A facial massage is a treatment you can have with a professional practitioner or skin care therapist or perform on your own. It involves stimulating pressure points on the face, neck, and shoulders using various techniques. Facial massage helps promote healthy skin while relaxing your facial muscles. It has a relaxing and rejuvenating effect.
When performing a facial massage it is important to use an oil, lotion or balm suited to your skin. This provides slip which will allow the massage to be performed without damaging delicate skin. Additionally, by selecting a product that has benefits for the skin, the massage can enable the product to work deeper into the layers of the skin delivering nourishment.
Benefits of facial massage
A study was done in 2017 with participants using massage and cream on their face and neck for 8 weeks. The results showed that the effects of the cream were enhanced when used together with facial massage and improvements were seen in wrinkles, skin sagging, and texture.
There are many other benefits to facial massage when performed correctly using the correct tools/products suited to the skin. Facial massage can help relieve sinus pressure, help alleviate headaches and boost circulation. Massage helps improve the skin’s blood flow which in turn can help give the skin a glow, improve the appearance of the skin even help if you have a scare in the healing process.
Whether you want to use facial massage purely for relaxation or to treat a specific condition, there are plenty of techniques to try.
Types of facial massage include:
• lymphatic drainage
• reflexology
• shiatsu
• gua sha
• Swedish
• remedial
• sinus
• acupressure
Facial massage techniques include:
• cupping
• digital or knuckle kneading
• folding
• effleurage
• vibrations
• tapping
• Jacquet pinching
A gentle massage with your night cream or oil on a daily basis can go a long way to help your skin. There are several reels on face massage and face yoga available on our Instagram.
For best results, we recommend performing the massage with one of our luxury organic face oils.
Rose face oil for dry and sensitive skin types and Neroli face oil for normal, oily, combination and dehydrated skin.
Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383004/
