Ladies’ fingers: ideal hand care treatments at home and in the salon

1. Daily care with creams

To keep your hands well-groomed and the skin does not give out age longer, you need daily care. Remembering your beloved once a month and running in panic to buy some creams to rub everything into your skin is a bad plan. First of all, you need to remember that the most terrible test for hands is household chemicals. Protect the skin with gloves when cleaning, washing and mopping. Ideally, there should be a special coating on the inside of the gloves, which will prevent skin contact with the rubber from which the gloves are made, and will also neutralize sweat. Try to keep your hands from freezing in winter, and in summer remember to protect them from UV rays.

In addition, excessive contact with water should be avoided: fresh, tap water dries out the skin. After washing your hands, you should make it a rule to thoroughly dry your skin and apply a moisturizer. A daytime beauty product should be light in texture so as not to leave a sticky feeling on your hands. Apply a greasy cream at night: it will restore hydration, prevent moisture from evaporating from the surface of the skin, so that it can be thoroughly moisturized overnight.

It is very important to ensure that the daily care cream does not contain aggressive ingredients such as acids and retinol. These ingredients help to brighten the skin, eliminate age spots, but careless use can lead to skin irritation. The damaged skin of the hands is the gateway for infection.

If the skin is too dry, for example in winter, during the period of temperature drops and central heating, you can resort to emollients. These are specialized products that restore the skin well, saturate it with fatty components. You can also use regenerating preparations. For example, in Soviet times, methyluracil ointment was used. It can still be found on the market today. The ointment renews damaged skin, including hands.

2. Paraffin baths and wraps

Once a week or once a month, you can pamper yourself and your hands with a paraffin bath in the salon or at home. Paraffin therapy is a physiotherapy procedure based on the effect of heat on the superficial and deep layers of the skin, muscles and joints. In addition to deeply nourishing the skin, this skin care treatment helps relieve muscle tightness and relieve pain from hand problems. But paraffin therapy is not suitable for everyone. If you have skin diseases or joint diseases, then you should definitely consult a doctor.

Nourishing hand masks or wraps will also help to put your hands in order in an emergency. Thanks to the active ingredients, these procedures penetrate deeply into the skin, restoring skin hydration.

3. Injections for maximum softness

If you want to achieve maximum velvety hands, transform the skin and start regeneration processes, then you should pay attention to injection procedures such as mesotherapy, biorevitalization, collagen therapy, plasma lifting. All these procedures significantly improve the quality of the skin.

Mesotherapy cocktails can be injected into the skin, which may contain vitamin and mineral complexes, as well as peptides (organic substances that regulate the state of cells). With the help of such injections, you can not only improve the overall condition of the skin, increase its tone, but also deal with some specific problem, for example, lighten the pigment, reduce the severity of scar tissue. Mesotherapy is usually done once a week. For a full course, you need 5-10 procedures.

The mesotherapeutic administration of hyalyronic acid is usually called biorevitalization. The procedure improves skin tone, hydration, and has a rejuvenating effect. The course is from 3 to 5 procedures, once every 1-2 weeks. To keep your hands in perfect condition all year round, it is enough to repeat the course of biorevitalization 3-1 times a year.

Collagen can also be injected. Collagen therapy improves color, improves tone, moisturizes the skin well. Depending on the specific drug, on average one procedure is required per month, the course of collagen therapy is 3 procedures. The effect lasts up to six months.

Plasma lifting, which involves the injection of micro doses of the patient’s own plasma, is very good for tissue repair. For example, if a traumatic procedure was previously performed.

4. Peels and resurfacing in the fight against hyperpigmentation

If you suffer from age spots on the skin of your hands, then in addition to creams with acids at home, you should think about professional laser procedures. Peels and resurfacing can be used not only to eliminate hyperpigmentation, but also to improve skin tone, as well as to combat fine wrinkles on the skin.

It is better not to abuse peels and other damaging procedures without a direct prescription, because by contacting objects in public places, we run the risk of getting one or another infection. In addition, you need to understand that after laser procedures, you will need a rehabilitation period for recovery.

5. Fillers will help remove “bony”

For everyone, age-related changes can manifest themselves in their own way: dryness, hyperpigmentation, fine wrinkles, or skeletal hands, when all the tendons, vessels and bones are visible.

Contouring will help with skeletonization. The introduction of fillers under the skin based on calcium hydroxyapatite (the effect lasts from 1 to 2 years) or on the basis of hyaluronic acid (the effect is from 6 to 12 months) will hide the tendons, blood vessels and make the protrusion of the bones not so conspicuous.

6. Don’t forget about cuticles and nails

The beauty of hands without healthy nails and well-groomed cuticles is impossible. It is important not to bring their condition to the point of thinning. When doing manicure with gels, biogels for a long period (some do not remove such funds for months), you may encounter onychodystrophy, when, in fact, nail necrosis occurs: it begins to flake off from the nail bed. We need prevention. If the nails are, in principle, thin and brittle, then a doctor can diagnose and identify those trace elements and vitamins that are lacking in the body and introduce them into the diet.

Healthy cuticles require daily care with moisturizing emollients and oils. If a person’s work is associated with an increased risk of infection, then it is better not to do an edged manicure. It is better to regularly push back the cuticle with special sticks, followed by moistening.