text: Oleda on...UNDER EYE SKIN...Keep that Delicate Skin Under Your Eyes Looking Youthful - Boca Raton's Most Reliable News Source | Boca Raton's Most Reliable News Source
  Can proper skin care or treatment around the eyes help to prevent lines, wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness? Yes… proper treatments and good habits can certainly postpone these irritating happenings for many years…it can also soften the seriousness of it when it does happen.
  Here's What Helps
  Special Gentle Massage: It's important that the tiny capillaries under the eyes be stimulated. This massage is to help reduce lines and wrinkles, dark circles and puffiness: Take a finger and press firmly, but gently, on one spot on the area under the eye. While pressing down firmly, and without lifting the finger, make a small rotating motion several times. You can also just press firmly, lift your finger up, and do it again several times in one spot. Then go to the spot next to it until you have massaged all areas under the eye, thus bringing more blood flow under the skin.
  The Sun and Sunglasses: It's very, very important to wear good sunglasses when out in the sun or glare. Keep an extra pair around. Sunglasses, in addition to helping to prevent cataracts, also protect the delicate skin around your eyes from the sun's rays. The sun not only dries the surface skin preparing the way for lines and wrinkles, but also works deeper beneath the skin, hardening the collagen under it. Oh My…now, as the collagen gets harder under the skin, the lines become deeper…and deeper.
  Sunglasses also do another very important thing…they help lessen squinting. The combination of frequent squinting and direct sunlight on the skin is a fool proof "recipe" for quickly aging this very thin skin before it's time.
  Creams For Under Eyes: Lines and wrinkles under the eyes are not always a sign of aging, rather they could be an indication of neglect. Lack of treatment, with creams, lotions and without stimulation of this area will speed up the aging process. Best to use a moisturizer that especially nourishes the fragile tissue around the eyes. I apply a rich moisturizer with aloe vera as its primary ingredient before applying makeup. Also make sure you're using a good sunscreen with a minimum SPF (Sun Protection Factor) of 15. If you're a beachgoer or outdoor sports enthusiast, consider a sun block with titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide during those times (the kind that lifeguards use, which you can now get in tinted versions).
  Feed Your Skin For Beauty and Health: Nutrition plays a very big part in the total condition of your skin and its youthfulness. (And while I'm thinking of it…not a pleasant subject…make sure your bowel movements are normal and regular. Poor skin can be due to poor nutrition, as well as poor elimination.)
  Well, I don't think there is anything left to say about the skin under the eyes…if I have missed something, I'll bet you'll let me know! J …and…I'll respond too!