DIY Nail Polish Remover Recipes You’ll Love
Discover simple and effective DIY recipes to make your own nail polish remover at home. Say goodbye to commercial removers and learn how to easily remove nail polish with natural ingredients. Perfect for at-home manicures and pedicures!
Doing manicure and pedicure weekly can be a good way to take care of those hard working hands and feet that carry you to places everyday. As part of creating a nice aesthetic look we usually decorate our fingernails and toenails with nail polishes of various colors and designs. But at the time of removing them, in another time of manicure routine, it can be difficult to do so.
Harms of Using Nail Polish Removers
We often turn to nail polish removers that sometimes contain harsh ingredients that can lead to other issues such as
Brittle nails: Using nail polish removers that contain harsh ingredients such as formaldehyde can disrupt the keratin protein in nails and make them weak that they break and chip creating very brittle toenails or fingernails that can't grow longer.
Erode nail bed and skin around it: These ingredients that are found on nail polish remover, over long term use can erode the nail bed creating concave shaped nail bed that is weak. But also can lead to skin flaps around the nail.
Harmful to health: The strong smell associated with nail polish remover due to ingredients such as acetone can cause respiratory problems such as asthma but also some ingredients in nail polish removers may cause allergic reactions upon use, irritation even headaches.
DIY Nail Polish Remover
After knowing some of the side effects of using commercially bought nail polish remover with harmful ingredients then you can skip them in favor of homemade nail polish remover that can remove nail polish without affecting your fingernails and toe nails. With simple ingredients that you can find at home, you can make DIY nail polish remover that you gonna use for every manicure or pedicure routine.
Selecting Ingredients
Lemon juice: Juice from lemon contain citric acid that can help to dissolve nail polish and then you can easily remove it by washing it off. Due to its acidic nature, it breaks off nail polish and thus a good choice for DIY nail polish removers.
White vinegar: Vinegar is another ingredient which is acidic in nature. Vinegar contains acetic acid that can sloughs off nail polish help your start your manicure routine with clean nails. White vinegar can be mixed together to make strong portions that can act as powerful polish remover.
Hydrogen peroxide: It is not only used in oral care as mouthwash, hydrogen peroxide has many uses especially when it comes to house cleaning and hygiene. With warm water and hydrogen peroxide mixture you can make a nail polish remover without the harmful ingredients that can ruin your nails.
Rubbing alcohol: Also called isopropyl alcohol, it is usually used in wound cleaning and usually part of many First Aid Kits out there. With a little bit of rubbing alcohol you can quickly remove nail polish.
DIY Nail Polish Remover
Lemon and Vinegar Nail Polish Remover
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of white vinegar
Steps
Mix lemon juice and white vinegar in a small bowl.
Take a cotton pad and dip it in the mixture and rub it on your toenails or fingernails till the nail polish is completely removed.
You can add warm water in a large basin and pour your vinegar and lemon juice and soak your feet or hands for five minutes.
Then easily peel off the nail polish easily and continue with your manicure routine.
Hydrogen Peroxide&Water Nail Polish Remover
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide
1 tablespoon of warm water
Steps
Mix hydrogen peroxide and warm water together in a small bowl.
Dip a cotton pad and rub it on your nail polish on finger nails and toenails.
Wash your hands or feet and continue with manicure or pedicure.
DIY Rubbing Alcohol Nail Polish Remover
Ingredients
1 tablespoon of rubbing alcohol
1 tablespoon of white vinegar
Steps
Mix rubbing alcohol and white vinegar together in small bowl.
Dip a cotton pad and rub it on fingernails or toenails, the nail polish will get off quickly in no time!
You can mix one part rubbing alcohol and one part white vinegar and pour it in basin where you can soak your feet or hands for several minutes then wash your hands and continue with manicure or pedicure routine as usual.
Manicure or Pedicure Routine With DIY Nail Polish Remover
Step 1: Remove any nail polish on nails with your DIY nail polish remover.
Step 2: Soak your hands or feet in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes for your nails and cuticles to soften.
Step 3: Wash your feet and hands, remove any remaining dirt on nails and nail bed and then pat-dry them.
Step 4: Use salt or sugar scrub to exfoliate calluses, dead skin cells and leave the hands or feet with a radiant complexion.
Step 5: Well trim your nails and file them properly, avoid rough nail edges.
Step 6: Apply DIY nail cream to moisturize feet and hands.
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