Why Skin Tightening Facials Don’t Work? : Unveiling the Truth

The skin-tightening marketplace is expected to grow at a rate of 11% by 2028. 

With aging, your skin sags because of decreasing collagen. Many people look much older than their age because of their sagging skin. Skin-tightening facials are growing popular among people who want to tighten their skin and get back their youthful charm. 

The leading salons promote skin tightening facials as the solution to tighten and lift skin without downtime. They claim such facials target your skin’s deeper layers with radiofrequency/ultrasound technology, which gives you smooth and youthful skin. 

However, skin tightening doesn’t work in giving you tight and firm skin. Getting facials repeatedly can gradually improve your skin quality but can’t tighten your skin. To get firm and youthful skin, you need advanced treatment at our clinic in Bengaluru. Our skilled doctors at CNF checks your skin condition and then suggests the right skin-tightening treatment. 

The Science Behind Skin Tightening 

Your skin tends to get loose and sag as you age. Nowadays, skin tightening treatments implement a safe method to get into the deeper layers of your skin and increase collagen production. Such treatments reduce the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, and sagging skin while enhancing your complexion and skin texture. You get natural results, which give you a rejuvenated skin tone and enhance your beauty. 

Collagen and Elastin: The Building Blocks of Firm Skin

Collagen and elastin are proteins in your body, which work together to keep your skin tight. As collagen production reduces, your skin loses its natural structure and gets fine lines, wrinkles, and textural issues. With naturally losing fatty tissues, the decreasing amount of collagen loses facial volume, which gives you sagging and loose skin. 

Elastin maintains elasticity in your skin and keeps it resilient. Your skin starts sagging with the breakdown of elastin fibers. Wrinkles and fine lines develop on your skin, which makes you look tired most of the time. Collagen and elastin production is reduced because of sun exposure, stress, illness, genetics, aging, and exposure to toxins. By preventing the decrease of collagen and elastin production, you can maintain a firm and youthful skin. 

Factors Influencing Skin Sagging and Aging

Here are the key factors that contribute to your skin sagging and aging:

• • Reduced collagen and elastin production

• • Decreased natural skin exfoliation

• • Moisture slowdown

• • Shrinking of sebaceous glands

• • Long-term exposure to free radicals and UV rays

• • Hormonal changes

• • Sudden weight loss

The Promise of Skin Tightening Facials

You can find many posh salons promising to tighten your skin and give you a youthful face with their skin-tightening facials. However, they aren’t truthful claims. Your face will sag as you will grow older. The skin on your face droops down and forward, and thus you lose volume in your central face. Thus, facials with different topicals at salons can never give you tighter and more youthful skin. 

If you want to tighten your skin, you will have to go for the right skin-tightening treatment as only facials won’t deliver the desired results. Getting a facial massage repeatedly can only renew skin cells through blood flow circulation beneath your skin. It prevents puffiness and accumulation of fluid generated from the lymphatic system. Proper blood circulation adds nutrition, proteins, and oxygen to your skin but can never tighten it. 

The Reality Check

With the growing concern of people wanting to have tight skin, the tightening facials have certain myths. Many people believe that facial massage can tighten skin gradually. However, skin laxity isn’t related to muscles, and thus no massages can tighten your skin. When muscles build inside your body, you may add sufficient volume to fill some of the loosened skin. But, your skin doesn’t get tightened noticeably with facial massages.

Our advanced skin tightening treatment can tighten your skin as it uses warmth and pressure to boost collagen production. The increased collagen can give you firm and toned skin, be it on your face, neck, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, and other body parts. For instance, laser treatment can boost collagen production and mildly firm your skin. 

Understanding the Placebo Effect

Facial seems to be the “real” skin tightening treatment but it’s not. You may gradually get better but never a tight skin. Your skin can never tighten naturally as it loses collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid as you grow older. Plastic surgery gives you the illusion of tighter skin, however, it does not get tightened. The loose skin only gets stretched and replaced. 

The right non-surgical skin treatment can give you tight skin with no downtime. Our doctors can tighten crepey or lax skin on your face and other body parts. It boosts collagen and elastin production, which enhances your skin texture and tone. Non-surgical skin tightening treatment can be the right choice if you have mild to moderately relaxed skin and don’t want an unnatural-looking facelift.