Nail Facts

How much information do you know about your nails? Below you will find useful facts about your nails.

1. Dry nails are mostly the result of not drinking enough. Unfortunately only water helps.
2. A man's nails grow faster than a woman's. This does not make a man superior.
3. Nails grow faster in warm sunny climates than in cold dark places.
4. Nails and hair do not keep on growing after death contrary to what is often stated as fact. The truth is that the body dehydrates after death, resulting in an appearance of hair and nails that seem to grow.
5. Finger nails grow faster than toe nails. Finger nails grow at the approximate rate of a half an inch every 100 days.
6. Nails on longer fingers grow faster than nails on short fingers.
7. Nails also grow faster on your dominant hand.
8. Massaging your finger tips will stimulate nail growth.
9. Nails grow much faster during pregnancy.
10. People biting nails do this out of habit. There is no medical cure. The only way to stop nail biting is to break the habit!
11. The older you are, the slower your nails grow.