How to take care of your skin after 40

One of the most important conditions for maintaining youth and beauty for as long as possible is careful facial skin care. This process, of course, includes the fight against expression wrinkles. They can appear near the eyes, around the lips, on the forehead - depending on your luck. (Or rather, unlucky?)

Fortunately, there are many ways to get rid of expression lines. And “ProfAesthetics” knows all these methods and knows how to apply them perfectly!

Why do wrinkles appear under the eyes?

The first signs of aging appear around the eyes. Expression wrinkles are visible in the mirror as early as 25 years old. As you age, wrinkle patterns become clearer and your eyelids turn into small pouches. This is a consequence of a decrease in the subcutaneous fat layer, the skin becomes thinner, and vascular tissue shrinks. Depending on the type of skin: oily or dry, the manifestation of wrinkles occurs differently, but by the age of 40 they are immediately noticeable.

Adolescence is approaching, the hormonal system gradually begins to change, which can affect excessive dryness of the skin around the eyes, and there is a need for additional procedures and stimulation of collagen production.

Insufficient hydration is the main reason for rapid skin aging!

What else can affect wrinkles around the eyes:

Insufficient daily intake of water.
Incorrect daily care, use of expired products.
Sudden weight loss, which affects skin tone and elasticity.
Stress, which actively affects the destruction of collagen and elastin. Blood circulation worsens, frequent mood swings, and tearfulness can cause wrinkles to appear.
Heavy tanners may be damaged by ultraviolet rays. The sun greatly ages the skin if you do not use cream with SPF protection.
Features of the profession - people who work at a computer or various devices often squint their eyes.
Chronic diseases. Problems with the functioning of almost all organs negatively affect the condition of the skin.
Tobacco smoking and alcohol abuse.

There can be many reasons, women should remember to take care of themselves early and correctly. Then the first manifestations of skin aging will be less noticeable.

Expected effect of masks

Natural products used in home applications have a powerful rejuvenating effect. After several uses, you can notice a smoothing of age and facial wrinkles and an increase in the tone of the dermis. The skin of the face becomes more elastic, and the complexion becomes fresh and healthy. Bags under the eyes become less noticeable, and age spots gradually disappear.

Expected results from using homemade face masks for wrinkles.

The role of proper nutrition in skin care

Proper nutrition is the basis for the whole body as a whole. After all, vitamins and minerals, healthy acids and fats enter the blood through the intestines.

At the age of 40, you need to change your usual diet and pay attention to the following foods:

Vegetable oils such as flaxseed, hemp, olive - they are rich in vitamins and do not accumulate excess fat.
It is beneficial to eat fatty fish - it is a source of large amounts of vitamin D and group B, Omega-3 fatty acids and selenium.
From the age of 35, the female body produces less of the phytoestrogen hormone, which is responsible for beauty and youth. Flax seeds or oil, legumes, and tomatoes will help compensate for its deficiency.
Be sure to increase the amount of vegetables and fruits.
An important product for women's youth is soy.
It is beneficial for women to consume fermented milk products, 1% fat cottage cheese, and yogurt.
It is better to reduce your coffee intake, as well as very strong tea.
You should completely avoid fast foods and sweet carbonated water.

You shouldn’t start sudden active diets after 40 years, this will affect the condition of the skin. The skin begins to sag and if you do not introduce physical exercise into your daily routine, there will be no positive effect.

It is important not to abuse alcohol and tobacco products, get good sleep and maintain hormonal balance. Therefore, proper nutrition when caring for your skin will help not only maintain beauty, but also overall health.

The oval of the face swam: what to do

There are many procedures for lifting the contours of the face, but choosing them is a difficult question, because you need to take into account many nuances. Firstly, the severity of changes and causes of ptosis of the lower third of the face. Secondly, the patient’s age and his expectations. Cosmetic home procedures and skincare cosmetics are tools that cope with unexpressed changes in young patients.

How to tighten your face shape with massage

Plastic massage is a non-apparatus technique aimed at tightening the oval of the face, and it is more of a supportive procedure. With the help of massage, it is possible to influence deep tissues, and this allows you to maintain the contour of the face and even improve it, but at a young age and with unexpressed changes.

For a pronounced result, a course of procedures is required - 10-15 sessions. This is followed by a period of rest for several months.

Procedures at home

Facial gymnastics is an effective method of curbing age-related changes. But if the oval has changed significantly, it is hardly possible to achieve pronounced results; in this case, radical techniques are necessary.

When performing gymnastics, the main thing is to follow the rules:

exercises should be suitable for the type of aging and its characteristics;
perform them correctly;
repeat them constantly.

If you stop exercising, the effect of the procedures will disappear after 2-4 weeks.

Hardware methods for correcting facial contours at home are used only after consultation with a specialist. Such methods have indications, contraindications and features of use.

