Eyebags

Do you appear older than your age simply because of the eye bags under your eyes? Eye bags can make you look tired, unhealthy and older than you really are and less attractive. Eye bags and dark circles are most commonly caused by lack of sleep, but in addition, ageing, heredity, fatigue, allergies (like eczema and asthma), sun exposure and stress can darken the pigment around the eyes as well. In some cases, bags under the eyes are a sign of kidney problems.Poor diet plays a major role to make bag under eyes. An excess of sodium in the diet will cause the body to retain water, causing puffy bags under the eyes and puffiness in the legs, feet, ankles and abdomen, illness, hormonal issues, thyroid conditions, and bending the head over for several hours during the previous day are other causes of eyebags.

The tissues under the eyes have a flat gently tense tone in youth. Age and other factors can let the muscles sag and fat bulge. Some call this protrusion blepharochalasis and more commonly called under eye bag or baggy eyelid. Nobody looks good with puffy bags under their eyes.

When seen in a young person, particularly someone that squints from myopia, this could be due to over-activity of the eye muscles (orbicularis hypertrophy). Such eye bags are usually well defined and more obvious when the person squints. The eye bag is also closest to the eyelid. Such eye bags respond well to Botox, which has an added effect of widening the eye aperture, resulting in larger eyes!

As a person gets older, the quality of facial circulation and lymphatic drainage reduces. The skin of the eyelid ages, it loosens, becomes less elastic, and begins to sag and lose tone. As the eyelid loses tone it cannot hold the fat within the bony orbit or eye socket beneath the eyeball, and the fat pushes forward against the undersurface of the weakened eyelid and creates the eye bag , puffy eye, or eyelid bag. The stagnation of toxins and fluid produces puffy eye bags. The size changes from day to day and also varies at different times of the day. As the situation tends to worsen with time, the extra fluid collection stretches the skin in the delicate eye area.

Eye bags have a lot to do with bad food habits. Extra salt-intake is one of the severest causes of bags under the eyes. Also your water intake is very important to solve eye bags problems. Relax your eyes as much as possible.

Vitamins for eyebags:

Vitamin A

This ingredient is associated with having anti-wrinkle properties. The actual active which gives the anti-wrinkle activity is Tretionin which is a derivative of Vitamin A. It improves elasticity and increases the collagen content of the skin when applied daily. Vitamin A is known to have topical benefits such as thickening the epidermis. It also has a regulating effect on keratin formation and reduces UV induced wrinkle formation.

Vitamin E (a Tocopherol).

Vitamin E’s main activity in Herbal Eye Bag Doctor is as an antioxidant. Vitamin E also has other topical benefits such as protecting cells from damaging environmental pollutants or helping in wound healing.

Vitamin K

Vitamin K for example has been proven to inhibit bruising of the skin, and this is why it is suspected to help counteract common and pesty dark shadows in the sensitive eye skin care area. The others, Kojic acid hydroquinone are known and effective skin whitening ingredients, common place due to their effectiveness in things such as bleaching and age spotting creams and treatments. Apply an eye cream containing vitamin K and retinal. Dark circles may be caused by a deficiency of vitamin K. Regardless of the cause, however, recent research has shown that skin creams containing these two ingredients reduce puffiness and discoloration significantly in many patients. Long-term daily use seems to have the greatest effect.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Vitamin C to the skin, it can actually stimulate the production of collagen, a protein that helps form the skin’s supporting structure. Normally as we age, collagen levels diminish; as a result, our skin wrinkles. Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin which is necessary in the body to form collagen in bones, cartilage, muscle, and blood vessels, and aids in the absorption of iron. Dietary sources of vitamin C include fruits and vegetables, particularly citrus fruits such as oranges.

Massage and exercise for the eyes:

1. Put your hands over the eyes, with the base of your palm resting over the cheeks and the fingers on the forehead. Your palms create hollows over the eyes. Look into the darkness for a minute. This is very relaxing.


2. Press the base of your palms gently on the eyes. Release the pressure and repeat. Do this three to four times.


3. Open the eyes wide and look at the four corners of the room. Close the eyes and repeat, going the other way.


4. Do the same exercise by rolling the eyes in a circle. Repeat going the other way around.


5. Hold a pencil in front of the face. Look at it. Slowly extend your arm, taking the pencil further and further away from the face, while you are still looking at it. Bring the pencil back slowly and repeat.


6. Look out of the window as far as you can see. This itself is a very good exercise for the eyes.


7. Take time off from your work and look at green plants and trees. Green is supposed to soothe the eyes.


8. Extra Pillows: Propping your head higher while you sleep will also reduce puffiness by encouraging fluids to drain away from the eye area.

Home remedies for eyebags:

1. For an instant fix, place two spoons in the freezer for about 15 minutes and set them over your eyes.


2. Raw potato slices will help tighten baggy eyes.
3. For reducing the puffiness under eye bags, One can apply cotton dipped in ice water or very cold milk directly over our closed eyelids and leave it on for 15 to 20 minutes. This will cool and rest the eyes. The cotton should be placed on the eyes for 10 to 15 minutes.
4. Honey can reduce under eye puffiness because honey has warming properties and the trick to reducing puffiness is to cool the eyes, not warm them.
5. Get around half a basin of water and add a drop of rosemary oil extract, a drop of rose extract to the water. Soak a towel in the water, then dry it and lay it on your eyes. Keep the towel there for 15 minutes.
6. Apply a compress of iced water or cold milk directly over closed lids and leave on for 15 to 20 minutes. Sometimes, an eye wash of tepid water also helps.
7. Take cotton wool and make two thick square pads. Soaked in cucumber juice. Lie down, close your eyes and put the soaked pads on them. Keep them on for about 15 minutes.
8. Used tea bags can also be used as eye pads.
9. Either that, apply one of the many different eye treatment creams available in market.

Kitchen ingredient that this how-to calls for—it’s not a cucumber, and you’re sure to have one on hand. Find out the secret!

To Make:
1. Slice 1/4 potato to fit over your eyes.2. Cut
2 slices or, if you prefer, 5 to 10 very thin slices, several for each eye. Either method works.

To Use:
1. Spritz eye area with water.
2. Lying down, place the potato slices on your eyelids and leave in place for at least 10 minutes for best results.

Things to avoid:

1. Avoid using anti ageing or anti wrinkle creams around the eyes.
2. Do not apply rich moisturizers in the eye region at night.
3. Too much of salt-intake
4. Don't drink too many fluids right before going to sleep.
5. Staying away from fast food and processed foods and drinking plenty of water flushes the excess sodium out our system and helps contain dark circles.
6. Avoid rubbing your eyes. The rubbing irritates the skin and can break tiny capillaries beneath the skin, causing both puffiness and discoloration.
7. Smoking causes vascular (blood vessel) problems that can not only threaten your life, but also make your blood vessels appear more prominent and bluer beneath the skin.
8. Do not apply ice or extremely cold water directly to the skin around the eyes for more than a couple of seconds.
9. Cut down on the caffeine, alcohol and salt, especially the night before an event. These promote water retention that can settle in your face as you sleep causing puffy eyes.

Relax your eyes as much as possible. Things are not going better if you put a lot of tension on the eyes. On the contrary, things are going much better if you let go. And when you look into the mirror and see for yourself that your eye bags are reducing, it will give you satisfaction and self confidence.

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