Nail Health Journal
Why Do My Fingernails Keep Splitting at the Tips?
Why do fingernails split at the tips? Learn how water, dryness and everyday wear can affect fragile nail edges and what may help protect them.
The tip is the oldest part of the nail plate and has had the most time to experience repeated wetting, drying, friction and small impacts. That helps explain why peeling and splitting often show up first at the free edge.
Frequent hand washing, prolonged water exposure, household cleaning, dry weather, repeated polish removal, filing or buffing, picking at nails and using nails as tools can all contribute to fragile tips.
Reduce stress on the free edge: keep nails at a manageable length, smooth snags gently, wear gloves for prolonged wet work when practical and condition nails consistently rather than repeatedly trying to harden the tips.
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FlexiNail Fingernail Conditioner is applied directly to the natural nail plate once daily and allowed to sit briefly rather than being massaged into the nail, skin or cuticle. The routine takes about 30 seconds.
FlexiNail is intended for cosmetic natural-nail conditioning. It is not a treatment for infection, disease, or another medical nail condition.
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