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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Busy Hands Require Daily Care To Prevent Their Losing Beauty By Ertta Haley HOW OFTEN WOMEN have stretched out horny, unattractive unattrac-tive hands to me after they finish a hard session at housework and said In dismay, "What can I do to them? They feel so awful." Iff difficult to undo the damage In a single treatment. The hands will remain not only unattractive but also uncomfortable as well, until un-til the natural oils return to the kin. If you do no hard work, the oils will return more quickly, but most women have to keep using their hands for washing, scrubbing and dishes and this, of course, is not conducive to healing. Does this have to happen? No, believe It or not, no matter how busy your hands may be they can be kept soft, well-groomed and pretty If you will schedule some hand care In the daily routine. It need not be elaborate elab-orate but you must be faithful to the beauty practice. First of alL check the diet This may seem far-fetched but hand health as well as anything else depends de-pends upon Internal health. Certain vitamins, particularly vitamin A, keep the skin soft and pliable, and you must be getting the vitamin so the skin on the hands or anywhere else will keep toft and pliable. Vitamin A is found plentifully in common foods such as the yellow vegetables. It's stored In the liver and is not easily destroyed by cook- ' Daily band care pays ing the vegetable, so naturally it's easy to get enough of the nutrient. As far as hand care is concerned, the old saying about " an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," holds exceptionally true. How to Protect Hands, Nails A few, simple precautions faithfully faith-fully observed will do worlds of good for the hands. If looks are im- gardening, or washing the family auto. - Just out are some very pliable plastic mitts which go on easily and come off without pulling or prod-( ding. They do not fit the hands closely, thus allowing for a great deal of freedom. They're so lightweight, light-weight, that you actually feel you're working without anything on the hands, and that's a very desirable thing, as any pair of busy hands, if they could tell you, would say. It's also a good idea to keen your hand cream in the kitchen or laundry room on an open shelf if possible just to remind you to use it. When the cream is tucked away in the bathroom which is not as easily accesible when you're busy in another part of the house, it's too easy to forget to use it There's Proper Way To Use Cream No matter on what part of the body you use cream for lubricating, softening and making skin smooth, never use anything but the most gentle action. A soft, round-and-round motion in massaging the hand cream is best. Beauty experts maintain main-tain that skin will stretch with any other motion. For those of you who have an extra ex-tra dry skin, It's wise to use a hand cream which has been fortified with lanolin, the fat of which is so beneficial bene-ficial to skin. For ordinary purposes a regular type of hand cream is best Even though you have protected hands during working time, M's smart to apply a bit of cream after finishing your work, to help smooth the hands. In case of chapping, or If you ar going to be out-of-doors, apply hand cream for protection against the weather. Also, it's not only the well-dressed woman but the wise one who protects her hands with gloves. It's Easy to Keep Nails Conditioned Any care that you give the hand, in general will help out your nails, too, but they need a bit of extra care to keep them in good condition. Here, again, it's a good idea to check the diet if your nails are breaking and cracking for no apparent ap-parent reason. Nails require calcium In beauty and comfort. portant to you, then you must do something for your hands. However, How-ever, many homemakers who are not concerned with looks so much as with comfort, feel perfectly miserable misera-ble when their hands are ravaged by household duties. Hands can. hurt as badly as feet that have been walking in ill-fitting shoes. For most of us, it's Impossible to wear some sort of protection for every household task, but protection protec-tion should be used on the hands when they get after the really rough Jobs like scouring pots and pans, laundry, silver polishing, dish washing, wash-ing, polishing furniture, painting the window sills or kitchen chairs. and phosphorous as well as vitamins vita-mins C and D to grow properly. A well balanced diet including sufficient amounts of milk, eggs, meats, fish, cheese, fruits and vegetables will supply these, and in some cases the diet will have to be supplemented with vitamins to keep you healthy. Plan to give yourself a manicure once a week if you cannot or do not have professional care available. Cut your cuticle if it needs trimming; trim-ming; otherwise just push it back I with a gentle motion with the orange stick. Oil the nails while you work on the other .hand, then wash in gentle soapy suds and dry the hand carefully. Now, file the nail Into the shape desired; trim off any rough edges and make repairs as needed Apply more oil to the nails and then after standing a bit, the hands are washed and creamed. When Using Polish, Do it Correctly If you want to polish the nails, the polish will last longer if you apply a base coat to the perfectly dry nails. Usually two coats of nail enamel are applied, and this is topped with a protective coating that 'ielps the nail enamel to harden as well as to last longer. Keep an orange stick hand and have the tip of it wrapped in a bit of cotton which you keep dipping in polish remover to help remove polish from anything but the nail itself. |