CARE OF THE NAILS
Nails should never be cut, but shaped with a fine file or emery board (the latter in cases of splitting nails), and finally " bevelled " with the smooth side of the emery board. To pass this round the nails every day often .averts the catastrophe of a jagged edge and subsequent break. The nails should not be " cornered " beyond whero the free white of the nail naturally joins the pink. After the fingers have been soaked in warm water, to which a softening fluid can be added, the cuticle should bo very gently pushed back with a real orange-wood stick dipped in cuticle remover. This will obviate the use of any sharp instrument. Never, in any circumstances, must the cuticle be cut. There are cuticle .fluids which gradually reduce and refine the enroaching skin, and loosen the cuticle so that the nail can grow unencumbered and split cuticles are entirely obviated. The white bruises on nails also disappear with this treatment. When the nails are brittle and the cuticle dry, a good cream or cuticle oil should be applied every night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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184CARE OF THE NAILS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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