July 11, 2009

What Can You Do to Help Prevent Wrinkles

What steps can you take to help prevent wrinkles? Most sources suggest that the most important thing you can do to prevent face wrinkles or those on other parts of the body is to avoid overexposure to the sun. This may be partially true.

The truth is that the sun is not the real cause. It is the UV rays of the sun that makes the skin looks aged and the face lines visible. The UV rays also excite the free radicals in the skin causing the skin cells to be damaged. But UV rays are not actually reasons to worry. By supplying your skin with antioxidants everyday, this is enough to help prevent face wrinkles.

The solution could be the regular intake of vitamins with antioxidants. But the antioxidants from these vitamins are very large for the skin to absorb. It cannot penetrate the deepest layers of the skin. These antioxidants can not even get through the collagen fibers and therefore result in weak and less elastic skin. Weak cells may also lead to cancerous cells if not addressed properly.

What the skin needs is a smaller antioxidant that can get through the seven layers of the skin. This will help protect the skin from skin cancer and prevent wrinkles as well. Nanolipobelle HE Q10 is the only compound today that has antioxidants coenzyme Q10 and vitamin E combined in the same compound.

Most dermatologists and skin experts suggest that in order to help prevent wrinkles, the makeup and moisturizer that you use for your face should contain sunscreen. But after different studies, it was determined that the sun-screening compounds found on most cosmetics are even more harmful to the skin because of the sunscreen contents such as Oxybenzone, benzophenone and avobenzone. Such compounds damage the cells and stimulate the causes of cancer cells. Therefore, the ordinary make-ups and creams today do not help prevent wrinkles nor protect the skin from radiation.

The only compound with sun-screen ability and has been proven to be safe and effective to use is Zinc oxide. Most of the make-ups nowadays have zinc but most of the moisturizers available in the market today do not contain zinc at all

Even lotions and creams are not effective enough to help prevent face wrinkles because they only contain mineral oil and petrolatum. In order to provide yourself with the right source of treatment to help prevent wrinkles, you need one specially formulated moisturizer.

Using an effective moisturizer is an important step to help prevent face wrinkles. Cleansers remove dirt and oil. That oil protects the skin from damage. People with oilier complexions develop wrinkles later on in life. You dont want something that feels greasy, but you do want something that replenishes the oils washed away by cleansers.

The best moisturizers contain plant-based oils and protein extracted from sheeps wool. These ingredients are readily absorbed by the skins layers and they help prevent wrinkles. The protein stimulates the production of new cells and increases firmness. The plant based oils are very similar to those secreted by the human body.

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