| Millions of people - both women and men - crave to maintain a young, healthy look. There's nothing unhealthy about wrinkled or sagging skin, and many people move serenely through life accepting the way they look. However, society, nowadays, demonstrates that beauty matters.
So if you have reckoned you have to accept wrinkles and sagging skin, here's an eyebrow raiser: skin care and medical treatments can make your skin look younger and healthier at any age.
What makes skin age?
Do you why some 40-year-olds have gorgeous-looking skin, while others have to deal with signs of aging in their 20s?
Your skin ages according to your biological clock, which is set by your generic makeup, and your exposure to the sun. Excessive exposure to the sun's rays, as well as smoking, environmental pollution and stress, cause your skin to age quicker than you do. Your skin loses moisture and collagen - the connective tissue which makes skin elastic and firm. Consequently, you have to deal with wrinkled sagging skin, age spots, as well as an unbalanced distribution of fat.
Basic skin care
Everyday use of moisturizers and suncreams protecting the skin from ultraviolet rays, both UVA and UVB, is one of the best ways to prevent skin damage, rejuvenate skin and shield yourself from skin cancer. Select one with an SPF of at least 15. Start applying sunscreen at an early age.
Antiwrinkle solutions
There are a lot of non-prescribed solutions for reducing wrinkles and fine lines. They commonly contain - alpha hydroxyl acid (AHA), antioxidants, retinoids, or tropical growth factors. There are also prescription retinoid creams.
AHA creams can be applied alone or together with a retinoid to treat mildly damaged skin. They may improve the texture, quality and elasticity of your skin by speeding exfoliation and stimulating the production of collagen. Retinoids work better when used with AHA products. If applied over a period of years, they will continue to reverse skin aging, antioxidants and growth factors may also help to reverse environmental damage to skin.
With such variety, ask your doctor to recommend a proper skin care routine. |
