How To Prevent Premature Face Wrinkles

In my last post, I wrote on the causes of premature facial wrinkles. You can check it out to learn about the causes of premature facial wrinkles. It is very important to learn about how to prevent facial wrinkles. In the first place, it helps you to avoid having it and secondly, it will help those who already  have it from making it worse.

Here are ways to avoid premature wrinkles on the face:

• Avoid repeated facial movements: Facial movements such as frowning, grimacing, raising your forehead up, as well as other facial movements could result in  wrinkles. I am not suggesting here that you stay off facial expression, my point is that you should try to avoid repeated facial expression often. For instance, repeated frowning of the face could lead to wrinkles developing early on the skin. These tips will help you protect your face from the sun’s rays.
• Wear sunscreen when ever you go out in the sun: Do this regularly, for best result, apply every two hours extra spent in the sun. apply sunscreen no matter the weather outside.
• Wear sunglasses to protect the areas around the eyes. But, if you are involved or going to be involved in activities that may make wearing of sunglasses uncomfortable such as when playing sports, then you can do with out the glasses and apply eye cream with sun’s protection on the areas around the eyes. You can also use eye cream with sun’s protection along with sunglasses.

See also:

How to protect your skin from the sun

• Avoid sleeping on one side of your face: sleeping on one side of your face could wrinkles to form quicker on that part of the face facing or touching the pillow. To avoid this type of facial wrinkles, alternate how you place your face when sleeping.
• Prevent dry skin: Dry skin is usually susceptible to premature wrinkles. One way to prevent dry facial skin is to moisturize the skin. The skin can be moisturize internally and externally. By internally, I mean drinking enough water to meet the body need. By moisturizing externally, I mean making use of moisturizing facial products. This will help to prevent or reduce the risk of wrinkles caused by dry skin.
• Stay off smoking

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How To Prevent Premature Wrinkles On The Skin

In my last post, I wrote about the causes of premature wrinkles on the skin. In this article, we shall look at how to prevent wrinkles from developing prematurely on the skin. Wrinkles are inevitable, whether we like it or not, we will one day all get wrinkles as we grow older. But, some people get it far early before their time and this calls for concern. How do you prevent this from happening? Many people expose themselves to conditions that favour the development of wrinkles on the skin, thus, making them susceptible or prone to premature wrinkles. Preventing wrinkles is very important and you must do so early. If you are still young, you can start now to prevent wrinkles by following the tips I am going to share below. But, if you already have wrinkles, you can do something to prevent the wrinkles from getting worse. 

Wrinkles and greys (Photo credit: spykster)

 
The following tips below will help you prevent premature wrinkling of the skin.  
  

How to prevent premature wrinkles  

•  Wear sunscreen: Sunlight is one of the major causes of wrinkles. The sun’s rays are harmful and can cause havoc on the skin. Protect your skin from these rays by wearing sunscreen. Sunscreen with SPF protection can protect your skin from the sun’s damage. These days some skin care products now contain sunscreen SPF. You can use such products. It is important to note that it is not enough to apply sunscreen; you must ensure that you continue to reapply for about two hours interval for extra time spent in the sun. Do this more if you are spending longer time outdoor such as playing sports or involving in outdoor sporting activities. Another important point is to apply sunscreen no matter the weather outside including cloudy weather and during winter.  

• Stop smoking: It is no longer new to us about what cigarette does to the health. Do you know it can also affect your skin thereby causing wrinkles? Smokers are likely going to develop “smoker lines” when they smoke often. It generally leads to wrinkles developing early in the skin. This is because it damages the collagen and elastin in the skin. These elements help to keep the skin together. When these proteins are damaged, wrinkles become inevitably close.  
• Avoid dry skin: Try as much as possible to avoid dry skin. Take proper care of your skin. But if you already have dry skin, then you can do something fast about it to get it back to shape. People with dry skin tend to get wrinkles faster than those who do not or who have a different skin type. For those with dry skin, the best thing to do is to moisturize. You have to moisturize both internally and externally. By internally, I mean by drinking enough water to make and keep the skin hydrated. Externally you can moisturize your skin by making use of moisturizing products.  
• Stop frequent facial expression: Sometimes we do make faces or have facial expression to show our feelings or for fun. Whatever your reasons are, frequent facial movements can cause wrinkles to develop faster along the areas of the face where the movements is made. For those who frown a lot, they are prone to developing frown lines early. 

