​AGEING

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The way your skin ages will depend on your lifestyle, your genetics and your habits.

The common signs of ageing skin are:

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• Age spots

• Sagging skin

• Dull skin tone 

• Lines and wrinkles

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Signs of ageing are a result of the skin’s functioning declining; a person’s collagen production can start to slow down from as early an age as twenty-one!

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As collagen slows down, the elastin fibres begin to breakdown over large areas of tissue as well and the skin loses its juicy bounce. Likewise, dead cells are building up on the surface as part of the skin natural defence mechanisms, an armour plate as it were, against the assaults of free radicals and sun damage. These cells accentuate signs of ageing, turning fine lines into wrinkles and making the skin appear crinkly and crepe-like

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There are two fundamental causes of signs of ageing such as wrinkles, fine lines and sagging skin. The first cause is determined by an individual’s genetic makeup, while the second cause is outside influences such as environmental damage, free radicals and poor diet. People for example who are sun worshippers in their younger years or are on yo-yo weight loss diets are especially prone to crepe-like or wrinkled, loose body skin.

 

This is why starting to look after your skin from an early age can be so beneficial.

It is much easier to prevent skin conditions than to revise but it is never too late to start looking after your skin. 

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