How to remove forehead wrinkles [facial, deep]: advises La Roche-Posay dermatologist

Causes of forehead wrinkles

The first noticeable wrinkles on the forehead can occur at an early age of 20 years. What forehead wrinkles look like: these are horizontal and vertical creases that form in places of increased muscle activity.

The appearance of wrinkles is only 20% due to genetic factors – the structure of the skull and the type of tissue aging, the remaining 80% are the consequences of the negative influence of external environmental factors that can be minimized.

Alexander Prokofiev: Dermatovenereologist La Roche-Posay

Let’s take a closer look at the causes of wrinkles on the forehead:

• Active facial expressions (the habit of frowning and raising eyebrows in surprise) plays an important role in the formation of horizontal wrinkles, longitudinal wrinkles and oblique symmetrical wrinkles on the forehead: over time, muscles and tissues remember the position of the folds, the first mimic creases appear, and then static age-related changes.
• Insufficient care is another reason for early aging of the skin on the forehead. Due to insufficient hydration, antioxidant support and protection from the negative effects of ultraviolet radiation, the skin becomes dehydrated, its protective functions are impaired and visible age-related changes appear.
• With age, due to a decrease in the synthesis of natural collagen and hyaluronic acid, the skin loses its elasticity, firmness and is not able to smooth itself even with intense hydration of the epidermis.
• Bad habits, lack of physical activity (sedentary lifestyle), stress and lack of sleep, lack of oxygen, insufficiently abundant drinking regimen, unbalanced diet – all this affects our appearance: the skin loses its tone, becomes dull, dehydrated, soft tissues sag, visible signs of aging.
• The habit of sleeping on the stomach (face on the pillow) is also the cause of tissue deformation and the appearance of early wrinkles on the forehead: in this position, the blood supply to the skin and its full night recovery are disturbed.

How to get rid of forehead wrinkles at home?

The process of age-related skin changes in the forehead cannot be completely stopped, but it is possible to slow them down by following the recommendations for care. Mature skin (45+ years), unlike aging skin (30 years), does not respond so readily to home care and pronounced furrows are not completely smoothed out. In this case, it makes sense to additionally resort to salon and cosmetic procedures.

Alexander Prokofiev: Dermatovenereologist La Roche-Posay

Consider cosmetic products that help fill forehead wrinkles:

• Concentrated anti-wrinkle facial serum for sensitive skin Hyalu B5 Increases firmness and elasticity of the skin, fights wrinkles, gives radiance, softness, fullness. The formula based on two types of hyaluronic acid, panthenol and madecassoside, which has the ability to stimulate collagen synthesis, effectively smoothes wrinkles and dehydration creases, preventing skin dryness.
Increases skin tone and elasticity, gives the skin a healthy and fresh look.

HYALU B5 SERUM — Where can one buy:

At the moment, La Roche-Posay products are not available for purchase in the official online store. You can purchase our products in other channels you know – in pharmacies, other authorized partners and online marketplaces
• HYALU B5 Anti-Wrinkle Ampoule Concentrate

Visibly improves elasticity, contains Hyaluronic acid in a record concentration.

Hyalu b5 Concentrate in ampoules — Where can one buy:

At the moment, La Roche-Posay products are not available for purchase in the official online store. You can purchase our products in other channels you know – in pharmacies, other authorized partners and online marketplaces

• Wrinkle-filling anti-aging treatment for Redermic C Provides intensive correction of the signs of aging: smoothes wrinkles, restores elasticity and tone to the epidermis, the complexion is evened out, the skin is more radiant. Formula with pure vitamin C at a concentration of 10%. Suitable for sensitive skin.
Increases skin elasticity, gives the skin radiance.

Vitamin c cream-filler wrinkle filling — Where can one buy:

At the moment, La Roche-Posay products are not available for purchase in the official online store. You can purchase our products in other channels you know – in pharmacies, other authorized partners and online marketplaces

• Redermic R Concentrated Anti-Aging Care Retinol at the heart of the formula intensively fights the main signs of photoaging: pigmentation, wrinkles, uneven complexion. Khepesa in the composition of the product promotes the renewal of skin layers and its restoration.
Against wrinkles, bags and dark circles under the eyes.

