Getting rid of the bags under your eyes? What works and what doesn’t!

If you suffer from dark circles or bags under your eyes then you know that there are a great many products on the market which claim to be the “end all-fix all” unfortunately 95% of the products dont work and the ones that do work in the short tem and in the long term make the bags under the eyes even worse.

 The world renound Mayo Clinic Bags states that the bags under your eyes - is simply a mild swelling or puffiness which is common as one ages. The area under your eyes ages like all other parts of your body. In this case the tissues around your eyes, and most importantly the muscles, supporting your eyelids, weaken. 

Normal fat that helps support the eyes sometimes can then migrate forward into the lower eyelid area, causing the bags under the eyes. This is the reason that many “solutions” on the market today simply cannot work.
  Hemorrhoid Cremes: There is an old wives tale about Hemorrhoid cremes and under eye bags. Unfortunately, it cannot work. Hemorrhoid creams are designed to schink your blood vessels and the cremes contain vasoconstrictors. It is a great solution when it comes to a person who has hemorrhoids, which are swollen veins, but it cannot work on the very sensitive area under your eyes. 

The fact is, there are some ingredients in hemorrhoid creams that make the problem with under eye bags even worse. Bags under your eyes are caused by weakened muscles due to age where the fat and or water content which supports your eyes are slowly released to the under lid. 

Beauty Cremes: A Beauty creme which offers a solution to reduce the appearance of under eye bags may not be as damaging as a Hemorrhoid creme but unfortunately will deliver the same effects, in other words, it cannot work. No Creme in the world can strengthen the muscles under the eyes and no creme on the market can eliminate fat or water from the under lid area. 

Facial Fitness: There are essentially two ways to strengthen the muscles under your eyes, the first is by doing a daily fitness routine which involves holding the muscles under the eyes in one place and expanding and contracting the muscles like one one do with a fitness machine in a fitness studio and the other is to use electrical and vibrational muscle stimulation therapy which litterally stimulates the weak muscles to get into shape and prevents further fat and water from forming under the eyes.

 Yet, as with any physical fitness program, the results do not come over night, but day by day, week by week, and month after month the skin under the eyes tightens, the muscles strengthen, and the bags under your eyes disappear.    

The multi-billion dollar a year “face/eye” creme market.

If you have ever wondered how a little jar of facial night creme which you smear over your face and under your eyes just before you go to sleep works. If you have ever wondered why that little jar of facial night creme costs so much you are definitely not alone.

Can the skin in your face actually absorb whatever the product inside the very small, yet very expensive, night “face / eye make me look younger wonder creme” like the manufacturers claim?

First we need to understand how the skin works and why we age:

Our skin is designed to protect us from dangers outside; it is the largest organ in all mammals (including us). Without getting “all scientific” the skin’s main job is to stop things from the outside getting in. Does this include those really expensive night cremes... YES! Your skin is designed not to allow things from the outside to get into the inside. Now on humans, the thickness also varies where the soles of the feet are the thickest and the area under your eyes is the most thin which is why the area around the eye are the first place where the signs of aging show their ugly head, crows feet, bags under the eyes, etc.

Your skin ( essentially the epidermis), including, the area under your eyes as thin as it is, when confronted with a “wonder night creme”, pathogens, or an infection, does what it can to defend itself against it. You may have noticed that sometimes your skin has an “oily” feel, that is the sebaceous glands that release sebum, an oily liquid which the skin naturally releases.  So here is the conundrum with night cremes: When the sebaceous gland opens in the face at night to release its oily liquid and there is another oily liquid waiting to get in or stopping the release of the other oily liquid then there becomes a build up of too much “oily liquid wonder face / night creme” on the face. Once the oils cannot be released through the face, or if there is a build up of oils under the eyes then the results are counter productive.

Why are those cremes so expensive? One word: Marketing! Companies who sell wonder night creme invest a lot of money to have a part in the multi billion dollar a year face creme market and those costs need to be past onto someone.

So what works?

Cosmetic surgery definitely does, but as we all know the risks many times are simply not worth it. The only natural solution is with products like Facelift Gym, which is a fitness machine using electrical and vibrational muscle stimulation technology to strengthen the muscles under and around the eyes. It works like a fitness machine so the results come over time and by visiting their website you will also notice the lack of any creme’s. The only other product is the facelift repair bamboo vinegar patch which actually helps absorb the toxins from under your eyes.

So if you have bags under your eyes, dont make the problem worse by adding expensive night cremes or oils. 

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