7 easy ways to whiten yellow nails at home

Recently, you have discovered yellow nails on your hands and are looking for ways to get rid of yellow nails? Take your time to use varnish to paint over an unpleasant color. In some cases, yellowness on the nails can “tell” about serious diseases, so you first need to find the cause of the yellowing of the nails.

COLADY will tell you about effective folk methods of whitening nails and removing yellowness.

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Why nails turn yellow – reasons

In addition to external factors (the use of varnish of dubious quality, household chemicals, etc.) affecting the condition and color of nails, yellowed nails can be due to internal diseases the human body.

If the nails on the hands have turned yellow, then it is possible that the body contains:

• liver, lung, or kidney problems;
• disruption of the endocrine (hormonal), cardiovascular systems;
• metabolic problems caused by a lack of vitamins and minerals.

Smoking, long-term medication, nail fungus – also causes of yellow fingernails.

In addition, there is such a rare disease called “yellow nail syndrome“. The first sign of the disease is the color change of the nails to yellow, then lymphatic edema forms in various parts of the body. With this disease, nails almost completely stop growing. The syndrome of yellow nails in a neglected state is treated for a very long time.

Yellow nails are just the tip of the iceberg – a small part of some big problem. And, if you do not pay attention to this “first bell”, then after the yellowing of the nail, it will come thickening and reshaping… Then the nail will flakewhich will subsequently lead to complete destruction of the nail plate.

To make sure that everything is in order with the internal organs, or to confirm your guesses about the alleged illness, you need:

• undergo a fluorographic examination;
• take a general blood test;
• visit an endocrinologist.

7 effective ways to get rid of yellow nails and whiten nails at home

After making sure that yellow nails are not the result of a serious illness and that your health is in order, you can remove yellowness from nails using home bleaching.

But first:

1. change detergents to others or wear gloves when using them;
2. quit smoking (at least for a short time) and see how not only the color of the nails, but also the skin in general, changes;
3. temporarily eliminate nail polishes.

After that, for the speedy and active restoration of the healthy color of nails, you can apply folk methods of whitening nails.

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• Rubbing your nails with lemon juice
  The most popular, proven and effective method. Lemon juice contains many vitamins and minerals. Daily rubbing (3-4 times a day) of the nail plates with lemon juice will help get rid of the yellow color of the nails and saturate them with useful substances.

• Chamomile decoction
  As you know, chamomile is a good antiseptic. Chamomile flower decoction baths, which contain essential oils and vitamins, will bring your yellow nails to their normal natural state.
  Why you need to brew chamomile infusion: pour a couple of tablespoons of flowers with boiling water (250 ml), insist for half an hour. Then dilute with water (0.5 liters) and hold your hands in the resulting broth for 20 minutes.
• Salt baths
  Baths with sea salt and the addition of various essential oils (tea tree, bergamot, sandalwood, eucalyptus), in addition to whitening, will restore the lost strength of the nails.
• Nail mask
  To whiten your nails at home using a mask, you will need: grapefruit seed extract (purchased at the pharmacy), olive or sunflower oil.
  Add five drops of grapefruit seed extract to one tablespoon of oil. The resulting composition smear nails about 3-4 times a day.

• Paste
  It is possible to remove yellowness from nails with 2 tablespoons of baking soda mixed with one tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide. The result should be a paste-like mixture that needs to be applied to the nails and kept for about five minutes.
  This is an effective, but not particularly gentle way. Therefore, it should be used very rarely in special cases, when you urgently need to remove yellowness from the nails – and there is absolutely no time for long masks and baths.
• Berries
  Cranberries, red, black currants, whose chemical composition includes pectin substances, organic acids and vitamins, have a disinfecting and whitening effect. The big advantage of these berries is that berries that have been frozen do not lose their properties after defrosting.
  Mash fresh or thawed berries with a fork until smooth and apply the gruel to your nails. Soak the crushed berries on your nails for 5-7 minutes and then rinse with water.
• Whitening Serums
  If you do not want to bother with preparing various masks, pastes and decoctions, you can simply purchase a whitening serum, a ready-made whitening mask, special pencils or whitening tablets that contain citric acid, chamomile and rosemary extracts and help restore the natural color of nails.
  The market offers a fairly large selection of preparations and products for whitening nails, but it is best to purchase them from pharmacies or shops specializing in cosmetics.

Poor nail condition is a signal that informs you about the state of the body, warning: something is wrong.

Therefore, before masking yellow fingernails with external influences, you need to heal the body from the inside: saturate it with vitamins and minerals.

See also: The best pharmaceutical remedies for strengthening nails at home.

To do this, include in your diet cottage cheese, milk, cheese – rich in calcium; cabbage, liver, green vegetables, egg yolk – containing iron, silicon, vitamins A and B, sulfur.

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