How to remove Tobacco Stains from Fingers

Yellowish-brown stained hands are the tell-tale signs of any smoker. These tobacco stained hands serve as the hall mark humiliation for any smoker or ex-smoker as these stains are seldom ignored by any watchful eye. Moreover if you are looking for a job or have to head for any important interview, these tobacco stains on your fingers can lead to dire humiliation.

Probably you don’t have a job or interview to worry about; probably it is just your dirty, stained hands that pull the trigger. Well, whatever the cause might be, tobacco stained hands are something you need to get rid of big time, and hereby we would be providing you with effective tips to do so.

Tobacco contains nicotine and other pigmented chemicals. These chemicals are generally oil based. These leach off the cigarettes, onto your hands and penetrate your skin. Consequently they discolor your skin. Now as this process doesn’t happen overnight, therefore its treatment might also require a few days, depending upon the extent of damage done to your hands.

Embark upon the method elaborated below and bid farewell to these aggravating tobacco stains.

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Things that you will require:

· Lemon juice

· Pumice stone

· Salt

· Moisturizing lotion/Vitamin E oil

Steps that you need to take:

1.   Primarily you need to take some lemon juice.

2.   Soak your hands in this lemon juice for almost 10 to 15 minutes, making sure that tobacco stains are properly covered with lemon.

3.   Adding some salt in this lemon juice can also work wonders.

4.   Next, take a pumice stone and use it to gently scrub the tobacco stained areas.

5.   Do not rub too vigorously otherwise you might end up damaging your skin.

6.   It is better that you merely use pumice stain to scrub off the more resistant tobacco stains and once these stains are gone you can leave off the use of pumice stone.

7.   Eventually wash your tobacco stained hands and cover them with a thick coat of moisturizing lotion or vitamin –E oil.

8.   Repeating this procedure twice or thrice in a week can yield satisfactory results.

Tips and Warnings:

· You need to keep this fact in mind that both lemon and salt are dehydrating agents and can result in the over drying of your skin. Therefore make sure that you follow them with a coat of moisturizing lotion.

· If your skin has abrasions or cuts, you ought not to make use of this method.

· Aspirin water is also effective in the removal of tobacco stains from hands.

· Continuous use of vitamin E oil to keep your skin moisturized can also yield pleasant and effective results.