Removing the nail polish is one of the important step in the nail worker’s process. However, the nail worker needs to get the certain knowledge about nail products to select the safe nail polish remover product. It is the product that not only assured to clear the nail polish safely, but also restricted the harm to both customers and workers.

Two types of nail polish remover

There are acetone and non – acetone. Both are solvent. They work on melting resin, plasticizers, film formers or color pigments in the nail polish.

However, these two types are also different from safety for the users:

-          Acetone Nail Polish remover: it make epidermis and nail skin dry; has bad smell; the nail would be broken if frequently used; quickly remove the polish.

-          Non – acetone/ Aceton – Free Nail Polish remover: it does not affect to the epidermis as well as the the nail skin; not have the badly chemical smell; not harmful for long using; needs longer time staying on nail to remove the dirt completely.

So which one should be chosen?

For all the requirements of the nail industry, health is one of the leading factors. However, you can consider  to get the best choice:

1.       Aceton Nail Polish remover is the most common and cheapest. Its ingredient includes: Acetone, Ethyl Acetone, Toluene, Propyline Carbonate, Alcohol, and acetone is account of 60% of remover water’s ingredients.

Acetone Nail Polish remover can easily remove the polish but it would affect badly to the nail being weak and broken, especially acrylics or gel nails. According to OSHA, using this chemical for long would get sickness such as skin problem, eyes irritation, breath difficulty, chronic bronchitis, liver and kidney problem,…

The advantage of acetone is to remove the polish very quickly. Thus, it is useful for removing the dark colors such as: holographic, shimmer, glitter or shellac (no – chip).

2.       Non – Acetone Nail Polish Remover is the product that should be chosen if you want to remove the nail polish and keep healthy for the users. Non – acetone doesn’t contain acetone. It has propylene carbonate, ethylacetate or tocopherylacetate… with small amount for each, which are not harmful for your nails. Non – acetone is very effective to the delighted pigments, dry and effective hand skin, acrylic or gel nails.

The disadvantage is that it takes more time than acetone to melt the polish’s ingredients, especially for the dark pigments.

3.       Non – acetone Nail Polish remover is organic or natural because of its non – acetone solvent. Besides that, it contains some enriched moisture ingredients such as glycerin, panthenol and soybean oil, aloe vera, wheat protein, gelatin, vitamin C, vitamin E or conditioners. Although its removing time is longer than acetone, the organic remover has the gentle smell and safe.

Some notes:

Nowadays, removers of nail polish is various. But it also needs to get attention on the bad effect of non – acetone products. Instead of acetone containing, these non – acetone products has methanol (which is a kind of toxic for nail). Therefore, the users/ buyers had better select the most suitable and safe one by checking out the harmful chemicals writing on the product label.

So, users should choose Organic nail polish remover.

After using the remover, always apply moisture for skin and nails by enriched cream or nail care oil,…This work would help the skin/ epidermis to be recoved, lack of harm from nail polish to hands,  limit the damages that would be happened.

Using acetone to clean the nails is one of the main reason for getting yellow, weak and easily broken ones that these consequences are from chemicals in acetone. However, we are able to clean nails without using it by some ways:

1.       Fruit wine:

Pour some fruit wine into the cotton pad and put that on your nail. After 10 – 15 minutes, you will use this cotton pad to brush lightly to remove the polish on your nail. Finally, soak your nail into warm water and dry by other cotton piece.

2.       Lemon juice and vinegar:

Make a mix including small amount of pure lemon, vinegar and stir them. Then, use a cotton pad that already has the mix and put on the nail, also brush in very light way to remove the polish lately. You would rather do it some repeating times to get cleaner but you will not worry about the chemicals effect.

3.       Body spray

This kind is also to help removing nail polish easily. Use a cotton pad with full of body spray to brush your nail. The layer of the polish would be eliminated quickly. Lastly, clean the nail by warm water and put some enriched scream to make soft hands.

4.       Baking soda

Baking soda is one of greatest things to remove dirt and it can easily be bought in bakery making stores. To remove the nail polish, make a sticking mixture from baking soda and warm water, put on the nail fully and stay in this condition within 15 minutes. After all, use a small brush to clear the polish and dry it by soft, clean and warm fabric.

5.       Toothpaste cream

Don’t be surprised! You can really clear your nail by using this material. Put some toothpaste cream on the nail, brush the nail in round and do that one more time with the small brush tool. Finally, use warm fabric to dry the nail.

6.       Nail polish

Please polish your nail, leave that some minutes and use the cotton bud to clear the both old and new layers. After removing them, soaking hands into warm water and use cotton pad to dry.

In doing nails business, it is necessary to take care of the customers ‘nails problem. Splitting nails is a common situation. In this case, nail workers need to understand the nail process and have the suitable solution. That is because the very skillful nail polish put may not cover the mistake completely, it is also because splitting nail would be worsen.

