Anti Aging Skin Care

Anti aging skin care becomes increasingly important as you age. Between sun, soaps and stress, your skin takes a lot of abuse. As you get older your skin shows these effects even more.

What is it about our skin that changes as we age? There are lots of ideas about this, but one important change is loss of collagen and elastin. These two substances make up the deep structure of your skin and give it a natural healthy glow and fullness.

We start to lose collagen and elastin somewhere around age 35. After this, the effects of age will show up faster as years go by. Wrinkles and lines, discoloration and loss of skin tone result.

Slowing and Reversing the Process

Because we all get judged, at least in the beginning, by how we look, it makes sense to do what we can to improve our skin.

If you've spent any time researching this idea, you know that there are a bewildering number of choices. These range from creams and lotions to supplements and diets and even surgery to look better. What anti aging skin care is best?

We're going to look at some of the reasons behind why skin ages and also review some of the various ways you can turn this process around.

Causes of Skin Aging

Both external and internal factors affect our skin. Here's a short list of the external ones:

1. Exposure to environmental chemicals and toxins - Smog, smoke and household sprays can have a damaging effect on your skin.
2. Incorrect skin care practices - Most skin care specialists agree that one key is preventing dryness. The difficulty here is that there are different skin types that require different approaches to skin care.
3. Using harsh skin products - This has improved over the years since you can get better products now that you used to. Still, when you were younger this may have contributed to the skin aging process.
4. Too much sun - This is a tricky one since we actually need sun, just not too much. The question is, how much is too much?
5. Trauma - Not only major trauma, but also minor repetitive trauma, like propping up your face with your hands, can contribute to wrinkles and lines.

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