Prevent sleep wrinkles - Habitage

Kitman

Repeated pressure of sleeping on your side contributes to face and chest wrinkles. 

Pillows and mattresses compress, stretch, push, and pull your skin overnight, which can lead to sleep wrinkles over time. The market is filled with products that claim to prevent the problem.

You can use all the anti-wrinkle creams, and even sunscreens but that mechanical force is still acting on the skin every night 

The best way to prevent these wrinkles is by sleeping on your back.

Started sleeping on my back this month.

donnac2558

Silk pillowcases there you go.   

You sleep on your back and just find you turn over in your sleep, oh and you will snore.

Spoonie_Turtle

donnac2558 said:

Silk pillowcases there you go.   

You sleep on your back and just find you turn over in your sleep, oh and you will snore.

I use satin pillowcases to protect my hair, though since then I have read they help prevent wrinkles. I've since had an ongoing massive eczema flare which has made my skin unrecognisable in places so I really can't say whether the pillowcase has helped at all!

Either way, I sleep terribly on my back (takes forever to get to sleep, then vivid dreams and waking up at all sorts of things that wouldn't normally disturb me) so that's never going to be an option for me.

Kitman

donnac2558 said:

You sleep on your back and just find you turn over in your sleep, oh and you will snore.

That's so true.  But those wrinkles. I am going to combat  

donnac2558

Hate to tell you but NOTHING will stop ageing wrinkles.   If a cure if you want to call it that then no one would get them and the cosmetics companies will be out of business.   You start your skincare at an early age teenage and it helps lessen the look but as you age collagen etc breaks down in the skin.  Oh and all those wonder creams with collagen the molecule is actually too big to penetrate the upper layer of the skin.

Gers

Last year I had a hip replacement and the worst part of the whole thing was having to sleep on my back for at least six weeks.  It was so uncomfortable, my mouth would fall open and I'd end up with an extremely dry mouth which was awful.  Mostly I didn't sleep much.  When I was able to lie on my side again  it was bliss, I'll take the wrinkles thank you. 

Worse thing for getting wrinkles is smoking, not sleeping!

Kitman

donnac2558 said:

Hate to tell you but NOTHING will stop ageing wrinkles.  You start your skincare at an early age teenage and it helps lessen the look but as you age collagen etc breaks down in the skin.  Oh and all those wonder creams with collagen the molecule is actually too big to penetrate the upper layer of the skin.

I don't say about  ageing wrinkles. Those are sleep wrinkles. 

In theory you can get sleep wrinkles in 20 if sleep just in one constant pose for some years every night for 8 hours.

donnac2558

Oh, I am 62 and never got the sleep wrinkles!

But then I have never slept for 8 hours and must move in my sleep as most people do.

Kitman

Gers said:

Worse thing for getting wrinkles is smoking...

No doubt about it.

RalphWiggam

What is wrong with wrinkles?  Too many other problems in the world to worry about a few wrinkles, we will all get them, if we are lucky.

Spoonie_Turtle

RalphWiggam said:

What is wrong with wrinkles?  Too many other problems in the world to worry about a few wrinkles, we will all get them, if we are lucky.

True - growing old is a privilege not afforded to all. One of my favourite lines (from a sci-fi programme, no less!) referred to wrinkles as wisdom creases and memory lines.

I personally am quite happy to have lines and wrinkles due to natural ageing - but I also don't want to hurry them along unnecessarily I suppose if one sleeps on one particular side far more often than the other, and doesn't move in their sleep (like a previous poster, I don't move either) then it could look odd after some years with one side more wrinkled than the other! Like you say, it's not the worst thing in the world but at the same time, we are allowed to have relatively frivolous preferences and considerations as well - what would life be without the little things?