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Fingernails & toenails – Twenty entities with a purpose

Fingernails & toenails – Twenty entities with a purpose

We have twenty total on our body when it comes to fingernails and toenails. Some of us keep them short, tamed, long, clean, or dirty. Fingernails and toenails are part of our personal hygiene. There’s an entire nail industry full… 0 Shares | | Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Personal Care
Ingrown toenail: You big toe’s worst enemy

Ingrown toenail: You big toe’s worst enemy

An ingrown toenail, also called onychocryptosis, is the result of the corner or the side of a nail growing into the toe’s flesh. The pressure of the nail is pushing against sensitive skin. The edge of the sharp nail breaks… 0 Shares | | Posted in Lifestyle, Personal Care
5 Do and Don’ts for the Best Nails

5 Do and Don’ts for the Best Nails

  The correlation between our nails and health is a strong one. Discoloration of the nail bed, changes in shape or texture, separation from the surrounding skin and swelling or pain around the nails are all symptoms that can signal… 0 Shares | | Posted in Fitness, Health, Lifestyle, Personal Care
Make Your Nails Shine with Strength with Silica

Make Your Nails Shine with Strength with Silica

Weak, brittle and dull nails tend to be more commonplace as we age, but in fact they are not something to be merely accepted, or treated externally with harsh chemicals.  Even natural treatments applied externally will do little more than… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Health, Herbal Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Lifestyle, Medicine, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine, Personal Care
9 Ways Gelatin Can Improve Your Health

9 Ways Gelatin Can Improve Your Health

Dictionary.com says Gelatin is: A nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like. Gelatin is used… 0 Shares | | Posted in Food, Health, Holistic Medicine, Medicine, Nutrition, Nutritional Medicine