Redermic retinol eye contour — Where can one buy:

At the moment, La Roche-Posay products are not available for purchase in the official online store. You can purchase our products in other channels you know – in pharmacies, other authorized partners and online marketplaces

How will gymnastics and massage help reduce wrinkles on the forehead?

Massage is another effective way to combat wrinkles on the forehead. Rejuvenating self-massage is not only pleasant, but also a useful procedure that will help smooth wrinkles on the forehead without Botox, as well as disperse the lymph and give the face a fresh look and healthy glow.

How to properly massage your face:

1. Pre-prepare the skin: thoroughly cleanse the face of cosmetics and other impurities, apply any base cream for better glide. Massage will help the active component of your care product to penetrate into the deeper layers of the epidermis.
2. Warm up your palms by rubbing your palms together. Then lightly rub your face from bottom to top.
3. Gently move along the massage lines in a circular motion from the center to the crown. Avoid pulling and pressing movements.
4. Perform frequent point tapping on the entire surface of the face, in the area under the chin and behind the ears.
5. Repeat each movement at least 5 times. The optimal massage time is 15-20 minutes.

The next effective way to deal with wrinkles on the forehead is gymnastics or face-building. With the help of anti-aging exercises on a regular basis (at least 3 times a week), you can achieve a noticeable lifting effect and smooth out even deep wrinkles. Gymnastics is aimed at strengthening facial muscles, normalizes blood microcirculation, provides oxygen supply to cells, improves complexion and improves skin quality.

Anti-aging gymnastics for wrinkles on the forehead consists of several blocks:

• Warm-up – be sure to prepare your muscles for exercise by pre-warming them up with a 5-minute warm-up.
• Exercises for wrinkles on the forehead and from the interbrow furrows smooth out mimic creases, relax and strengthen muscles, preventing the formation of new wrinkles.

Smoothing forehead wrinkles with facial taping

Taping or Kinesio Taping is a popular method of smoothing out wrinkles by applying special sticky elastic strips – teips – to the skin along the lines of the muscles. Tapes effectively relax overstressed muscles without injections, as well as support them and prevent gravitational tissue ptosis.

Folk remedies for forehead wrinkles

An additional way to reduce wrinkles in the forehead area at home are folk remedies that can be easily found on supermarket shelves, on the shelves of kitchen cabinets or a refrigerator.

What ingredients can be used to make an effective homemade forehead wrinkle mask:

• fruit, berry and vegetable masks (grapefruit, cucumber, strawberry, kiwi, apple, etc.);
• masks from grains and seeds (oatmeal, flaxseed);
• clay masks diluted with water or facial tonic;
• mask based on aloe juice;
• masks based on antioxidants (vitamin A, E, C + green tea);
• masks based on honey, avocado and egg yolk;
• gelatin masks;
• masks based on organic oils (wheat germ oil, argan oil, peach seed oil, macadamia oil, etc.)

Masks are applied to pre-cleansed and toned facial skin for 15-30 minutes, 2-3 times a week. Alternating the composition every 2-3 weeks will help to exclude skin addiction to the active composition of the mask.

Masks made from natural ingredients should be used with caution on sensitive skin prone to allergies and do not replace full corrective care with professional anti-age care with rich active formulas.

Where anti-aging home care is powerless, all kinds of cosmetic procedures come to the rescue: peelings, deep-acting masks, hardware therapy of various directions, beauty injections and even plastic surgery. Let us consider in more detail each of the options on how to get rid of wrinkles on the forehead in the salon.

