Facial care after 40

Forty years is a great age. The woman is still quite beautiful and energetic, but already quite experienced and knows her worth. She is full of desires and is ready to achieve them, fortunately she has personal, family, professional experience that helps her set goals and achieve them. One thing worries her: the signs of fatigue and aging skin that have appeared on her face.

Facial skin care after 40 years

What kind of facial problems await a woman of post-Balzac age? There are several:

• Loss of tone, uneven tone;
• dryness, unclear contour, decrease in lip volume;
• expression wrinkles around the eyes;
• enlarged pores;
• bags under the eyes;
• drooping cheeks;
• flabby neck.

Fortunately, these symptoms do not appear all at once: usually three or four deficiencies are relevant at the same time. With proper facial care after 40 years, you can prevent all signs of aging.

To prevent wrinkles, cosmetologists offer effective skin care regimens for people over 40. One of them allows you to do it at home. Four products are used for daily care:

• Antioxidant serum – in the morning;
• moisturizer with a filter of 50 in summer and 30 in other months;
• retinol cream – at night;
• eye cream – twice a day.

For lips, use a protective balm with a filter of 20 or more, and draw the outline with a cosmetic pencil. A more effective remedy is hyaluronic injections that add volume.

Other cosmetologists offer 40-year-old women four blocks of external skin care: nutrition, moisturizing, lifting and care for the area around the eyes.

Nutrition should not be limited to creams: nourishing masks are also needed, including homemade ones.

Additional hydration is achieved by increasing water consumption and using appropriate masks.

Skin lifting and tightening consists of home procedures (massage, ice rubbing, masks) and salon procedures (mesotherapy, ultrasound, vacuum massage, photorejuvenation). The best effect is achieved by combining these methods.

Facial gymnastics – facelifting – is useful for preventing expression wrinkles. It is important to constantly monitor facial expressions, especially when straining your eyes, when in the sun or in strong light. Moisturizing creams with caffeine help minimize swelling. Dark circles are lightened by products containing vitamin K, as well as sound sleep.

Enlarged pores on the cheeks and chin are prevented by a cream with retinoids, which cleanses dirt and dead cells. A salon solution to this problem is regular peeling. Microdermabrasion, a procedure that removes the upper layer of the epidermis, gives a quick result.

To round out sunken cheeks and smooth out nasolabial folds, salons perform lipolifting and special injections (hyaluronic acid, restylane).

Neck care is provided by neck and décolleté creams with a lifting effect. In the salon, ultrasound and other more radical procedures are used for this purpose.

Cosmetics

Cosmetics for facial care after 40 years should replenish the components that begin to be lacking with age. The skin of a forty-year-old woman needs:

• cleansing;
• moisturizing;
• nutrition;
• UV protection;
• rejuvenation.

Facial cleansing is not done with soap and water, but with lotions, tonics, foams, selected according to skin type. Periodically, it is useful to do deep cleansing with scrubs or peels. Cosmetic brands have enough products for these purposes in their arsenal.

Facial care after 40 years requires additional moisturizing. Creams with oils, vitamins, plant extracts and other natural ingredients will benefit all types of aging skin. Cosmetologists advise giving preference to products from one line: this approach prevents allergies from incompatibility of various ingredients. They also recommend after 40, and even earlier, to use high-quality pharmacy cosmetics.

The face, neck, and décolleté are nourished with nourishing creams and natural homemade masks. Simple and inexpensive masks are honey and aloe juice.

1. A mixture of flour and honey in equal parts is applied to the face for 20 minutes. Washed off alternately - with hot and then cold water. The mask nourishes the skin, eliminates wrinkles around the eyes.
2. Aloe leaf juice, which has been in the refrigerator for 12 days, is applied to the skin in the morning and evening, sticking the mask with your fingertips. The face should first be wiped with tea, and after aloe, a nourishing cream should be applied.

Effective facial rejuvenation occurs as a result of a course of professional massage. Several courses increase skin tone and reduce the number of wrinkles.

The aging process is slowed down by preparations of ginseng, golden root, magnolia vine, eleutherococcus, herbal compresses of chamomile, violet, calendula. The use of antioxidants and fatty acids is beneficial for the skin.

To support the skin at the age of forty, complex care is needed, stimulation from the outside and from the inside. After all, it is with food that the body receives most of the "building materials", vitamins and minerals, on which the appearance and condition of the skin depends. An unbalanced diet, a lack of healthy fats, vitamins and microelements have a negative effect on the face. According to the doctor's prescription, you can take food supplements and vitamin complexes that improve the condition of the skin, hair and the body as a whole.

