Free Facial Exercises For The Mouth & Jowls

The facial exercises in this article can help to tone your lower face and prevent or reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

Face exercises should be done with clean hands so as to avoid transferring germs to the face. It is also recommended to lightly moisture your face.

• Mouth Exercise

• Jowls Exercise

Facial Exercises For The Mouth

This face exercise will help to firm the muscles around your mouth, giving your mouth and lips a fuller appearance.

• Place one finger from each hand inside the corners of the mouth.

• Pull the mouth slightly apart.

• Pull your mouth closed (sideways), working against the resistance created by the pull of your fingers.

• Relax, and open the mouth.

• Repeat this 30 times.

Alternative Face Exercise For The Mouth

This facial exercise targets the corners of your mouth, and helps to prevent the corners of the mouth sagging downwards. Sagging mouth corners make you look unhappy when your mouth is closed.

• Grab the inside corners of your mouth with your thumb and finger.

• Your finger with be inside your mouth, your thumb will be outside on top.

• Open and close your mouth (sideways), working against the resistance created by your fingers.

• Repeat this 20 times.

Facial Exercise For The Jowls

This face exercise targets the jowls. When your jowls sag it makes the lower face appear to droop downwards over the jaw line.

• Place four fingers from each hand along the jaw line.

• You should place your pinky finger in line roughly where the corner of your mouth ends (still on your jaw line).

• Smile so that you move the corners of your mouth upwards.

• When you do this correctly you should feel the skin under your fingers working against the resistance of your fingers (being pulled upwards).

• Repeat this 20 times.

• You can do this jowl exercise with both jowls at the same time or a separate jowl each time.

Whenever you do facial exercises try to locate the correct muscles on your face by feeling the resistance created when you do the face lifting exercises.

You will know when you have the right spot because it will feel right.