All About Winkles 📣✨😲

How your ever wonder this morning the wrinkles you saw on the mirror was not there the day before?

Perhaps you did not realise it was there but today, its visible to you and cannot hide…

Ageing cannot be stopped and unavoidable, but what causes wrinkles to developed and can we delay it?
Let’s examine the science of ageing…

First the skin is made up of several layers, the outermost layer of the skin gets thinner as we aged and less sticky, causing the skin to look noticeable thinner, the lack of stickiness also lessen the skin barrier function, allowing more moisture in the skin to be lost in the air, this causes dryness.

Elastin and collagen are proteins in the skin underlying layers, collagen provides the skin strength and firmness, where elastin give skin stretch back and forth.

After age 20, our skin loses 1% collagen production with each year. When collagen and elastin become more brittle, the signs of the skin attempt to stretch back and forth turns into wrinkles.

Also, dead skin cells start to accumulate in our skin, as the body ages, skin produces less sebum; the number of sweat glands also lessens. This causes skin to dry and wrinkles more visible.

The first noticeable area of wrinkles are the eyes, this area has very few oil glands.

Collagen stops to form at age 40 and more wrinkles form and fibres begin to break and stiffened. Skin cells renewal slows and becomes more difficult to regenerate.

By age 50, we start losing fat store in the deeper layers of the skin, which makes skin thinner. This causes loose, saggy skin, more wrinkles and folds.

A decline in blood vessels and circulation also contribute to ageing skin and pigment issues.

Apart from intrinsic factors above, external factors like dehydration is the no. 1 factor in producing wrinkles. Collagen which firms the skin is mostly made up of water. When dehydration sets in, collagen molecule can crack and clump together, causing wrinkles to cause on skin surface.

Smoking causes wrinkles and dehydration, the nicotine causes the narrowing of blood cells on the outermost layers of the skin, when blood flow decrease, the skin lacks oxygen and nutrients, such as Vitamin A, as a result, skin begin to sag and wrinkles, earlier.

Photoaging, caused mostly by excess exposure to the sun is the biggest external factor that causes wrinkles in the skin, in fact, photoaging s responsible for 80% of wrinkles. When harmful UV rays penetrates in the skin, it causes damage to the much needed collagen and elastin; as these proteins breakdown, it causes the skin to sag and wrinkle.

Good news is you can delay the signs of ageing, take lots of anti-oxidant food and stay hydrated, use nontoxic moisturisers and sunscreen.
The skin is the largest organ and deserve the best care you can give it.

Stay Healthy, good skin.