Garlic for Strong, Hard Nails
Garlic is extremely versatile and is found in many recipes. Its well-known for its amazing antioxidant properties and ability to reduce cholesterol.
Apart from cooking with and eating garlic, the juice in fresh garlic will also strengthen and harden weak, brittle fingernails.
How to do it: Chop freshly peeled garlic and put this in your nail polish. Let this sit for a several days, afterwhich your old regular nail polish becomes a strengthening solution! (Some store-bought nail hardeners list garlic extract as an ingredient. e.g. Mavala Scientifique Nail Hardener and Oleda Hard Hard Nails.)
Tip: If you don’t polish your nails, you can still get the same benefits by dabbing the juice from garlic onto clean nails. (A very quick and easy way to do this is to pierce the peeled whole garlic with the tip of your fingernails. No chopping required!)
Leave the juice to dry, then wash off if you can’t stand the smell.
Sally hansens hardener worked for me. But I really want to try the garlic tip
Sounds interesting!
I recently tried this garlic trick! I dabbed some garlic juice and let it sit on my nails for about 25 minutes and even put on rubber gloves while it sat so that I could do my daily duties and then i infused some actual minced garlic from the leftover clove and put it into my nail polish and polished my nails, I hope it works.
Curious to hear the results of garlic nails…
am really keen to try the garlic as i have very week nails
it works:)
yea ino i tried it so awesome!
i will try this garlic if it really works with me coz i have a very thin fingernails. it peels and brittles many times. i want them to become stronger, thicker and healthier. hope it helps…
Garlic really works for strengthening your nails. My great grandma thought me this as a kid late 70′s early 80′s. She also made me the nail polish (glad to hear i’m not alone in that one!) My nails are very strong and long. When i tell my friends about the garlic trick, they don’t belive the crush garlic in the nail polish, or the fact that i never pass on the opportunity to peel garlic when anyone is cooking after all these years. It really works!
Thanks for sharing that about your great grandma, Wanda. I find it wonderful how knowledge gets passed down from generation to generation.
Just made a batch of this a couple days ago. Just waiting a couple more days for it to set. Can’t wait to try it and see see results!!!!
I’ve tried piercing the cloves with my nails and I can’t believe how hard it has made them!!! My nails were soooo paper thin it wasn’t funny!! I was actually considering going to a salon to have some artificial nails applied but then came across this article. What a savings!! It would have cost me $45.00 plus taxes to have them put on and then $25.00 every 3-4 weeks to apply filler to them, and for .50 cents, I have 3 bulbs of garlic at my disposal… IT REALLY DOES WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My sister just told me about this remedy today, so I am going to try it and can’t wait to see how this goes for my nails!
The garlic really works, my nails were weak, had ridges, and would split and peal
They are a 100% stronger. Please try this in some clear polish.
My aunt has been dOing this for years and lately my nails had been peeling And cracking, so I asked her tO make me some and she did this is my second day trying it and my nails seem stronger than yesterday, it might sOund crazy but the garlic smells kind of good mixed in with the polish, lol!