How to care for your face at home after 50 years?

Each age has its own nuances and its own rules. As for women, their main trump card is skin. Over the years, it undergoes a number of age-related changes, and after 30, 40 and 50 years already begins to require increased attention. A special blow falls on the 50-year frontier, during the menopause. What are the causes of female skin aging? How and how to properly care for her? The main answers to these and other questions will be considered below.

A woman is beautiful at any age. Especially when watching yourself. The appearance of female skin is influenced by a lot of factors. After 50 years, a characteristic age-related crisis, menopause, is also added. And this, first of all, affects the face.

In general, the menopause is accompanied by:

• thinness and dryness of the skin;
• a change in the chemical composition of subcutaneous components - a decrease in the amount of hyaluronic acid and a deterioration in the quality of natural collagen;
• decreased regenerative function;
• a change in pH;
• a decrease in blood levels of estrogen - the main female hormone.

At 55, 60 years old, many women observe the appearance of dark age spots, facial wrinkles, swelling on the face, dark circles under the eyes. To age beautifully is not only possible, but also necessary. And this is not only about expensive and complex procedures at a cosmetologist or plastic surgery.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. This truth has long been known to everyone, but still has its own grain of truth.Morning and evening set of actions aimed at maintaining the skin in good shape, even at home will give a positive result.

Some of the main points will help to preserve youth.

• Food. Modern fashion trends in the field of proper nutrition risk leading to the fact that in 10-20 years we will have forever young grandmothers with the enthusiasm and energy of young girls. Of course, a sudden transition to a new diet after 50 will not lead to an ideal result even in 1-2 months. But it is worth changing your diet if it contains salt and sugar, flour products, hot spices, meat, chocolate and chicken yolk in large quantities. Replace all this with fruits, vegetables and fermented milk products.
• Physical Education. The simplest physical exercises not only tone muscles. They help improve blood circulation and generally affect the psychoemotional state of a woman after 50.
• Water. Almost the entire planet is now concerned with the drinking of non-carbonated mineral water. This is one of the foundations of today's healthy lifestyle. And due to the peculiarities of the menopause, internal hydration becomes especially important. Experts advise starting your day with a glass of warm still water. The total volume of fluid in different sources ranges from 1.5 to 3 liters per day.

• Getting rid of bad habits. This item should be removed from your life altogether, if after 50 years you plan to look at least 40. The most affected are heavy smokers and lovers of alcoholic beverages. In second place are sunbathing and a solarium (excess ultraviolet radiation in summer affects female skin as deplorably as frost in winter). Next come coffee and tea infusions, emotional and nervous shocks, high hard pillows, lack of sleep, washing with ordinary soap.
• Comprehensive skin care. This procedure affects the condition of your epidermis from the outside. It is a complex of preparations of industrial or home production that moisturize, cleanse and nourish the skin. The right approach to choosing cosmetics will help you look younger in combination with the rest of the items on this list.

When the water balance in the body is not disturbed, then everything is given easier and faster. The same thing happens with moisturizing the skin after 50.

There are 5 basic rules that will allow you to get closer to the desired result without the use of excipients.

• Get rid of alkaline cleansers that wash away the natural grease film. It retains moisture inside the cells, and alkali leaches it.
• Refuse alcohol-based care products. They also dry out women's skin.
• Protect your face from excess sun, wind and frost.
• Make a good habit as a facial massage.
• Use high-quality moisturizing masks and creams.

Facial cleansing should be carried out 1 time in 3 weeks. This will make the pores cleaner and not harm the skin. It is optimal to use a scrub in the morning, immediately after waking up, or in the evening, before going to bed. Apply the cleanser best on steamed skin.

An important element of the daily cleansing of mature skin is washing. Women over 50 years of age are contraindicated in the use of soap, which contains an increased content of alkalis or glycerol.

The following products are most recommended for washing:

• infusions of herbs (chamomile, linden, string or thyme);
• micellar water;
• rubbing the skin with ice cubes (you can freeze just mineral still water, herbal decoctions, frozen pieces of fruit or vegetables).

It is necessary to carry out skin cleansing procedures twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. After washing, you can use an additional tool - a tonic. It supports the skin throughout the day and gives it freshness. The best time to use is morning.

At the final stage, the use of a cream or mask follows.

This moment can also be divided into several separate procedures that are mandatory:

1. use a moisturizing day or night cream;
2. apply anti-aging nourishing cream or mask;
3. care for the skin around the eyes.

Beauticians are advised to use cosmetics with a good reputation, time-tested. Relying on customer reviews online, of course, you can, not forgetting that even for the same skin type completely different creams, scrubs, masks, tonics and lotions can be suitable.

If you wish and have a few free minutes of time, you can prepare your own cleansing and nourishing products at home.

After 50 years, the most popular products for mature skin care are masks and scrubs prepared at home.

Here are some simple and effective recipes.

