Crow’s Feet: What Causes Them And How To Treat Them

We smile. We laugh. We frown. We cry. We squint. These expressions are a natural and important part of life. Unfortunately, they are also a big reason why crow’s feet around the eyes begin to form at an early age.

You could resolve never to show expressions with your face again, but where would the fun in that be? Thankfully, you don’t have to go to such extremes to prevent crow’s feet from forming.

This article will discuss seven ways you can treat crow’s feet without breaking the bank and without resorting to being stone-faced for the rest of your life. But first, a quick overview to understand what causes crow’s feet.

Where Do Crow’s Feet Come From?

The short answer is that crow’s feet are expression lines. Those smile lines you’ve got around your mouth or the little creases on your forehead? Those are expression lines also.

Expression lines are the little creases that develop from making the same facial expressions day after day, year after year.

In your younger years, your skin returns to its place after you raise your eyebrows, frown, or squint. But eventually, all that movement etches lines into your skin and you end up with expression lines that just stick around.

Everyone is unique and we all have our own distinct facial expressions, so expression lines may show up differently on every person. You might have frown lines, smoker’s lines, forehead lines, smile lines, or, of course, crow’s feet.

You could cut down on crow’s feet by avoiding facial expressions like smiling, laughing, and squinting. But since that doesn’t sound like a good plan, we’ll cut straight to the chase.

Here are seven ways to prevent and get rid of crow’s feet.

How To Get Rid Of Crow’s Feet

1) Add Natural Foods To Your Diet

Your diet is one of the most powerful wrinkle-fighting treatments available. You can, and should, treat crow’s feet from the outside (as we’ll discuss below), but that process can be supercharged by including natural foods with every meal.

These natural foods include water, fruits, vegetables, lean protein, nuts, and seeds. Water keeps your skin hydrated and healthy and helps to remove impurities and toxins that can damage the skin and cause crow’s feet to form.

Vegetables such as spinach, kale, peppers, and broccoli and fruits such as kiwi, oranges, blueberries, and raspberries provide essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that keep your skin young and healthy.

Lean proteins like chicken, fish, and tofu and nuts and seeds like almonds, walnuts, and sunflower seeds provide many of the essential amino acids that are necessary to keep the collagen and elastin in your skin healthy and vibrant.

Try including a piece of fruit with your breakfast, a spinach salad at lunch, and a piece of protein and a steamed vegetable for dinner. Between meals, snack on a handful of nuts and seeds and a cup of water instead of chips and a sugary drink.

By eating a healthy diet full of wrinkle-fighting foods, you provide your body with the best possible circumstances to smooth out the crow’s feet around your eyes.

2) Wear Sunscreen Whenever You’re Outside

No one wants sun-damaged skin, and the sun’s UV rays can wreak havoc on your crow’s feet. The damaging radiation can cause the premature breakdown of the collagen and elastin that gives your skin the support it needs to stay smoother longer.

For maximum protection, wear sunscreen whenever you go outside. Sunscreen can be applied over other creams and serums to provide an extra layer of UV-fighting protection that can help treat crow’s feet.

Choose a sunscreen that is at least SPF 30 or 45. These SPF levels will protect against 97-98% of the sun’s harmful rays. And don’t be fooled by ultra-high SPF numbers. They don’t really provide any more protection and can be very expensive.

Keep in mind that if you work in an office with a lot of windows, you may need to reapply your sunscreen more often to fully protect your skin.

While sun protection is your first line of defense against the collagen-destroying rays of the sun, it still pays to take extra measures to boost collagen production. We’ll let you in on an easy way to increase your collagen production: Sio Beauty patches.

These medical-grade silicone patches actually encourage collagen production in your skin. More collagen means more skin elasticity and firmer, smoother skin. That’s bad news for crow’s feet and any other wrinkles you’re trying to get rid of.

You can easily add SiO Beauty patches to your skin care routine because all you have to do is wear them while you get your beauty sleep.

Care for the collagen in your skin with sun protection by day and SiO Beauty patches by night!

3) Wear Sunglasses

When it comes to getting rid of crow’s feet, sunglasses are a must. And it’s not only because they protect your skin from the damaging rays of the sun, although they also do that.

Wear a pair of sunglasses on sunny days to keep you from squinting. Squinting is one of those repetitive facial movements that can contribute to expression lines like crow’s feet!

With a pair of fashionable sunglasses, you can kill two birds with one stone: provide some shade to protect the delicate skin around your eyes and keep yourself from squinting.

4) Eat Chocolate To Treat Crow’s Feet

Yes, you read that correctly. Eat chocolate to treat crow’s feet. Chocolate contains epicatechin and catechin, two natural chemicals that protect your skin against UV damage from the sun.

But before you run out and buy the big bag of candy bars, there are a few caveats to this statement.

First, you should eat chocolate in moderation. That doesn’t mean including it with every meal and as a between-meal snack. Doing that would negate the positive effects.

Rather, try including a small bit of chocolate once a day as a treat after lunch or dinner. This will give you the beneficial wrinkle-fighting effects without overloading your body with sugar.

