How to keep your hands soft and youthful

Don't let your hands make you look older than you are!

Written By: Editorial Team | Published : June 15, 2015 12:44 PM IST

Your face may look like a 20-year-old but one look at your hands can reveal your age or worse, make you look older than you are if you do not take good care of them. But a few, simple measures can go a long way in keeping your hands soft and youthful. Make-up artist Preeti Dahiya suggests a few tips.

A simple method to take care of this problem is to moisturise the hands daily and at regular intervals, suggests makeup artist and hairstylist Preeti Dahiya.

Moisturise your hands daily at regular intervals.
Wear gloves while gardening, washing clothes or doing kitchen work. Otherwise, simply oil your hands before any work involving water so your hands don t look depleted and painfully dry.
It s advisable to get a manicure from a reputed salon that practise good hygiene procedure. Once a week, one should soak their hands in soapy water for a couple of minutes and then file the nails before applying nail paint. One should not scrap off nail paint because this weakens the nails.
Also, get rid of dirt and dead skin cells by exfoliating the hands. This not only makes hands look pretty and young, but doing so also improves blood circulation.

DIY

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Mix a tablespoon of lemon juice, a tablespoon of glycerine and a few drops of rosewater. Apply this mixture twice a day for silky hands.
Take a lemon and cut it into half. Put half tablespoon of sugar into it and rub it on your hands. This helps to remove tan and give your hands an even tone.
Mashed potatoes mixed with milk are great for a hand mask.
Eat foods rich in calcium like dairy products for healthy nails.
Soaps (bar or liquid) designed for sensitive skin are the best choice for our hands. Soap with olive oil and jojoba is a good option as it does not dry the skin, or strip the skin of its natural oils.

Treatments

If your hands are already wrinkly, only moisturising it may not help. You can opt for treatments such as fillers and radio frequency skin tightening. Both the methods help restore the lost volume and plumpness of the hands and help them become soft like before. The results too are long-lasting. Read more...

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With inputs from IANS

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