Your nail plates are dead!!! They cannot breathe! (If you\u2019re familiar with the Monty Python sketch) The nail cells have \u2018ceased to be\u2019!!!<\/p>\n
Do they need a \u2018breather\u2019 from overlays? Maybe! But that is the decision of an educated client (that may have financial constraints and uses this as a reason) or a skilled and informed nail professional who may suggest a period of time away from a gel polish or enhancements to enable a treatment product to help improve nail condition. This would be when the nail plate is getting brittle and maybe could benefit from an intensive conditioning treatment (just like hair when it needs a conditioning mask to bring back suppleness)<\/p>\n
Lets look at the 2 possibilities that this marketing \u2018spin\u2019 can refer to:<\/p>\n
1. Cellular respiration. All living cells respire. This isn\u2019t the same as \u2018breathing\u2019 as this requires lungs. The process is all about the exchange of \u2018gasses\u2019. In the lungs, there is an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. In living cells, it is the exchange of many different molecules that allow the cell to function.<\/p>\n
La placa ungueal no est\u00e1 formada por c\u00e9lulas vivas, por lo que no respira.<\/p>\n
2. Permeability. Now, this is different! This is the ability of molecules of chemicals (remember everything is chemical except an energy e.g. heat, light and electricity) to cross over a coating\/membrane etc.<\/p>\n
ALL nail coatings are permeable to a certain extent. Some more than others . On the whole, only small molecules can permeate a nail coating of any kind. This will be oxygen, water, some oils and acetone. The channels they can permeate through are very tiny so not many substances can do this.<\/p>\n
If you need a \u2018bench mark\u2019 acetone is a (relatively) small molecule. This is why it\u2019s used as a \u2018solvent\u2019 for the majority of nail coatings. The quicker acetone can remove a coating is a very rough guide to the permeability.<\/p>\n
If you understand this you will see that some nail coatings are more permeable than others! BUT\u2026.on any individual nail coating, how much oxygen and water can penetrate?? This is not measured! Too much water can cause a big problem of lifting and possibly bacteria. Oxygen? Why does a dead nail plate need oxygen?<\/p>\n
Breathing nails? It\u2019s a marketing spin that so many subscribe to!! Both nail pros and the consumer (and the media!!!) This is due to a lack of understanding and so many just promote such misinformation!! It isn\u2019t true; it isn\u2019t accurate!<\/p>\n
Can we just make a \u2018trend of accuracy\u2019? Do not get caught up in the spin!!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00bfTus u\u00f1as NECESITAN respirar? \u00a1\u00a1\u00a1NO!!! <\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":30082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-myth-busting","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n