How to Get Rid of Forehead Wrinkles: Reduce & Prevent Deep Lines Today!
You might call them your frown lines, or worry wrinkles, those pesky lines that take up space on your forehead. In fact, forehead wrinkles are often one of the first signs of aging to appear on your face, and they are among the top concerns dermatologists face with patients in their twenties.
Forehead wrinkles can become some of the worst and deepest wrinkles as we age, and they can be the hardest to treat. This is especially true if you want to avoid cosmetic surgery or scary Botox needles!
So is there a natural way to get rid of forehead wrinkles for good?
Consider this your forehead wrinkles 101, where we will explain what causes forehead wrinkles, how you can prevent them, and what solutions you can use to get rid of them.
So if you're wondering how to get rid of forehead wrinkles, this article is for you!
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What Causes Forehead Wrinkles?
Let's take a look at the main reasons behind those forehead wrinkles:
Gestures
They're not referred to as frown lines or worry lines for nothing. Your facial expressions play a big role in the formation of wrinkles as you age.
Frowning and squinting can lead to the formation of wrinkles across your forehead, vertical wrinkles between your eyebrows, and crow's feet. This happens because our skin stretches and becomes more thin and fragile over time. It gradually loses its ability to bounce back from gestures, and what were once temporary lines start to become more permanent.
Of course, this is a natural part of life, and no one can remain expressionless and wrinkle-free forever. But often these types of facial expressions are linked to stress, so if you find yourself frowning a lot, maybe try to take a break and relax those facial muscles!
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Screen Time
Unfortunately, your digital devices may be contributing to each wrinkle on your forehead. Too much time spent squinting at your computer screen or watching television will speed up the formation of forehead wrinkles and other fine lines around your eyes.
The blue light emitted from your screens also has damaging effects that are similar to the sun's UV rays. This type of light emits radiation that can reach your dermis, accelerating the breakdown of collagen and elastin which will eventually cause wrinkles.
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Age
Another natural and unavoidable reason for those forehead wrinkles is the passage of time. As we age, our bodies produce less of the natural proteins and nutrients it needs to remain plump and youthful.
The most important proteins for our skin are collagen and elastin, which form the structure of the dermis and are responsible for keeping skin bouncy and supple. When we lose these proteins, our skin loses elasticity and cannot bounce back from facial expressions so easily, which is when a wrinkle will begin to form.
After the age of 20, we produce approximately 1% less collagen each year, entering a deficit by the time we are 30. We also begin to produce less of the natural oils and moisture that keep skin soft, so our skin becomes more dry and prone to wrinkles – especially during and after menopause. In fact, women will lose around 30% of their collagen supplies during the first five years of menopause, causing a drop in skin quality and making fine lines and wrinkles more pronounced. 1
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Sun Damage
Bad news for tan enthusiasts – too much time in the sun will greatly accelerate the formation of wrinkles on your face. This probably comes as no surprise, as we all know that sun exposure without adequate protection will harm our skin.
When it comes to sun exposure, it's not just sunburn we have to worry about. Sun-damaged skin is prone to deep wrinkles thanks to UVA and UVB radiation, which accelerates the degeneration of collagen and elastin in the skin and causes oxidative stress throughout the body.
80% of extrinsic skin aging is caused by UV radiation, so it's important to cover up and protect your skin with a good quality sunscreen as much as possible. Those who don't will see much deeper forehead wrinkles over time! 2
Genes
Sometimes wrinkles and facial features are beyond our control! Genes play a huge role in our appearances and the way our body's age over time, so you are likely to follow in your family's footsteps when it comes to skin aging.
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Why Prevention Is Better Than Cure
Unfortunately, getting rid of each and every deep wrinkle is very difficult. This is why procedures like fillers, Botox, and facelifts exist (more on these later).
When it comes to natural solutions, it's always best to start early and prevent fine lines and wrinkles before they get too deep. Although it is impossible to remain wrinkle-free forever, there are things you can do in your 20s and 30s that will pay off in later life. Treating fine lines is much easier than tackling deep-set wrinkles!
