How to Relax Facial Muscles Naturally

Frownies face patches

There are easy things you can do at home to relax facial muscles without taking drastic measures such as plastic surgery or injecting toxic substances into your skin.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Ylang ylang essential oil is used in many face creams, and with good reason. Not only does it have a beautiful floral smell and a calming effect, it helps relax facial muscles. If your face cream doesn't have ylang ylang in it, you can add a few drops to the container of cream and mix it in. Be sure to keep it away from your eyes.

2. Chamomile tea is a powerful antispasmodic and helps relax not only your mind but also your muscles. Some spas serve chamomile tea to their clients to help relax their facial muscles

3. Facial massage helps release tension and relax facial muscles. There are also many pressure points on the face. When they are stimulated by facial massage, it helps release tension and improve muscle and skin tone. Facial massage also improves microcirculation and helps stimulate the production of collagen. Massaging your scalp will help relax your facial muscles as well. Hand and foot and whole body massages will help, too.

4. facial exercise

   Facial exercises that strengthen facial muscles and relieve facial tension make it easier for facial muscles to relax on their own, and make it easier for you to relax them consciously.

5. Yoga helps you learn to keep your face calm and relaxed even when you feel stressed by physical exertion or intense emotions. Once it becomes a habit in a yoga class, it is much easier to make it a habit outside the yoga class as well. Restorative yoga helps you to deeply relax, and when you are deeply relaxed, the tension in your muscles relaxes. If you consciously try to relax the muscles throughout your body including your face, it will be even more effective.

6. You can work on those lines caused by repetitive motions while you sleep by using the low-tech "secret of the stars," Frownies facial patches. Frownies are just strips of kraft paper that you plaster onto your forehead, the area between your eyebrows, the outer corners of your eyes, and around the mouth. Having them there makes it hard to scrunch your face up, and helps train those muscles not to contract. A lot of high-end cosmetics lines have come out with their own pricey versions of Frownies, but there is no indication that any of them work any better than Frownies do. Frownies are a vegan product (no animal products or testing).

Tips & Warnings

• Just like a body massage, a facial massage should not be done on a full stomach

• Facial and eye massage can also help improve vision problems due to eyestrain

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Resources

• DIY Facial Massage video
• Acupressure for the Face
• Facial Exercises
• Frownies Face Patches
• How to Massage Away Facial Tension for Better Vision
• How to Soothe Tired Overworked Eyes for Better Vision