Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 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, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 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, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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