How often should you use cuticle oil?🌿

Twice a day is the honest answer. Morning and night. More if your hands take a beating.

That's more than most people expect, and it's the reason a lot of people decide cuticle oil "doesn't work."

🌿 The oil doesn't stay put. Every hand wash takes some off. So does sanitizer, dish soap, and anything you wipe your hands on. Applying only in the morning means it's gone by lunch.

🌿 Night is the one to never skip. Eight hours with nothing washing it away is the closest you'll get to a treatment. If you only manage once a day, make it this one.

🌿 After water is the best timing. Post-shower or post-dishes, cuticles are soft and take oil easily. You're replacing exactly what the water just stripped. Here's how to apply if you're new to a pen.

🌿 More often if your hands work hard. Dishes, cleaning, gardening, hospital shifts, cold weather. Some people need it four or five times a day, and that's not overdoing it.

🌿 You can't really use too much. Worst case it feels greasy for a minute. There's no threshold where it starts working against you.

🌿 Give it two weeks before you judge. Skin at the nail base turns over slowly. A few days won't show you much; two weeks of consistency will.

🌿 The bottleneck is remembering, not the oil. This is why format matters more than formula. A pen in your pocket gets used twice a day; a dropper bottle on the nightstand gets used when you happen to see it. Our trios exist for exactly this reason — three scents, so you can keep one on the nightstand, one in your purse, and one by the kitchen sink. When it's already wherever you are, twice a day stops being something you have to remember.

Short answer if you skipped down: twice a day, every day, and never skip the one before bed.

But don't just take our word for it.

Nail technicians interviewed by NBC News Select suggest going as high as three times a day, and say that if you only manage one application, it should be the one at night.