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Wrinkles are part of the ageing process, as you grow older, your facial muscles slacken and your skin becomes less elastic, creating folds and lines called wrinkles. As we age wrinkles settle on our skin. This is nature. Wrinkles usually appear on areas that are most exposed to the sun, such as the face, neck, backs of hands and upper arms. This is because ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages the DNA in skin cells causing it to age.
Wrinkles are one of the most natural and obvious progress of aging. Wrinkles on the face are an irritating problem. Aging process makes our faces look much older than we’d like, and certainly older than we feel. Fortunately there is hope.
Thanks to modern facial skin care technology and modern anti wrinkle and anti aging creams, the effects of aging on the skin caused by many agents, no longer have to be accepted as permanent. Nowadays, there are many facial rejuvenation options for individuals who would like to reduce wrinkles and fine lines, treat skin problems. Wrinkle treatments include: laser resurfacing, medications, surgical procedures, laser, light source and radiofrequency treatments, face-lift.
Antioxidants and moisturizers certainly do have a place in a skin care treatment and there are many benefits to be derived from implementing any product that contains the correct ones. Skin care creams for wrinkles have the best ingredients they’ve ever had, and many are clinically proven to product visible results with regular use. They help to smooth those lines and make the skin look fresher and younger.
Repair, treatment and protection are the goal of anti wrinkle eye creams that use ingredients such as vitamins, enzymes, proteins, plant-based oils and emollients and sea kelp. Some of these creams can be quiet effective but it can depend on the type of skin you have and how it reacts to the product.
There are natural remedies that we can try, like cucumber, egg white, essential oil. Olive oil and fresh carrot juice can do a lot of good to our skin. Drink as much water as we can, cut cucumber into round pieces; placed on top of our eyes.
Wash you face with cold water as often as you can. Cigarette smoke in the environment dries the skin. As a result, people who smoke are more likely to have facial wrinkles at a younger age. Wrinkle treatments can help reduce the appearance of wrinkles, making the skin look smoother and more youthful.
It’s important not to rush into the decision to have any cosmetic treatment. It’s sensible to discuss the options with a clinician who is suitably qualified. Before opting for treatment, discuss with your clinician what you are hoping to gain from the treatment and the result you can realistically expect. However the best way is to visit your clinician and get some professional advice first.
Keep in mind that results vary depending on the location of your wrinkles and how deep your wrinkles are. However, nothing stops the aging process of skin, so you’ll likely need the treatments repeated to maintain benefits.
Today’s modern technology makes possible many new breakthroughs in skin care and wrinkle treatment. Skin care today is no longer limited to facials and surgical procedures.
We can not turn back the time, but we can do a lot to slow the effects of aging.
I really like chewing gum. I go through periods where I’ll hardly chew it at all though, and I’ll switch to instead popping breath freshening mints. I love the breath freshening that gum offers, and I also love that it occupies my mouth, since I tend to have somewhat of an oral fixation anyways, and I would probably eat a lot more food if it weren’t for gum! However, I just read some rather disturbing conclusions that some cosmetic surgeons have come to about this pastime.
Apparently, some cosmetic dermatologists and cosmetic surgeons think that chewing gum on a regular basis can actually make your facial wrinkles worse. They say that the negative and constant motion of chewing gum helps to create fine lines around the mouth. Hmm, I do have some fine lines around my mouth, but I though that was just because I was 35 and that’s just what happens.
Honestly, who knows, but it’s worth a look into if you’re an avid gum chewer to maybe cut down a bit on the habit if you can. They also say that gum chewing can actually overstimulate and over use your facial muscles, which can lead to pulling the skin down more and aging your skin more. It also can interfere with the longevity of dermal fillers such as restylane and perlane, since it breaks them down quicker.
So if you’re a woman who gets facial fillers to help prevent aging signs, then you may really want to cut gum chewing out or down since it could be costing you a mint. No pun intended. I swear.
When I read this I couldn’t help but gulp a little bit. Because, well, it’s just kinda gross. I’ve read and heard about a lot of different things that are on the cusp when it comes to anti aging, but this one is truly messing with what nature gave you – right down to the bone – literally.
