| Both women and men desire to look healthy and young. While there is nothing unhealthy about wrinkles and sags - and a great many people accept the way they look – let's face it: today's society sends the message that beauty counts. And looking our best can strengthen self-confidence.
So if you've reckoned you have to live with wrinkles and sagging skin, here is what can be done: skin care and medical treatments abound to make your skin look younger and healthier at any age.
How does your skin age?
Have you ever wanted to know why some people have great-looking skin in their 40s, while some 20-year-olds show signs of aging?
Your skin becomes older according to your biological clock, which is set by your generic makeup, as well as your exposure to the sun. Excessive exposure to the sun, as well as smoking, pollution and stress, cause your skin to age faster than you do. Your skin lacks moisture and collagen, the connective tissue that makes skin elastic and firm.
What's the result? Fine lines, wrinkles, sags and age spots, as well as an uneven distribution of fat.
Basic skin care
Everyday use of moisturizing products and sunscreens that protect the skin from UV-rays, both UVA and UVB, is one of the best means of preventing skin damage, rejuvenating skin and protecting yourself from skin cancer. Select one with an SPF of at least 15. Start using sunscreen at an early age.
Antiwrinkle solutions
There are a great many non-prescribed solutions to reduce wrinkles. They typically contain: alpha hydroxyl acid (AHA), antioxidants, retinoids, or tropical growth factors. There are also prescription retinoid creams.
AHA creams can be applied alone or combined with a retinoid to treat mildly damaged skin. They may better the texture, quality and elasticity of your skin by speeding the removal of dead skin cells and stimulating collagen. Retinoids work much better when combined with AHA products. If used over 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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