Overview
If your fingernails chip and crack, peel or are too thin, there are things you can do besides switching to a gelatin diet or eating apples, garlic and onions. The dietary tales are urban myths for those without enough protein in their foods and don't apply to most modern day, first world people. A balanced diet should give all the protein and sulfur needed for nail growth without overdosing on any particular foods. Instead, try the following.
Step 1
Prevent drying out your nails with too much water exposure. Soaking your nails or too much pool time dries out the natural oils needed for healthy nails. Wear rubber gloves when dish washing and thoroughly rub hand cream into nail areas to moisturize nails properly.
Step 2
Grab the right tool before using your nails to peel, pull, screw or pry. Stressing out your nails with pulling out staples when a staple puller is made for just that is liable to pull and damage as much fingernail as staple.
Step 3
Use the smoother side of emery boards for shaping your nails and go easy. Rough sand paper emery boards being pulled back and forth over nails also stress and split nails.
Step 4
Don't bite your nails. Not only does it stress the nails unnecessarily; saliva will weaken and dry out nails. Substitute that bad habit with the good habit of rubbing hand lotion or cream on your hands a couple of times a day and work it well into the cuticles and nails.
Step 5
Treat your nails to a good quality nail restoration product that doesn't have toxic chemicals like formaldehyde and toluene.
Things You'll Need
- Hand cream, nail restorer
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