Anti-Sagging Solutions

• Anti-Sagging Exercises
  Get to the Source of Sagging

  Based on scientific foundations developed through continuing research into the fundamental causes of sagging, Shiseido has developed techniques for addressing these factors. We introduce effective routines born from years of research.

  Focus Area 1: “Anchor” Structure That Supports Facial Forms

  The “Anchor ” structure supports facial contours and forms via expressive muscles within the skin.
  Therefore, it is important to exercise one’s expressive muscles thoroughly. (Carry out this exercise after applying cream, beauty essence and/or other face products.)

  Exercise Instructions

  

  1. Forcefully suck your cheeks inward and maintain an exaggerated pouting pose for 10 seconds

  

  2. Pull the corners of your mouth firmly outward and maintain an exaggerated smiling pose for 10 seconds

  

  3. Pull your lips toward the left side of your face to stretch your right cheek tightly, hold for 10 seconds, then repeat on the opposite side

  

  4. Keeping your face facing upward, purse your lips and push upwards, holding for 10 seconds.

  • 1.Forcefully suck your cheeks inward and maintain an exaggerated pouting pose for 10 seconds
  • 2.Pull the corners of your mouth firmly outward and maintain an exaggerated smiling pose for 10 seconds
  • 3.Pull your lips toward the left side of your face to stretch your right cheek tightly, hold for 10 seconds, then repeat on the opposite side
  • 4.Keeping your face facing upward, purse your lips and push upwards, holding for 10 seconds.

  Focus Area 2: Dermal Cell Network That Serves as a Source of Skin Firmness

  Our research has revealed that application of the right amount of pressure atop the skin can activate the cells that are the source of fibroblasts. It’s important to apply a suitable level of pressure when massaging the skin, and to use an upward lifting motion as you do so. (Carry out this exercise after applying cream, beauty essence and/or other face products.)

  

  ※Orange-dyed sections 
  are stem cells in an active state

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  Exercise Instructions

  

  

  

  

  1. Massage in a circular motion under the cheekbones, applying pressure vertically toward the inside of the skin.

  2. 3. Apply pressure aimed toward the cheekbones while lifting the cheeks upward, doing so separately for both locations pictured.

  4. From the inner corner of the eyes toward the temple, use three fingers to pull it up along the bone under the eyes while applying pressure.

  • 1.Massage in a circular motion under the cheekbones, applying pressure vertically toward the inside of the skin.
  • 2. 3.Apply pressure aimed toward the cheekbones while lifting the cheeks upward, doing so separately for both locations pictured.
  • 4.From the inner corner of the eyes toward the temple, use three fingers to pull it up along the bone under the eyes while applying pressure.

  Focus Area 3: Dynamic Belt Used to Resist Gravitational Forces

  The “Dynamic Belt” is a mechanism that provide support to counteract the effects of gravitational forces. The following exercise is a means of stretching oriented in the same direction as the Dynamic Belt’s directional alignment. It is expected to strengthen the Dynamic Belt—which weaken with age—and improve sagging skin. (Carry out this exercise after applying cream, beauty essence and/or other face products.)

  

  Stretching in accordance with the directional alignment of the Dynamic Belt, which comprises arrector pili muscles, activates said muscles

  

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  Exercise Instructions

  

  

  

  1. 2. Slowly and gently stretch the skin’s surface in the direction of the Dynamic Belt’s alignment

  3. Maintain the stretch

  • 1.2.Slowly and gently stretch the skin’s surface in the direction of the Dynamic Belt’s alignment
  • 3.Maintain the stretch

• New Discoveries Using Plant Extracts

  

  Shiseido research has uncovered plant-derived ingredients that target the key skin structures responsible for sagging. Combining these ingredients with our recommended techniques is expected to effectively improve sagging skin.

  For the “Anchor” Structure 
  Which Supports Facial Forms

  

  Research has revealed that extract from the plant species Glycyrrhiza, commonly known as licorice and often used as an herbal medicine, has potential to strengthen the face’s Anchor Structure.

  

  In addition, extract from Sanguisorba officinalis (great burnet), a member of the Rosaceae (rose) family that is common in Europe and East Asia, was found to potentially enhance the functions of muscle cells in expressive muscles within the face.

  For Dermal Cavitation 
  Which Reduces Skin Firmness

  

  Extract from the shrub Salvia rosmarinus—commonly known as rosemary and a member of the Lamiaceae family—can be expected to improve upon problems with hollowing out of the dermis.

  For the Dermal Cell Network 
  Which Serves as a Source of Skin Firmness

  

  Research shows that the extract of iris, which belongs to the Iridaceae family, has the potential to support the recovery of the Dermal Cell Network.

  For the Dynamic Belt 
  Which is Used to Resist Gravitational Forces

  

  

  We have verified that extract from the plant species Glycyrrhiza, commonly known as licorice and often used as an herbal medicine (pictured above), and raspberry-derived plant extract (pictured below), activate the cells within the arrector pili muscles (hair erector muscles) which make up the Dynamic Belt.

  (Images are samples for reference purposes only. Extracts are
  taken from different parts of the plants than those pictured above.)