotton lined rubber hand gloves. Also wear gloves when you do gardening.

Keep a near basin, so that whenever you wash your hands, apply it. For proper application of cream, after washing, pat dry your hands and massage your hands with moisturizer. Moisturizers containing chemicals like urea of lactic acid are better for trapping the moisture in the skin.

For removing stains left by household works like dishwashing, cutting of vegetables and fruits etc, massage your hands and nails with lemon slice just twice a week. Do not over do it because it can make the skin dry.

Massage your hands with olive oil at night daily.

Prepare a mixture of olive oil and lime juice and apply it on your hands. It will make them smooth and shiny.

Mix 2 parts cucumber juice and one part glycerin and apply n your hands to moisturize them.

You can also apply almond oil at night. Almond oil is full of vitamin E and it nourishes the skin of hands and makes them glow.

Take glycerin, limejuice and tomato juice and in equal proportion. Apply it on your hands. It will not only cleanse and bleach color of hands but also make them smooth. Leave this mixture on hands for about 15 minutes and then wash.

To bleach the color of your hands, prepare a mixture of milk cream, ground almond, few drops of glycerin and lemon juice.

Another tip for bleaching is to soaking your hands in water in which potatoes were boiled. Water should be lukewarm. Dip your hands for about 15-20 minutes and after taking out pat dry and apply a moisturizer.

Another method is to rubbing boiled mashed potatoes on hands, fingers and nails.

Protect your hands from harmful sunrays by applying sun protecting cream.

Prepare a mixture of Carbolic acid and Vaseline and rub on your hands. It makes hands soft.

Another wonderful mixture for hands is prepared from honey and orange juice. Honey is humectants and orange juice has AHA.

To prepare a hand mask mix mashed boiled potato and milk. Apply it over hands and leave it to dry. Rinse and wash with cold water.

Application of white of eggs also makes a hand mask. It makes the skin tight and prevents formation of wrinkles.

When you work with detergents and harsh soaps, PH balance of skin gets disturbed. To restore the PH balance of skin, rinse your hands with and water solution or sour milk after washing dishes or doing laundry.

You can prepare a nourishing hand cream by mixing 1 tsp honey and 3 tbsp of unsalted butter. Add to this 1 tbsp of concentrated herbal solution. This herbal solution is prepared by boiling 1 cup of water and steeping in one or all like chamomile, sage, nettle, and calendula. It will make a rich nourishing cream and make your hands smooth and silky