However, if you've passed that stage and you already have deep wrinkles to tackle, don't give up hope. You can still reduce the appearance of forehead wrinkles and make them less visible. So whether you need to prevent forehead wrinkles or you are looking to treat them, these next tips can help.
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10 Ways To Prevent & Treat Forehead Wrinkles
Minimize the appearance of forehead wrinkles and achieve a smoother, more youthful complexion with these tips:
1. Never Skip Sun Protection
As we know, exposure to the sun is one of the main factors in how quickly your skin ages, and in turn, how prevalent your forehead wrinkles become. The first and most important thing you can do for your skin is to wear sunscreen, not only during summertime but all year round.
Look for a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher, which will protect your skin against both UVA and UVB radiation and help prevent the degradation of your precious collagen and elastin supplies.
Because your forehead is such a prominent, and constantly exposed area of skin, it is particularly prone to sun damage and dryness. When you wear sunscreen every day, you are protecting your forehead from the sun's harsh rays and helping to prevent forehead wrinkles.
2. Use & Consume Antioxidants
We have said it before and we'll say it again: antioxidants are key to keeping your skin youthful and healthy for longer. They can also help minimize and get rid of your forehead wrinkles, smoothing out fine lines and brightening your skin.
Antioxidants prevent oxidative stress throughout the body by neutralizing free radicals, helping to slow down the degradation of collagen and elastin and keep your skin healthy. You will find antioxidants everywhere, from the foods you eat to your favorite skincare products.
To get your daily fix of antioxidants, incorporate plenty of colorful fruits and veggies into your diet, and look out for skincare products containing ingredients like vitamin C, beta carotene, squalene, grape seed extract, niacinamide, vitamin E, or resveratrol.
Vitamin C is particularly beneficial because it doubles as a potent antioxidant and a cofactor of collagen, meaning that it protects your skin cells while also helping them to produce more collagen. Try applying a vitamin-infused face serum or mask, which will penetrate deep into the skin's layers and deliver an effective dose of active ingredients to your forehead. It will benefit the rest of your face, too!
Try a Sheet Mask Infused With Antioxidants
Taut Collagen Mask is a sheet mask infused with vitamin C, collagen peptides, hyaluronic acid, and botanical squalene that can help you target deep forehead wrinkles. The powerful antioxidant power of vitamin C and botanical squalene can protect and brighten your complexion, while hydrolyzed collagen peptides work to plump up the skin and reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Hyaluronic acid adds a touch of luxurious moisture; preventing dryness and leaving skin more supple and smooth.
The best thing about this mask is that it offers visible results in just 15 minutes. It's the perfect preparation for an evening out, a home facial on a relaxing night in, or it can even come to your rescue on a bad skin day!
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3. Replenish Your Collagen Supplies
Wrinkles are primarily caused by the degradation of your collagen supplies, whether it's due to genes, sun exposure, facial expressions, stress, or simply the passing of time. So it makes sense that the best way to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fight back against those pesky forehead lines is to replenish your collagen and elastin supplies.
You can increase your collagen in a number of ways. This may include:
- Incorporating more foods high in collagen like tofu, soy, eggs, and dark leafy greens into your diet
- Visiting your dermatologist for a collagen-boosting treatment
- Using a collagen supplement.
While all of these methods can improve your skin, only a properly hydrolyzed collagen supplement can guarantee an effective collagen boost in your body.
A good quality collagen supplement can improve skin elasticity and help rebuild the structure of your dermis by triggering your fibroblast cells to produce more collagen. When it comes to choosing a collagen supplement, make sure you opt for one that has a high potency of collagen peptides in each dose (10,000 mg or more) and check that the collagen has come from a marine source, as marine collagen is better than animal collagen for improving your skin.
You should also always ensure that the collagen has been properly hydrolyzed, which means that the peptides have been broken down into small enough molecules to be properly absorbed into your bloodstream.
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Why Choose a Liquid Collagen Supplement?
Taut Premium Collagen Drink has everything you need to fight forehead wrinkles in one small bottle. Each 1.7 oz bottle contains 13,000 mg of hydrolyzed marine collagen peptides, along with elastin peptides, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, grape seed extract, vitamin B6, and ceramide.