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Facial care after 40 in summer

In the fifth decade, visible changes begin in the skin of the face: it ages, becomes drier and flabby. These unpleasant processes occur due to deterioration of nutrition, decreased metabolism, thinning of the fat layer. Muscle elasticity and activity of the sebaceous glands decrease.

Regular skin care consists of cleansing, nourishing, moisturizing, stimulating the production of useful substances, and facial care after 40 in the summer also includes increased protection from ultraviolet radiation.

Rules for facial care after 40 years:

• Daily: morning and evening, perform self-massage with olive oil or nourishing cream.
• Weekly: apply contrasting masks with medicinal herbs - calendula, chamomile, wild pansy, as well as masks according to skin type.
• Monthly: do protein or paraffin masks, and if possible, salon procedures (on the advice of a cosmetologist).

In summer, the skin is exposed to the aggressive effects of heat, dry air, and ultraviolet radiation. To prevent unwanted consequences of such factors, it is better to wash with chamomile infusion rather than water, apply creams in a very thin layer so as not to clog pores and not provoke sweating. It is advisable to use cream on a water or oxygen base.

Try to spend less time in the sun, and if necessary, shade and protect your face with special creams. Do not wash your face warmed by the heat with cold water, but wipe it with a sponge soaked in sour cream or yogurt, then lubricate it with a moisturizer.

Some tips for tanning. To ensure that your tan is even and without burns, it is useful to wash your face with carrot juice and tea alternately. Sunbathe only in profile, exposing one cheek and then the other to the sun's rays, smeared with cream with UV protection. After tanning, the cream should be washed off immediately.

When swimming in the sea, you should protect your face from salt. To do this, before water procedures, it is enough to lubricate the skin with olive oil, and after drying - with sunscreen. Protect the delicate skin around the eyes with dark glasses, and in extreme heat, moisturize with mineral water.

There are procedures that are prohibited in the summer. These are cleaning, peeling and bleaching. Cleaning opens the pores, which easily get dust, sweat, dirt, causing inflammation, and other procedures remove the epidermis, leaving the skin defenseless against ultraviolet radiation. If you can’t do without a bleaching mask, then you should remember that you can’t sunbathe for two days after it.

In the summer, operations to remove papillomas, moles, vascular and other neoplasms are also undesirable: under the influence of the sun, pigment marks may form in their place, which will also have to be removed later.

Facial care after 40 in winter

When it gets cold outside and the days become shorter, the skin of the face, unprotected by clothing, is the first to suffer. It is warm indoors, but heating also dries out the skin. Dry skin suffers especially, since less sebum is secreted in winter, and this leads to peeling and the formation of vascular patterns. Daily facial care after 40 in winter must take into account these seasonal features.

Even those who limit themselves to moisturizing creams should know that they should be applied to the face no later than an hour before going outside. It is even better to apply it only at night or before going outside, and apply a nourishing product during the day. Products made with thermal water are recommended for winter.

• For cleansing, cosmetologists advise avoiding abrasive scrubs and using a soft gommage, that is, a creamy peeling. Gommage does not injure the skin and does not need to be washed off.

Facial care after 40 years involves applying masks, but only nourishing ones: for dry and sensitive skin - 3-4 times, for oily and combination skin - once a week. Washing your face with water and soap is prohibited, as it leads to dryness and tightness of the skin.

Beauty salons also offer professional facial care programs in winter. Masks, cleansing, peelings are performed taking into account the seasonal needs of the skin. SPA procedures and massages help to more easily endure unfavorable conditions (temperature changes, cold, insufficient humidity).

However, it is during this period that it is best to carry out resurfacing, rejuvenation and some other procedures that are undesirable in the summer, as well as serious cosmetic surgeries, including changing the shape of the nose, lips, and ears.

Fans of extreme recreation or winter sports should stock up on emergency skin protection products: rich creams and special ointments to protect against severe frost and wind.

The proverb says that a person values two things only when they are gone: youth and health. The natural beauty of the young is the best thing there is, but unfortunately, it is not eternal. And the face of a 40-year-old woman requires different products than young skin. With regular and comprehensive facial care after 40, you can rejuvenate your skin, and not only feel, but also look younger than your age.