For overweight individuals, getting rid of their double chin is often as easy as losing some weight. When you exercise to lose weight, fat starts to come off all over the body. In fact, your face may be one of the first places you'll notice weight loss.

In addition, dieting to lose weight may decrease your double chin since many people notice weight loss in their faces first. Just like exercise, diet can help resolve the issue.

While we're discussing exercise, regardless of why you have a double chin, you can perform facial exercises to firm up and reduce the excess area on your chin. Although most people don't think of this solution, it's quite effective and a completely natural solution.

One popular facial exercise is called the shovel exercise and it's used to work a muscle in your jaw called the platysma. In basic terms, it requires opening your mouth as wide as you can and placing your bottom lip over your bottom teeth. Then just move your jaw up and down.

Smile - it can help reduce your double chin. And while you're at it, frown, look surprised and any other facial expression you can think of. Moving your face constitutes a form of exercise and that will help firm your skin.

Here's another facial exercise you can do at home. Get an orange, apple or small ball and hold in under your chin opening your mouth as wide as you can. This is a great move that will firm your chin up in no time.

Because your chewing muscles are the ones you want to exercise, consider chewing sugarless gum. You'll get plenty of work on your jaw and accelerate your progress.

Facial exercises are a cost effective way to lose your double chin and firm up your skin. In fact, they have the potential to give you the benefits of a face lift without the dangerous side effects of surgery.