Saturday, 17 April 2010
Collagen, Hyaluronic Acid And Elastin. 3 Essential Skin Components You Must Replace As You Age
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As you age your skin starts to show the signs of aging, including developing wrinkles, fine lines, crows feet and that dry feel. Why does the skin wrinkle as you age and what can you do about it? Today I want to examine collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin to answer this question.
You've probably heard that one of the best ways to reduce the appearance of aging is to increase skin elasticity. Skin wrinkles are primarily formed by the loss of elasticity as you age, and as you age your skin starts to lose stores of collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin, 3 extremely components that help make up the elasticity of your skin.
Aging skin forms wrinkles gradually over time. There's a number of factors which cause this including cigarette smoking, excess consumption of alcohol, the gradual development of free radicals, excess exposure to the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight (sun damage), poor diet, low levels of exercise and more.
The results of all these causes is that skin starts to lose 2 essential proteins called collagen and elastin. These are largely responsible for maintaining elasticity and premature wrinkles will result from a premature reduction in elastin and collagen. That's why anti-aging skin care programs make every effort to increase levels of collagen and elastin.
But there's another component that is also important in the reduction of elasticity and that will also cause wrinkles with age. It's called hyaluronic acid.
Japanese women are renowned for looking great right into older age. Studies have shown that one of the major reasons for this is that hyaluronic acid is found in the Japanese diet in abundance. It helps the skin retain moisture, and loss of moisture as you age is detrimental skin health.
Hyaluronic acid also helps "plump" the skin making it look better and reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
However there is an enzyme in skin called hyaluronidase and this breaks down hyaluronic acid. As it is extremely important you don't want it broken down as you age.
The best anti-aging skin care products work by improving the stores of elastin and collagen in the skin whilst at the same time inhibiting the actions of hyaluronidase thereby improving the stores of hyaluronic acid. Doing both these things together is highly effective at repairing the damage caused by aging.
This is achieved by using a range of ingredients, but in particular one found in Japan, (and eaten by Japanese women), a seaweed called Phytessence Wakame which is highly effective at reducing the effects of hyaluronidase.
Whilst many products will attempt to increase the levels of elastin and collagen in your skin it is relatively unique to find one which increases skin elasticity by increasing elastin and collagen whilst at the same time which also includes ingredients that help limit the effects of hyaluronidase.
In fact the products work so effectively the company that manufactures them is able to offer a money back guarantee, something very rare in the skin care industry.
By Peter Geraldson
You've probably heard that one of the best ways to reduce the appearance of aging is to increase skin elasticity. Skin wrinkles are primarily formed by the loss of elasticity as you age, and as you age your skin starts to lose stores of collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin, 3 extremely components that help make up the elasticity of your skin.
Aging skin forms wrinkles gradually over time. There's a number of factors which cause this including cigarette smoking, excess consumption of alcohol, the gradual development of free radicals, excess exposure to the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight (sun damage), poor diet, low levels of exercise and more.
The results of all these causes is that skin starts to lose 2 essential proteins called collagen and elastin. These are largely responsible for maintaining elasticity and premature wrinkles will result from a premature reduction in elastin and collagen. That's why anti-aging skin care programs make every effort to increase levels of collagen and elastin.
But there's another component that is also important in the reduction of elasticity and that will also cause wrinkles with age. It's called hyaluronic acid.
Japanese women are renowned for looking great right into older age. Studies have shown that one of the major reasons for this is that hyaluronic acid is found in the Japanese diet in abundance. It helps the skin retain moisture, and loss of moisture as you age is detrimental skin health.
Hyaluronic acid also helps "plump" the skin making it look better and reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles.
However there is an enzyme in skin called hyaluronidase and this breaks down hyaluronic acid. As it is extremely important you don't want it broken down as you age.
The best anti-aging skin care products work by improving the stores of elastin and collagen in the skin whilst at the same time inhibiting the actions of hyaluronidase thereby improving the stores of hyaluronic acid. Doing both these things together is highly effective at repairing the damage caused by aging.
This is achieved by using a range of ingredients, but in particular one found in Japan, (and eaten by Japanese women), a seaweed called Phytessence Wakame which is highly effective at reducing the effects of hyaluronidase.
Whilst many products will attempt to increase the levels of elastin and collagen in your skin it is relatively unique to find one which increases skin elasticity by increasing elastin and collagen whilst at the same time which also includes ingredients that help limit the effects of hyaluronidase.
In fact the products work so effectively the company that manufactures them is able to offer a money back guarantee, something very rare in the skin care industry.
By Peter Geraldson
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