PREVENTING A SAGGY NECK Raise your chin, looking up as you press your jaw forward. Let your neck extend, allowing the muscles in front to relax as the side muscles (these are known as sternocleidomastoid muscles) are exercised. Hold the position for 5-10 seconds and then repeat it up to 10 times for the best results.
One of the best ways to tighten neck skin is to exercise regularly. This helps build up the muscles in your neck, which in turn will help support the skin and prevent it from sagging.
Natural ways to tighten your neck skin include hot stone massage, almond oil massage, stretching exercises, and various neck masks. Take collagen, avoid perfumes, take vitamin C, exfoliate and moisturize your skin, and maintain a healthy weight to keep your neck looking young and fresh.
Consistent exercise of the neck muscles can help build them back up. It also improves blood circulation in your neck which can give it a tighter, more trim appearance. Many facial and neck exercises claim to help alleviate turkey neck.
Unlike non-invasive treatments like exercises, skincare routines, or collagen supplements, plastic surgery is the only neck rejuvenation option that will remove excess neck skin and fat cells for long-lasting results. Neck surgery is an effective and safe way to treat sagging neck skin and muscles.
When you look down at the floor or up at the ceiling, you are stretching your neck. Over the years, all this stretching, along with the loss of collagen and elastin — two naturally occurring proteins — can cause the neck to age faster than the face.
Take a Collagen Supplement.
Collagen supplements, in the form of pills or a tasteless, dissoluble powder that can be added to your morning cup of coffee, can go a long way toward strengthening the skin all over your body, including your neck.
You can do this by placing your hands on the back of your head, and gently pushing your head backward. Once you feel resistance in the neck, hold that position for up to 10 seconds. Then, release and relax your neck. Repeat 5 times, making sure not to overdo it and cause unnecessary neck pain.
Obesity and increased neck circumference are risk factors for developing stretched-out and loose skin in the neck. Genetics can also make you more likely to naturally carry excess fat under your chin and along the neck. This additional fat can cause your skin to stretch and result in folds that resemble a turkey neck.
Often referred to as the 'non-surgical face lift', skin tightening treatments like Thermage® and Ultraformer III are highly effective in firming and lifting skin with little to no downtime. Thermage® uses radiofrequency energy, to deeply heat the skin. This stimulates collagen that will tighten and rejuvenate.
In addition to Ultherapy, Thread Lifting and Anti-wrinkle injectables, we also offer our patients radiofrequency (RF) neck treatments that encourage natural collagen renewal in our necks over time. These offer a fantastic way to maintain neck tightening results and prevent a wrinkly neck from forming in the future.
Just five minutes a day of regular tapping:
plumps the face and smoothes wrinkles by stimulating collagen production; normalizes the activity of oil and sweat glands.
Most people notice neck skin beginning to significantly sag and wrinkle around the age of 40. That's also when underlying platysmal muscles start to detach and loosen, their edges showing through thinning skin as vertical bands from the chin to collarbone.
A non-surgical neck lift
Injectables like Restylane or Botox are used in this procedure to give the skin lifting and tightened effect. This is the ideal procedure for patients looking to improve their appearance and reduce the signs of aging without committing to a surgical procedure.
As we get older, laxity in the neck occurs due to a loss of support from connective tissue and muscle. This leads to what we commonly call a “waddle” or “turkey neck" and looks like loose skin under our chin. The appearance of sagging skin on the neck can affect everyone.
Petroleum jelly is a strong moisturiser and moisturised skin is less likely to look older and the wrinkles would be less visible that way, but petroleum jelly alone can't actually prevent wrinkles.
Neck exercises
Just grab a pack of sugar-free chewing gum and chew it twice a day for 10 minutes. Doing so will help build muscle under your chin and in your neck, fighting off that double chin and turkey neck.