Avoiding Threats To Youthful Skin – Part 7
The elixir of youth is exercise. But, it doesn’t work if you don’t do it. The Center for Disease Control recommends that we exercise at least 30 minutes most days of the week. However, one in four of you reading this post do not exercise at all. Yes, I’m talking about you. Don’t look around [...]
Avoiding Threats To Youthful Skin – Part 4
In part four of our series on avoiding threats to youthful skin, we address smoking. Along with several other risk factors, smoking leads to deep wrinkles and leathery skin. And, the telltale signs of middle age typically start in the early 30s in the form of wrinkles around the mouth and eyes.
Cigarette smoke causes the [...]
The Birth Of The Sag
March 28, 2008 by RLuve
Filed under Face Exercises
Facial muscles are terribly underused. As a result, most people have weak muscles, which invariably sag. And when the muscles sag, the skin attached to them also sags. In fact, slack facial muscles are one of the main causes of sagging and drooping that most of us eventually experience.
Sagging is a result [...]
Smoking: The Second Leading Cause of Wrinkling
After the sun, smoking accelerates the normal aging process of your skin, contributing to wrinkles. It thins the skin by around 40%, so that water escapes more easily. Further damage is caused by the chemicals in cigarettes which break down the fibers in collagen and elasticity, mimicking and accelerating the normal aging process. Cigarette smoke [...]
How To Treat Fine Lines Around The Eyes
February 17, 2008 by RLuve
Filed under Eye Wrinkles
To target solutions for fine lines around the eyes, it is important to distinguish when you see the lines. Do you see lines around the eyes when you are not smiling or only when you are?
If you have lines around your eyes when you are not smiling, then you need to step up your [...]
