Are you looking to reduce puffiness in your face? One of the things that I find useful to combat puffiness is having a good basic morning routine that you can always rely on, and which also involves face yoga.

Sometimes I don't have 30 minutes to commit to a longer workout, so I incorporate a basic 5-10 minutes of exercises into my daily routine. This could be as I am applying my serum or before I wash my face. This ensures I am keeping on top of relieving tightness and tension around some of the key areas on the face where we have lymphatic activity.

Are you finding puffiness an ongoing issue? Read below to find out some more ways to combat puffiness and why it could be happening.

If you are finding you have regular puffiness and only a small window of time to work out your face, try to focus on these areas in the morning. Around the jaw joint and underneath the jawline, and around the corners of the nose, which is the area moving down towards the mouth. Incorporate a Long Big O, and do some Cat Eyes. This will make sure that you continue to have flexible soft tissue, which is almost like a baseline for how you would want your face to be.

Incorporate the use of Gua Sha, because this will work in a way that promotes and causes lymphatic drainage. Facial Cups are great because they help to reduce and dissolve adhesions of the fascia in these areas. Both of these tools can be used in exercises for 5-10 minutes which will create results for you.

An area to focus on is the muscles underneath the jawline and neck, this is important as well to work on to reduce puffiness. Another key area to watch for puffiness is around the eye, under the eye area and down towards the side of the nose. Working daily with these areas to just make sure that there are no tight areas where kind of like lymphatic fluid is being locked in will make a big difference.

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These solutions are working on the physical face level. But what actually causes the puffiness? Why are some days different to others? What causes morning puffiness? There are several different reasons you can have a lot of regular puffiness.

Sometimes it's very simple. It may be stagnation of the face and just because you lay down and your body went into a deep state of rest, you wake up and then your face is puffy for lying down for a long period. But it can also sometimes be related to allergies.

Dust mite allergy is common and can affect the eyes and respiratory systems. This allergy will also make your eyes and face puffy as well.

The puffiness could be caused by food allergies. Another common effect is black mould.

Sometimes there is something in the environment you are in which your body is reacting to. This is not just average morning puffiness, but can be extra puffy eyes or face which can be the result of your lymphatic system having a lot of things to do and being impacted by something it is reacting to.

If you are finding you are having these reactions, it can be worthwhile to take an allergy test with a doctor. You can also experiment with different foods and see how they affect you. You can watch how you react in different rooms in your house or how you are sleeping. Once you start to map out different possibilities you may find what is the cause of your ongoing puffiness.

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