Wrinkle-reducing method

Claim 1

A method for reducing facial wrinkles comprising: 1. tightly applying to wrinkle prone areas of the human face a pressure-sensitive adhesive appliance in such a manner that the skin under the appliance is placed in a flattened and smoothed configuration; 2. allowing the appliance to remain in place for at least four hours; 3. removing the appliance and thereby strip therewith dead skin cells from the surface of the skin; and 4. repeating steps 1, 2 and 3 a plurality of times with no more than 48 hours elapsing between a repetition thereof and said repetition being continued for at least 15 days; and wherein the said appliance is capable of transmitting an amount of moisture at least equal to the moisture transmitted by the normal facial skin of a human at rest and wherein the appliance is comprised of a film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating thereon, said film having a tensile strength of at least 3 pounds per inch, and an ultimate elongation of between 20 and 150%, said pressure-sensitive adhesive providing an adhesion of between 5 and 50 ounces per inch between the adhesive and the film and between 2 and 30 ounces per inch between the adhesive and the skin and the adhesion between the adhesive and the film is greater than the adhesion between the adhesive and the skin.

Claim 2

A method for reducing facial wrinkles comprising: 1. tightly applying to wrinkle prone areas of the human face a pressure-sensitive adhesive appliance in such a manner that the skin under the appliance is placed in a flattened and smoothed configuration; 2. allowing the appliance to remain in place for at least four hours; 3. removing the appliance and thereby strip therewith dead skin cells from the surface of the skin; and 4. repeating steps 1, 2 and 3 a plurality of times with no more than 48 hours elapsing between a repetition thereof and said repetition being continued for at least 15 days; and wherein the said appliance is capable of transmitting an amount of moisture at least equal to the moisture transmitted by the normal facial skin of a human at rest and wherein the appliance is comprised of a film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating thereon, said film having a tensile strength of at least 3 pounds per inch, and an ultimate elongation of between 20 and 150%, said pressure-sensitive adhesive providing an adhesion of between 5 and 50 ounces per inch between the adhesive and the film and between 2 and 30 ounces per inch between the adhesive and the skin and the adhesion between the adhesive and the film is greater than the adhesion between the adhesive and the skin.