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[Marih]

Hi, everyone

I'm totally new to this and just started gettting into all of this and I want to do it right from the start. As I saw in the tutorial scrubfresh is the best but i cant find it in South Africa but for one place and it is excessively expensive. probably because of the rand/pound ratio. What else is there that I can use? Any advice would be highly appreciated.

Thanks for such a wonderfull and helpfull site

 

[Chix Nails]

Scrubfresh is a dehydrant. It basically is dehydrating the nail plate for better adhesion of nail enhancement products. I found when I was first doing nails that rubbing alcohol also worked very well. You can put a small amount on a lint free pad or a cotton pad and rub it on the nail plate. It dehydrates well without overdrying. You can also use a small amount of acetone, however I believe rubbing alcohol is the best.

 

[Marih]

hi, thank you for the reply. Part of the prep process for my system is spraying a sterilizer on that contains ethanol (alcohol), so instead of just spraying it on i'll wet a pad and then wipe the nail plate. That should do the trick. Thanks

 

[The Geek]

ScrubFresh is more than just a dehydrant

Alcohol (to a degree) will help sanitise and will partially dehydrate while acetone will do the opposite. Neither by themselves are sufficient alternatives to a professional product designed to do both jobs (and more). I would speak to the company you purchased your products from for a professional prep system.

Best of luck

 

[Chix Nails]

Grand master Geek is correct, Scrubfresh is designed to do both as it also has acetone in the product. Scrubfresh wasn't readily available in my area of the world either until recently, so alcohol was my go to. I use scrubfresh now but prefer a product by OPI as my "go to" now. good luck !