How To Treat Aging Skin
Aging skin is inevitable and learning to care for it is important to your skin’s health. Environmental factors, lifestyle choices and age all contribute to skin aging. Taking preventative measures and building a strong skincare routine will help slow down visible signs of aging. Here are a few tips on how to treat and maintain your skin as you age.
What is Aging Skin?
Skin aging happens naturally over time. This usually stems from a lack of daily sun protection, dehydration, a diet with minimal nutrients and a mediocre skincare regimen.
Mature skin becomes visible around your late 30s and early 40s starting with fine lines and wrinkles around your mouth (smile lines) and eyes (crows feet). Aging skin can persist with supple and loose skin underneath the chin, on the neck, and chest.
Here are a few tips, tricks, and skincare routine enhancements you can consider when caring for mature and aging skin.
How Do I Maintain My Aging Skin?
Wear Your Sunscreen Daily
Sunscreen in our professional opinion, is the most important product in your daily skin care routine. Wearing spf protects your skin against environmental factors such as harmful UV sun rays. Overexposure of these rays can cause sunspots, dry skin, wrinkles, and a loss of elastin which all contribute to premature aging skin.
Wearing a daily spf of at least 30% is important, even more importantly you should reapply every two hours when actively being exposed to sun rays.
Aside from aging skin, the estheticians and physicians at Dermava encourage you to wear SPF daily to lower your risk of skin cancer. For more information please read our article on “The Benefits of Sunscreen”
Keep Your Skin Hydrated
Skin hydration provides benefits such as a plump, smooth and radiant appearance. Drinking adequate amounts of water flushes toxins from the skin and delivers nutrients to the cells. This can help reduce the visibility of wrinkles and dry flaky skin.
Be Intentional With Your Lifestyle Choices
Prolonging the appearance of aging skin is a result of positive lifestyle choices.
Taking vitamins and supplements to replenish the body of nutrients and vital building blocks is essential for healthy skin. Introducing antioxidants, vitamins A, C and E into your diet provide elasticity, radiance, strength and vitality.
Other factors like the amount of rest, water intake, exercise and refraining from smoking also reduce visible signs of aging or premature skin.
Build An Effective Skincare Routine
An Anti aging skincare routine will consist of hydrating, exfoliating, and replenishing products. Eye creams, serums and moisturizers will be your favorite items in the routine you build considering that they will tackle the majority of your concerns.
Serums
Serums can both hydrate and exfoliate the skin which results in a smooth and plump appearance. Ingredients like glycolic acid and retinol help water molecules bind to skin cells providing hydration underneath the surface. They also gently remove unwanted skin that causes the outer layer to appear dry, rough and uneven.
Eye Creams
Eye creams address fine lines near the crease of your eyes known as crows feet. These lines occur naturally over time from smiling and squinting. Smile lines, or the deep set lines that appear when you smile and laugh can also be treated with eye creams. This hack is perfect for men or anyone who wants to keep their routine minimalistic yet effective. Eye creams also provide hydration for depleted and dark under eye bags and creases.
Moisturizers
Moisturizers come in many different marketing schemes, but the key to moisturizing mature skin is a formula packed with ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and antioxidants. These ingredients replenish the skin with nutrients and hydration that are lost overtime or through environmental agitators.
Following this guide will be helpful in treating and maintaining a youthful appearance. Preventative measures go a long way in prolonging the visible signs of maturing skin before age or environmental factors negatively affect your skin.
For help building a skincare routine, create an account and complete a consultation to receive a personalized regimen from our licensed estheticians.
