Is there such a thing as anti aging skin care? Or is it all just a hype to create a multi-billion dollar industry built on the dreams of the (forever young at heart) population.
Is it a way to fleece our insecurities about ourselves as our bodies begin to show the changes that come with aging?
What is it about aging that we are unwilling to accept and fight like crazy to prevent from happening?
What processes does our skin go through that we are trying to reverse?
Is there an antiaging skin cream out there that will help to reverse the signs of aging and that will not cause us increased problems, or even premature aging because of the ingredients that have been used to create the so called (magic potion).
There is no doubt about it, myself included, that our skin begins to give our age away and even if you are like me and trying to reverse the trend through becoming more active, exercise and diet conscious it seems that our skin can still prevent us from successfully masking what we are desperately trying to hide, Our Age!
How the Skin Ages
The skin is made up of three layers:
a) subcutaneous: where the fat is stored.
b) dermal: contains many structures including nerve cells, sweat glands, hair bulbs etc.
c) epidermal: where new skin cells (including pigmentation cells) are created and migrate through 5 layers until they are dead cells that provide us with the top layer of skin that we lose daily.
Although our skin ages all the time throughout our lives it only really begins to show the signs of aging when we reach our late 40s and most of the aging that our skin goes through takes place in the dermal layer. Below is a list of what is happening to each of us:
a) Collagen: cells decrease or stiffen and break apart
b) Elastin: elastic fibres lose some of their elasticity, stiffen
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