Our marine collagen peptides have a high bioavailability, meaning that they can be absorbed quickly and easily into your bloodstream and stimulate collagen production, fast. This instant boost of collagen can help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and improve the quality and texture of the skin on your entire body.
Although it is very difficult to get rid of wrinkles without needles or cosmetic surgery, a collagen supplement is the best and most effective natural solution. By supercharging your natural collagen production, a daily dose of Taut Premium Collagen Drink can help you minimize the appearance of forehead wrinkles and reduce the signs of aging on your skin.
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4. Add Moisture To Your Skin With Hyaluronic Acid
Forehead wrinkles are exacerbated by dryness, particularly as we get older and our skin loses a lot of the natural moisture we once had.
That's why a hyaluronic acid serum, moisturizer, or supplement can help get rid of forehead wrinkles, or at the very least reduce their appearance. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance that keeps your skin, eyes, and joints lubricated. You are also able to find it in skincare treatments, supplements, and injectable fillers.
Hyaluronic acid is a humectant that can attract and retain up to 1000 times its weight in water, which is a superpower that can be used to rehydrate even the most tired and dry skin.
Hydrate From Within With Taut
Taut Hydrate, a hyaluronic acid supplement from RenewSkin Inc., combines hyaluronic acid with the antioxidant powers of grape seed extract to create a supplement that can hydrate, brighten, and rejuvenate your skin.
Replenishing your hyaluronic acid supplies will help to keep your skin's collagen and elastin flexible, improving your skin elasticity. Grape seed extract can fight free radicals and prevent the breakdown of collagen and elastin, helping you fight the signs of aging from the inside out.
A supplement also has added benefits by working from within, as it reaches deeper into your skin's layers where serums and fillers cannot penetrate.
Try it today to see your skin's tone and texture improve, and watch wrinkles fade away!
5. Try Retinol
Retinol benefits your complexion by increasing cell turnover and stimulating collagen production, making it one of the favorite anti-aging ingredients on many beauty editors' lists.
Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A that can be found in many over-the-counter serums and treatments, and it is primarily used to reduce wrinkles and make your complexion appear more youthful and taut.
Adding retinol to your skincare routine could help you get rid of forehead wrinkles, as well as crow's feet and other fine lines around the eyes and mouth. When using retinol, it's important to start slowly, as it can cause a type of skin irritation commonly known as 'retinol burn.' Some people with sensitive skin may struggle with retinol, but if you start with a low concentration and build up your tolerance, you can work it into your evening skincare routine 2–3 times per week.
Regular use can help boost skin cell turnover and stimulate collagen production, which results in thicker, stronger skin; reduced pigmentation; and fewer wrinkles. When used in a collagen-boosting regime with the right foods and supplements, retinol is a great natural option for getting rid of forehead wrinkles.
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6. Don't Forget To Exfoliate
If you want to reduce wrinkles, don't neglect this essential step of your skincare routine!
Exfoliation is essentially removing the top layer of dead skin to reveal a brighter layer of new cells, which in turn reduces fine lines and gives your complexion a more youthful appearance. Physical exfoliation uses products like sugar or coffee scrubs to manually scrub away dead skin, and chemical exfoliation uses various types of acids to gently dissolve dead skin cells.
For wrinkle-reduction, we recommend chemical exfoliation. Try incorporating salicylic acid, glycolic acid, or lactic acid into your routine 2–3 times per week to regularly remove dead skin. Chemical peels at the dermatologist's office will use a higher concentration of these acids for a more intense effect. If your forehead lines are already quite deep, you may benefit from regular chemical peels on top of your home exfoliation routine.
7. Manage Your Stress
A healthy lifestyle and a positive mindset go a long way in reducing the wrinkles you will form. By managing your stress, you can reduce the frequency of the types of facial expression causing you to frown, while also reducing your cortisol levels.
Cortisol is the stress hormone that causes inflammation throughout your body, and it also contributes to the degradation of collagen, accelerating the appearance of wrinkles.
Some lifestyle changes and stress reduction tactics may be able to help you to treat and prevent forehead wrinkles. A few ways to reduce stress and amp up your happy hormones include:
- Meditation – There are plenty of apps and online tutorials you can use to help you meditate, relax your breathing, and reduce stress.