Hardware cosmetic procedures against wrinkles on the forehead:

• Peelings (chemical, laser, ultrasonic, etc.) allow you to carefully remove the stratum corneum of the epidermis and instantly transform, soften, smooth, renew and cleanse the skin.
• Injection-free mesotherapy – an alternative way to deal with loss of tone and elasticity, fine wrinkles, dull complexion, rosacea, hyperpigmentation and other manifestations of age-related changes. There are several types of non-injection mesotherapy: electroporation (hydromesotherapy), cryomesotherapy, laser, oxygen, iontophoresis, magnetophoresis, etc.
• Photorejuvenation – a laser procedure aimed at eliminating such age-related skin defects as wrinkles, pigmentation, rosacea, etc. During the procedure, the laser acts on hemoglobin without affecting the skin.

Hardware and traditional cosmetology are usually used in combination, so the above procedures are often supplemented with masks, bioactive cocktails or serums.

Injectable cosmetic procedures against wrinkles on the forehead:

• Mesotherapy is an injection procedure through which a bioactive meso-cocktail is introduced into the skin, leveling its relief, restoring its uniform color and healthy radiance, elasticity and filling wrinkles, creases and folds on the forehead and other areas.
• Biorevitalization is an injection of hyaluronic acid under the skin. Deep hydration and retention of moisture in the cells is the most effective way to get rid of mimic wrinkles and lines of dehydration. With age, the synthesis of hyaluronic acid decreases, the skin becomes dry, which accelerates the aging process.
• Plasmolifting – rejuvenation through subcutaneous injection of the patient’s own plasma. Plasma as an active ingredient increases skin turgor, smoothes even deep wrinkles and prevents the formation of new ones, has a pronounced lifting effect.
• Botox for the face is one of the most common procedures for instantly smoothing wrinkles. Botox is a protein that literally paralyzes the muscles, reducing their contractions. At the injection site of Botox, the skin ceases to form folds, and the existing mimic wrinkles are visibly smoothed out (Botox does not work as effectively on deep wrinkles).
• Fillers are a gel-like filler that can fight age-related changes and correct facial contours. The filler is injected subcutaneously into the problem area and fills in the deficiency of soft tissues, due to which the skin is smoothed.

Plastic surgery will be relevant if other methods of correcting age-related changes are powerless.

We will analyze how to remove deep wrinkles on the forehead and what are the surgical methods of rejuvenation:

• Plastic surgery is a radical surgical intervention aimed at aesthetic correction of the face oval. Eliminates wrinkles of any depth, age-related deformation (lifting of the skin of the face).
• Gold threads (bioniths, mesothreads) are another method of surgical correction of the face oval, which consists in the subcutaneous injection of medical threads that can stretch the lowered tissues and rejuvenate the image. In addition to a noticeable face correction, the threads contribute to the enrichment of cells with oxygen, remove free radicals, stimulate the production of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, which are responsible for skin firmness and elasticity.
• Lipofilling is a procedure for introducing a patient’s adipose tissue subcutaneously into problem areas of the face and body. Lipofilling helps to get rid of soft tissue prolapse for a long time and effectively smooth out even deep creases.

Prevention of the appearance of early wrinkles on the forehead: expert advice

• Drinking balance: consume enough clean water per day (up to 2 liters).
• Proper nutrition: watch what you eat! We are what we eat and this is true. Enrich your regular diet with fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, grains, vitamins and minerals (take multivitamin complexes and nutritional supplements).
• Give up smoking and alcohol: these two addictions are more reflected in the loss of firmness, elasticity, healthy radiance and smoothness of the skin.
• Full sleep: sleep at least 8 hours a day, it is during sleep that skin cells begin to actively regenerate and renew themselves, intensively absorb the active substances from your night care. Learn to sleep on your back or get a pillow with anatomical properties.
• Watch your facial expressions: try to control your emotions: frown less, wrinkle your forehead and squint.
• An anti-aging beauty routine should consist of a multi-step skin care routine: regular cleansing, toning, basic corrective care, antioxidant and UV protection. For the prevention of photoaging, Anthelios XL SPF 50+ light milk spray or La Roche-Posay Anthelios SPF 30 invisible spray-veil for face and body is suitable.