Warding off Wrinkles

Wrinkles are inevitable. But you can do a lot to keep them off of your face for years! To help slow down the hands of time on our faces try:

Limiting Your Time In The Sun. Sun damage is the #1 reason we wrinkle. Wear an SPF 30 or higher sunscreen.

Eat Lots of Fruits, Vegetables and Fish. They are packed with all the nutrients your skin needs.

Stay Hydrated. Your skin needs at leas 8 glasses of water a day to stay supple.

Learn to Relax. Stress makes us older before our time – and our skin shows it.

Don’t Smoke. Cigarettes dry out the skin, making it wrinkle prematurely.

Even when you do everything right, wrinkles do eventually show up on all of us. When that times come, here are a few treatments to help you deal with them better:

Use Topical Retinoids. Available by prescription, they help the body produce more collagen in the skin.

Lasers; a great way to erase skin damaged wrinkles by vaporizing the skin’s damaged top-layer.

Chemical Peels help reduce aging and wrinkling by removing deeper layers of damaged skin with a mild acid solution.

Botox is growing in popularity due to its simplicity and ease. By injecting botulinum toxin (Botox), into the skin, the wrinkled area is immobilized, smoothing them away.

author: Maurcia DeLean Houck

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