Pedicure products are used to perform cosmetic services on the feet, including exfoliating the skin, reducing calluses, and trimming, shaping, and polishing the toenails. Here are some details about pedicure products:
Materials
- Pedicure products use the same materials as manicure products.
- Professional pedicure products include unique materials such as soaks, scrubs, masks, pedicure lotions and creams, and callus softeners.
Ingredients
- Many nail products contain potentially harmful ingredients, but are allowed on the market because they are safe when used as directed.
- The labels of all cosmetics, whether marketed to consumers or salons, must include a warning statement whenever necessary or appropriate to prevent a health hazard that may occur with use of the product.
- Cosmetics sold on a retail basis to consumers must also bear a list of ingredients, with the names of the ingredients listed in descending order of predominance.
- Some nail products contain resins that form a strong coating on the nails, rather than hardening the nails themselves.
- Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) has been used most commonly in nail polishes and some other products, such as nail hardeners, while dimethyl phthalate (DMP) and diethyl phthalate (DEP) are used occasionally.
- Some ingredients to avoid in nail products include methacrylic acid, TPHP/TPP, parabens, hydroquinone monomethyl ether (MEHQ/HQ), and methylisothiazolinone (MIT) / methylchloroisothiazolinone (CMIT) .
Positive
- Pedicure products can help keep nails clean and tidy, which prevents fungal infections.
- Grooming nails prevents them from breaking or painful chipping, and it also prevents dry cuticles, hangnails, and broken skin.
- The massage done during manicures and pedicures helps boost blood circulation, which prevents the development of wrinkles on your hands through the years besides eliminating any kind of swelling, numbness, or pain.
Negative
- Some nail ingredients are harmful when swallowed, but not when used on the nails, because the nail is a barrier, which prevents absorption.
- Using nail products can expose nail salon workers to chemicals that can affect their health.
- Some people may become allergic to certain ingredients in nail products, such as toluene sulfonamide/formaldehyde resin (TSFR) .
- Some ingredients in nail products can throw off hormones, cause skin irritation, nervous system disruption, fertility imbalances, discomfort in the eyes and skin, and be dangerous for the lungs and brain.
In conclusion, pedicure products use the same materials as manicure products, but also include unique materials such as soaks, scrubs, masks, pedicure lotions and creams, and callus softeners. Some nail ingredients ca...