- Exercise – One of the best ways to boost your endorphins and reduce cortisol! Try running, cycling, swimming, or dancing and see how your mood and your skin improve.
- Self-care – Taking time to relax and treat yourself to a bath, a DIY spa day, or some time for creative hobbies can do wonders for your happy hormones and reduce collagen-destroying cortisol too.
- Sleep – Plenty of beauty sleep is essential to reducing stress and improving your skin.
- Spend time with friends and loved ones – This releases oxytocin and other happy hormones in your body, which can help reduce stress.
8. Collagen Treatments
If all of the natural, at-home remedies are not enough, you can visit your dermatologist for a number of collagen-boosting treatments to enhance your skin.
LED red light therapy is an effective way to stimulate collagen production. Your dermatologist will use infrared light to penetrate deep into the dermis, where it will activate specialized cells called fibroblasts and trigger the production of more collagen. And as we now know, more collagen equals fewer wrinkles!
Microneedling is a treatment in which your dermatologist will roll a device with tiny needles across the surface of your skin to create minute punctures. This triggers a wound repair response, and your body will produce more collagen to counteract the microscopic damage. One of the main benefits of microneedling is this collagen boost, which will give you plumper, more radiant skin.
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9. Dermal Fillers & Collagen Injections
If you're not afraid of needles, dermal fillers or the off collagen injection are an effective way to get rid of wrinkles with immediate results. The downside is that fillers can be costly, and they need to be repeated or topped up every 6 months.
There are three main types of fillers you can get. First off, there are hyaluronic acid injections, which are exactly what they sound like. Each of these fillers will inject a small amount of hyaluronic acid to hydrate and fill up a wrinkle, which can be a particularly effective way to get rid of forehead wrinkles, crow's feet, and fine lines around the mouth.
You can also opt for collagen-boosting fillers, which inject poly-L lactic acid or calcium hydroxyapatite into a wrinkle to trigger collagen production. These are particularly effective if you have very deep wrinkles.
Lastly, you can try Botox, which uses a bacteria called 'botulinum toxin' to freeze and relax the muscles in your face. The botulinum toxin in each Botox treatment gives your facial muscles a limited range of motion, which in turn prevents new wrinkles from forming and reduces the appearance of current ones.
Treatments like Botox, although FDA approved, can have side effects and there are risks involved. No one wants a botched Botox or a permanently altered facial expression! With this in mind, make sure you visit a reputable, board-certified dermatologist for your Botox or any other type of injectable treatment. 3
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10. Cosmetic Surgery
If all else fails, you may be able to get rid of forehead wrinkles with cosmetic surgery. We would recommend you try all of the natural solutions before considering this final treatment option, and if you do decide to go ahead with any kind of cosmetic surgery, make sure you are able to find a reputable and board-certified plastic surgeon.
A surgical brow lift can get rid of wrinkles on your forehead and help reduce sagging around the eyes. Your surgeon will cut and lift the skin at the top of your forehead, essentially pulling the skin up towards your hairline and repositioning it. This has an instant lifting effect that gets rid of forehead lines and can make you look younger and more awake. 4
However, as with any cosmetic surgery, a browlift has its downsides. It is costly, painful, and it can take a few weeks to recover from.
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Fight the Signs of Aging Naturally With Taut
Our Intense Transformation Program is a natural, safe, and effective solution for anyone who wants to reduce wrinkles without the need for needles, Botox, or plastic surgery.
This kit contains a 24-day supply of Taut Premium Collagen Drink, designed to give you a daily boost of collagen and other skin-loving ingredients like elastin, hyaluronic acid, and grape seed extract.
Although it is impossible to iron out every wrinkle, regularly taking a collagen supplement can help reduce their appearance and keep your complexion healthy and supple for longer. A daily dose of our anti-aging skincare supplement ensures that collagen is continually created and maintained in your body, giving your skin the kickstart it needs towards a smoother, more toned appearance.
With Taut, you can reverse some the collagen loss that causes wrinkles in the first place, slow down the skin aging process, and reveal a fresh, youthful complexion in just 24 days.
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