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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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Sure you burn calories and release endorphins with sex, but did you also know that you improve your skin’s fitness with sex?

Oxytocin, which is released during orgasm, is a hormone and a neurotransmitter within the brain. Oxytocin has many great benefits:

• Promotes sleep
• Relaxes you and decreases anxiety, stress
• Encourages feelings of trust and love

Now it might be a stretch, but let’s think about this in terms of skin fitness. With enough sleep and low stress don’t you think your skin would look better?

Skin tip – The more nooky you have, the more rested and relaxed you will look. How’s that for taking a few years off your skin.

Dry skin is part genetics, part hydration levels, and definitely a result of the weather-particularly winter weather.

If the chill has got your skin looking ashy and feeling scaly, consider these skin facts.

• There may be more moisture in your skin than in the air, which is why moisture is evaporating from your skin. Try a humidifier and lowering your thermostat to even out moisture levels in the air at home.
• Baths, long showers, and hot showers pull all the oil from your skin. Try short, cool showers instead.
• Your skin can only absorb so much product at one time. Apply a bit of moisturizer throughout the day. I’ve gotten the best results from shea butter.

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