Hand mask at home

Systemic hand care involves more than just applying cream. Including baths and, of course, masks. The latter can be prepared with your own hands or purchased at the store. Compare ready-made products with home-made ones in composition and action.

How hand masks work

Hand masks act on the skin more actively than creams. However, face masks work exactly the same way. Any hand mask can be turned into a compress by wearing cotton or plastic gloves over it. This will provide an even more intense effect on the skin due to:
  • warming up;

  • protection from external influences;

  • relaxation and peace, because with such a mask really nothing can be done.

All this makes it possible to more effectively restore the skin and nourish it.

Composition

Since the skin of the hands is never oily and is almost always open to external influences, it needs:

  • moisturizing;

  • food;

  • vitamins and antioxidants;

  • soothing ingredients;

  • Sun protection.

Regular home spa treatments for hands are a very good idea. Without exaggeration: pleasant with useful.

It is clear that when making a mask, you don’t need to think about SPF, but all other ingredients are welcome. Therefore, components from various categories are added to homemade masks, and ready-made hand creams.
  • Hydrofixator: glycerin, aloe, plant extracts, hyaluronic acid (in ready-made creams).

  • Oils: all vegetable in any combination, because each has its own unique set of fatty acids that are good for the skin.

  • Decoctions or plant extracts, which soothe the skin, have an antiseptic (tea tree) and regenerating effect, ranging from tea to chamomile, calendula, etc.

What result to expect

After masks, as well as after regular use of creams, the skin of the hands can become:

  • denser;

  • elastic;

  • soft;

  • smooth;

  • more protected from wind and frost.

Perhaps, most of all, the skin of the hands suffers in winter in forgetful persons – without gloves.

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How to choose a hand mask

Hands quickly signal adverse changes in the condition of the skin, because they are regularly exposed to negative environmental factors. And the skin on them often becomes uneven, rough, excessively dry.

Our main mistakes:

  • forgot to apply SPF cream in the summer;

  • do not wear gloves in winter;

  • did not apply hand cream after contact with water;

  • decided that without gloves it is much better to wash dishes and do household chores;

  • we thought that the usual body milk is enough for caring for the hands, but in order to restore the dry skin of the hands, a richer, oily texture is required.

What to look for when choosing a mask for hand care at home?

Anti-aging

This category of masks, in addition to the essential moisturizing and nourishing components in hand care, includes:
  • antioxidants to stimulate skin repair processes;

  • fruit acids to renew the skin and fight pigmentation, which, as you know, “loves” the face and hands;

  • additional oils, because dryness of the skin increases significantly over the years.

Do not forget about anti-aging hand masks if you often wash dishes, spend a lot of time outside regardless of the weather and your skin needs more intensive care.

Moisturizers

As we have already said, almost everyone has dry skin on their hands at any age, starting with adolescence, so additional moisture will never be superfluous.

By moisturizing the skin, we strengthen its protective functions. It better resists adverse environmental factors.

Nutrient

The high season for nourishing hand care is winter. As a rule, we take care of the skin of the face much more often than the skin of the hands. And the brushes begin to peel off, and in the worst case, the skin can even crack. Nourishing masks and creams will fix all this.

It is very important to actively strengthen the lipid barrier of the skin with the help of saturated components – fats and waxes. It is no coincidence that paraffin therapy is especially popular in winter.

Restorative

The skin of the hands with insufficient care can become very dry. To heal cracks, super-nourishing masks are required, enriched, in addition to fats (strengthening the hydrolipidic mantle of the skin), also with restorative components. These can be herbal extracts (chamomile, calendula), vitamins, for example, B3 (niacin) or B5 (panthenol). These masks soothe and soften the skin.
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Rules for the use of hand masks at home

Apply the cream by massaging each hand from the base of the hand to the fingertips.

  • The perfect time for a hand mask is evening. When all household chores are done and after the mask you don’t have to mess around in the water or go out in the cold.

  • After applying the mask on your hands, it is better to put on top of polyethylene or cotton gloves for maximum effect. In principle, in this way any hand cream can be turned into a mask.

  • Good idea to match the mask with massage hands That is, gently rub each hand from the base of the hand to the fingertips. This will improve blood circulation and help the product to be better absorbed.

  • Any masks for hands, except for whitening (against pigmentation), can be done without restrictions even every day. Moisturizing and nourishing hand care cannot be overdone.

  • Limiting hand skin care to masks alone (1-2 times a week), even the most super-nourishing ones, is a big mistake. It’s only extra care. Every day after each contact with water, the hands need a cream.

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Home recipes vs professional remedies

What to choose is up to you. Hands will benefit from any nourishing and moisturizing care.

Chamomile mask

Ingredients:

  1. 1 teaspoon dried chamomile flowers or chamomile tea bag

  2. 1 tablespoon oatmeal

  3. 1 tablespoon heavy cream (or sour cream).

How to cook:

  1. grind oatmeal into flour;

  2. brew chamomile in 2 tablespoons of boiling water;

  3. add oatmeal and let the mixture swell;

  4. mix with cream or sour cream.

Cover with a mass of hands, if desired, you can wrap them in a plastic bag or put on cotton or plastic gloves and leave for 15-20 minutes.

Addition

Regenerating hand cream “Intensive care. Nutrition, Garnier – a necessary addition to the home mask. Cream with allantoin, known for healing properties, and glycerin moisturizes and forms a kind of protective film, protecting the skin from dryness.

Mask with glycerin

Ingredients:

  1. 1 tablespoon of glycerin;

  2. 1 tablespoon of aloe gel;

  3. 1 teaspoon rose water.

How to cook:

mix all the ingredients until a homogeneous consistency.

Thoroughly cover hands with the mixture and put on gloves for 15-20 minutes. Just keep in mind that the independent use of glycerin in home cosmetics can lead to the exact opposite effect. Read more about the features of this substance here.

Addition

Revitalizing cream for very dry skin of hands Lipikar Xerand, La Roche-Posay will help maintain the effect after the mask. It contains glycerin and thermal water in high concentration, which provides a strong moisturizing effect. It also contains restorative allantoin.

Hand mask with honey

Ingredients:

  1. 1 a tablespoon of honey;

  2. 1 tablespoon oatmeal

  3. 1 tablespoon of sour cream;

  4. 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

How to cook:

  1. grind oatmeal into flour (in a coffee grinder or blender);

  2. mix oatmeal with honey and lemon juice;

  3. Gradually add sour cream, bringing to a consistency convenient for application.

The mask should be applied for 15-20 minutes. This composition is called by many as anti-aging and whitening, because the fruit acids of lemon juice really help to lighten dark spots. But it is naive to expect that the mask will get rid of pigmentation on the hands. This requires professional salon peeling.

Addition

Nourishing and regenerating hand cream Nutrix Royal Mains, Lancôme will fix the result after you make a hand mask. A good set of oils “patches” damage to the protective mantle, moisturizes the skin and prevents moisture from evaporating. The cream saturates the skin with a variety of fatty acids, which are rich in oils in its composition (corn, rice, soybean, shea butter, passionflower). And vitamin E and hazelnut proteins not only protect the skin from free radicals, but also stimulate collagen synthesis, rejuvenating it.

Renewing mask-film for hands

Ingredients:

  1. 1 tablespoon of gelatin;

  2. 3 tablespoons of milk.

How to cook:

completely dissolve the gelatin in the warmed milk.

Warm (not hot!) The mixture is applied with a brush to the skin of the hands. Leave for 15 minutes, and then carefully, like gloves, remove. Shellac on nails will not suffer from such a procedure if the nails were coated at least two days before.

Addition

Revitalizing hand cream, CeraVe ideal for use some time after the procedure of applying a home mask. Hyaluronic acid and ceramides strengthen the hydrolipid mantle of the skin, cholesterol and glycerin moisturize and soften.

Avocado mask

Ingredients:

  1. half avocado;

  2. 1 the egg.

How to cook:

  1. mash the avocado with a fork;

  2. beat the egg separately with a fork;

  3. mix ingredients until smooth.

A nourishing mask applied to the hands can be closed with a plastic bag or gloves can be worn. Keep the mask for 20-30 minutes.

Addition

Hand Cream Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, Kiehl’s responsible for nourishing the skin of the hands. In this formula, the working substances are squalane, obtained from olive oil, as well as shea butter and avocado. Together they moisturize and nourish the skin, protect it. And eucalyptus extract is known for its antiseptic action.

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Safety measures

  • Before use, be sure to test the freshly prepared mask on the back of the brush to make sure that there is no allergic reaction.

  • Hand masks are recommended before bedtime, but in no case do not leave your hands in plastic gloves all night, the skin needs to breathe. Cotton gloves impregnated with the product can be left on if you feel comfortable in them.

  • Hand baths Herbs are a good idea. Only after the procedure, be sure to cover your hands with a nourishing cream and keep them warm. For such baths, it makes sense to use mineral or thermal water so as not to disturb the pH of the skin of the hands suffering from dryness.

  • Immediately after the mask or bath, do not go out for frostespecially without gloves. For the skin, this will be very stressful, and all efforts will go down the drain.

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