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Date Posted: 08:14:26 02/16/01 Fri
Author: znailady
Subject: Re: No-No's
In reply to: Znailady 's message, "Re: No-No's" on 08:31:15 02/11/01 Sun

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Not wearing gloves when working with household chemicals. The cuticle will lift and the matrix will absorb these chemicals and 3-6 months later your nail tips will be damaged due to this past exposure. Your current nail tips will become chemically damaged immediately! In addition, your skin will be absorbing the chemcials.....Keep a set of gloves with your cleaning products and wear them!!!!

Using nails to scratch off labels or dried food, even in gloves, on counter tops, dishes, or pots/pans. Use scrapers! Let household cleaning products loosen dried foods and wipe it away.

Use your knuckles to push the buttons on the microwave. Or, make sure that contact is made with the flesh of the fingertip not the nail tip.

Avoid using sponges in your kitchen. They are full of germs and bacteria that can enter the body through the lifted cuticle. Rememeber, your cuticles lift whenever they are wet. Wear gloves and use paper towels whenever possible.

Using nails as cleaning tools when doing "dry" housework and not wearing gloves. Dusting should be done in cotton gloves if nails are extremely fragile or prone to breakage. Gardening gloves make great dusting gloves. This will save yourmanicure also.

Using your nails to push buttons through buttonholes can lead to low breaks in the nail(s) doing the pushing. Learn to use the fleshy parts of your fingers to button buttons.

Letting your thumbnail or other nails rub against the teeth on zippers as you zip your zippers will ruin a manicure and fray nail tips. Hold your nails away from the zipper teehth as you zip up or down. This will save your manicure and your nails!

Jewelry clasps, safety clasps, hair clips, safety pins, and belts can notch a nail very easily as you open and close them. If possible have someone else do this for you. When removing bracelets, use a stable object to open safety clasps. Use skin whenver possible not you nails.

Making your bed can be dangerous to your nails if you allow the weight of the bedding to bend the nails back as you make your bed. Some women with long nails use a pancake turner to push bedding under the mattress.

Pulling wet clothes out of the washer can bend nails back. Grab clothes with fingers not fingertips.

Do you work in the yard without gloves? Do you allow dirt to get and stay under your nails? Tim the Toolman Taylor is right, use power tools whenever possible! Double glove if necessary to keep hands and nails clean and protected. Rose handlers gloves are the best when lined with cotton gloves. Throw away gloves that get holes in them!

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