How to soften hard, thick toenails?

[Guest guest]

Hello!

I'm trying to make a cream for a friend who has hard, thick toenails.

I'm not sure what to use.

I've seen a product to temporarilly soften toenails but I'm not sure

which ingredient does the trick. Plus the list looks like it has a

lot of nasty stuff.

Toenail Softening Cream

Ingredients:

Water,

mineral oil,

panthenol,

caty/alcohol,

peg 40 stearate

stearyl alcohol,

tocopheryl acetate,

phytantriol,

propylene glycol,

carbomer,

octoxynol-9,

sodium hydroxide,

diazolidiny urea,

methylparaben,

propylparaben,

fragrance.

I've searched the web for recipes but couldn't find any.

I'm not looking for anything permanent, just something she can put on

her toenails before she goes to bed, and can have an easier time

clipping them when she wakes up.

Thanks in advance,

[Guest guest]

I agree with you, Chris. Adding some tea tree oil to the blend will help

eliminate fungal growth, but if her toenails are already so hardened with fungus

that they cannot easily be cut with clippers, then she needs to be soaking her

feet in a hot tea tree oil solution every night. Doing that and then applying

jojoba, emu, meadowfoam, karanja, unrefined shea or other light, healing

oils/butters will help soften the nails so they can be cut. If there is fungal

growth, cutting the nails will expose more of the fungus to the tea tree oil

solution.

What a gross topic. Sorry!

pamela

----- Original Message -----

I would use a combo of emu and medowfoam with lavender eo. This would

soften the nail and heal. Hard nails are often associated with fungus so I

would make sure this is not the case and that there is nothing going on.

Good luck and hope this helps

Chris

[Guest guest]

In a past life I worked as a manicurist. I wondered if you wished

to make your friends toenails more " normal " for the long run, do

you wish to create a product to make them " thinner " forever?

Since you said " toenails " and not toenail I would imagine that

this could be a fungal infection. If so your friend should see a

podiatrist, the treatment for this isn't bad, but is ongoing. If you

had said it was only one nail I would think she may have

damaged it by dropping something on it or stubbing her toe.

Once nails are damaged usually they are damaged for life. She

should really have this looked at before you try to make anything

to treat it.

-Trin

> Hello!

>

> I'm trying to make a cream for a friend who has hard, thick

> toenails. I'm not sure what to use.

>

> I've seen a product to temporarilly soften toenails but I'm not

sure

> which ingredient does the trick. Plus the list looks like it has a

> lot of nasty stuff.

>

> Toenail Softening Cream

> Ingredients:

> Water,

> mineral oil,

> panthenol,

> caty/alcohol,

> peg 40 stearate

> stearyl alcohol,

> tocopheryl acetate,

> phytantriol,

> propylene glycol,

> carbomer,

> octoxynol-9,

> sodium hydroxide,

> diazolidiny urea,

> methylparaben,

> propylparaben,

> fragrance.

>

> I've searched the web for recipes but couldn't find any.

>

> I'm not looking for anything permanent, just something she can

put on

> her toenails before she goes to bed, and can have an easier

time

> clipping them when she wakes up.

>

> Thanks in advance,