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.

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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 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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