Try These Jaw Shaping Skincare Solutions | Skin Actives
Posted by Mack Leonard on Oct 14th 2022
The latest feature under the collective microscope of the online beauty world is the jawline. From celebrities to influencers to beauty bloggers, a new focus has emerged on avoiding the appearance of “jowls.” These jowl-averse individuals are turning to everything from tightening creams to toner devices, mysterious stones and cosmetic fillers. Do any of these solutions actually work? Perhaps more importantly, do they carry risks? Let’s take a look at some popular jawline-shaping techniques—and their healthy alternatives.
Why Is Everyone Worried About Jawlines?
As we age, our skin loses elasticity over time. Like a rubber band, the skin can become reluctant to “snap back” into its original position when deformed. As a result, the skin becomes less resistant to gravity and begins to droop. This effect occurs across the body, but when it happens on the jawline, we may see the appearance of “jowls,” or skin that overhangs the underlying bone structure, especially below the corners of the mouth.
Having a less elastic jawline is not necessarily a bad thing. The behavior of our body changes with age—our standards and expectations of our appearance should do the same. But if an inelastic jawline is an absolute no-go in your book, preventative use of Collagen Serum with ROS* BioNet and Apocynin will help prevent onset. Other steps like observing a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a nutritious diet will also support your skin and ward off the advancement of age-related changes for an additional period of time.
Different Ways to Shape the Jawline
Once an inelastic jawline has taken hold, concerned parties are met with a wide variety of ostensible solutions available in the skin care and cosmetic market. The use of topical firming and tightening products is generally a benign countermeasure—many of our products, such as Hydrating and Firming Age Defying Cream, will serve this function nicely.
Others turn to electronic devices like toning or contouring wands, a growing category of product that appears to consist essentially of mini-massagers. While a light massage is always nice, the ultimate effect on the underlying skin condition appears to be largely a placebo.
Then we have invasive cosmetic interventions. Injections, one of the most commonly used interventions, supplies the skin with Botulinum Toxin, an acute poison that functions by paralyzing underlying facial muscles. As advocates of a health-first approach to skin care, we can’t advise the use of paralytic agents. Another intervention, the use of fillers to contour the jawline, can result in unwanted filler migration or even infection—a serious side effect visible in a number of recent high-profile incidents.
Improving the Jawline Safely
Given the risk of invasive procedures, the safest approach to jawline renewal is topical use of healthy skin care actives. Fortunately, Skin Actives offers a number of products, both readymade and DIY ingredients, that help firm and tighten the skin.
Aside from those already mentioned, Triple Correction Eye Cream delivers a strong tightening effect in a package of nourishing and hydrating actives. Although originally intended for use under the eyes, it works just as well on the jawline. Likewise, Ultimate DePuff Serum leverages the power of caffeine to provide a fast-acting tightening effect on the skin. Let’s take a look at one routine for restoring the jawline using readymade products.
Apply the following in layers to the skin along the jawline, massaging each time:
You can either perform the massaging with your hands or can use a simple roller device—no need for an electronic product.
A Do-It-Yourself Jawline Remedy
On the DIY side, Boswellia Serrata and Centella Asiatica are fantastic for enhancing firmness and ramping up elastin production. You can find out how to use them with our new Base Serum on our Recipe Page. For more of the tightening formula powering our eyes products, add DePuff Concentrate to your daily moisturizer. DePuff is such a helpful active, we’re happy to suggest an easy combo for reducing jawline woes the healthy way. Try this before buying an expensive device or exploring invasive measures:
Mix 1 vial DePuff Concentrate into either 4 oz Sea Kelp Coral (for a serum) or 4 oz Canvas Base Cream (for a cream), followed by 1 vial of Epidermal Growth Factor. For maximum effect, you can make both the serum and cream and apply them in layers, again massaging between each layer. This will keep your jawline springy and nourished.
Staying Balanced with Our Skin Care
Simple steps can be taken to address an inelastic jawline. Even so, it may be worth stepping back and asking whether the jowl panic is really warranted. Aside from an occasional touch-up with a healthy topical product, perhaps the best solution is an acceptance of our natural appearances with age. After all, who is going to look better at the end of the day—a person with a hint of an inelastic jawline, or a person with migrated filler and a scary infection around their injection site? We should keep perspective on our skin care troubles. In many ways, even our unwanted features are more beautiful than we may think.
