The skin under the chin and on the neck has little collagen and elastin , two essential proteins for it to remain smooth. If to this is added that it is poor in sebaceous glands and that it dehydrates before, it is easy to understand why it ages faster than other areas.
Simultaneously, the muscles of the neck, little exercised, weaken as we get older . Everything conspires so that the subcutaneous fat accumulated under the chin, unrestrained by skin flaccidity and muscular softness , forms a second chin or double chin, one of the most frequent and feared aesthetic problems.
Another risk factor is the poor consistency of the lower jaw or maxilla . According to a study published recently in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surger , turning age is usually accompanied by changes in that bone, which tends to lose mass and offers less support to the tissues of the lower face and neck. . The consequence is that sagging that adorns the face of Jabba the Hut, the character from the Star Wars that this text illustrates.