Researchers have been looking for all the pieces to an aging face. While it used to be thought that the major reason behind an aged look was simply wrinkles and loss of facial fat, as well as things like age spots an discolorations, it is now thought that the bones actually sink and recede with age.
So, not only are you fighting the battle on the surface with the first few layers of your skin, but you are also facing the fact that now you also have to deal with your bones actually changing shape as well.
Since your bone structure provides all the foundation for your facial tissue, your bone’s shape has significant effect on the way your face looks. It can make your face look more or less lifted, contour areas of your face that you like to be contoured, such as the ever-important jawline and the cheekbones, and overall give you that coveted chiseled, model look.
When you age, not only do your jaw bones wear away and drop apparently, but your eye socket bones also do the same, and so do your cheekbones. So you may be dealing with a sort of overall drooping effect on your face because of your basic bone structure altering right before your eyes.
When I look at my face, I notice these subtle changes. Looking back, it does look like my eyes weren’t as “set in” to my head, now they are set a bit deeper, which gives me a bit of a more hollowed out, aged look. I also notice that my jawline is not as prominent, and I do facial exercises on my way into work in the car every morning to try to combat the “waddle” or the turkey neck look.
I think that you can really help your facial structure out a lot by doing special facial anti aging exercises, you just have to do them consistently and correctly for them to have the right effect. As far as your actual bones go, well, one thing you want to make sure you get enough of in your diet to keep your bones strong is vitamin C and calcium, both of which help eachother to absorb, and you also want to make sure you are getting enough healthy dietary fat and vitamin D.
These nutrients will help your bones stay lifted, strong, and long for a larger span of time, and your face hence will look younger.
So I recently switched from one of my favorite retinol-infused formulas by Revitol anti aging products, and tried an ultra cheap one that I found on Amazon.com called Good ‘n Natural Retinol cream. It was dirt cheap, I think it was like eight or nine bucks for 2 oz. of the product, and it said it had 100,000 IU of Vitamin A, which is the active vitamin in Retinol creams (that is actually what retinols are, vitamin A concentrate), while I wasn’t exactly sure what that meant, I bought it, thinking that if it could save me money and be a good skin care product, why not?
Vitamin A is the same vitamin that is used in highly concentrated, pharmaceutical form, in both Retin-A cream and the controversial but many times effective acne medication Accutane.
Dosing your daily diet with Vitamin A orally has been linked to lower incidents of skin cancers, and topical application of retinols and Retin-a has been linked to wrinkle and fine line softening and reduction, so using these vitamins is a great idea for your skin care routine. Only trick is you can only use them at night because they lose their effectiveness from sunlight. It destroys them, and renders them inert, so only apply retinol at night.
So, I bought the Good ‘n Natural retinol cream online. I started using it about a week ago, and here’s my review of it.
It’s a very thick, emollient based, which I don’t mind at all, except when I wash it off in the morning, it does feel like it didn’t properly sink in, because it is like a layer of slickness that washes off my face. I wonder if the ingredients are being properly delivered to my skin at night, because it does somewhat feel waxy, like it’s just sitting on the surface of my skin in the morning.
I tried to look up information on whether or not 100,000 IU’s per ounce was good in a skin cream, and came up with nothing. I will continue to use this for another few weeks, but will probably revert back to a more absorbable brand of retinol afterwards.
I was in our break room at work the other day, and someone always brings in the newspaper and leaves it in there, and I noticed a flyer/insert that was sitting out about a new technique to help reduce wrinkles, reduce the appearance of cellulite, and overall just rejuvenate the tissues with increased collagen production and smoothing, called the Lulum technique, or the Lulum energy treatment for body rejuvenation.
The before and after pics were pretty impressive on there, which is what made me take notice. The place that offered it out here in Ohio was in Avon called Stags Family Chiropractic/Wellness, and it was a chiropractic clinic, which it appears is the only offices that offer it so far, as the only other place I found was in Texas and it too was chiropractic practice.
