Saturday, November 1, 2008

What Are Age Specific Skin Care Items?

By Andi Bradshaw

Anyone who wants great looking skin needs it, because prevention works so much better than correction. As an esthetician, I find that most women realize the importance of daily moisturizing, but most do not consistently exfoliate and use facial masks. These give you the visual benefit while moisturizing gives you the beneath the surface benefit. .

In your Teens and Twenties, most young women don't see serious signs of aging unless they have been extreme sun worshippers. What you will see is the accumulation of dead skin cells, which equals skin texture that looks uneven and a loss of your healthy, natural, youthful radiance. You'll need to be sure that sun screens are in all your products. If you spend 3 minutes, on your face - twice daily - in 21 days you'll have established a skin care routine and you'll never regret it.

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.

In your Forties, you body will produce less collagen and elastin which is what supports the moisture in your skins cells and keeps your skin firm. As a result you'll begin to see a lack of firmness which means that those fine lines and wrinkles that appeared in your thirties, will deepen and become wrinkles. Now, lifting and firming or anti-aging are the ingredients you should be looking for in your day and night moisturizers.

Every type of skin can depend on becoming dryer when you get to your Fifties, particularly when exposed to extreme climates. Dry skin is due to a loss of moisture and that loss translates to relaxed skin along the jawline and neck area, and those wrinkles become creases. That's why you'll need to add more hydration and vitamins to your list of anti-aging, lifting and firming ingredients in your hydrating products.

In your SIXTIES and OLDER, the dark spots appear on your face, neck and hands. Your face and neck will show extreme loss of elasticity. Your relaxed skin will become sagging skin. Your forehead and above the nose creases will become furrows and you'll need to add anti-age spot treatments to the strongest possible lifting and firming additives, in your twice daily skin care regime.

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. - 16003

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