Why Do I Need Skin Care Items?

Maintaining clear, healthy skin is why you should bother and because prevention is easier than correction. Working as an esthetician, I know that most womrn understand the need for twice daily moisturizers, but many still don't realize the importance of using exfoliators and facial masks. Moisturizing provides under the skin benefits while twice weekly exfoliating gives you immediate topical results.

In your Teens and Twenties, you probably won't see any real signs of aging unless you've spent many long days in the sun. You can expect to see patches of dull or dead facial skin cells which result in a loss of your youthful, natural radiance due to uneven texture. At this age you'll need to be sure to use a sun screen.

In your Thirties in addition to the dull, tired looking skin, the skin around your eyes and mouth will begin to show those dreaded fine lines or if your skin is oily, you'll get enlarged pores. Oily skin will need 100% oil free moisturizers with pore minimizers, while dry skin needs creams with extra hydration and combination skin will need lotions with anti-oxidants to keep your neck and face healthy and youthful looking. Everyone should also be using a twice daily eye cream for dry or combination skin and an eye gel for oily skin.

When you're Forty-ish, you'll experience a reduction of collagen and elastin in your skins cells; which holds the moisture that helps to keep skin firm. The lack of firmness results in a deepening of the fine lines you saw in your thirties and they'll become wrinkles. To help combat that effect, you should include anti-aging or lifting and firming treatments (collagen and elastin) to your twice daily moisturizer.

Every type of skin can depend on becoming dryer when you get to your Fifties, particularly when exposed to extreme climates. Dry skin is due to a loss of moisture and that loss translates to relaxed skin along the jawline and neck area, and those wrinkles become creases. That's why you'll need to add more hydration and vitamins to your list of anti-aging, lifting and firming ingredients in your hydrating products.

Sixty year old skin will show severe loss of strength, which equals sagging skin. Dark spots will appear on your face, neck and the backs of your hands. Furrows will appear where you used to have creases; like those above your nose, your forehead and laugh lines. Your moisturizing routine will need to include age spot reducers as well as the industries most powerful lifting and firming components.

This article describes what you can expect if you get to that age group and are not using skin care at all. Of course a little skin care is better than none, but with the above information you'll know what you need for your skin type and when you need more. Ultimately, using your full twice a day, skin care regimen will pay off with your skin always feeling firmer and looking younger than you really are.