They had one of a woman’s mouth before and after, it was less lined and her lips appeared a tad fuller, one of a woman’s neckline, which was more taught and smooth after, and one of a woman’s thigh with dimpled cellulite allover it before and very smooth “after first treatment”. The process is non surgical, non invasive, and there is no downtime at all, so I thought, wow, if I were rich, I’d be signing up for this! I couldn’t find the cost for the Lulum energy treatment anywhere online though. In fact, I could find very little on the treatment at all, it must be so new.
My guess is it might be kind of like microdermabrasion or most other cellulite treatments for body, maybe a hundred bucks a pop, although I don’t know how many treatments you need to maintain or even achieve results. If any practitioners read this, please leave comments with this information and your office info for interested people, that would be great.
I was able to find out how the Lulum energy treatment works though. It is a device that uses several different types of electrical currents, color therapy, and heating therapy, to deeply stimulate the tissues, which probably explains how it rejuvenates collagen production. This is probablyl also how it breaks up cellulite formation and is useful as a cellulite treatment as well. Oh, there was also a pretty amazing before and after picture of a woman with crows feet who looked very smoothed out after treatment.
This treatment, like most other rejuvenating aesthetic treatments for anti aging and body sculpting, probably requires ongoing maintenance to maintain any achieved results, but hey, if you get great results, it may be something you choose to use in your anti aging and wrinkled reduction arsenal, and also your body shaping and cellulite treatment regimen. Anyone who has experience or knowledge of the Lulum energy treatment, please comment and share. Thanks!
I love doing chemical and natural facial peels on my face. There is nothing that works better to make my skin glow with that natural sheen that healthy, renewed and rejuvenated skin tends to lend to your face like a peel. What peels do, is they literally sheer off layers and layers of skin cells that otherwise would take weeks to shed from the skin as we grow older, since with age, our skin cells tend to renew and turn over at a much slower rate.
Because of this slower turnover, it’s helpful to either produce the same effect of accelerated cell turnover with either a home microdermabrasion type of system or a chemical peel, to literally mechanically force the skin cells to renew themselves, and to reveal fresher, clearer skin. Another huge benefit of chemical peels that I notice is a much improved smoothness.
One thing that I have noticed throughout the years is that my earlier battles with acne left my skin rough looking in certain areas, especially on my chin, where acne lesions were their worst. Since I used to have such bad acne, over the years, my skin’s texture in these areas is noticeably rougher, and when I am regularly doing these chemical peels at home, and my home microdermabrasion kits, I notice that these areas smooth out noticeably.
You see, one of the things that causes skin to look rough in certain areas is a build up of old skin cells that need to be sloughed off by force. This is why younger skin looks much smoother. When you are younger, your skin cells are basically programmed to turn over at a much faster pace, making for more youthful looking skin underneath, and part of the reason we notice our skin is not as smooth or supple when we grow older is because smooth skin is obscured by old, dead skin cells that not only hamper the texture of our skin, but also tend to make the skin look less “alive” and less colored, thereby making us look older than we are.
Chemical peels can also help to reduce the appearance of your pores, so that your pores appear much smaller. This is key to great skin, since large pores tend to make our skin appear less smoothed out. They also reduce the appearance of the fine lines and wrinkles that come with aging, which is a huge benefit .The only drawback to doing peels is that your skin really looks terrible after you do them, I’d say for about a day or two, it looks ruddy and more irritated, but if you’re patient and you perform these on your skin over six weeks, every week, once a week, with breaks in between these cycles, you will enjoy smoother, more wrinkle free skin for years to come.
You’ve seen the special “night time” skin care products on the shelves, and if you’re like I used to be, you’re probably thinking it’s just another marketing ploy to differentiate their products, after all, why should night time skin care creams, serums and wrinkle fighting and skin renewal products work any differently at night, or have to formulated any differently, than their “daytime” counterparts? Well, there are actual, scientific reasons why it’s a good idea to pull out the bigger guns at night in terms of skin care.
The reason is that night time is the skin’s prime renewal time. It’s when your skin repairs and rejuvenates itself from all the wear and tear of the daytime. It repairs things like sun damage and integrity that have been damaged by the sun’s rays and other environmental factors, and oh, the fact that every day we age as well. Due to chemical (hormonal) changes in the body that occur during the night, our skin pushes more blood to the surface, and this allows serums and creams to penetrate more readily and work better. It also elevates the skin’s temperature, so that ingredients are more readily absorbed than they are during the day.
It important to not that your skin is not only more conducive to repair at night, but there are also some ingredients that work better at night because either the sunlight inactivates them, or they just happen to work better in concert with the other events going on in your skin during the night when you are sleeping. One ingredient that I know of which works only during the night because it is literally inactivated by UV rays is retinol, one of the best ingredients for wrinkles like crows feet out there.
Retinol also happens to be one of the most powerful anti aging and skin renewal ingredients on the market today, so it’s important to make sure you only use it at night – and oh yeah, most retinol products are not cheap, so you don’t want to be wasting it. Retin-A is a powerful retinol, the most powerful in fact, and that should only be used at night as well.
Another important factor for the night time is getting at least those eight hours of recommended sleep. Notice how much more vibrant your skin looks when you have gotten that full eight hours of sleep. When you are sleep deprived, your skin usually takes on a more sallow tone and tends to show wrinkles more readily. This is because when you do not get enough sleep, a hormone called cortisol runs rampant the next day, and basically cortisol is the ultimate skin enemy since it slows the production of collagen, which we all know is responsible for supple, healthy skin.
Getting your beauty sleep takes on a whole new meaning when you consider it’s true scientific impact on the beauty, firmness and vibrance of your skin. You should definitely look into a full anti aging and wrinkle regimen which includes a night time product for your skin. Companies formulate these night time products with the fact that your skin responds better during the night in mind, so it’s wise to take advantage of this window of opportunity to deliver ingredients that will slow aging.
When it comes to face lotions that you wear during the day, you always want to look for two things. One is lightness and how it can reflect the light. When I say lightness, I mean you don’t want your daytime moisturizer to be too heavy or creamy. You want something that is light, that will reflect the light well and bend it to your benefit to make your face look more flawless and alive. There are many good daytime facial lotions out there that get the job done. As long as they are also non pore clogging, you can pick from a variety of lotions.
The night time lotions are where I get a little pickier, since I know that night time is when my facial skin primarily gets to rest and repair itself, and for night time, I want to use a moisturizer that is most conducive to that crucial process and has the most repairing and healing ingredients in it. You also don’t have the sun interfering with the absorption or utilization of ingredients like retinols, which are inactivated by the sunlight, so it’s important to utilize the night time for these types of heavier, therapeutic ingredients.
Two daytime lotions that I’ve recently tried are the Clinique Dramatically Different daytime lotion and Body Shop’s Vitamin C daytime lotion with SPF in it. I liked both, but I have to say the Body Shop one wins out over the Clinique one, simply because I think it moisturized more effectively. I almost felt like I was putting water on my face with the Clinique lotion, because it was almost too thin and light. The Body shop lotion was a bit more emollient, and you didn’t have to put a bunch on. The other obvious reason I chose the Body Shop brand over Clinique was that the Body Shop one has SPF in it.
The Clinique Dramatically Different lotion however, I did feel helped to make my face look a bit more luminous and glowy than the Body Shop one, so maybe because it was such a light formula, it helped to reflect the light a bit better. They both had a great scent, the Clinique having a very light fragrance to it that was clean and fresh, and the Body Shop having a more heavily fragranced smell of citrus.
I’d have to say, one of the turnoffs about Body Shop skin products is how heavily they tend to be scented. I don’t like anything that is heavily scented, since there are often a lot of chemicals that go into the achievement of that level of scent that can be irritating to the skin.
Ah, you gotta love the British. They seem to come up with new methods to surgically alter their appearance, and nonsurgically, faster than us beauty and looks conscious Americans. Just take a look at any British tabloid or even a regular news site, and you will see that their obsession with celebrity and appearance rivals only us here in America, so it’s no wonder that we’re all long lost cousins. They’re especially concerned, like we are, with anti aging and wrinkle prevention and treatment.
The latest news of Britain is something called a ten minute facelift. It’s basically a nonsurgical, cheaper way to look like you’ve had a facelift without the surgery and the thousands of dollars, although it will still cost you per session, with one session costing about 450 pounds, which is close to 800 or 900 dollars now in US currency. That could get quite pricey, so let’s talk about what it aims to do.
The treatment starts with a blueberry scrub and a chemical peel. This enhances the results of the more intense therapy later on, but is not necessary for the treatment to work. Then comes the mesotherapy, which to my understanding is small shots, under the skin, of vitamins and other beneficial ingredients, in this case they should help to enhance collagen production and tone up the skin from underneath, otherwise I don’t see the point of them for this sort of treatment.
Mesotherapy, if you recall, is actually a controversial treatment that is administered by some practitioners to help break up fat cells and flush them from the body by injecting natural ingredients underneath the skin which essentially explode and destroy fat cells, in this case though, the ingredients injected are supposed to enhance the plumpness of the face.
The ingredients that are administered under the skin for the ten minute face lift are elastin, hyaluronic acid, which is a natural biodegradable acid that helps plump the skin up, and a variety of other vitamins beneficial to the skin. Now, comes the painful part. A local anesthetic is administered to the whole facial area. Then shots of special fillers are given throughout the face that help plump and fill the entire face for a younger and more lifted look. The effect can be especially helpful for “jowls” that women hate that come with aging for a lot of men and women, it lifts them up and helps to tighten them for a period of time.
Then, the practitioner, who is only one French practitioner at the moment who came up with the treatment, takes his hands and manually smooths out the injections so that they are all distributed evenly under the skin, and this part is supposed to be painful as well. The before and after pictures are amazing though, if you want to google “ten minute facelift” and see for yourself. It is temporary, but it last for several months and call forestall more serious measures.
I have to admit, the sound of this newer treatment is quite intriguing. I get a newsletter from a skin care center in my area, and one of their newer offerings is called a collagen microdermabrasion treatment, which from the description presumably offers a microdermabrasion extreme exfoliating treatment, along with some sort of collagen enhancing treatment. Collagen enhancement can come from a variety of things, most notably some sort of deep heating of the tissue, to something akin to electrical currents or even lasers to get down in the deep layers and help stimulate collagen production.
As you well know by now, collagen is the building block that creates smooth, supple skin, and because we lose a lot of collagen as we age and it does not replenish like it used to, we are faced with worn looking, deflated skin which of course results in wrinkles and fine lines being visible. It’s your basic wear and tear of aging, and it’s all due to the loss of collagen which is a domino effect of several elements in our lives such as environmental toxins and pollutants, photo damage from the sun’s damaging photo UV rays, and a variety of other degradations of the structure of this precious compound.
The collagen microderm treatment is supposed to be exclusive to this one skin care treatment facility called the Skin Center in the Ohio and PA area, and what it does is combines the affects of microdermabrasion, which is a somewhat serious exfoliation of the skin’s outermost cells which reveals fresh cells that are more vibrant and bright looking, and also helps to rejuvenate collagen, and a collagen inducing treatment that is really different from anything I’ve read about before.
The collagen treatment is unique, as it massages a hyaluronic acid serum into the patient’s skin and then places a custom cut “collagen sheet” over the patient’s face, which is supposed to bind to the skin’s fibroblasts and help the skin to form it’s own natural collagen on it’s own. It is ideal for mature skin, and is supposed to be value priced as it is not an invasive procedure. Patients are said to have very little downtime, and it is ideal for getting before a major event since the complications are minimal and the downtime is minimal as well. ‘
If you’re interested, and you live in the Ohio or Pennsylvania area where the Skin Care Centers are located, you should give them a call, they seem to be reasonably priced and offer a wide array of the latest in skincare technology from what I’ve seen.
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