The skin around the eyes: the myths and the truth about quitting

Everyone knows that the skin around the eyes - the delicate, vulnerable, and it was she who first starts to give the age. Is it possible this is something to do?

As you know, all the world's cosmetic brands considered a matter of honor for the release skin around the eyes   special features - and creams and gels, and serum and capsules ... Are they are often more expensive than a means for the rest of the face, and are packaged in a very tiny package. Some are based on nutrition of the skin, in the second humidification, cooling the third, the fourth on light reflection. What do they just not included - and plant extracts, and algae and extract of fish eggs and trained bacteria. But is there any effect?

In order to understand why skin around the eyes   so special, you just need to know: it is about 12 times thinner than the rest of the face, it is 60 times less fat layer and they are much more slowly updated. In addition, it is around the eyes has the largest number of facial wrinkles, control the operation of a century, and they are most often to blame for early aging. But not only. Typically, skin around the eyes   experiences few problems.

Crow's feet.   Fine wrinkles radiating fan from the outside corner of the eye towards the temple and upper cheek. Smear them with cream - and nourishing, moisturizing and - completely useless. The only way for a while to get rid of them - to make botulinum toxin injections (if the "crow's feet" appeared recently), or fill out wrinkles Restylane gel-type preparation.

Eye bags .   This defect is associated with the violation of humoral exchanges and require consultation with the three doctors - therapist, nephrologist and endocrinologist, because the problem is caused by regular facial swelling. Excess liquid flows by gravity to the bottom of the lower eyelids and forms are the same eye bags   are very spoiled person. As a rule, the elimination of the causes of edema bags themselves slightly tightened and no treatment is required. In rare cases, eye bags turn into "hernia", which can only be eliminated with the help of plastic surgery.

Ptosis.   This omission of the upper eyelid, which may be due to the gravitational aging and literacy intervention - for example, by injection, or even cosmetology when plucking eyebrows. Sometimes ptosis is eliminated with medication - using tonics and vitamins. But most of this state requires blepharoplasty - eyelid plastic.

And yet - there is a way to care for the skin around the eyes properly? To slow down the aging process?

Yes. First, never handle these areas spirituous lotions and tonics. Second, remove eye makeup with only by means of special soft, not hot water and soap. And, thirdly, causing the skin around the eye cream or gel, using a minimum number of resources: the thinner the layer, the better the effect.

Natalia Vorontsov, beauticians :
  "The main enemies   skin around the eyes - The sun and the computer. Unfortunately, up to 90% of wrinkles in this area are due to long hours of intense looking at the monitor, because the strain is those wrinkles that are responsible for the fixation of sight. So try as often as possible to be distracted from the monitor. "

Yulia Polonskaya

Beauty & Grooming

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