Slow Your Skin Aging
The growth in anti-aging skin care products has grown enormously over the last two decades, this is due primarily to the fact we are all living longer and want to look younger as we get old. We achieve this with anti-aging products that synthesize the production of the protein collagen. Most anti-ageing products (collagen included) fall into the category of anti-oxidants which are the body’s method of slowing down the aging process.
You probably know many anti-oxidants by name, including vitamin C, the use of which is still, even now, hotly debated in the science and nutrition community. The main problem when using any skin care treatments which use vitamin C is that oxidization can occur as soon as they have contact with the air.
Other skin care treatments which mimic the effects of vitamin C are being tried all the time which are hoped to be more stable in the atmosphere and also cheaper to produce. These new anti-oxidant products are not quite as good as vitamin C although other naturally occurring compounds, vitamin E and lipoic acid can achieve the same effect.
The body uses vitamin E as an anti-oxidant and is also used to increase the natural defense we have against disease, including many types of cancer, it is a fat soluble vitamin in people’s blood. Another, lipoic acid is in every cell of our body and is used to generate energy for us to live but also helps reduce and reverse the skin’s ageing process.
Another group of products used to reduce the visible signs of aging are phytochemicals which are compounds extracted from various plants and used in many anti-aging skin care products. Phytochemicals prevent occurrence of certain types of cancer.
Some B-vitamins like B5, B6 and B12 are also in use for anti-aging skin care products. The field of anti-aging skin care products is vast and needs a great deal more research.
Although current regimes are effective, there are still many challenges to finding better and more efficient ways to combat the effects of time. Hopefully, these challenges will get resolved in due course and better and cheaper anti-ageing skin care products will be produced.
They cannot replace natural skin care remedies. Natural methods are known, but few actually follow them.
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