Our bodies naturally lose water over the course of the day through excretion, sweating, breathing and general evaporation. Some components of our diet including caffeine and alcohol and increase the rate of water loss as can exercise and dry environments. In today's fast paced world the signs of dehydration can often go unnoticed and our skin is one of the organs that suffers the most. As we become dehydrated water is lost from the skin causing it to become less elastic. This in turn exacerbates wrinkling. In fact one of the key symptoms of dehydration is skin plasticity. To avoid dehydration it is important to drink small amounts of water (or similar fluids with no dehydrating component) regularly over the course of the day. How much you need to drink varies depending on the temperature, your working environment and degree of activity. However, just because you don't feel thirsty doesn't mean that you are not dehydrated.
Habitual facial expressions cause natural creases (or wrinkles) in our skin. There is some truth in the expression a thousand frowns creates a wrinkle. Be happy and stop those grumpy expressions.
While in the dog world wrinkling can be desirable, in the human world wrinkles are certainly not cute. Although there are cosmetics like Clear Lift ULTRA to help, as always, prevention is better than cure. Looking after your skin is purely a matter of common sense and with some careful life style choices and changes you can retain the radiance of youth for as long possible.
Tanning improves the appearance of skin in the short term. However, in the long term the sun does irreparable damage. UVA and UVB radiation and dangerous components of natureal sunshine. These high energy waves damage DNA and collagen greatly expediting aging of the skin and leading to the formation of wrinkles, moles and sunspots. Repeated exposure can even lead to the formation of potentially fatal cancers including malignant melanoma. Tanning is nothing more than an acute symptom of chromic damage. Not so sexy now hey? If you want a tan use the fake stuff. It's never too late to change your lifestyle.
Smoking is bad for just about every part of the body you can think of. The long term risks to heart and lungs are well known. However, what many don't realize is that smoking is very harmful to the skin. One of the key variables which influences the appearance of our skin is it's thickness. As we age our skin thins and this contributes to wrinkling. Men have thicker skin than women and this is one of the reasons why females tend to wrinkle more. Smoking causes thinning of the skin too and therefore accelerates aging. There are studies which demonstrate this including studies completed on identical twins when just one of them smokes. There are many physical signs of a smoker and one of the most common and unpleasant is wrinkling around the mouth.