Nothing lasts forever!
By mati. Filed in Skincare |Tags: hyaluronic acid
To make this statement completely true, I should say ALMOST nothing lasts forever. The body is definitely just a temporary place to live while we are here, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take good care of it!
Having a healthy body to live in means a lot when it comes to quality of life. This is why it is important to eat healthy food, exercise and avoid chemical polution as much as possible. But, it isn’t just about being healthy – being comfortable in the body and feeling good about oneself is just as important. And, this is where makeup, skincare and fashion comes into the picture.
Makeup and fashion is all about enhancing your best features, because by enhancing your best features, your less than perfect features can be carefully disguised. Almost nobody has a perfect figure, and even the ones that do, will no longer be perfect after a few babies, or after the aging process takes its toll. The fact is, physical beauty is bound to fade over time. This is just part of the natural cycles of life. However, we can still enhance our best features, no matter what age we are.
The first two places that show signs of aging are the hands and the face. The skin on our hands and face are always exposed to extremes of temperature, UV exposure, wind and water. These extremes suck the moisture out of the skin, leaving it extra vulnerable to sun damage, age spots and wrinkle formation. I guess we have all seen what happens to the skin of a peach if it sits on the counter too long. After a couple of weeks, the peach skin wrinkles all over. It is the same with the skin. If it doesn’t receive any moisture on the surface, it dries up, just like the peach did.
However, this process can be reversed to a certain extent, simply by adding moisture back onto the skin. The moisture plumps the skin back up and reduces the appearance of wrinkles, as well as slowing down or preventing the formation of new wrinkles.
How can you tell if you have a good moisturizer? First of all, it has to contain moisturizing agents, and not just fats and oils. Fats and oils are emollients, which means that it makes the skin soft, but it doesn’t moisturize the skin because it doesn’t contain moisture.
Moisture is basically water, or something that can hold water on the surface of the skin, like hyaluronic acid, or something that can draw water to the skin, like glycerin, honey or lecithin. These moisturizing agents should be suspended in a lite creamy base containing some oils and fats, but not too much. A serum is better than a thick cream because the serum can penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, while a thick cream just sits on top of the skin. The oils and fats in the moisturizer will soften the skin and create a thin barrier to protect from the elements, but the main purpose of a moisturizer is just to moisturize the skin. A thick, oily barrier can then be added on top of the moisturizer if extra protection is needed.
Another good thing to look for in a good moisturizer is some kind of anti-oxidant that will protect against sun damage from free radicals. Sun damage causes not just wrinkles and unstable skin cells, but it can even cause skin cancer. Examples of anti-oxidants that protects the skin are green tea, acai berries and vitamin E.
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