BARIELLETravel Size Nail Stregthener Cream, 0.5-Ounces Tub

Travel size is perfect for most of us, because you only need the teeniest bit. And this stuff works. I've used it for at least thirty years. If I use it, my nail doesn't split. If I stop, it starts splitting again. Period. You do have to use it nightly for months at first as the damaged nail grows out. But for maintenance thereafter, a few times a week is enough for me. I buy these little tubes because the stuff in a jar dries out very quickly. Even a tube lasts me a couple of years. There's no funky smell, no perfume, and it's not greasy.

Just 2 weeks into using this cream for split and chipped nails I am very pleased. I now have healthy and strong nails. I’ve never done a review on anything but this cream was worthy. I just placed another order, it really does work well.

I’ve been using Barrielle Nail Strengthener cream for 6 weeks, and waited to write a review until I could reasonably assess its effectiveness. I have weak nails that split into layers with everyday household chores. I have working hands, involved with kids, dogs, horses, dishes, laundry, bathroom cleaning products and gardening. Although I wear rubber gloves for household chores, the nails on my thumbs, index fingers and middle fingers on both hands take the brunt of the work, and break easily. But if they don’t break, they split into layers, and the layers peel off, leaving very thin nail bases. The thin nail bases are very tender and hurt, but I still have to do all my regular activities, so my nails don’t get better. I’ve tried nail strengthening polishes that are applied everyday week after week. However, I haven’t found a polish that actually prevents the damage on my nails and using nail polish remover once a week to remove the polish severely exacerbates the weaknesses of my nails. The only upside is that my nails naturally grow quickly. Although my nails were quite damaged when I began using this, twice a day, everyday for 6 weeks, the first thing I noticed was that almost immediately the split layers of my nails seemed to seal together. They have stayed together and my nails did not continue to split as my damaged nails grew out. Although the new growth still seems to break easily, I expect it may take a full 3 months for the base to entirely grow out from the time I started using this cream. If my nails are substantially stronger with less breakage and no splitting after 3 months, I will update this review with those results. Bottom line - this is working the best of any product I have tried so far.

I am a long time user of Barielle nail products. The product works wonders, so I would give it 5 stars, except for the fact that the tube is ridiculously small for a ridiculously high price.

This cream is improving my nails as to the ridges I have, they are disappearing. My worst problem is splitting, my nails split mid way up the nail and it can be very painful. I have just been using for a short time and I did have a bad split, but I am hoping once the old nails grow out that will stop after longer use. I only give it four stars because I haven't tried it long enough to see if it will repair all problems.

I first knew of this product in the 70's when I worked in a fine department store and it was sold in the cosmetics department and had a cult following. As a very young person I thought it was kind of absurd that people paid that much for something to rub on their nails and completely dismissed it. After exhausting everything from paint on nail strengtheners to oils to biotin and iron supplements I ordered the little tube and within a week was seeing improvement. For at least a year I had scrambled with peeling and perpendicular splitting. The splitting was maddening because it would get caught on fabrics causing pain. I would have to use a press on nail to keep from tearing my nail off the bed. Anyway, after about 6 weeks I have healthy growth and strong nails. I keep a tube at my desk and one by the bed. I use it two to three times a day. Will never be without this product.

Years ago, I used this and it was incredible! They must have changed the formula because it isn't even a little bit effective anymore.

I have heard about Barielle since I was a pre-teen (which was a l-o-n-g time ago) but never tried it. Back in the day, it was because I couldn't afford it, but over the last couple decades, I guess I was trying whatever was the latest thing. I had come to believe that no product was ever really going to make a difference in my genetically weak nails.After a particularly bad experience with gel polish this winter, my nails were in worse shape than normal. I looked through Amazon's higher rated nail products and decided to give it a go with Barielle.This is the first product I've ever used on my weak, splitting nails that works. It's easy to use, I don't have to be religious about using it, and for the first time in my life, I have 10 healthy looking nails of the same length. This little tube has lasted me four months, too.