Jul 2, 2009

The Best Way to Help Prevent Wrinkles

By Kathleen P. Walsh

What steps can you take to help prevent wrinkles? Most sources suggest that the most important thing you can do to prevent face wrinkles or those on other parts of the body is to avoid overexposure to the sun. This may be partially true.

Actually, the sun is not the real cause of wrinkles. What truly causes wrinkles and aging of the skin is the UV rays that penetrate to the deepest part of the skin. UV rays are also linked to the activeness of the free radicals of the body. But the UV rays will still not be enough to cause wrinkles if the skin has sufficient supply of antioxidants. If you are using cream for your face, make sure it is rich in antioxidants to help prevent wrinkles.

Most of the molecules of the antioxidants found in multivitamins are too large to go through the layers of the skin. It, therefore, cannot reach the inner layer of the skin where the collagen fibers are located and where the damaged cells need repairs. The result is that the antioxidants from the multivitamins are not enough to supply the need for antioxidants and to help prevent face wrinkles.

If you want to protect your skin from having visible wrinkles, use creams that contain antioxidants small enough to access the layers of the skin. Creams with nanolipobelle HE Q10 combined with the powers of the antioxidants coenzyme Q10 and vitamin E. This kind of cream is proven to be very effective in supplying the antioxidants needed by the seven layers of skin and to help prevent face wrinkles.

Most dermatologists and skin experts suggest that in order to help prevent wrinkles, the makeup and moisturizer that you use for your face should contain sunscreen. But after different studies, it was determined that the sun-screening compounds found on most cosmetics are even more harmful to the skin because of the sunscreen contents such as Oxybenzone, benzophenone and avobenzone. Such compounds damage the cells and stimulate the causes of cancer cells. Therefore, the ordinary make-ups and creams today do not help prevent wrinkles nor protect the skin from radiation.

Zinc oxide is the only sun-screening compound that has a proven record for safety and effectiveness. There is a relatively new line of makeup that contains it, but you wont find it in moisturizers, because it does not disappear.

Lotions, creams, and moisturizers contain mineral oil and petrolatum, but these are not helpful in preventing wrinkles. If you want to use moisturizers to help prevent face wrinkles, look for the moisturizer that has compounds and contents that are effective for your skin improvement.

The right kind of moisturizer will be your solution for your facial skin problems. It will help you remove excess oil and clean the dirt from your face. But since oil is very essential to the healthy circulation of your skin, use moisturizers that will not take all the oil from your facial skin.

What the skin needs is a moisturizer with special ingredients that come from plant-based oil. This oil is similar to the oil secreted by the body. Another ingredient of this moisturizer is the proteins that are extracted from sheeps wool. These proteins enhance the firmness of the skin. The skin can easily absorb such kind of ingredients and the moisturizer helps prevent face wrinkles when used applied regularly.

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