As a natural skin care advocate, I would  love to tell you that facial exercises and facial toning works.

Advertisements claim it’s like getting a non-surgical face lift. It’s bull. Facial tightening exercises don’t work. The science just doesn’t support it. There is a reason botox injections prevent the muscles in your face from moving. The more those muscles move, as in forehead, upper lip, between the brow, the more your wrinkles are defined.

Come on, we all learned this when our first laugh lines came out. I laugh…a lot. I also sip lots of wine and those upper lip wrinkles are not going away with facial exercises! Let’s get this straight. Loss of muscle tone is not the major cause of sagging and wrinkled skin.

So what are the major causes of wrinkles and a sagging face?

Collagen loss, genetic aging of the fat layer, muscle sagging due to facial bone loss underneath the skin, and repetitive facial movement. I repeat, repetitive facial movement. It makes sense that moving the facial skin will create more wrinkling and increase the loss of elasticity in the skin. Facial exercises do not increase collagen, nor do they replace the skin’s fat layer, a factor of genetic aging.

Learn about a secret weapon that turns back the aging of your skin cells without making funny faces in the mirror that will only make you laugh more. More laughing=more laugh lines. LOL.

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