The impact of such negative factors as environmental pollution, the sun's rays, the luggage of past years leave marks on the face. Day after day, the skin changes, wrinkles appear, flews sag. But do not rush to grow old! There are many ways, including homemade ones, that will help restore youth to the face.
Why does skin age
Year after year, the skin is aging - it is a natural process. With age, the body's ability to heal itself decreases, natural factors have a detrimental effect on 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 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, an active lifestyle help you to look fresh, young, attractive at any age. You can remove unwanted wrinkles with the help of rejuvenation operations, they are carried out in beauty salons.
Facial rejuvenation operations 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 is tightened.
Modern cosmetology offers various effective methods to remove the symptoms of aging from the skin:
- photorejuvenation - deep treatment of skin layers with light, in which there is no ultraviolet radiation;
- fractional laser resurfacing - the upper layer of the epidermis is selectively evaporated with a laser beam;
- mesotherapy - microinjections of a cocktail of hyaluronic acid, amino acids and other substances beneficial to the skin;
- biorevitalization - injections of pure hyaluronic acid;
- ozone therapy - an oxygen-ozone mixture is injected under the skin or intradermally;
- LPG massage - skin massage is done by a special device, invented, by the way, in France;
- PRP-therapy or plasma-lifting - plasma isolated from the blood with a large number of platelets is injected under the skin.
Before you go 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 aesthetic medicine methods is impressive, all of them effectively cope with the task of rejuvenation. But not everyone, for various reasons, is available. You can also preserve a youthful face with the help of available gentle home procedures.
Kind, old, time-tested ways to rejuvenate
To prevent all those unpleasant changes that occur with the face with age, and to remain young and attractive as long as possible, you need to take care of the skin every day and affectionately. Periodic cleaning, nutrition, moisturizing, plus facial gymnastics - the complex of these procedures will make you look great in any summer.
Use scrubs to cleanse. If your skin is oily, do a salt scrub every 10 days. To do this, add 350 g of sea or table salt to half a glass of nutritious liquid cream. Rub the product into the skin in a circular motion, then wash.
They do well with cleansing the skin of kefir, yogurt, sour cream. You just need to wet the sponge in liquid and wipe the face, neck, décolleté area. Then wipe off the remains of kefir with tonic. For dry skin, use warm olive oil as a cleanser. Pour one or two teaspoons into a small bowl, put in hot water for one minute. Moisten a swab and wipe your face.
A 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 contrast wash - this is a 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 nutrition of the skin, make it elastic, with an even matte shade: crush grapes (200 g) and remove the seeds. Put a teaspoon of some vegetable oil in it and thicken it with a glass of flour. Mix thoroughly, apply the composition on the face, neck, décolleté for 25-30 minutes.
- Pasta paste will tighten the skin, improve the oval of the face: grind nondescript, gray pasta in a coffee grinder, add yolk (for dry skin) or protein - for oily skin. Apply to face for 10 minutes.
- A simple and cheap mask will tighten the skin: grate two carrots, mix the pulp with a teaspoon of potato starch and yolk, spread the gruel on the face and neck for half an hour.
- A good mask of vinegar and honey: pour liquid honey (1 spoon) with cologne (50 ml), pour in one teaspoon of vinegar. Dilute with tap water (0. 5 cups), apply on face, remove after 15 minutes.
- If you have aging skin, an egg-lemon astringent mask will restore its turgor: beat the protein into a cool foam, add the juice of one lemon, 2-3 drops of essential oil and a gram of talcum powder. Before applying the paste, lubricate dry skin with a rich nourishing cream. 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 she who is able to give out to others your true age. A proven remedy - vegetable oil compress - will help to revive 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 compress on your neck, cover with parchment paper or cellophane on top and wrap with a towel. Keep 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 independently prepare creams with a lifting effect.
- Squeeze juice from dried aloe leaves, one teaspoon is required. Add half a teaspoon of rose petal tincture or rose water, one teaspoon of honey and 50 g of melted pork fat. Place in a water bath to melt the honey and fat. Cool the finished cream, transfer 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 skin elasticity: combine one yolk and a teaspoon of almond oil, pour in a large spoonful of chamomile tincture, add a spoonful of honey and half a spoonful of salt. Heat a small spoonful of petroleum jelly, add to the mass. Mix all this thoroughly, put the cream in a jar and refrigerate. Use daily at night.
Treat your face regularly and lovingly so it won't let you down.