Many women suffer from sagging skin as they age
Sagging skin. It bedevils so many women as they age, and is one of the most unsightly signs of ageing skin. Let’s have a look at what causes sagging skin and consider if you have any options at treating it.
When you were in your teens your skin never sagged at all. It was elastic and supple and if you pinched and pulled a piece of it then it would snap back into place.
But when you were in your teens your skin was packed full of wonderful proteins called elastin and collagen. Both of these 2 important skin proteins are largely responsible for what is called skin elasticity.
Skin elasticity is what causes your skin to snap back into place when you pull, provided you’re in your teens, and lack of skin elasticity is what causes your skin to sag as you get older.
Because unfortunately as you get older the quantities of elastin and collagen in your skin start to decrease. The loss of these 2 important skin proteins is what leads to that sagging look, including fine lines and wrinkles, sagging skin under the chin and more.
And it’s not just age that contributes to the loss of collagen and elastin. Lifestyle factors such as smoking also do, and smoking is probably one of the worst things you can do for your skin.
Sunburn, or what is more technically called photo ageing, in other words the effect of excess UV exposure on the skin over time, can also contribute heavily to loss of skin elasticity.
Some of these things you can change and some you cannot. Obviously you cannot reverse ageing. We all age. You can stop smoking and be more aware of the damaging effects of strong ultraviolet on your skin.
We all lose collagen and elastin as we age. But is there anything we can do about it?
If you’ve done any reading at all on good skin care you’ll come across advertisements for a massive range of products which advertise that they include collagen and elastin in the product.
The obvious inferential leap is that if you apply these products to your skin the collagen and elastin will work its way into your skin and replace any that is lost.
Unfortunately it has been known for a long time that the molecule sizes of collagen and elastin molecules are too large to penetrate the pores of your skin, and therefore they don’t.
(The obvious question here is why are they in the bottle? The answer is that they are in the bottle because it sells lots and lots of bottles.)
So does this mean that you cannot tighten sagging skin? Not necessarily. You see some very clever researchers have found that it’s quite possible to stimulate the skin to produce more collagen and elastin itself.
Not only that but there are some excellent natural ingredients which can be found in the highest quality natural skin care products which actually help to do this.
One of these natural ingredients is actually sourced from the wool of sheep, and is called Cynergy TK. It helps promote the growth of collagen and elastin in the skin, thereby increasing skin elasticity and reducing the effects of sagging and wrinkles on the skin.
Not only that but there are some excellent nutritional supplements which help improve skin health overall, and many women do not even consider the advantages of taking targeted nutritional supplements for better skin health.
The best of these is high quality Omega3 essential fatty acid supplements. These help hydrate the skin with natural oils and help promote better skin health overall.
And if you combine quality Omega3 fats with high quality natural skin care products that help promote the increased growth of collagen and elastin in the skin you have a recipe for tackling skin sagging.
But there’s always one thing to remember. That’s your expectations. If you’re 60 then don’t expect to look 30 again. Whilst this skin routine will work to tighten sagging skin it won’t take 30 years off your face. Expect to look better, but not to look like a teenager. Read the rest of this entry
Written by All Natural Skin Care