Fingernails Health Isn't Just About Fingernails

Proper Care of Fingernails includes Hand Care

No matter how well your fingernails are cared for, if your hands aren't a fitting showcase for your nails, you won't look your best. If you want eye-catching fingernails, you need to make sure that your hands are doing their part. Just as a mediocre picture frame can detract from the beauty of a painting, so too can ordinary hands make fantastic fingernails seem plain - or even unattractive.

Make Your Hands a Showcase for Your Fingernails

Your hands are usually the first place on your body to show signs of age. To keep your hands beautiful and to keep them a fitting showcase for your fingernails, you need to

Keep your hands soft: Karite Gold shea butter, because of its extraordinarily high healing fraction, addresses the cause of dryness, not just the symptoms; in addition to moisturizing your skin, it also makes your skin cells more elastic so the moisture can’t escape.

Keep your skin from thinning: With too little moisture, the amount of collagen in your skin is reduced; as a consequence, your skin becomes thinner and blemishes show through. Karite Gold shea butter stimulates collagen-producing cells.

Care for your cuticles: The purpose of cuticles is to form a barrier at your nail line to keep infections out. Karite Gold shea butter keeps your cuticles healthy so they can form a tight seal.

Don’t let your fingernails get brittle: Brittleness is the result of the growing nails having too little moisture; Karite Gold’s deep penetration provides the necessary moisture.

Artificial Nails Are Secure

Many types of moisturizers and hand creams can cause your artificial nails to detach. Karite Gold shea butter is safe to use with artificial nails; it does not weaken the adhesive that attaches artificial nails to their base, so it won’t cause your artificial nails to detach.

Because unrefined shea butter not only contains a high moisturizing fraction, but also contains an extraordinarily high healing fraction, shea butter is a wonderful agent for keeping your hands soft, keeping your skin from thinning, keeping your cuticles healthy, and keeping your fingernails from becoming brittle. The essential oils that can work with shea butter to make your hands a fitting showcase for your fingernails include myrrh and patchouli.

The following Karite Gold products each contain Shea Butter and one or more of the essential oils that are most efficacious for splitting or torn cuticles, and they are all about equally effective. Click on any of these products to find out more about them.

• Shea Butter with Bergamot and Myrrh  (fragrance: vigorous but unobtrusive)
• Shea Butter with Lavender and Myrrh  (fragrance: light and soothing)
• Shea Butter with Vanilla, Grapefruit and Myrrh  (fragrance: mellow citrous)
• Shea Butter with Ylang-Ylang and Myrrh  (fragrance: pleasantly sweet with seductive undertones)
• Shea Butter with Bergamot and Patchouli  (fragrance: subtley spicey with a hint of the outdoors)
• Shea Butter with Sandalwood and Patchouli  (fragrance: earthy and unpretentious)
• Shea Butter with Ylang-Ylang, Vanilla and Patchouli  (fragrance: fragile yet harmonious)

To keep your hands in great shape, after you have coated an area of your skin with shea butter, spend some time making sure that the shea butter works its way down under the surface of your skin. Move your fingers in a circular motion as you apply the shea butter.