Welcome back! After the last article I come back with a more informative one.
Today I want to talk about a product that is often overlooked or ignored: Cuticle Oil. Let’s start!
What is it
As the name suggests, this product is an oil created specifically to be applied on cuticles. Or rather on the skin around the nail, also called proximal nail fold.
I have specified because, because of the little information, we are convinced that the skin is called cuticle but it is not so. That’s the proximal nail fold, while the white portion that grows on the nail plate is the cuticle.

Soon I will write a more in-depth article on this nail element.
Features
These oils are created on purpose for the nails and surrounding skin.
You might think that a any oil could be fine to apply on the nail plate but it isn’t.
The nail composed by keratin has a porous surface that allows only certain molecules to penetrate inside.
If you want to save money, you might think that using the simple olive oil can help moisturize and strengthen your nails.
However, the surface of the nail plate prevents the larger molecules of olive oil to penetrate, and its use become useless.
This is why industries create suitable products, whose particles manage to penetrate both in skin and nails , making them useful.

As an alternative to the oils created by the various brands, you can use the vegetable oils of Jojoba and Avocado. These have features that make them functional to the nails.
Function
What is then cuticle oil for?
It is additional nourishment to the nail .
As I already explained in the article on false myths nails get nourishment from blood vessels.
We can help them by applying with constancy these specific oils that will make our nails more flexible and nourished .
There is also a detail that not everyone knows.
It would be good to apply the oil not only at the end of a gel / acrylic or gel polish treatment, but throughout the duration of the treatment.
In doing so, the skin around the nail will always be hydrated and will not be particularly hard at the time of the refill, helping the work of the nail tech.
In addition the gel / acrylic will remain more flexible if oil is used, making the removal easier, after the hypothetical 3 weeks of the duration of the reconstruction.
For this reason nail techs are required to advise their customers on the use of the oil every day.
Advertising Stunt
Beware of products that say they nourish and strengthen your nails based on various vitamins or keratin.
As I said before, the nail only allows certain molecules to penetrate and you shouldn’t buy these products that applied above the nail claims miraculous results.
As I was saying on the article of the acrigel , the various companies try to inflate and exaggerate the results of their products, so that people can buy them.
There is no need to spend a lot of money on products that will then prove useless.

With a few euros and a lot of consistency you can get much better results thanks to the use of cuticle oil.
In conclusion I advise everyone to use the oil daily, for the health and well-being of your nails.
I hope you enjoyed this article and as always if you want you can share it with whomever you want.
See you soon!
SOFIA



