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Personal hygiene
Personal hygiene: Oral Care
Personal hygiene: Hand hygiene:
Personal hygiene: smooth legs
Personal Hygiene: Foot Care
Personal hygiene: Breasts and buttocks
Personal hygiene: Hands and elbows
Personal Hygiene: Tips for skin and hair ..
- Personal care: wash yourself often enough, when you get out of bed and before going to sleep.
- Cut your toenails straight across with a nice weekly nail clippers. Fingernails can also scissors brief with a sharp nail. File away sharp points.
- Wash hair at least once a week with a regular mild shampoo.
See alsohaircare - Face wash. Twice a day with water. Do you have a very oily skin, then use a pH-neutral soap.
- Ear wash. When bathing or showering. Excess earwax can be remove with a tip of your towel. You should not use cotton swabs. They can push earwax deeper into your ear ..
- Wash armpits. Daily with a pH-neutral soap. Good personal hygiene is sufficient to prevent perspiration odor. Deodorants contain fragrances and preservatives are irritating to work.
- Genitals daily with water
Women wash the genital area with lukewarm water. Wash from front to back. Also wipe your buttocks from front to back. Otherwise, dirt from the intestine will be massaged to the vagina. This can cause inflammation. .
Men slide the foreskin of the penis behind the glans. Wash with warm water without soap
Excessive washing will affect the natural bacterial flora that protects you against infections.
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- Brushing twice a day. The outside of the teeth and the chewing surfaces are often affected, but do not forget the inside. Use a soft toothbrush to prevent tooth wear, toothpaste, because it contains fluoride which strengthens tooth enamel.
- Flossing with dental floss between teeth. By flossing remove food remains and plaque in places where the toothbrush don not hit. The space between some teeth is so big that you can use brushes. Brushes, mini brushes with bristles around the spaces that you brush thoroughly.
- Rinse your mouth with water. Mouthwash is anti-bacterial and therefore an important tool in the fight against inflamed gums, plaque and cavities. Rinse your mouth with water cleans the whole mouth and prevents you from bad breath.
- Use toothpicks. Preferably after every meal. This removes some scraps and you reduce the risk of gum disease and cavities, particularly if your teeth close together
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- Wash your hands frequently, especially before and after preparing food and always after you've been to the toilet. Dirty hands are often responsible for spreading bacteria;
- Clean the following main areas thoroughly with soap: between the fingers, the tips of the fingers, under fingernails and wrists. Rinse the soap thoroughly;
- Remove all jewelry when washing hands (ring, bracelet, watch), bacteria can settle back here;
- Rather use a liquid soap instead of a bar of soap;
- Regularly replace the towels and make sure they are dry;
- Brush every day the area behind the nail so dirt can not accumulate.
Smooth legs, hairless underarms, bikini line right, when it comes to shaving, women find it difficult. Below a few enlightening tips.
- First take a hot shower before shaving. There, it makes your skin soft and supple and it shaves a lot easier.
- Use (women) shave aloe vera which is which helps soothe your skin.
- Rinse your legs very well, making sure there is no foam and gel residue after shaving.
- If you suffer from irritation and itching, sprinkle after shaving a little baby powder on your skin.
- Lubricate after shaving, skin care and moisturizing cream. Red pimples have no chance.
Feet carry your body weight and are also "locked" in shoes. Give your feet every week a soothing foot massage. Because your feet are very sensitive to any place of your sole corresponds to a specific organ or function in your body, feel the massage throughout your body. Rub your thumb firmly with the foot cream under the feet. Start at the heel and turn small circles from the inside out. You will soon discover that not only your feet but your whole body relaxes.
Clean feet thoroughly: with a special foot scrub that removes all dead skin cells and keeps calluses under and no chance at the edges of your feet. Immediately coat them with a thick lotion or petroleum jelly to soften them.
Corns: A glassy, ??yellow, sore spot on your foot could well be a corn. This is a hard, inward-grown callus core in the form of a cone. Corns are annoying and often painful.
Corns caused by wrong shoes, wrong position of the feet or a combination of those two. By friction or pressure results in a pavement. The core responds to pressure on the nerves or the bone of the toe, so you get hurt. There are different types of corns. If the callus is soft core, called a corn. These are very painful. There are also soft corns. Who are in the skin between the toes, and are whitish. Furthermore, seedcorns that arise without the existence of pressure or friction. These mainly occur on the sole and heel. Older people and people with dry skin suffer from. This corn does not hurt and does not cause hardening of the skin.
Treating corns: Depends on the cause. If your corn is caused by to tight shoes, the solution is simple: other shoes. Make sure your feet have enough space in it. You can also remove a corn by chiropodists, and there are special plasters for corns. This week, avoiding the loose corns painful pressure. If you use this while wearing a patch, you can remove the calluses pit yourself. There are also anti-pressure reduction, which prevent painful pressure on corns.
The thin skin of female breasts are best washed with soap and water or a mild facial cleansing. To keep skin firm breasts massaging them with a mild oil. The skin of your breasts touched by the massage well supplied with blood and becomes firmer.
To keep yout buttocks nice and soft grease keep them in. Do you really want to spoil yourself? Give your butt a mask. Use a body mask that quickly drained waste and improve your circulation. And the skin of your buttocks firmly back on.
Several times a day a good nourishing cream is not a luxury. The skin on your hands is very thin, especially on the top of your hand where no subcutaneous layer of fat support your skin.
Elbows are often rough and dry because there is much to be supported. An extra nourishing and moisturizing cream makes them wonderfully supple and soft again.
Skin:
- For soft hands take a throw from one type of oil, eg olive oil in your hands and pour salt over it until all the oil is absorbed. Scrub your hands with this ...
- Put cucumber slices on your eyes, it helps if you have tired eyes.
- Pimples go away a lot faster if you rub them with toothpaste.
- Do you suffer from puffy eyes dep with chamomile tea.
- Tea leaf notes helps against boils.
- Irritated skin can be solved by crude drops Tea Tree oil to it. This also helps agains pimples.
Hair:
- A rinse of the tops of nettles and white wine vinegar leaves dull hair shine and stimulates the circulation of a dry scalp.
- Oily hair is less fat when you wash with diluted soda.
- If you dye your hair, do a layer of Vaseline along the hairline. This prevents you from getting spots on the skin, also it is easier to clean the skin from paint.
- Want to strengthen hair? Put some dead beer without foam in your hair after shampooing.
- Wash your hair with chamomile tea. This prevents from hair loss.
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Chewing gum is also dental nurse
Besides brushing teeth is chewing gum is also a carer Dental care is for many people especially for imaging. They polish mainly because they value a dental care. Holes to prevent or brush her teeth.
