Rule on every day
Remove dirt under the nails should be a daily habit along with washing your face and brushing your teeth. Preferably in the evening, at bedtime, when you already took a shower and know that today will not have to do "dirty deeds". If you value not only the appearance but also healthy condition of nails, in any case should not be used for cleaning sharp metal objects (nail files, nail clippers, etc.), since their use can easily damage the inner surface of the nail. It is better to use a wooden stick for nail Polish and a small soft brush. Most effectively to brush dirt under the nails using the brush first and then a wooden stick. The brush is recommended to pre-lather to soften.
Whitening nails with lemon
Sometimes to clean the dirt from under the nails using manicure implements does not work. In this case, help lemon. Take a piece of lemon, squeeze its juice into a small bowl of water and dip your fingers in it for 10-15 minutes. You can just cut the lemon in half and stick nails into the flesh. After this, rinse your hands or dip them in a basin with warm water and rinse.
In order to consolidate this procedure, you can make a mask for hands. For its preparation you need to take a little vegetable oil, a teaspoon of honey and a raw egg yolk. Stir it well all the ingredients and apply the resulting mass on the hands. Then wrap them in a thin plastic film and leave in this state for 30 minutes, rinse off and apply hand moisturizer that you usually use. The result will be definitely happy: and nails will be clean and the skin will become soft and beautiful.
Prevention of dirty nails
Most often, dirty nails appears after working in the garden or yard. If it is not too ingrained, it is removed without any effort after you wash your hands with soap or taking a shower. But still, to work with the earth better to wear rubber or rubberized gloves, the dirt clogged under the nail plate.
If there are no gloves on hand before work can be scratched by nails ordinary dry soap. Thus you can protect the nails from getting dirt under them. In the absence of other remedies you can use medical tape: just stick it on the fingertips and the nails will remain more clean.