The above are some of the ways by which you can prevent premature wrinkles on the skin. Follow the steps and you will prolong the development of wrinkles on your skin. But, if you are not sure of what to do or you want extra advice, I would suggest you contact your skin doctor or dermatologist.

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Does smiling causes wrinkles?

We always hear of words like, stop frowning to stop facial wrinkles. But, we hardly hear of words like stop smiling to stop facial wrinkles.  So many of us don’t associate smiling with facial wrinkles in fact some thought that smiling can wipe out facial wrinkles. Is this true? Can smiling often lead to facial wrinkles? Read on to find out.
Smiling often can cause wrinkles to develop on the face. It is noticeable in places around the eyes especially the corners of the eyes and the mouth around the cheek.
Smile wrinkles which is sometimes called laugh lines develops on the face long before we get old. This is because as one grows older, the production of collagen and elastin diminishes. These proteins are very high when we are young. That is why no matter the facial expression of a little child, the face bounces back as soon as he/she relaxes the face.
Smile wrinkles or laugh lines is formed as a result of years of accumulative smiling which causes muscular movement such as folding and stretching of the face. The lines become more visible as we grow older and the skin becomes thinner and dryer.

Smile wrinkles just like any other wrinkles are caused by the following:

• Excessive exposure to the sun. The sun contains harmful or dangerous rays that is very harmful to the skin. This can speed up the aging process thereby causing wrinkles on the face.

• Smoking excessively can also cause wrinkles to develop on the skin. Smoke is known to cause a drop in the production of collagen and elastin. And a drop in these proteins causes the skin to wrinkle easily.

• Frequent movement of the face which cause the facial muscles to move repeatedly can cause lines to form on the face.

You can see post on causes of wrinkles for more information.

To prevent smile wrinkles, observe the tips below:

• Protect your face from the violent rays of the sun. So each time you go out, always wear sunscreen or sun block on the face. Baseball caps, wide brim hat and sunglasses can also give you further protection from the sun’s UV rays which are harmful to the skin.

• Moisturise the skin frequently to keep it supple. You can also moisturize your skin from inside by drinking plenty of water.

• Eat healthy diet as it protects your skin from aging quickly.

See post on how to prevent wrinkles for further information

To remove smile wrinkles, the following options may be consider:

• Chemical peels or micro dermabrasion

• Anti wrinkle creams or wrinkle fillers.

• Botox injection, etc.

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How to prevent wrinkles

Having wrinkles should not really be of concern to you as wrinkles is one thing we will all have to face as we grow older. What you should concern yourself about is how quickly you get wrinkles on your skin.
Some people, because of their lifestyle, the activities they involve in, etc. tend to have wrinkles more quickly than others. To avoid this, you have to prevent wrinkles from appearing on your skin.

How to Prevent Wrinkles
The following are some of the ways to prevent wrinkles from appearing on your skin.
1.    Wear Sunscreen: Sun exposure is one of the major causes of wrinkles. To prevent wrinkles, you have to reduce the rate at which you expose your skin to the glare of the sun.
If you must go out, wear sunscreen no matter how cloudy the weather is outside. This will help to prevent your skin from the damage of the sun.
You can also use suntan and sunglasses when ever you go out for additional protection.
2.    Boost your collagen: Collagen is a protein found in the skin which repairs damage skin. As we grow older, the production of these collagen tends to drop or reduce. To prevent wrinkles on your skin, you must stimulate the production of collagen in your body.
3.    Stop smoking: Smoking make your skin to develop wrinkles early in life. This is because smoking hinders the production of collagen on your skin thereby making your skin to lose that elasticity (provided by collagen) when you smoke over time.
4.    Avoid strong soaps and creams: The use of some strong soaps, creams, facial cleansers, etc. can cause wrinkles to form on your skin. Surprisingly some of these creams and soaps are supposed to cure wrinkles.

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