Understanding the Features of Ingredients of Manicures

摘要

A manicure is a kind of cosmetic beauty treatment for the fingernails performed at home or in a nail salon. It is becoming an emerging industry and getting prosperous in the beauty industry. Females choose their favorite manicure patterns or designs to go with their dresses, skins, and accessories. However, some of ingredients of manicure materials contain toxic solvents, such as, phthalates and methyl alcohol. Those solvents can be harmful for human bodies in case that the consumers frequently use them. Hence, in order to help manicurists in this emerging industry understand the serious issue regarding how dangerous they are and avoid those harmful toxics by adopting other health-harmless nail painting materials, the researcher in this study will firstly introduce the service items and application techniques of manicure. Then, about the critical issues regarding the uses and problems of painting materials would be addressed. Finally, in the last chapter, we talk about some alternative materials (e.g., epoxy resin) and the features and advantages of those new manicure materials will be discussed.