| Millions of people - both women and men - desire to always look young and healthy. While there is nothing unhealthy about wrinkles and sags - and many people move serenely through life accepting the way they look – let's face it: today's society demonstrates that beauty matters. And looking our best can strengthen self-confidence.
What makes skin age?
Have you ever wondered why some people have great-looking skin in their 40s, while others have to deal with signs of aging in their 20s?
Your skin becomes older according to your biological clock, which is influenced by your generic makeup, and your exposure to the sun. Excessive exposure to the sun's rays, as well as smoking, strain and environmental pollution, cause your skin to age faster than you do. Your skin loses moisture and collagen, the connective tissue that makes skin elastic and firm.
What's the result? Wrinkled sagging skin, age spots, fines lines, as well as an unbalanced distribution of fat.
How to take care of skin?
Everyday use of moisturizing products and sunscreens that protect the skin from UV-rays, both UVA and UVB, is one of the most effective ways to avoid skin damage, rejuvenate skin and shield yourself from skin cancer. You should select one with an SPF of at least 15. Begin using sunscreen when you are young.
Antiwrinkle products
There are many over-the-counter solutions for reducing wrinkles. These "cosmeceuticals" commonly contain - alpha hydroxyl acid, or AHA, antioxidants, retinoids, or tropical growth factors. Prescription retinoid creams are also available.
AHA creams can be used alone or combined with a retinoid to treat minor skin damage. They may improve the texture, make the skin firmer and more elastic by speeding up exfoliation and stimulating collagen. Retinoids work best when applied with AHA products. If used within a few years, they will keep on reversing skin aging, growth factors and antioxidants may also help reverse environmental damage to skin.
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