Forehead Wrinkles: How to Get Rid of Them

They make us look grim – but we’re in a great mood. Forehead wrinkles, also called frown lines, dig deeper and deeper into our foreheads over the years. What to do? How to get rid of forehead wrinkles?

Forehead wrinkles: They determine the expression of our face

Some we tolerate, others are usually less welcome: Forehead wrinkles get deeper over time, they appear horizontally (the tolerated ones), but also vertically (the less welcome ones), as so-called frown lines. The latter are particularly annoying, because they give the face an angry and critical expression – and unfortunately they become permanent over the years. What can we do if the frown lines bother us?

The most important thing is that the skin is healthy and well moisturized. As a rule of thumb for skin care against wrinkles, simple rules apply:

• Peel once a week (please without microplasty!),
• always remove make-up,
• from spring on only leave the house with sun protection,
• or use a day cream with sun protection factor,
• a good night and eye cream,
• for dry skin, sheet masks are perfect for giving it an extra portion of moisture.
• And of course: no nicotine, little alcohol, little sugar.

What can an anti-aging care?

We like to look at ourselves critically in the mirror and try to remove what is bothering us first. No wonder, because we know that we can do a lot for our appearance. The much-vaunted “good genes” only have a 25 percent influence on our appearance, 75 percent depend on lifestyle and environmental factors: enough sleep, healthy food, less stress, sun protection – and good care. In our article, we explain which active ingredients can really do something: Which anti-aging care really helps?

Where is the miracle active ingredient against wrinkles?

Many active ingredients from the cosmetics industry promise to reduce our wrinkles. Retinol or peptides, Q 10, vitamin C – research has been working for years on the discovery OF THE anti-aging substance. For creams with anti-aging promises, the actual effectiveness is often not even provable. This has to do with whether the individual active ingredients are even present in sufficient concentration, whether they are released from the cream and how deeply they penetrate the skin. Promises to reduce wrinkle depth by 70% in four weeks are rather questionable. And finally, we continue to work daily on the formation of our expression lines.

Anti-Aging from the plant

But also from nature, help is needed: Care with pomegranate seed oil, for example. It contains a particularly high proportion of the rare punicic acid, which has a strong antioxidant effect. It protects the skin against free radicals, which result from external influences such as UV-RADIATION, exhaust gases or nicotine and alcohol consumption and let the cells age faster. Or the power of the brown alga “Fucus serratus”, whose efficient mix of active ingredients tightens and reduces wrinkles, moisturizes, regenerates the skin and intercepts free radicals. Whether stem cells from apples, the fruit acid from papayas or acacia gum – the power from nature is gathered in many cosmetic products.

What is Bio-Botox?

Cosmetics manufacturers have long been working on creams whose special ingredients achieve a visible lifting effect, at least in the short term. At the moment, the so-called “lifting effect” is much discussed: bio-botox. This preparation contains a plant extract which is supposed to act like a local anesthetic: It reduces muscle contraction and relaxes the facial features – and acts like a small local anaesthetic. Small wrinkles, especially between the eyebrows, are said to dissolve temporarily. However, the effect lasts only for a short time: it disappears again after cleansing the face at the latest.

Botox and hyaluronic acid: Wrinkle treatments by injections are becoming more

Our facial expressions are to blame for the wrinkles. Here a frown, there an astonished look – but that’s also the nice thing: Our face is alive, tells of our experiences and sends messages. Hollywood’s Botox faces, which show no movement and irritate us with their rigid, stuck optics, have been criticized a lot. Botox is no longer an issue that only takes place in distant California, it has long since reached us:

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), in 2016 there were 427,000 facelifts worldwide and five million Botox treatments.

Here are a few facts about Botox:

• Botox comes from a microbe, it is the secretions of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
• Dermatologists still regard Botox as a proven means of smoothing out wrinkles. This is because the product, which is injected under the skin, has a long-term muscle-relaxing and firming effect.
• The first treatment with botulinum toxin lasts for about 4 months, with several treatments in series the durability in the body is extended to about 5-6 months.
• Botox has been used for almost 40 years, for example to treat strabismus – in doses ten times higher than in aesthetics.
• The neurotoxin becomes dangerous if the substance is not injected into the muscle but inadvertently into a vein or artery. Botulinum toxin then spreads throughout the body and can lead to respiratory paralysis.

Important: Botox treatments should only be performed by plastic surgeons.

The alternative: Hyaluronic acid

• We know hyaluronic acid thanks to its moisturizing and moisture-binding properties – with it, the skin appears clear, plump and radiant.
• Hyaluron is a substance that the body produces itself, and the self-dissolving sutures for a suture lift have been used in surgery for decades.
• The injection treatment is based on the filling effect of short- and long-chain hyaluronan molecules, which are effectively cross-linked.
• This allows the material to be evenly distributed throughout the fabric, producing quite natural results that last up to 18 months depending on the product. Hyaluronic acid injections show their full effect after about 3 months.

Important: Only if a plastic surgeon or a dermatologist specialized in aesthetic facial treatments carries out the treatment are they also harmless.

Peelings: Simply peel away wrinkles?

Chemical peels have recently been used more and more to fight wrinkles. Because they literally wear off the upper layers of the skin. Especially phenolic peels that cause deep peeling of the skin.

Chemical peelings, however, set a very aggressive skin renewal process in motion – and must therefore be intensively clarified in advance with a dermatologist.

Wrinkles, just relax!

Facial massages, facial expression yoga – our face is cramped from stress and tension. Regular facial massages or relaxation exercises can help to relax our facial expressions. Pay attention to how you tense your jaw and loosen your mouth and the muscles around your eyebrows several times a day.

Of course, we should also relax inwardly, because: a few wrinkles on the forehead show that we live, love and feel.