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Garlic for Strong, Hard Nails

2007 April 26
by Samantha

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.

7 Responses leave one →
  1. ROB permalink
    February 15, 2010

    MY NAILS ARE REALLY STARTING TO GET LONG . I KNOW GUYS SHOULDNT HAVE LONG FINGERNAILS BUT I CANT HELP MYSELF, I LOVE GROWING THEM , AND I DONT KNOW WHY, I GUESS BECAUSE I CAN. THERE SUPER HARD AND THEY NEVER BRAKE JUST WANTED TO TELL EVERYBODY THAT

  2. June 19, 2010

    i might give this a try, my nails bvadly need some strenghtening solution, but eventhough i love to use garlic to cook i really can’t stand the smell obn my fingers/hands…

  3. Anonymous permalink
    June 20, 2010

    thanks

  4. SHARON permalink
    July 25, 2010

    With nails so brittle and soft that they could never grow at all, I decided to try the clear polish/garlic a try. The hardest part was letting it sit for 10 days. On the 10th day I took all the ridges and buffed my nails; the polish did smell a bit like garlic when I applied it, but in the morning the smell was gone. After two weeks I noticed that my nails we not splitting any more and an added plus…they were growing like crazy. I now apply a fresh coat of polish weekly and have to trim my nails because they are just growing, growing, growing. This really works!!!

  5. ANONYMOUS permalink
    August 5, 2010

    THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE IF GIVES YOU LONG NAILS AND I HAVE A BAD HABBIT OF BITTING THEM SO NOW I CANT BECAUSE IF I DO THEN I CAN TASTE THE GARLIC.SO NOW I DONT BITE THEM AND THEY ARE STRONG.

  6. Shanean permalink
    August 31, 2010

    My nails have been very weak and constantly breaking. I saw the fresh garlic remedy on dr. oz. I put the fresh garlic in my clear polish and ive been doing it for 3days already. I am seeing an improvement. My nails are looking different and feeling different too. Shanean

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