Types of Face Massage

What are the benefits of doing face massage?

This is considered to be one of the best anti-aging treatments that you can give your skin. It helps to relieve stress, headaches, PMS symptoms, and helps you attain younger looking, healthy skin.

The treatment can be done by a professional massage practitioner, by an esthetician, or by you at home.

Some people choose to have the entire one-hour session receiving just facial massage, or enjoy it as a tradition part of a full body treatment.

Many women consider facial massage to be an essential part of their beauty routine. In some countries, women get facial massage weekly to rejuvenate and restore a youthful appearance.

What are the different types of massage therapy for the face?

• Traditional Facial Massage (see steps below) uses circular motions, sweeping motions, with light strokes around nose, sinuses and cheekbones to release sinus congestion, and reduce puffiness, swelling and inflammation.

• Ayurveda Face Massage is specialized type of Indian massage because it is uniquely tailored for the individual. The massage therapist will start by studying your face and asking questions about your lifestyle to determine the massage technique and what combination of herbal oils to use.

  These techniques help to improve the condition of the skin, encourage natural oils to flow freely, release tensions within connective tissue, and naturally tone muscles.

• Chinese Facial Massage helps reduce facial muscle problems and stress lines, as well as helping to tone, lift, remove tension. This type of massage therapy works 25-27 pressure points in the face, upper body and hands.

• Stone Facial Massage teaches how to use the warm basalt stones and the cool marble stones on the face to activate 12 facial energy points. Produced by Nature's Stones Inc, this DVD comes with users manual which contains pictures of how to provide this treatment.

This is a facial massage video using the massage stones.

Some therapists use only the warm basalt stones for the face, some use only the cool stones, many use both.

Steps of traditional face massage

Here are a few steps to use when doing a facial massage:

1) Slowly apply circulars motions to the temples. After 5-6 circles, slow down and gently stop and hold for a few seconds.

2) Again, begin using circular motions at the temples. Move down the jawline using those same circular movements.

3) As you make your way back up the jawline, move toward the bridge of the nose.

4) Using your thumbs, slowly make light strokes toward the cheekbone from the bridge of the nose.

5) Now, move toward the chin with circular motions by using the thumb and forefinger to create a sweeping motion toward the ear. Repeat 2-3 times.

6) Move toward the ears and lightly pull at the earlobes.

7) Next, use slow, gentle, circular motions around the cheekbone.

8) Move back toward temples and repeat the circular motions.

9) Next, using the entire palm-side of the hands, start at the chin and sweep the hands down toward the neck and then back up and over ears and temples, adding very light, holding pressure at the temples. Repeat 2-3 times.

10) End by doing neck and shoulder massage for 2-3 minutes. Long sweeping motions around top of the shoulders and up the back of the neck are great. Repeat 2-3 times.

Scalp work is wonderful at the end and your client will love ending with 1-2 minutes of this work.

At this point you can repeat any of the steps, use cool facial stones, if you have them, or continue on with the rest of the massage session.

Read more about the benefits of facial massage.

Use it with confidence on all skin types- the unique blend of light emollients and natural botanicals assures comfort and glide throughout the facial massage.

This lotion always leaves the skin glowing and radiant.

Contains nourishing, skin-smoothing White Lily and Rosehips with anti-aging Vitamin C, Cucumber and Papaya. It will relax the muscles and make the face feel rejuvenated and refreshed.

There are many benefits of coconut oil used in the face massage. Coconut oil moisturizer helps premature aging, wrinkles and skin sagging and is used in many body care products as well as in Ayurvedic massage treatments.