Best Face Cream After Botox?

There are not face creams with Botox, but there are many out there that claim to be as effective as Botox.
After your Botox treatment the best way to protect your investment is by avoiding sun damage, wearing sun block, and using a good facial cleanser, moisturizer, and exfoliant.

Botox is a toxin that has many benefits including cosmetic and medical uses. You can maximize your results by avoiding direct sunlight, tanning beds, face scrubs, face masks, and abrasive face washes or cleansers for at least a week after your treatment. Getting Botox treatments regularly is also a great idea. That way, your muscles will get weaker over time and the effects of Botox will last longer. It"s been also suggested that taking zinc contributes to Botox efficiency and delays deep lines forming for longer periods. Good luck.

A face cream is not a standard part of Botox injections although a face cream can certainly be used as part of your overall facial care.  I advise my patients not to apply a cream around the areas treated with Botox for at least a day after they are injected, to avoid spreading the Botox or causing more bruising.  Repeated Botox treatments will be needed to keep the wrinkles from returning.

To prolong the effects of Botox, you can eat a healthy diet, follow a good exercise regimen, don't smoke, keep stress levels to a minimum, reduce sugar intake and keep you skin protected from the sun (UV exposure is one of the main causes of wrinkles). There is also a product called TMR from Vivierskin. This serum helps prolong the effects of Botox.

Botox works on nerve fibers that connect to muscle tissue. It prevents the nerves from releasing a chemical called acetylcholine which causes the muscles to contract. So there is no need to be particular about the cream you should use after a Botox treatment.

When the Botox wears off after about 3-4 months, the original wrinkles will become apparent. While Botox can help address the muscle contraction that causes these wrinkles to develop, there is another component which is loss of firmness and elasticity in the skin. This is caused by the degeneration of collagen and elastin fibers in the skin.

Treating these wrinkles requires an intervention that helps promote the development of new collagen fibers. Lasers like Fraxel can be helpful for this purpose. Proper sun protection can help prevent wrinkles from becoming deeper and preventing new ones from forming.

 

there is no cream that inhibits muscle contraction yet, although one is being studied and it will not have the same potency as injectable Botox. It will be meant as an addition to your injections to maintain your results.

The fact that you are using Botox should not have an effect on which skin care products you use for your face. Ultimately, the wrinkles will return when the Botox wears off (3-4 months usually) and until then, feel free to use whatever skin care products you have enjoyed in the past.

There are many creams claiming to contain neuropeptides that act in a fashion similar to Botox bit there is no evidence that these work.
Just because a raisin is a dehydrated grape, it doesn't mean that rubbing water all over it will make it turn back into a grape.
There are few moisturizers that are superior to simple petrolatum jelly.

Botox is effective for the treatment of dynamic wrinkles. There are several creams that are prescription based that can work effectively alongside Botox injections to increase collagen content and increase skin resiliency.
Our office has an effective protocol pre and post Botox to eliminate static wrinkles and decrease the long term need for Botox.
Contact a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who is knowledgeable about skin stimulatory creams and its effects on skin vitality.

Sorry, there is no Botox cream. There are creams and ointments that claim they are "better than Botox." However, they work by a different mechanism. Botox works by paralyzing the underlying muscles which relax the overlying skin. The creams work by making the area you place them become swollen. The resultant effect is to slightly smooth out wrinkles temporarily (kind of like rehydrating a wrinkled raisin back into a smooth grape).
As far a smoothing out dynamic wrinkles (wrinkles that appear with movement of the face) there is absolutely nothing better than Botox.
David Shafer, MD
Shafer Plastic Surgery
New York City

Botulinum Toxin A (BOTOX) works by blocking the transmission of nerve signals to the muscle. The effect is generally limited to the muscles into which it is injected. This mechanism effectively causes a partial to full paralysis of the muscle. Return of this function comes when the connections between the nerve and the muscle regenerate new receptors. This process takes three to four months in most people, but can vary. So, your BOTOX injections can last longer or shorter than your friends.
Although there is no particular cream dispensed or recommended with BOTOX, Allergan (the makers of BOTOX) do distribute a topical skin treatment called Prevage MD.
Generally, it is wise to take care of your skin by keeping your body well hydrated, eating well, not smoking, not tanning, and using sunblock and moisturizer regularly.