Friday, October 31, 2008

What's The Best Age To Begin Skin Care?

By Andi Bradshaw

Everyone really needs and should use skin care items, if they want to prevent skin care problems, instead of trying to correct them. I'm an esthetician so I know that the average woman uses a moisturizer, but most don't understand why they need twice weekly exfoliating. Although twice daily moisturizing is great at working under the skins' surface to help retain it's health, exfoliators work on the top side of the skin and give immediate results.

In your Teens and Twenties, you probably won't see any real signs of aging unless you've spent many long days in the sun. You can expect to see patches of dull or dead facial skin cells which result in a loss of your youthful, natural radiance due to uneven texture. At this age you'll need to be sure to use a sun screen.

Your THIRTIES will bring skin that begins to look tired and dull, and you'll begin to see tiny lines around your mouth and eyes and if you have oily skin your pores will begin to enlarge. Now you'll need to be sure your moisturizers have anti-oxidants because twice weekly exfoliating and twice daily moisturizing with those anti-oxidants is needed to keep your face and neck, youthful and healthy looking. If you're not using an eye cream, twice daily - you should be.

By the time you've reached your FORTIES, your neck and facial skin cells lose their strength because the collagen and elastin in your skin lessens, and your skin is unable to hold the moisture that helps keep it firm. Because of that lack of firmness, the tiny lines you saw in your thirties, deepen and become wrinkles; this is the age when you'll begin to add anti-aging treatments to your routine. Your moisturizers should also contain anti-aging (elastin and collagen) and firming ingredients.

When you get to your FIFTIES, no matter what type skin you have, you can count it becoming dryer, especially in cold weather. That loss of moisture means you can add the look and feel of relaxed neck and facial skin to your list of aging symptoms, particularly along your jaw line, and your wrinkles become creases. Therefore, your face and neck will need moisturizers with more hydration and vitamins, along with those anti-aging and firming ingredients.

When you reach your Sixties or better, your skin will exhibit extreme loss of firmness as well as the appearance of those sun spots on your hands, face and neck. The skin that was relaxed in your fifties is now sagging skin. The creases above your nose, in your forehead and laugh lines will become furrows and spot dissolvers will need to be added to the strongest possible lifting and firming ingredients in you skin care routine.

This information was written to make you aware of what to expect if you get to a particular age without the use of skin care. If you do consistently use a twice daily skin care routine for your age and skin type, you'll always look years younger than other women your age. - 15275

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