dimanche 12 mai 2013

Fight Aging Skin With Antioxidants

By Marisa Asent


If you have started to notice the pass of time in your face and now have a complexion that is sagging, with crow's feet or maybe marionette lines, you are not the only one. Aging skin is one of the consequences of getting older, no one is free from it, but there are certainly many things you can try to always look your best. You should be concentrating your efforts on three areas: an effective skin care program, a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.

1- The best you can do for your skin as you get older is to provide it with an effective skin care routine. There are great skin care cosmetics with active ingredients to combat the effects of aging skin and restore that fresh look to the skin.

2- Give the skin the adequate care to preserve it from drying. Dry skin often make the skin look older because the wrinkles are more noticeable when the skin is dry. Use moisturizers that attract water, humectants, and moisturize the skin inside out by drinking water and other healthy drinks. Use a moisturizing facial mask too, at least once weekly.

3- One of the motives for aging skin and the formation of wrinkles is the loss of proteins such as collagen and elastin. When we are young these two proteins are plentiful, but as time pass by their production slows down and the deterioration of the skin commence. Using the right skin care products and anti aging treatments will allow you to enhance the production of collagen and elastin and obtain a younger looking complexion.

4- A healthy diet is essential to achieve a skin that is free from wrinkles and other skin imperfections such as blemishes and pimples. Ii has been proved that antioxidants help to protect the body from certain health conditions and they are also effective to fight aging skin. So, including plenty of antioxidant food in your diet is the next step towards healthy and younger skin.

5- Effective antioxidants you can find on skin care products today include green tea and vitamins E, C and A. All vitamins play an important role in the organism, but these ones are specially good to protect the skin from skin issues related to aging. A few of their benefits to the skin include improving its texture, accelerating collagen production, repairing acne scars, helping with acne conditions, boosting elasticity, reducing stretch marks, protecting from UV light and diminishing lines and wrinkles. Green tea could also help to accelerate the metabolism and reduce body fat.

6- Using a weekly facial mask will get rid of dead cells, improving the skin's texture. To make a face mask at home full of antioxidant power mix two spoons of red wine with two spoons of honey. Apply over the areas you want to rejuvenate such as face and neck and leave for fifteen minutes. Wine contains resveratrol which is said to one of the most potent antioxidants and honey has moisturizing and anti-bacterial properties. A winning combination!

7- Incorporate exercise into your daily life to enjoy optimal health and good skin. We have heard the health benefits that exercise bring so take advantage of this and make the effort of being more active. Chose activities that you enjoy doing, alone or with friends. These could be something like Pilates, tennis, line or salsa dancing, power walking or even gardening. The important thing is to be active for as long as you can.

There are so many things you can do and steps you can take in order to remain healthy and younger. If you follow the steps above you are going to take years of your appearance, just remember that to further enhance your health and skin you need to protect the skin from sunlight and stop smoking too. Put these tips into practice and feel better.




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