Lady's Nails Salon, Galway :: Transform Your Nails Into Jewellery

Our hands play an important part in our lives, a very important part. We use them at work. Their anatomy lets us control our movements precisely. They are a vital feature of our beauty. They represent us, our personality, our culture. This gives us a reason good enough to take a good care of them. The skin of the hands is especially sensitive as there is no fatty tissue, no glands. The quantity of the produced sebum is therefore much lower than on the face, so the quantity of the water escaping and the dry skin increases.

The lack of water disturbs the lipids' function in the corneal layer and the enzymatic mechanisms responsible for the exfoliation. The skin is becoming rough, greyish, hard and you can experience a sensation of tightness. All these symptoms can cause the skin ageing as well as the skin irritation or itching. Any minimal damage to our epidermis can give better access to some pathogenic elements into our body. That’s why hands are the mostly often washed part of our body. Unfortunately, it is not always done using the best products.

We should avoid using any soaps drastically drying the skin. The chlorinated water and soap destroy a natural protective barrier that causes the hands to become rough, and the skin to exfoliate and crack. It is also not good to wash hands in too hot water. I recommend using a delicate hypoallergenic gel A.T.W. HYGIENIC 4 in 1. it contains a washable substance based on the coconut palm and corn. It doesn’t damage our natural protective barrier. For people especially sensitive to different kinds of contamination, eg. bacteria, lubricant, fungus, I recommend washing hands with the gel A.T.W. ANTI-BACTERIA.

In the cosmetology and hands care we distinguish the products of a prophylactic nature. These are the creams to be used after each hands wash. The cream worth trying is the caring and protective one, A.T.W. SOFT. It contains the natural nourishing substances, the aloe extract. It softens the dry skin and guarantees a delicate protective film. The next group of the cosmetics are the regenerative ones, increasing the absorption of the epidermis and boosting our metabolism. The regeneration should also involve the lightening products preventing from skin pigmentation.

The A.T.W. company has prepared a bleaching cream, which doesn’t contain hydrochinon. By using this product regularly the skin pigmentation disappears or lighten profoundly. We distinguish day and night care. During the day we need to protect our skin, while at night skin has to regenerate. during the regeneration you can optimize the effect of the cream or the mask by putting the cotton gloves on. Let’s remember the beautiful hands are not the result of pure luck but of great care. We often underestimate the hands and skin care, still, we need to know that the hands are the part of our body, which is most exposed to bad effect of harmful elements, such as UV radiation or some detergents. We sometimes get them exposed to extremely aggressive chemical substances contained in the bleaches, cleaning substances and disinfectants.

This is the reason why we should remember to use the protective gloves during any housework. Still, we cannot forget that by using the rubber gloves for too long we might observe some allergic reaction, e.g. to latex. In care of our hands, the A.T.W. company came up with a perfect solution – BIO-GLOVES, after 2-3 minutes of the protective cream’s application, a delicate, difficult to feel, surface of a bio-glove is formed.  With the hands protected such a way you are able to work for a few hours. The surface creates a full protection from the harmful substances. The set includes the protective cream and the washing lotion.

Because of wind and frost, we need to take an extra care of our hands during winter time, not trying to save on the special cosmetic preparations. The sudden temperature change, dry air and wind cause the skin to become more sensitive. We can suddenly feel itching, stinging, pins and needles, observe swellings, exfoliation, redness or experience some pain in the hands. Then we should use the cosmetics including the soothing substances. We may recommend a cream from A.T.W. series, BEAUTY’S THERAPY PLANT VITELLUS, which regenerates the damaged epidermis perfectly, reducing hands’ roughness. It is also a perfect antioxidant. A second preparation by A.T.W. worth trying is a mask with a marigold’s essence, which instantly soothes all the irritation. Nevertheless, summer is not an easy time for our hands either.

Exposing our hands to sun too often causes our skin's damage. Under the influence of the free radicals, the pigmentation on our skin forms much faster. The skin’s collagen is damaged. The skin is getting loose, thin and the blood vessels are becoming visible. The true age can be guessed from the hands themselves as even a surgery cannot be of any help here. I have to admit that even the medical knowledge wasn't as advanced many years ago as it is now, our great-grandmothers knew exactly what they were doing by wearing the gloves to protect the hands’ skin from the sun. Cleansing, nourishing and protecting the skin from the harmful elements are the main activities to prevent your skin from damaging. Still, our hands need more than that.

Once a week it is good to do a basic caring treatment for your hands, which involves: peeling – we exfoliate the skin using a natural peeling with coral particles from A.T.W. company, which causes complete cleansing, exfoliation of all the dead epidermal cells and stimulates the growth of the new cells instead. The exfoliation enables a penetration of the active ingredients used in a later stage of the treatment.

A massage with the use of the nourishing cream – we can use caring  hand cream, A.T.W. SOFT or A.T.W. oil. During the massage the blood vessels open that leads to a better skin’s nourishment.