Skin Damage, A second chance for sun damaged skin..

Is your skin older than you are?

It might sound funny, but your skin age ad yor age arent necessarily the same.

Sunlight causes photo damaged to your skin which in turn causes it to age faster than it should. In Australia this often result in 25 years olds looking 35 years. And 35 years looking close to 50.

This is definitely un healthy When you consider skin without excessive sun explosure even in 60 to 80 year age group can be unblemished and only slightly wrinkled.

To see if your skin is older simlpy stand in front of the mirror and lift the inside unexposed part of your arm so its beside your face in the mirror.. If the skin inside your arm is smoother than that on your face, your facial skin is older. But lets not go blamming ourselves. As weve already said, a lot of the facts sourrounding this subject have just recently come to light.

For example, a scientific study of cyclist's in France showed that over a two year period exposed skin could age approximately 10 years.

Because of this and other studies it is now known that most wrinkles, most flabbiness and most, life less skin isnt a result of you growing old; it is a result spending time in unprotected sunlight..

 

Wow is she thick?

Another symptom of exposure to sunlight is the thickening of the skin, the leathery, weather-beaten, elephant hide look. Your skin can thicken all over if your heavily into sunbaking.

However it generrally often appears on the most expose areas such as the chin, lower chicks,and side of the neck.
Where unfortunately it stand out like a sore thumb..

Rosy cheeks aren't always a healthy signs. Rosy cheeks are often the result of red spidery blood vessels. They can show up on the nose and neck too. The problem is called couperose.

It cause by the sunlight destroying the elastic qualities of your capilliary system. The capillary walls became flabby and lose their abily to regain their normal shape.

The blood flow slows down, the blood vessels then spand and become visible on the skin surface.

Repair of photo damaged skin..

Basically there are two things you need to do to look your age instead of older, is younger. You have to treat the sun damage.

And at the same time, Protect your skin from further exposure.Treating damage is better than doing nothing, but only a combination of treatment and prevention can create reversal.

The studies show the higher the spf rating , say 15+ Broad Spectrum, the greater the protection collagen and elastin fibres of the skin. They also show that when protected by a SPF 15+ sunscreen not only could further damage be prevented, the repair of photo damaged skin could also occur.

You begin to look younger. Not younger than your real age, But certainly younger than your present condition of skin suggests. However protection cant simply be restricted to when let say your in the beach. 10-20 minutes accumulated sunlight in a day is full is all that is required to cause noticesable damage.

And that time can be made up in just driving at the office and hanging out the washing.

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