Aging: How to care for the skin?

As the skin ages, it loses elasticity and firmness, but this is an inevitable process, but there are factors that can cause premature aging. So how should you take care of your skin?

It must be remembered that the causes of skin aging can be due to intrinsic aging, which refers to genetic and biochemical factors, as well as the effects of hormonal changes during life, as explained by the American Academy of Dermatology.

But there is also aging extrinsic, which are external aggressions, such as pollution or UV raysthe life habitssuch as smoking or eating a lot of sugar.

They can focus on controllable external factors so that fur look good as you age.

For this reason, beautician Laura Chacon-Garbato offers some recommendations what you should and shouldn’t do in these cases.

Something simple, avoid rubbing the eyes, because the skin around the eyes is especially sensitive, so frequent rubbing of the eyes can cause wrinklessmall wrinkles and dark circles.

You need to rest, because it regenerates itself. sleep helps in cell regeneration skin, increases collagen production and gives the skin a break from environmental stress (UV rays, pollution).

It is also not recommended to use soap, because ordinary soaps can contain a lot of them Ingredientssuch as alcohol, fragrances and sulfates that strip the natural oils from the skin.

The skin barrier is weakened when it becomes dehydrated and dry skin cannot protect it from irritating factors such as pollution, viruses and bacteria.

In addition, although dry skin does not cause wrinkles, it accentuates them, he points out, in a way e-mailalso Director of Global Nutrition Training, Herbalife Nutrition.

Today it is easy to find makeup that offers level Sun protection factor (SPF, in English). However, they do not always offer broad-spectrum protection. What does that mean? They will protect against UVB rays, rays that cause skin redness and burns, but not from UVA rays which cause wrinkles and spots on the skin.

Another tip, although it seems simple, is to use a reed, because repeatedly pursing the lips contributes to the formation of wrinkles around the mouth, the Mayo Clinic comments.

When you drink with a reed, you activate the muscles around your lips, the more you activate them, the bigger it is folds in the skin as we age due to loss of elastin.