| The craving to look young and healthy motivates both women and men to look for treatments that better the appearance of their skin. While there is nothing unhealthy about wrinkles and sags - and a lot of people accept the way they look – let's face it: today's society sends the message that beauty matters. And looking our best can strengthen self-confidence.
So if you've reckoned you have to live with wrinkles and sagging skin, here is an eyebrow raiser: cosmetics and medical treatments can make your skin look much younger and healthier at any age.
How does your skin age?
Have you ever wanted to know why some 40-year-olds have great-looking skin, while some 20-year-olds show signs of aging?
Your biological clock, which is preset by your generic makeup, and your exposure to the sun cause your skin to age. Overexposure to the sun, as well as smoking, environmental pollution and strain, speed skin aging. Your skin lacks moisture and collagen - the connective tissue that gives skin its elasticity and firmness. As a result, you have to deal with wrinkled sagging skin, age spots, as well as an unbalanced distribution of fat.
How to take care of skin?
Daily use of moisturizing products and sunscreens which protect the skin from UV-rays, both UVA and UVB, is one of the most efficient means of preventing skin damage, rejuvenating skin and shielding yourself from skin cancer. Choose one with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15. Begin applying sunscreen at an early age.
Antiwrinkle products
There are a great many over-the-counter products for reducing wrinkles. These "cosmeceuticals" usually contain: alpha hydroxyl acid (AHA), retinoids, antioxidants, or tropical growth factors. Prescription retinoid creams are available, too.
AHA creams can be applied alone or together with a retinoid to treat minor skin damage. They may improve the texture, quality and elasticity of your skin by speeding up exfoliation and stimulating the production of collagen. Retinoids work better when applied with AHA products. If used within a few years, they will keep on reversing skin aging, antioxidants and growth factors may also help reverse environmental damage to skin.
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