Prevention of early skin aging

You should start taking care of the beauty of your skin at the age of 20. Choose the right quality cream, remove makeup from your eyes, and wash your face not with soap, but with special products suitable for your skin type. When they are young, they like to spend a lot of time in the sun, and this habit is difficult to give up. A passion for tanning should be covered with SPF protection, this will protect the skin from injury and dryness.

Visiting a professional cosmetologist at any age is one of the stages of maintaining youth and beauty!

The further you go, the more - from 40 years old, to prevent premature fading, it is important to use:

additional products containing vitamins A, E, C, not only inside, but also on top of the skin; injections with these vitamins around the eyes are useful;
cosmetics containing collagen, hyaluronic acid, peptides (they will help restore water balance and add velvety);
Peeling with lactic acid and deep chemical cleansing are required, which will help speed up skin regeneration and slightly tighten the face;
Exercising will help tighten and give elasticity to the skin.

Be sure not to stop drinking water; each body has its own norm - from 1.5 to 2 liters per day.

Do not use low-quality decorative cosmetics; choose a moisturizing foundation (BB).

From the age of 30-35, you should begin to carry out moisturizing procedures for the skin, soak your eyelids with cream and use toner, and do not rub it into the skin, but apply it with point-to-point, tapping movements. It is useful to sign up for a facial massage. This will refresh and improve blood circulation.

Recipes from improvised means

There are many folk remedies that will help reduce or smooth out fine wrinkles.

The most effective mask recipes:

Means	Recipe
With gelatin	Heat the milk. Mix 50 ml of this liquid with 25 g of gelatin. Wait until the mass swells - this is about half an hour. Supplement the composition with egg yolk, 5 ml of any base oil and 10 drops of vitamins A and E (purchase oil solutions at the pharmacy)
With starch (instead of Botox)	Dilute 4 pinches of the product in water so that the slurry has the consistency of sour cream. Add 10 drops of tocopherol (purchase it at the pharmacy)
With honey	Take 10 ml of honey and a third of a teaspoon of any flour. Mix both products
Curd and cream	Grind the cottage cheese into a homogeneous mass. Mix 2 tbsp. l. product with 10 ml cream
With bread and milk	Pour heated milk over a piece of white bread. Wait 3 minutes and mash with a fork until smooth.
With glycerin	Mix the yolk with 5 ml of glycerin
Made from protein and wheat flour	Beat the egg whites until foamy and mix with the same amount of flour
With sour cream	Grind half the pulp of a ripe banana into a puree. Add a quarter cup of sour cream and 10 drops of vitamin E and A
With yeast	Take 4 pinches of yeast and pour 110 ml of slightly warmed water. First dissolve 5 ml of honey in it. After the start of fermentation, add 10 ml of aloe juice and olive oil, 10 drops of retinol and tocopherol, as well as half a glass of wheat bran (the result is a dough that is used as a mask)
With honey and salt	Mix equal amounts of both components. Choose fine salt
With cottage cheese	Grind the product. Add beaten egg white or honey. Take all components in equal parts
With butter and cream	Take both components in equal volumes. Only base vegetable oil is suitable: olive, sunflower, flaxseed, sesame
With tea and oatmeal	3 tbsp. l. pour oatmeal with a small amount of hot black or green tea. Wait until the mass swells
With egg	Separately, you can use both the white and the yolk as a mask. It is best to choose a chicken egg. But these components can be added to other masks if desired.
With olive oil	Mix equal amounts of honey and oil. Another option is a composition of equal parts lemon juice and oil.

Daily skin care

Daily care is required at any age, and is the same for everyone, but the composition of the products used is already different.

Basic order of facial hygiene (sequence is required):

Cleansing (makeup removal) – foam or micellar water.
Tonic - moisturizing.
Serum – additional vitamins and extracts.
Cream for the eye area.
Day/night cream.

If you plan to do light peeling at home, this procedure should be carried out after applying tonic. Follow the time instructions, longer is not always better. After the peeling procedure, be sure to use sunscreen to prevent unnecessary pigmentation. And most importantly, do not steam your face before peeling!

How to care for facial skin after 40 will help you find out the advice of professionals on choosing a cosmetic product. To begin with, we should dwell in more detail on the composition of cosmetics for those aged 40+.

Recommended composition:

Plant stem cells will have an antioxidant effect and increase collagen synthesis.
Peptides – these include half of all hormones and most enzymes, so an additional source of such substances is required.
Matrixyl peptides will tighten and tighten sagging skin around the eyes.
Argireline peptides will block the formation of wrinkles.
Retinoids are substances derived from natural vitamin A. They provide control of cell growth and differentiation of mature tissues, and help suppress the secretion of the sebaceous glands. Actively used for acne and photoaging of the skin.
Hyaluronic acid helps retain moisture and protect intercellular substances from dehydration, slowing down the aging process.
Allantoin is snail mucus or an extract from the comfrey plant. Affects the renewal of the epidermis, neutralizes harmful substances.
Shea butter has a combination of complex compounds that eliminates inflammation, removes age spots, toxins and helps fight dry skin.

