Exercises to Tighten Loose Neck Skin

Fortunately, you don’t have to live with the banded appearance forever. There are different ways you can try to tighten loose skin under the neck and get rid of the turkey neck.

There are a good number of exercises, topical treatments, and natural beauty supplements you can try without resorting to surgery. But if you want more effective treatment, you can always choose surgeries or a more conservative approach.

How To Tighten Loose Skin Under The Chin Without Surgery?

Exercises 

Neck and facial exercises for turkey neck, if you are consistent, can help build them back up while improving blood circulation in your neck. As a result, you get a tighter and more firm appearance.

Though these exercises claim to help mitigate the turkey neck, there is no reputable study to show evidence of the effectiveness of it. But exercise is necessary for a healthy body and toned muscles(2). So, tighten the loose skin under your chin by trying these commonly recommended exercises:

Forehead Push

1. Place one hand on your forehead
2. Push your head to your hand without letting your head move forward.
3. Hold this forward momentum position and tension for a slow count of 10 seconds.
4. Then, reverse the motion by placing both of your hands behind your head and push your head back into your hands, hold for 10 seconds.
5. Repeat three to five times a week.

Smooch

1. Sit with your back straight.
2. Tilt your head toward the ceiling.
3. Pout your lips to make a kissing face toward the ceiling.
4. Send 20 air smooches.
5. Repeat three to five times a week.

Chew

1. Sit back with your back straight, with your mouth and lips closed.
2. Tilt your head back so your chin points toward the ceiling.
3. While keeping your mouth shut, slowly make a chewing motion with your mouth.
4. Slowly do the chewing motion 20 times.
5. Repeat three to five times a week.

Neck Lift

Facedown neck lift

1. Lie facedown with your head hanging over the edge of your bed and relax your body.
2. Slowly and carefully lift your head up using your neck muscles so that you are parallel to the floor.
3. Repeat 5 times and do not continue if you feel any pain.
4. Since this is a small and controlled movement, do not twist or jerk your neck.
5. Repeat three to five times a week.

Neck lift on your back

1. Lie on your back.
2. Raise your head and neck slowly and gently, slightly off the ground.
3. Turn your head slowly to the right and then to the left.
4. Face forward again and lower your head back to the ground.
5. Repeat this small and controlled movement as many times as you can while maintaining good control. Stop immediately if you feel any pain.
6. Repeat three to five times a week.

Gulping Fish

1. Look up at the ceiling.
2. Place one hand at your collarbone and apply gentle pressure (downward).
3. Stick out your lower jaw and lip toward the ceiling. You will know that you are doing it right if you feel a slight pull down across your neck.
4. Repeat 5 times, switch hands and repeat 5 times more.
5. Repeat three to five times a week.

How To Get Rid Of Turkey Neck? Cosmetic Solutions

There are many turkey neck creams available in the market. The cosmetic creams, such as neck creams and other anti-aging creams, with N-acetyl glucosamine, a natural form of the chemical glucosamine, as an ingredient has proved to help with turkey necks.

According to a study(3) of 82 women, the use of a neck cream twice a day improved their neck appearance. They help improve the appearance of the turkey neck by smoothing and firming the skin. As per the opinion of dermatologists, face creams shouldn’t have to be just for the face. You can apply them to your neck, too. But neck creams, in specific, tend to have gentler active ingredients and be richer than face creams.

Non-surgical Approaches 

• VelaShape: This non-surgical procedure uses infrared light technology and radiofrequency to painlessly tighten the saggy neck skin. This will tone your neck area and help you get rid of your turkey neck.
• Profound RF: This turkey neck treatment produces up to ⅓ of the effect of a surgical facelift. If you are not ready for a surgical facelift, choose Profound RF to lift your sagging neck. It helps by stimulating the production of three essentials namely elastin, collagen, and hyaluronic acid.
• Ultherapy: By using ultrasound waves to target neck tissue to stimulate new collagen production, this cosmetic procedure strengthens and tightens your sagging neck skin.
• Thermage: This is another treatment to stimulate new collagen production by using radiofrequency therapy.
• INTRAcel: By addressing skin laxity with radiofrequency therapy together with micro-needling, INTRAcel (4)helps get rid of the turkey neck.
• Non-ablative lasers: Instead of removing the skin at the top layers, this method makes several devices send intense laser light below the surface of the skin to help build collagen. These non-ablative laser treatments include Fraxel Restore, N-Lite Pulsed Dye Laser, among others.
• Kybella injections: It can kill fat cells and help get rid of the turkey gobble neck in a matter of weeks and last for years.

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