Herbal Treatment For Hands

Hands are important part of our body and thus, their care must be taken properly. In fact, hands are the most neglected part when body care is talked about. As a result, a person gets chipped nails or frayed cuticles or stained skin. There are some herbal ways in which soft, clean and lovable hands can be obtained.For this purpose, beeswax is added to any skin care oil and is melted in a gentle manner.
After the solution is cooled, it can be applied to nail. Remaining solution can be left to become hard and can be stored in container for repeated applications.

If a person has rough cuticles, he can use orris root and cornstarch. Mixture of these two herbs can be rubbed carefully on the cuticles. Since these two herbs are considered as abrasive, it smoothes the cuticles without causing any damage to them. Any carelessness in application of mixture can aggravate roughness of cuticles.

Women like to have scented hands and for this they apply many types of chemical preparations. A rinse of rosemary and rose can provide same effect and that too, in an herbal manner. For preparing the rinse, leaves of rosemary and dried roses in the form of buds or flowers are taken.

Other ingredient required is white vinegar. For making rinse, a clean jar of glass is filled with roses, to which, rosemary leaves are added. White vinegar is added to these and jar is covered with lid. This jar is kept in the sun for steeping for three days. Liquid, then, can be strained and stored in covered jar. This liquid can be added to water in small quantities for rinsing hands. As a result, fragranced hands are obtained.

For having soft and cleansed hands, a person can use lavender hand cleanser. This preparation also removes any type of smell from the hands. For making the cleanser, ingredients required are lavender flowers, baking soda, lemon juice powder and dry milk powder. All these are mixed in equal quantities and rubbed on the wet hands. After 30 minutes, it can be rinsed for getting soft and cleansed hands.

Some people also use mixture of calendula flowers, apricot kernel oil, cocoa butter and lanolin for getting same effect on hands. However, quantity of apricot kernel oil and calendula flowers taken is less as compared to other ingredients in the mixture.