What the Heck! I Spot a Turkey Neck! Please Help!
That was one of the email’s subject we received last week, from a customer in Missouri. It’s important to explain in detail, that Turkey Neck is an unfortunate name for the undesirable excess of skin under the chin. It is also called “double chin” or more professionally “neck lines” or neck wrinkles.
There is nothing glamorous about all these names.
But here we are to keep you posted on everything related to healthy skin. Help you understand first, and then offer the best options available from prevention to immediate corrections, for everybody.
First of all, acceptance is the best to do. It’s part of aging and everybody we know is going to face this situation sooner or later in life.
But understanding the causes, may stimulate us to do act preventively.
What Are The Causes Of Turkey Neck?
The leading causes of Turkey Neck are related to the natural aging skin process. It’s the loss of elasticity due to the breakdown of collagen production and weakness of the muscles.
- Gene and Inheritance is another factor that we have to take under consideration on the aging process of skin
- As well as hormones that play an essential role in the development of turkey neck
- Smoking is also one of the factors. As it contributes to reducing the circulation of blood and oxygen through the body
- A more modern phenomenon is called Tech Neck due to excess or inappropriate posture usage of the cell phone
Is My Neck Aging Faster Than My Face?
That’s something very likely to happen, if you’ve been using face creams, and neglecting the neck.
We have to understand that the skin of the face and neck have slightly different structures. According to doctors who write on WebMD the structure of the neck skin is similar to the eye contour skin.
But wait! You don’t need to use your little tiny bottle for the eye cream, for your neck…
Using a face moisturizer or any other anti-aging treatment (serum, glycolic, or retinol) will help you to face that situation.
The skin neck is thin, meaning that it has less collagen compared to the other skin structures of the body. Then, more prone to wrinkling.
That makes it easy to understand that the same way we have face creams, eye cream, we also have a need for a body lotion, easy to spread, non-sticky to clothes, and fast-absorbing.
Is There Any Specific Diet For Preventing Neck Wrinkles?
Like all the other posts, we like to share and promote our customers a natural and balanced diet.
Protect our bodies and our skin as well. We all know that eating healthy has a direct and relevant impact in our skin look and feel.
Of course, the healthier and broad natural diet to have, less concerned about following a specific diet for the skin.
So here we are going to understand what is a Must Have in our diet.
Fatty-Acids – Everything that has the Omegas – 3-6-9. They help the skin to be thick and moisturized found on fish like salmon and tuna.
But if you follow a Vegan Lifestyle you can go for the avocado, nuts in general.
Beta-Carotene – Is the component that helps the formation of Vitamin-A. Vital for the rejuvenation of the skin and mainly the “orangy” fruits and vegetables. Rich in beta-carotene such as carrots, pumpkins, and mangoes.
Vitamin-C – One of the main components for the collagen synthesis. Act as an excellent antioxidant. Found on oranges, lemons, strawberries, and tomatoes are some of the most common sources available.
Zinc – Helps to turn around any inflammations the skin could have. Zinc is found on fish, eggs, wall-nuts, pumping seeds
Vitamin-A – One of the most critical components for rejuvenation of the skin. Sweet potato is one of the best sources. As seen on the beta-carotene, carrots, red pepper are excellent to fill you up with this essential vitamin.
Vitamin-E – Important Antioxidant to prevent sun damage and the best sources are dark green leaves and avocado.
Antioxidants – Blackberries, blueberries, wine (healthy doses) dark chocolates are excellent sources of antioxidants. The leading role is preventing the cells from an age earlier that it is supposed to happen.
We should never forget about fibers. Lots of water, which we should always remember that fruits and vegetables, in general, are an excellent source of water. To plump our skin, 8-12 glasses of water daily are the building blocks for a healthy diet.
Should I Use Any Specific Neck Cream for Neck Wrinkles?
As long as they have anti-aging active ingredients, such as antioxidants, vitamins for the skin, (A, E, C, K, F) in a high concentration, to be able to reach the deep layers of the skin (Medical-Grade is the way to go) they will go perfect to help your skin.
It’s not rare to see specific neck creams in the market. But the reality of the matter, according to 90% of dermatologists, treatments with retinol, glycolic gel, and natural face serums are indicated for neck wrinkles.
The Next-Generation Body Cream in the market today is
The X3 Everything But The Face. With 99.9% purity levels of active ingredients to restore vitality & firming the skin of neck, chest, and hands.
This is important, and not sure if you knew that the great majority of the body lotions out there, when they are good, they are just good moisturizers.
OTC body lotions don’t contain any anti-aging ingredients. It’s just for the purpose to create some smell, and moist, which not surprisingly, leads to irritation, and it also sticks on clothes.
When they have it’s very mild, barely reaching the deep layers of the skin, where youthful skin cells (made of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid) are naturally produced.
Neck Wrinkle Exercises To Help Prevention
The earlier you start preventing the muscles of your neck to be weak, the better. One of the causes of elasticity loss is lack of stimuli to the neck’s muscle structure.
Three Simple and Quick Exercises to prevent Turkey Neck
These three (3) exercises can be performed anywhere such as the gym, at the office, watching TV:
1) Cervical Flexion and Extension – Bend the neck backward gently, as far as possible. Feeling that you are stretching the muscles on your neck. Then, do the opposite movement trying to touch forward the chin to your chest. Every time you do this exercise perform them slowly as many repetitions possible in thirty seconds, twice a day.
2) Cervical Lateral Flexion – It’s the moving of the neck laterally trying to touch the ears to the shoulders. It is crucial to stand straight and move only the neck. Gently, but feeling the stretch, keeping the shoulders locked down and relaxed, twice a day.
3) Cervical Rotation: This one is easy. As you are rotating the neck to each side to the max extent possible, without forcing too much. Just enough to feel the stretch for a couple of seconds.
What is the cost for a Neck Lift?
Another immediate alternative solution for Wrinkle Neck is Surgery. That requires a budget that could be from $1.000 to $10.000, depending on the amount of skin to be removed.
For that, it will require local anesthesia as it is necessary a direct excision. There are many specialized doctors and clinics for this kind of procedure. It is essential to check the real need to pass through it.
Another way for prevention is to use Medical Grade Formulation by UFlawless – The only skincare that makes UFlawless!
Good luck and all the best
