| Aging skin care is a topic of interest to a lot of | | | | involves the use of antioxidants will likely be |
| people today. With the Baby Boom generation | | | | effective. Antioxidants can be applied in the form |
| heading into retirement, and people living longer | | | | of a cream or moisturizer, directly to the skin. |
| than ever, there are more aging and elderly | | | | Some common examples are vitamins C and E, |
| people alive today than there has ever been | | | | and the compound Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA). |
| before One of the most visible and readily | | | | These compounds will not reverse wrinkles, but |
| apparent signs of age is the effects on skin, | | | | will help slowdown their onset. Even more |
| namely wrinkles. Aging skin care is thus of | | | | important is maintaining a diet that is high in |
| primary concern for people that want to slow | | | | antioxidants. Fruits, berries, and dark colored |
| down the visible effects of their age. Wrinkles are | | | | vegetables are all high in antioxidants and are |
| caused by damage to the proteins in your skin | | | | therefore important in aging skin care. Perhaps |
| responsible for its elasticity. The protein in skin | | | | more important than antioxidants is reducing the |
| primarily responsible for its elasticity is | | | | amount of free radicals you introduce into your |
| appropriately named 'elastin'. Like any other | | | | body in the first place. UV radiation will split |
| protein, elastin is subject to damage from free | | | | oxygen present in your skin into free radicals, and |
| radicals and UV radiation. Essentially, it is free | | | | smoking essentially soaks your body in an |
| radicals that do all the damage in the long run, and | | | | assortment of free radicals as well. Quitting |
| aging skin care basically falls into different ways to | | | | smoking and avoiding excessive sun exposure are |
| counter their effects. A free radical is just a | | | | thus great first steps to take for aging skin care. |
| scientific word for any number of oxygen | | | | If you are planning on being in the sun, make sure |
| molecules that have been split and are therefore | | | | you apply plenty of sunscreen with an SPF of at |
| very reactive, damaging any proteins or DNA | | | | least 15. A combination of all these measures will |
| molecules they crash into before being absorbed. | | | | help you maintain youthful looking skin longer. If |
| The DNA damage they do can lead to skin | | | | you already have wrinkles, using plenty of |
| cancers, and the protein damage they do leads to | | | | moisturizers or anti-aging creams may help reduce |
| wrinkles. Free radicals are absorbed by substances | | | | their appearance, but there aren't any products |
| called antioxidants, and so any aging skin care that | | | | that will permanently remove wrinkles. |