Health Tip #8: Stop Making Faces

If you’re over 35 you’re getting concerned about wrinkles. There are books, programs, spas, injections, creams, moisturizers, masques and exercises all intended to stave off the inevitable. Most of the stuff doesn’t really work.

Before you start going to the mirror and contorting and playing with your face, you should know that making faces aggravates, rather than prevents, wrinkles. There is no evidence that you can build up the small, thin muscle fibers in facial skin the same way you tone biceps. This is sound advice from a Newsweek special on the four worst wrinkle fighters.

What are the worst wrinkle fighters? The most obvious would be moving to Arizona and never drinking any water while wearing a masque made of lemons. But besides this, according to Newsweek, it’s food masques, the above mentioned facial exercises, stimulation by means of electricity, and vitamin E creams.