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 There's a lot of hype and information today about a variety of skin care products and natural anti-aging formulas. It seems that many companies are interested in this high-dollar industry, one of the ones receiving a lot of press being Christian Dior's Dior Capture skin care line.
Manufacturers of course make claims for their products, but in deciding which are most likely to be beneficial and produce real results, it is important to understand the causes of skin aging. Some of these may be correctable while others are best prevented, and the jury is still out on still others.
One of the main reasons for an increase in wrinkles in aging skin is decreased levels of collagen. Many products include collagen in their preparations, promising that applying it to your skin will decrease wrinkles. The problem is that collagen molecules are larger than skin pores and cannot be absorbed into the skin, and simply spreading collagen on the surface of the skin is unlikely to produce any results at all. The only two natural ways of increasing the collagen in skin are to take it as a nutritional supplement, where your body can use it, but will decide WHERE to use it. Because collagen is also an essential component of joints, etc., your body may send it to the joints rather than to your face, where you had hoped to see results. The other method is to increase the body's own collagen production. There are some indications that Dermapril-SP's ingredient, Matrixyl 3000, helps to boost collagen production in the skin, along with Hyaluronic Acid.
Along with collagen and elastin, Hyaluronic Acid is one of the components of the matrix that supports skin tissue. Hyaluronic Acid helps maintain moisture in the skin in the same way that a sponge would do, by absorbing and holding moisture. Lower production of Hyaluronic Acid is also associated with aging.
One of the primary causes of aging is exposure to sunlight over time. This is the factor that is best prevented, and reversal is impossible. The number of burns over a person's lifetime greatly increases risk of skin cancers, as well as adding to the overall sun exposure to negatively impact the quality of the skin as a person ages. |
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