Second, you should eat dark chocolate that is 70% to 85% cocoa instead of the more familiar milk chocolate. Along with supplying your skin with beneficial chemicals like flavonols, dark chocolate helps combat stress.

The cocoa in dark chocolate helps reduce the hormones that are released when stress does occur. Fewer hormones means less collagen breakdown. This, in turn, means fewer crow’s feet.

5) Moisturize And Hydrate Regularly

Your skin needs moisture and hydration to stay healthy. Without it, collagen and elastin begin to break down, your skin becomes dry and brittle, and free radicals, toxins, and impurities aren’t removed from your skin.

All of this can lead to the early onset of deep crow’s feet.

When shopping for a moisturizer, avoid products that contain phthalates, parabens, and petroleum products. These lab-produced chemicals can set up a layer of toxins that cut off your skin’s ability to breathe. This lack of oxygen completely defeats any moisturizing benefits you might receive.

Instead, look for products that contain organic moisturizers and natural vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Organic products like shea butter, licorice root, and aloe can naturally moisturize the skin without introducing harmful toxins or cutting off the skin’s oxygen.

Moisturizing your skin and hydrating your skin are slightly different concepts, but they go hand-in-hand.

Basically, hydrating is making sure your skin cells have plenty of water. Moisturizing is providing a barrier on the surface of your skin to keep all that hydration from evaporating off. It’s two sides of the same coin, and both are important for healthy, glowing skin.

Using SiO Beauty patches is one way to effortlessly up your hydration game. The patches create a special microclimate that draws moisture up from the deeper layers of your skin to the outside layer (the dermis).

This hydrates your skin and causes the dermis to plump and fill itself, which leads to less-visible wrinkles — that’s a win-win!

When it comes to treating crow’s feet, SiO Beauty has you covered with the Super EyeLift patches. But the goodness doesn’t stop there!

If you’ve got forehead wrinkles from too many years of raising your eyebrows, the SiO BrowLift is for you. Dealing with smoker’s lines? There’s a patch for that, too.

All you have to do is put the patches on before you hop into bed for the night, and they do the rest of the work. In the morning, take the patches off and save them for that night.

You can reuse the patches up to 15 times. That’s a lot of hydration and wrinkle-reduction!

6) Exfoliate With Witch Hazel

Exfoliation is the process of removing dead skin from around your eyes while at the same time stimulating skin-cell rejuvenation. Exfoliation essentially uncovers the newer, healthier skin.

Exfoliation causes the less-wrinkled skin underneath your crow’s feet to emerge faster than it would if you didn’t exfoliate.

There are two ways to exfoliate your skin: physical exfoliation and chemical exfoliation.

Physical exfoliation reveals fresh skin by literally scrubbing away the dead, top layer of skin. Exfoliant scrubs and pumice stones are physical exfoliants.

Chemical exfoliation uses acids to break down the skin cells on the surface of your skin, causing them to eventually slough off. Chemical exfoliants include harsh treatments like chemical peels, but there are also plenty of natural chemical exfoliants — citrus juices and baking soda fall into that category.

Like the chocolate example above (#4), exfoliation is best done in moderation. Over-exfoliating your skin can lead to dryness and increased oil production which can lead to other problems like acne.

It’s best to exfoliate once, or at most, twice a week. If you exfoliate twice a week, give at least two days between exfoliations to allow your skin to heal.

Additionally, it’s important to use a gentle, organic exfoliant like witch hazel instead of chemicals that can further damage your skin. Witch hazel is a natural astringent (tightens skin) that also provides anti-inflammatory properties that keep your skin happy and healthy.

For best results, exfoliate after your evening face wash to give your skin time to repair itself overnight. All it takes is a small amount of witch hazel and a cotton swab.

First, apply some witch hazel to a cotton ball or soft cotton pad. Then, gently dab the ball or pad on the crow’s feet around your eyes. Leave the witch hazel on your skin overnight for maximum benefits.

7) Get Powerful Results With A Wrinkle-Fighting Serum

One of the best ways to treat crow’s feet around the eyes is to use a wrinkle-fighting serum. Serums provide everything your skin needs to remain soft and smooth. The best natural serums work through a combination of powerful ingredients.

For example, stevioside prevents involuntary muscle contractions that cause skin to wrinkle. Vitamin C matrix reduces hyperpigmentation, spotting, blemishes, and uneven skin tone while at the same time maximizing hydration absorption.

Coconut oil smooths skin and provides youth-enhancing vitamins and minerals. Sunflower seed oil naturally repairs and promotes the skin’s natural toxin barrier. Black, white, and green teas provide plenty of antioxidant and anti-aging activity.

Simplify Your Beauty Routine To Treat Crow’s Feet Fast

The most effective crow’s feet treatment is simple: a healthy diet combined with a once-a-week exfoliation, sun protection, daily moisturizer, and SiO Beauty patches that will hydrate, increase collagen, and reduce wrinkles all in one fell swoop.

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