The influence of negative factors such as environmental pollution, sunlight, luggage of recent years leave traces on the face. Day after day the skin changes, wrinkles appear, relaxations pass. But don’t rush with aging! There are many ways, including home, to help restore youth to your face.
Why does the skin age?
From year to year the skin ages - it is a natural process. With age, the body's ability to heal itself decreases, natural factors adversely affect the skin: bright sun, frost, high humidity. Free radicals play an important role in skin aging, destroying cells and causing irreversible changes in the body.
Between healthy cells and free radicals, there are substances that are collectively called antioxidants - the main characters that resist the aging process. Foods rich in antioxidants provide the body with protective substances that are absorbed into the bloodstream and help maintain youth and beauty.
Facial skin rejuvenation methods
Proper nutrition and an active lifestyle help you look fresh, young, attractive at any age. You can remove unwanted wrinkles with the help of rejuvenation operations, which are performed in beauty salons.
Facial rejuvenation surgeries are performed in beauty salons.
The non-surgical hardware technology of skin tightening, the so-called Elos-rejuvenation method, is very popular. It activates the production of collagen, which gives an amazing result: the skin becomes elastic, wrinkles disappear, the oval of the face tightens.
Modern cosmetology offers various effective methods for removing the symptoms of aging from the skin:
- photo rejuvenation - deep treatment of skin layers with light, in which there is no ultraviolet radiation;
- fractional laser re-application of the surface - the upper layer of the epidermis is selectively evaporated by laser beam;
- mesotherapy - microinjections of cocktails of hyaluronic acid, amino acids and other substances useful for the skin;
- biorevitalization - injections of pure hyaluronic acid;
- ozone therapy - a mixture of oxygen and ozone is injected under the skin or intradermally;
- LPG massage - skin massage is performed with a special device, invented, otherwise, in France;
- PRP therapy or plasma lifting - plasma isolated from blood with a large number of platelets is injected under the skin.
Before going through this or that rejuvenation procedure, you should consult a dermatologist, because there are many contraindications to the use of hardware procedures.
The list of methods of aesthetic medicine is impressive, all of them effectively cope with the task of rejuvenation. But not all are available for different reasons. You can also preserve a youthful face with the help of available gentle home treatments.
Kind, old, time-tested methods of rejuvenation
In order to prevent all those unpleasant changes that occur on the face with age and to stay young and attractive for as long as possible, it is necessary to take care of the skin daily and gently. Periodic cleansing, nutrition, hydration, plus facial gymnastics - the complex of these procedures will make you look great in any summer.
Use scrubs for cleansing. If your skin is oily, do a salty peel every 10 days. To do this, add 350 g of sea or table salt to half a cup of nourishing liquid cream. Rub the product into the skin in a circular motion, then wash.
They cope well with cleansing the skin of kefir, yogurt, sour cream. You just need to soak the sponge in the liquid and wipe the face, neck, décolleté area. Then wipe off the kefir residue with a tonic. For dry skin, use warm olive oil as a cleanser. Pour one or two teaspoons into a small bowl and put hot water for a minute. Moisten a tampon and wipe your face.
Good "wash" in the morning - water with the addition of lime juice, lemon or apple cider vinegar: two teaspoons of juice in 200 ml of water. Instead of washing your face, it is helpful to massage your face with a piece of ice. It can be prepared from infusions of herbs or rose petals.
Anti-aging masks
Pamper your face and décolleté with a contrasting wash - this is gymnastics that provides the skin with good nutrition, improves blood circulation. Apply compresses and nourishing masks two to three times a week.
With dilated capillaries, contrast washing is contraindicated.
- The grape mask will strengthen the skin's nutrition, make it elastic, with an even matte shade: mash the grapes (200 g) and remove the seeds. Put a teaspoon of a little vegetable oil in it and thicken it with a cup of flour. Stir thoroughly, apply the composition on face, neck, décolleté for 25-30 minutes.
- Pasta paste will tighten the skin, improve the oval face: crumble indescribably, gray pasta in a coffee grinder, add egg yolk (for dry skin) or protein - for oily skin. Apply on face for 10 minutes.
- A simple and inexpensive mask will tighten the skin: grate two carrots, mix the pulp with a teaspoon of potato starch and egg yolk, spread the porridge on the face and neck for half an hour.
- A good mask of vinegar and honey: pour liquid honey (1 tablespoon) with cologne (50 ml), pour one teaspoon of vinegar. Dilute with tap water (0, 5 cups), apply on face, remove after 15 minutes.
- If you have old skin, an egg-lemon astringent mask will restore its turgor: beat the proteins into a cold foam, add the juice of one lemon, 2-3 drops of essential oil and a gram of talcum powder. Before applying the paste, apply dry nourishing cream to dry skin. Apply the first layer, when it dries, apply the second, and then the third. Remove the mask after half an hour with a napkin soaked in water. The mask is very effective and should be done no more than once a month.
The mask makes the skin supple and elastic.
Just like the face, the neck requires regular care, because it is the one that can share your true years with others. A proven remedy - a compress of vegetable oil - will help revitalize the skin of the neck. Heat the oil to a temperature of 40-45 degrees, fold the gauze in several layers, moisten and squeeze a little. Put a wrap on the neck, cover the parchment with paper or cellophane on top and wrap with a towel. Hold the compress for 20 minutes. Do not rinse off the remaining oil, just massage with your fingers.
Cream recipes
For face and décolleté care, you can prepare creams with a lifting effect on your own.
- Squeeze the juice from the dried aloe leaves; one teaspoon is needed. Add half a teaspoon of tincture of rose petals or rose water, one teaspoon of honey and 50 g of melted lard. Put in a water bath to dissolve the honey and fat. Cool the finished cream, transfer it to a jar and store in the refrigerator. The cream nourishes the skin, makes it soft and elastic, smoothes wrinkles.
- Homemade egg cream will quickly increase the elasticity of the skin: combine one egg yolk and a teaspoon of almond oil, pour a tablespoon of chamomile tincture, add a tablespoon of honey and half a tablespoon of salt. Heat a small spoon of Vaseline, add to the mass. Mix all this thoroughly, put the cream in a jar and put in the fridge. Use daily at night.
Treat your face regularly and with love so that it will not let you down.