How To Prevent Aging Skin

Prevent Aging Skin---What you need to know

If you want to slow down the aging process and look younger, it all comes down to showing some love to the skin you're in!

Visible Signs Of Aging Skin

• Dryness & roughness
• Fine lines & wrinkles
• Development of jowls, a drooping neck & jaw line
• Hyperpigmentation
• Sagging, lax appearance from loss of volume, strength & elasticity.

Who Ages Faster

Those with light eyes and a fair complexion are at greater risk of sun damage and so age faster than those with darker complexions

   8 Tips To Prevent Aging Skin

Genetics account for skin colour and texture but these lifestyle changes can make all the difference in skin aging.

1.Get Sun Protection: The sun is the single greatest ager of skin, and the damage done is cumulative. Always wear a broad - spectrum sunscreen with at least 30 SPF, even on cloudy or overcast days.

2. Get More Fruits & Veggies: These nutritious foods are packed with vitamins, minerals and phytonutries that help, support and protect the skin.

3. Get Off  Cigarettes: Repeated puffing intensifies wrinkles around the mouth. Cigarette smoke significantly increases dryness & wrinkles overall.

4. Get A Grip On Alcohol: Alcohol dehydrates and depletes skin of its nutrients, causing a dull appearance. It also dilates small blood vessels & inceases blood flow near the skin's surface, contributing to an aged look.

5. Get Relief For Stress: Our bodies under stress produce a hormone called cortisol that raises blood sugar levels. This initiates glycation, a process that damages collagen, leading to increased lines and wrinkles.

6. Get More Sleep: Lack of sleep encourages dark circles and bags under the eyes, and noticeably dull and droopy skin.

7. Get Physically Active: Exercise gets your blood flowing, and this means increased oxygen and nutrients carried to the skin.

8. Get Aware of Expressions: Repeated facial expressions can cause frown lines that contribute to an aged appearance.

Blepharoplasty

Getting your eyes done was the most popular facial procedure performed on both women and men in 2012

8 Anti Aging Skin Care Ingredients

Look for these 8 proven anti - aging ingredients in your skin care products 

1. Retinoids: Forms of vitamin A that speed up cell turnover, retinoids help remove dead skin cells that can clog pores and make skin look dull. They boost collagen & elastin production by stimulating cellular repair, and increase blood-vessel formation.

2. Alpha - Hydroxy Acids: AHAs such as glycolic, lactic, tartaric, and citric acids, removc dead and damage cells, reduce fine lines, age spots, acne scars, and help even out discolouration.

3. Hyaluronic Acid: Hyaluronic acid is a humectant that absorbs water-- about 1000 times its weight---and plumps skin. It aids in the repair and regeneration of skin affected by dryness, environmental stress or irritation.

4. Antioxidants: Antioxidants counteracts the effects of harmful free radicals-- molecules that form in the body as a result of damage from UV rays and other environmental irritants--and help to preserve DNA, collagen & elastin.

5. Peptides: Also known as copper pepectides are regarded by some as the most effective skin renewal ingrdient. They are small proteins that not only acts as antioxidants, but also stimulate collagen & elastin production.

6. Ceramides: Ceramides helps skin recover from sun damage dryness & irritation. They also help regulate cell activity and may prevent the loss of collagen & elastin.

7. DNA-Repair Ingredients:  Compounds derived from plants sources have been found to restore DNA that has been damaged by free radicals, help reverse sun damage & stimulate collagen production.

8. Lighteners: To help even out sun spots, blotches, and mottled skin, a little hydroquinone can work wonders. Alternatives using kojic acid or othher non- hydroquinone skin- lighteners also available.

8 Anti - Aging Skin Care Treatments

Are you a smoker or spend too much time in the sun and want to undo the damage? Well, Today's aesthetic industry offers a wide range of treatments to heal damaged skin and prevent future aging.

1. Facials: From deep cleansing to gentle moisturizing, facials are available in a variety of beauty and medical settings.

2. Microdermabrasion: Uses fine crystals and want to slough off dead cells, leaving the skin surface smooth. Ideal for sun-damaged skin

3. Chemical Peel: Combines ingredients such as glycolic acid & AHAs to slough off dead skin cells and create a smooth skin surface.

4. Laser or Light based Therapies: Includes PhotoFacial, IPL(Intense pulse light) laser treatments, laser skin resurfacing that reduces hyperpigmentation and broken cappillaries. Shrinks pore size and smoothes skin with little to no downtime.

5. Fractional Skin Resurfacing (FRAXEL, STARLUX): Laser Treatment creates microscopic wounds that penetrates beneath the skin's outermost layer. Triggers production of collagen & new skin cells. Improves skin tone and pore size, removes hyperpigmentation, smoothes wrinkles & acne scars.

6. Injectables(BOTOX): Injectable paralyzing agent that blocks nerve impulses. When introduces into facial muscles, causes temporary muscle relaxation and thereby smoothes wrinkles.

7. Fillers: Injectable compounds that use hyaluronic acid (Captique, Hylauform, Juvederm, Perlane, Restylane) or other fillers (Radiesse, Sculptra).

8. Cosmestic Facial Surgery: Surgical procedures to improve appearance and the signs of aging include chin implants, eyelift (lower & upper), forehead lift, facelift and nose job.

References:American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), Cosmetic Surgery National Data Bank 2012