• Sugar butter scrub. Mix 25 ml of sunflower oil and 15 g of sugar in a blender, use as a standard exfoliating agent.
• Honey based scrub. Actually, the product of the beekeeping industry itself is a cosmetic product. It is best to use candied honey, taking into account standard recommendations.
• Apricot scrub. Mix 40 ml of apricot kernel oil with 30 g of crushed sea salt and 15 ml of vitamin E. Rub the mixture for two minutes into the skin of the face, leave for another five minutes, rinse off with warm water.
• Buckwheat flour + natural yogurt. Rinse the flour with water and bake in a pan, grind into powder. Mix 50 g of the obtained placer with 90 g of natural unsweetened yogurt. Remove the mixture for 3 hours in the refrigerator. Use according to the above scheme.

• Anti-aging fruit mask. The composition should include one fruit or berry: apricot, banana or strawberry. The fruit component must be mashed and mixed with 20 ml of homemade cream. Spread the mask over the steamed face skin with a dense and even layer. To sustain no more than 15 minutes. Rinse off the mask with a contrast shower (using alternately warm or cool water). Complete the procedure best with a cream.
• Firming gelatin-cucumber mask. Dissolve 15 g of gelatin in 50 ml of warm water. When the mass has cooled, pour 50 ml of fresh cucumber and aloe juice into it. The duration of the session is 25 minutes. Rinse off as described in the previous paragraph.
• Tonic herbal compress. Mix herbs in equal proportions: dill, mint, linden, chamomile, plantain and sage (about 10-15 g each). Pour 0.7 liters of boiling water. After 30 minutes, you can dip a tissue napkin, bandage or gauze in the infusion. Apply compress to face for 20 minutes. Rinse with comfortable warm water.

Separately, it is worth stopping at the masks used to moisturize and tighten the skin around the eyes.

They can also be prepared at home, despite the fact that this tool should be as gentle and gentle as possible.

1. Crushed banana mixed with 10 ml of vitamin E and 15 ml of olive oil.Keep the resulting mixture around the eyes for at least half an hour.
2. Mix 20 g of flour from rosehip or rose petals with egg yolk (preferably homemade) and 25 g of butter. Ready slurry is also ready for application for 30-35 minutes.

The use of any mask should be completed by applying a cream, which can also be easily done at home. For example, the simplest anti-aging cream is prepared from beeswax, solid oil, honey, a drop of glycerin, liquid natural oils, vitamins A and E. This mixture can be stored for no more than 1 month.

All sorts of massages are especially popular among women from 40 to 60 years old: classic, relaxing, therapeutic, Thai, hardware, cosmetic.

The latter is also divided into three categories.

• Classical. Toning, giving the skin elasticity, reduces sagging.
• Plastic. Designed for aging skin: reduces puffiness, improves tone, helps get rid of wrinkles and excess folds, makes facial contours clearer, and the oval of the face is more accurate.
• Therapeutic. Used in the presence of minor skin diseases.

When starting a facial massage, apply a small amount of nourishing cream to it. Of course, the skin should be cleaned. The classic home massage formula after 50 combines gentle rubbing, stroking and tapping with your fingertips.

Hands make clear movements along massage lines.

• Frontal area: from the brow up to the beginning of hair growth, from the center to the sides.
• The nose is massaged from its tip to the forehead.
• The cheeks are exposed in the direction from the nose bridge and nasolabial fold to the ears. Each side is massaged separately.
• Massage of the chin area is designed to improve the oval and contours of the face, so this procedure is performed from the center of the chin to each ear separately.

As for gymnastics, it acts exclusively with regular use. If you have naturally moist skin, then in the early stages of the menopause you will only need tightening and toning exercises.

Complexes of gymnastic procedures are concentrated:

• around eyes;
• around the lips;
• on the cheeks;
• on the chin;
• on the neck.

All women are a little afraid, a little lazy, a little forget and do not have time. The busiest business women come to the rescue of beauty salons.

In them you can get a list of a variety of services designed to care for aging skin.

1. Facial massage using various techniques and cosmetics.
2. Phototherapy. The effect on the skin of the face with special devices for lighting with a level of light is greater than from household lamps.
3. Peeling. Removal of dead cells from the surface of the skin.
4. Laser skin resurfacing. Deep peeling, which completely removes the epidermis, smoothes the contour and removes deep wrinkles. There are contraindications, so the beautician pays attention not only to age, but also to the condition of the skin, general current diseases.
5. Injection mesotherapy. It implies the introduction of special biologically active cocktails into the skin.
6. Biorevitalization is a type of mesotherapy. But as a means, hyaluronic acid or botox are added to the syringe.

Among the general wishes and advice of leading cosmetologists on how to rejuvenate your skin after 50 years, you will find the formation of a proper diet, and the ingestion of water in sufficient quantities to maintain water balance. Cosmetic procedures by specialists are in 4th place after natural ones. Remember that only an integrated approach to facial skin care after 50 years will give a result, but not earlier than a month after constant, regular exposure.

Mistakes that women often make before the climacteric period, very badly affect the condition of the skin after 50. But do not lose heart. Observe the regimen of the day, consult with a personal doctor and a cosmetologist, love yourself and take care of yourself. Then the age in the passport will remain only numbers, but not a reflection on your well-groomed face.

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