Thursday skin facts – Eye care
February 19th, 2009
As part of the Skin Fitness Facts weekly look at different skin facts, today we are focusing on the eyes and all the amazing skin facts about them.
- Tugging on your skin, squinting, and smiling can all cause fine lines, wrinkles, and crows feet, which are a result of a breakdown in collagen
- The area of your face in between your eyebrows is called the glabella
- Periocular is the name for the skin around the eyes
- Those of us with a light hair and eye color are more likely to get skin cancer
- Blinking produces 10,000 different eye movements each day
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyelids open
- The skin around the eye is ten times thinner than the rest of our skin
- Eating salty foods can cause bags to form under the eyes
- Most eye injuries are a result of mascara wands
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June 29th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
A good way to take care of your eyes is to take lots of vitamin-A and also some good eye rest..–
July 18th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
eye relaxation should always be a part of eye care as well as foods high in carotenes.~: