Protect Your Eyes

A healthy person's eyes are clear, lively, and beautiful. Conversely, a sick or tired person has eyes that lose their natural shine, expressing sadness, melancholy, and suffering. Expressive eyes framed by long, dark eyelashes, complemented by a smooth, well-defined brow line, add beauty and attractiveness to the face.

Therefore, it is essential to take care of your eyes from an early age, systematically and knowledgeably.

Eye care consists not only of proper cleansing and creams, serums, and masks, but also includes exercises and compresses.

The strain on our eyes increases with age. To relieve eye tension, I recommend performing special eye exercises that engage usually inactive eye muscles. These can be done at any time of the day, but regularly and consistently.

This complex will also help keep your vision good for many years.

1. When your eyes are tired, a simple yet very effective exercise can relieve tension. From time to time, focus on a distant point (preferably looking at something green), then quickly shift your gaze to an object nearby (for example, the tip of your nose). Repeat 3-4 times.

2. Close your eyes as tightly as possible without wrinkling your face (the upper eyelid falls heavily on the lower one), count to five, then immediately open your eyes wide and lift your eyeball up, counting to five again. Relax. To avoid wrinkling your forehead, place your index fingers on your brow arches. Repeat 3-5 times.

3. Slowly, without turning your head, roll your eyes to the left as far as possible, count to five, then immediately repeat to the right. Your eyes return to the starting position. Now close them for a couple of seconds - pause. Repeat 3-4 times.

4. Blink as quickly as possible with both eyes (counting to ten), on the last count tightly squeeze your eyes shut without wrinkling your face, pause for 4-6 seconds. Then open your eyes and gaze at a distant point without tension for 3-5 seconds. Relax. Repeat 3-5 times.

5. Lift your eyes up as far as possible (index fingers on the brow arches), count to three. Then lower your eyes down - count to three. Close your eyes, pause for 1-2 seconds. Repeat 3-4 times.

6. Make slow circular movements with your eyes: left to right 2 times, right to left 2 times. Pause. Repeat 2-4 times.

The 3rd, 5th, and 6th movements can be replaced with the following exercises: hold a small round object at eye level approximately 25-30 cm away, slowly moving it first to the right, then to the left. Without turning your head, follow it with your eyes.

Compresses. The simplest one that alleviates inflammation is a milk compress. Soak a cotton pad in fresh milk and hold it on closed eyes for 4-5 minutes.

A compress made of olive oil combined with massage will help prevent premature wrinkles on the eyelids and around the eyes.

After the oil compress, you can massage your eyelids with an ice cube made from parsley broth.

To eliminate "crow's feet," every evening apply light massage movements with wheat or almond oil around the eyes. Leave it on for a quarter of an hour, then gently blot the excess oil with a napkin.

Especially effective is a mask for improving blood circulation:

Finely chopped parsley leaves and stems (1 teaspoon) mixed with sour cream (2 teaspoons). Apply the mask for 20-30 minutes. After that, wash your face with cool water. Apply face cream and eye cream.

Be sure to maintain a reasonable lifestyle: eight hours of sleep, proper hydration, abundant consumption of raw fruits and vegetables, normalization of bowel function (elimination of constipation), daily exercise, and walks in the fresh air!

Are we taking care of our eyes properly? We read lying down, often in poor lighting, and these little things accumulate a lot of problems.