Those who garden or cook often have this problem: they can wash their hands and brush their fingers vigorously. below of their nails stay dirty. This space under the nails, called subungual region, which resists washing, and stays dark, is also an important site for the development of bacteria. The cleaning under nails is therefore not to be neglected. Don’t be afraid to show your hands anymore, find out 14 tips to remove dirt from under nails.
How to clean dirt from under the nails
1 – Wooden stick
Soak your hands in a bowl of warm soapy water for about ten minutes, then scrape the underside of your nails with a stick or any tool. stainless steel manicure holder.
Warning
Do not insist too much with the stick or other tools, you could injure yourself, and, by the time the skin heals, you will have to wait to use other more suitable methods.
2 – baking soda
The bicarbonate whitens and unclogs the grease.
In a bowl, mix baking soda and water to obtain a slightly liquid paste.
Bathe your nails in it.
Leave on for 1/4 hour.
Scrub with a toothbrush or nail brush.
Rinse and pat dry.
Apply moisturizer.
3 – Lemon
Cut a lemon in 4, then rub the underside of the nails with a lemon wedge.
Let the lemon act for a few minutes, pass a stick without too much emphasis, then rinse your fingers.
Apply a good moisturizer.
4 – Toothpaste
Toothpaste, because it contains several whitening agents, can help you clean and whiten the blackened space. under the fingernails.
Apply a layer of toothpaste under the nail, then rub gently with a nail brush.
Leave on for 5 to 10 minutes.
Rinse
Dry
5- Toothpaste, baking soda and salt
If the toothpaste has not cleaned the underside of the nail sufficiently, add a pinch of baking soda and a pinch of fine salt.
Scrub the underside of the nail with a soft brush soaked in this slightly abrasive mixture.
Leave on for 5 to 10 minutes.
Rinse and dry thoroughly.
Massage your nails with a nourishing and moisturizing cream.
6- Solvent
Remove the dark residue that clings under the nails with a stick wrapped in cotton and soaked in nail polish remover.
Change the cotton as soon as it gets dirty.
Wash your fingers with soap then apply a cream.
7 – hydrogen peroxide
Pass a cotton swab moistened with hydrogen peroxide over the nail.
Let it dry without exposing the nails to the sun.
Scrub the underside of the nail with a barely damp brush.
Apply an organic nourishing cream without alcohol.
8- Lemon juice and fine salt
Scrub the underside of the nails with a brush impregnated with a solution of the juice of half a lemon with a pinch of salt.
Leave for a few minutes.
Rinse, dry and then massage the nails with a moisturizer.
9 – Lemon juice and hydrogen peroxide
Pass a stick under the fingernails surrounded by cotton and soaked in lemon juice mixed with hydrogen peroxide.
Wash your hands afterwards.
We sell hydrogen peroxide at the Boutique Toutpratique
10 – Dental appliance cleaner
Pour an effervescent dental appliance cleaning tablet into a bowl of lukewarm water.
Soak your nails in the bowl for a few minutes.
Brush your nails in the water.
Rinse them then moisturize them with a nourishing cream.
11- Salt and olive oil
In a bowl mix 4 tablespoons of olive oil with a tablespoon of fine salt.
Soak the nails in the bowl for a few minutes.
Then rub the nails with a brush.
Wash your hands with soap.
Then apply a moisturizer.
12 – Sugar and makeup remover
Add powdered sugar to your makeup remover.
Work the preparation under the nails.
Gently brush through.
Wash your hands, paying particular attention to the fingernails.
Dry them.
Apply moisturizer.
2 other more radical and sometimes dangerous methods to clean the underside of the nail
13- Acetone
Soak cotton balls in acetone.
Apply them under the nails.
Leave on for a few minutes.
Brush the nails and then wash them.
Coat them with rich natural moisturizer without alcohol because acetone strongly dries the nail.
This trick can attack nails and skin, use it only exceptionally!
To learn more about the dangers of acetone read this Toutpratique article.
Acetone: how to use it and what precaution to take with acetone
14 – Bleach
Bleach does not do your nails good, but if your nail polish is resistant to all natural solutions …
Pass under the nails a stick surrounded by cotton and soaked in solvent.
Change the cotton as soon as it gets dirty.
Wash yourself hands with soap, rubbing fingernails with a brush.
Pat them dry, then coat hands and nails with a thick moisturizer.
How to protect under fingernails when gardening or cooking
– Soap
Moisten a bar of soap, then scrape it with each of your fingernails.
The underside of your nails protected by the soap, you can cook what you want, just after the work, rinse your hands.
The dirt will wash away with the water.