What Are the Benefits of Facial Flex?

The Facial-Flex® is an exercise device designed to firm and tone the muscles of the face and neck.

Significance

Your face and neck contain many muscles, which can become weaker as you age, contributing to sagging skin and wrinkles.

Benefits

Facial Concepts, the distributor of the Facial-Flex, claims that with eight weeks of use, you can get "up to a 250 percent increase in facial muscle tone and a 32 percent increase in facial skin firming."

Use

The Facial-Flex is placed between the corners of your mouth. You then flex it by pressing and releasing, for about two minutes. It uses elastic bands available in different levels of resistance, so you can increase the resistance as your muscles become stronger.

Therapeutic Uses

The Facial-Flex was originally developed to help burn patients regain control of their facial muscles. The device is also used for speech disorders involving weakness or lack of coordination.

Considerations

While the Facial-Flex may help with toning muscles, such devices are unlikely to help with other causes of sagging and wrinkles, such as loss of collagen and loosening of ligaments, says Judy Foreman on MyHealthSense.com.

References

• The Facial-Flex® Protocol
• Facial-Flex® for Speech Therapy
• Do Facial Workouts Work?