Face Exercises for Anti-Aging

Face exercises are becoming a common practice for those who want to tighten up their skin naturally. These exercises combined with good nutrition and hydration can make you look younger and healthier.

What Causes Sagging Facial Skin?

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As opposed to the rest of the body, facial muscles are attached directly to the skin. As you age the collagen in your skin degrades making it thinner. This loss of elasticity can cause your skin to droop. In addition, the muscle tone in the muscles of your face begins to fade as you get older. Face exercises can firm up these muscles.

There are also behavioral and environmental factors involved in aging the skin. Lifestyle factors that affect the skin are:

Smoking
Poor nutrition
Stress and anxiety
Lack of sleep
Lack of exercise

Benefits of Face Exercises

There are 57 muscles in the face and neck that are all inter-related. Performing neck and facial exercises that target these muscles will tone and strengthen them. This will cause the skin to tighten around them resulting in a more youthful appearance.

Facial exercising improves blood flow to the skin providing nutrients and hydration to the area. These nutrients help your collagen in the skin to build and strengthen. This will slow down the aging process.

Face Exercises

For each exercise, hold for 10 seconds and repeat 10 times.

Forehead – Place your index fingers just above your eyebrows and pull down gently. Hold and attempt to raise your eyebrows. This will cause resistance that strengthens these muscles and smoothes out your brow.

Eyes – Place your fingers at the corners of each eye and gently pull towards the scalp. Hold and attempt to close your eyes. This will help eliminate your “crow’s feet”.

Eyes – place your fingers directly under your eyes and gently pull down while simultaneously closing your eyes. This will help “bags” under the eyes.

Nose – grab your top lip between thumb and forefinger on each side. Pull down while trying to sneer.

Cheeks – Using your three middle fingers pull down gently on the cheek “apples” while smiling.

Neck – lay on your back on your bed with your head over the edge. Slowly raise your head so that it is line with your body. Gently lower your head again. This will improve the size of the muscles in your neck.

By performing these neck and facial exercises you will start to notice a difference in a few weeks. Your friends will comment on your looks in a few months.

Skin Massage – massaging the skin of the face will help to drain fluids from this area by way of the lymphatic system. This can reduce puffiness.

Face exercises alone won’t solve the aging process. A healthy lifestyle of weight control, fitness and proper nutrition are also required. A diet rich in antioxidants and regular physical activity play a major role in slowing the aging process.

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