Splitting nail’s causes

Splitting nails is popular for middle aged women and higher age people. When the body oil connecting the nail corneum layers is being reduced, the nail would be splatted.

Nail is one of the body part that contains the natural structure (including 18% of water and under 5% of lipid). Therefore, the dry and lacking moisture condition on nail would make split, broken, weaker and thinner. At the beginning, the nail would be fray, then it is more broken and layers on nail would be splitted. There are some reasons such as:

-                People don’t have enough vitamin (mainly Iron Deficiency) or people get Hypothyroidism.

-                People use the toxic or non – health nail remover

-                People using gel, acrylic because the nail hardeners ingredient such as alcohols, formaldehyde can weaken the nail.

-                People using nail polish, remover toner,… having acetone, toluene, dibutyl phthalate that would stimulate the dry and splitting nail condition.

What do the nail workers do?

When the nail splits, the nail technicians should:

-                Clip the splitting part carefully.

-                Do not clip and file the dry nail because of the worsen nail condition. The better way is clipping and filing the nail after soaking it into water. The workers should file the nail carefully to avoid more hurt. Filing the nail should go from the edge to the middle of the nail in very skillful way to limit the bad effect on the nail and it is about 180 – 240 grit.

-                Do not use the metal tools to clear the skin epidermis.

-                Buff the nail gently along the nail growth vertically to avoid the worsen split of the nail.

-                Take note to protective layer on nail that it should be taking care before base coat: put an enriched oil layer to nurture the better nails. The ingredients inside the oil would fulfill the nail surface as a primer and provide the moisture to protect it against the latter layers. Over that, some nail workers also use the nail strengthener before the base coat to strengthen the structure and grow nail more healthily.

-                Use the “eco – friendly” nail care materials, avoid harsh ones that can make the disadvantages for the customers.

Nail self-care method for customer

When customers face the nail splitting condition, the workers should guide them to take care of them at home:

-                Hydrate: do that more often and daily. After washing hands, put the material on nail and the epidermis around like ointment, cuticles oil (shear butter, jojoba oil, avocado oil,….) In addition, the enriched cream should have protein (keratin and collagen), petroleum, lanolin, mineral oil, alpha – hydroxyl acids, lactic acid, glycerin.

-                Wear the gloves when it is in the home working situation with some kinds of harmful materials.

-                Drink or use Gelatin capsules, Biotin (2,5 mg/ day) to get more essential vitamins for nurturing the strong and healthy nails, reducing the splitting nail.

-                Have a good eating routine with rich iron, vitamin, and protein (red meat) food.

After this time without the better improvement, you should go to see the doctor. It may be relevant to skin problems, hypothydorism, anemia,… It may also take 6 months – 1 year to recover and successfully remove the nail splitting problem.

Because of the cold – dry weather or directly use the chemicals, the epidermis around as well as the nails would easily be vulnerable. With this kind of skin epidermis, your nails seem to be uglier or even make you feel painful. Therefore, nails and its surrounding care are very essential to be beautiful and healthy. Almond oil is the best choice for nails problem, such as being dry or broken. Almond oil is the most effective treatment to nuture and moisturize the nails. With big amount of vitamin E ( anti – oxigen ingredient), almond oil prevents cuticle from not being peeled and dry; morever, vitamin E also stimulates quick nail growth, goes against skin vulnerability, aging and skin problems.

Although there are many different kinds of making soft for cuticle from various companies, the result is only temporary. If you want to take care and effectively treat your dry skin epidermis problem, you should use the almond oil. This oil’s effect would help you nuture your skin, while vitamin E is very beneficial for deeper levels of the skthe in around your nails.

How to get the right almond oil?

First, Almond oil should be cold pressed to get the market quality. It is because this oil is burnt in process and would be lost some valuable things while being removed.

The true Almond oil should not get the special smell. Some comestic companies add the smell to make customers believe that this oil is natural. But this work can hurt the sensitive skin or cover the putrid almond. Therefore, you need to avoid smelling almond oil.

How to use the Almond oil?

Before applying the oil to the nails, it is assured to have a non – polish nails as well as other chemicals. You can pour a small amount of this oil to the palm and gently massage your full hand’s skin and your nails, your epidermis. This is to absorb the oil faster.

For the heavily damaged nail, you can soak the nail into almond bowl within 2 minutes. It will apply to your nails quickly. With the redundant oil, use that to massage your hand.

Another way: you can use a cotton pad to soak into the Almond oil, then rub your nails. All your nails should be covered by Almond oil and waited for some minutes to get absorbed. It is easy to adapt this method at every time. After using 10 – 14 days, you will see the better nails that you would have.

If you want to get good benefit, you are able to use Almond oil 1 – 2 times/ week.