Recommendations from cosmetologists for daily skin care will help keep a woman fresh and youthful for a longer time. You just need to carefully study the composition and select the necessary product.

Based on products

Various vegetables, fruits and berries are used to prepare anti-wrinkle masks.

With vegetables

The most effective recipes:

Option	Recipe
From a bow	Grind the onion using a grater or meat grinder. Mix 7 g of the resulting slurry with the yolk and 8 drops of any base oil
From zucchini	Grind the vegetable into a pulp and squeeze the juice out of it through cheesecloth. Mix 20 ml of liquid with the yolk of a chicken egg
From tomato	Grind 1 tomato to make a paste. Remove the skin first. Mix tomato mass with 2 tbsp. l. milk
From cucumber	Grind the vegetable on a fine grater or in a blender. Mix 1 tbsp. l. the resulting slurry with the same amount of sour cream
With potatoes and carrots	Grind carrots and potatoes (raw) in a blender. Mix 1 tsp.
With pumpkin and aloe	Grind the pulp of pumpkin and aloe leaf separately. Mix in equal parts
With carrots and curdled milk	Squeeze carrot juice and mix with the same amount of yogurt

With fruits

The following mask options are popular:

Option	Recipe
Lemon milk	Squeeze juice from lemon. Mix 1 tsp. the resulting liquid with the same amount of milk
From pear	Grind the fruit pulp into puree. Mix 1 tsp. the resulting gruel and almond oil
Apple	Grind the fruit and mix with beaten egg white. You can also use boiled apple. It needs to be boiled in milk. Then crush and use the pulp
With banana and cinnamon	Mash half a banana and add a third of a teaspoon of cinnamon powder
With banana and oatmeal	Pour water into oatmeal to form a mass with a consistency similar to sour cream. Grind the banana into puree. Mix equal amounts of oatmeal and banana puree.
With grapefruit and milk	Squeeze the juice of the fruit. You will need 1 teaspoon of product for the same amount of milk
With kiwi and cottage cheese	Crush the fruit into puree. Grind the cottage cheese too. Take 1 tsp. both components
With lemon and beans	Boil the beans and grind into puree. Take 1 tbsp. l. gruel and 5 ml lemon juice

With berries

You can use the following recipes at home:

Option	Recipe
With honey and berries (strawberries, wild strawberries, currants, raspberries, grapes)	Crush until smooth. Mix the gruel with the same amount of heated honey
With grapes and milk	Crush 2-3 grapes into a puree, removing the skins and seeds. Add 1 tsp. full fat milk

Fighting deep wrinkles

Deep wrinkles are a clear sign of old age. They occur when the synthesis of collagen and elastin is reduced and the activity of connective tissue cells decreases. Dermatologists will tell you how to care for your skin after 40 years and smooth out wrinkles.

The fact is that for deep wrinkles it is no longer enough to simply use cream, but I would like to preserve the youth of my face. In this case, injection and hardware therapy methods are used:

Botulinum therapy (Botox) is a neurotoxin; it blocks the transmission of nerve impulses to the muscle, and it stops contracting, and the wrinkle is smoothed out.
Contour plastic surgery involves the use of gel preparations and hyaluronic acid. They are injected into the deep layers of the skin, thereby adding volume and smoothing out wrinkles.
Plasma therapy is a shallow injection of the patient’s own blood plasma under the patient’s skin, this eliminates signs of skin aging and provides a lifting effect.

Hardware methods are an ideal solution for those who are afraid of the consequences of injections or have contraindications; they are no less effective and safe. Often used by cosmetologists are thermal lifting and laser resurfacing.

Why is regular skin care important?

Every woman wants to look attractive, regardless of age. After 40 years, this desire becomes a problem of the first plan.

Firstly, this is working age. To keep your job or change it, you need to look good. The modern world requires this. Secondly, well-groomed skin, which a woman sees every day in the mirror, is the key to a good mood and self-confidence. An attractive appearance is noticed by the opposite sex. Therefore, it is important to take care of your skin regularly. All procedures bring short-term effects and require constant support.

For example:

mesotherapy is carried out annually;
The hardware procedure can be repeated with a frequency of 6 months to 1.5 years.
peelings and skin cleansing are carried out every autumn-winter season.

Unfortunately, there is no universal pill or injection, one for life. This is working on your appearance, which should become an integral part of life.

The skin is the largest organ in area; it is a protective barrier of internal tissues from the outside world. The environment acts aggressively on it, weather changes, dust, sun, bacteria, external damage and many other factors that harm the cover. Over 40 years of life, this organ begins to wear out and requires more careful treatment. Therefore, in order to maintain youth and beauty for a long time, you need to take care of yourself from a young age.