(Source: Nimrod)
When massaging the face, you should massage the skin lightly to plump up the flesh and contour the cheekbones. If you need to eliminate extra flesh or a double chin, you should feel at ease using friction, which is pressing your face skin hard to remove fat.
In addition to changing the shape, massaging the face helps to reinforce the muscles without pushing them down and to remove wrinkles so that the skin on the face remains smooth. It should be noted that as people age, their facial flesh tends to sag lower. It is usually advisable to massage muscles and cords to keep them from stretching in order to avoid this problem.
You must completely cleanse your face with hot water before massaging it. Why hot water? This is because it will unclog your pores, remove dust, and prepare your skin to receive ointment. Next, use cream-dipped fingers to gently massage your forehead in a circular motion, always pressing harder on the upward than the descending portion of the stroke.
Rotately massage the cheekbones and temples, paying closer attention to your chin. Try using each motion to smooth out wrinkles by rubbing the corners of your eyes with the tip of one finger. To prevent flesh from piling up beneath the tip of the chin, the stroke under the throat needs to be powerful and forceful, pointing in the direction of the ears.
Make every effort to ensure that finger motions glide over skin without causing tugging. Make sure to apply a lotion or cream to help your tissue. The choice must take into account the initial state of the face; if it is too far forward, an astringent lotion is advised; if it is too thin, a cream that thickens the skin may be used.
An ounce of pure gum benzoin mixed in half a pint of pure alcohol makes a mild astringent. In addition, it bleaches. Two and a half ounces of landline, a quarter of an ounce of spermaceti, two and a half ounces of freshly tried mutton tallow, two ounces each of coconut oil and sweet almond oil, a dram of benzoin tincture, and ten drops of neroli oil combine to make a flesh-making cream that is used when the face is thin.
Lanoline, spermaceti, and mutton tallow are melted in a China basin and placed in a dish of boiling water to combine the ingredients. Keep the fats from becoming too heated. If not, they will mix in the oils, take off the heat, beat in the neroli and benzoin gradually. When cooled, this ought to be a cream.
Twenty grams of sweet oil and thirty grams of lanolin make up a simpler cream. As described for the previous cream, these two are heated, and then half a gram of tannin is beaten in until liquid.
These are all applied in the same manner. A facial massage requires at least fifteen minutes, however more time can be allocated. Cold water should be applied to the area at the end of the therapy to tighten and stiffen the skin, which has been pliable from rubbing.