Face Roller: Reduce the appearance of wrinkles, stretch marks, acne and scars!

I was in Daiso, a Japanese retailer of cool prod­ucts and there was a small beauty sec­tion.  The beauty sec­tion had an assort­ment of hard to find face rollers.  The Japanese are renowned through­out the world for prod­ucts that are high qual­ity, have great design and atten­tion to price.

It has been an Asian urban myth of mas­sag­ing your face or using a face roller for younger, firmer skin with­out wrin­kles.  My friend’s mother swears by her daily mas­sage using her fin­gers with lotion.   Her mother looks like her sis­ter rather than her mother with her youth­ful face.

Japanese Face Roller

So I pur­chased this face roller at my Japanese “Target” store, Daiso for $1.50.  The Daiso online store sells 12 pieces for $22.

What is the sci­ence or rea­son behind stim­u­lat­ing your face to reduce wrin­kles and help with acne/scars?

Micro needling is a pro­ce­dure at a pro­fes­sional dermatologist’s office where a device is rolled over your face and body.   The Microneedling Roller is a easy to use device with many ster­il­ized tiny nee­dles which, {when rolled over the epi­der­mis or top layer of skin}, del­i­cately sep­a­rate the pores of the epi­der­mis and induce the heal­ing process increas­ing the pro­duc­tion of col­la­gen and elastin.  In essence, the stim­u­la­tion of the skin causes your skin to “nat­u­rally heal” itself.

Aging skin heals and reju­ve­nates itself more slowly than the 2–4 week cycle of younger skin.  Skin with scars and other skin con­di­tions also heal faster with this extra col­la­gen result­ing from stim­u­la­tion from any of these devices that roll over your skin and irri­tate the top layer.

For acne scars, Stretch marks and face wrin­kles to be removed, it is essen­tial for the skin to have rea­son to restart heal­ing itself pro­duc­ing more col­la­gen and elastin, micro needling achieves this by gen­tly open­ing the pores of the epi­der­mis giv­ing the impres­sion of a trauma on the skin and in need of repair.  Micro needling or using rollers may help with the fol­low­ing: Stretch marks, Cellulite, Wrinkles, pit­ted skin, acne scars, surgery scars, scars, crow’s feet.

The effects do not appear to have clin­i­cal tri­als or sci­en­tific evi­dence but rather a plau­si­ble the­ory.    Studies have shown that men age less and have smoother skin in their beard area which is phys­i­cally exfo­li­ated reg­u­larly.  This phys­i­cal exfo­li­a­tion (or stim­u­la­tion) may help the skin regen­er­ate nat­u­rally to keep the skin look­ing more youthful.

Dermaroller also has a faceroller or micro need­ing prod­uct for 99 Euros.

Testimonitals for Dermaroller:

Hi, I had a der­maroller a few years ago. I found it too irri­tat­ing and painful, did not work for me.

42 yr old woman, nat­ural straw­berry blonde so fair skin, blue-eyed, and dry skin