What is Collagen?

9 Apr

What is Collagen and How to Treat it

If you’ve already established a regular anti aging skin care routine, there’s a good chance you’ve been using anti aging treatments that work hard to restore firmness and youth to your skin while combating the decrease and breakdown of collagen in your skin. When your skin loses collagen and elastin, your skin forms wrinkles and fine lines much more easily, as well as sets the stage for other signs of aging on your skin. So if you want to know what collagen is, what it does, why it breaks down, and how you can treat it to see fewer wrinkles and preserve young-looking skin, than look no further!

 

What is Collagen?

Many people might be confused as to what collagen is in relation to your skin. Simply put, collagen is a protein that is found in the dermis of the skin (which is the layer right below the surface). It’s the basic foundation of your skin that supports and cushions the surface of your skin (called the epidermis). In other words, collagen, prevents your skin from collapsing in on your muscles and bones. Another protein called elastin is what allows your skin to stretch and bend with facial expressions so it can “spring” back into place. Collagen and elastin are water binders that let your skin stay smooth, flexible, and free of wrinkles. The key to wrinkle-free skin is hydration, so most anti-wrinkle treatments and creams are made to work hard to compensate for the decreased hydration that occurs when collagen breaks down as you get older. Continue reading →

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What Are Anti Aging Serums?

2 Apr

Anti Aging SerumsWhen you’re researching the best kinds of products for your anti aging skin care treatment regimen, you’ll probably hear all kinds of words being thrown at you for different kinds of treatments. Wrinkle creams, treatments, and serums are all over the labels for figuring out the best anti aging products for you. While most people know what treatments and wrinkle creams entail, most don’t know what anti aging serums are. So can you tell the difference between a wrinkle cream and a serum? What anti aging serums would MuradCanada recommend?

 

Anti Aging Serums: What are they?

Anti aging serums are different from wrinkle creams, lotions, and treatments because they are usually a more concentrated and liquid form of anti aging treatment. Serums are made that way in order to allow your skin to absorb anti aging skin care ingredients as quickly as possible. Typically, serums are used in conjunction with a moisturizer or daytime sunscreen, or used in a nighttime anti aging skin care treatment regimen. As opposed to other anti aging products, serums aren’t meant to hydrate the skin due to their lightweight and quick-absorbing nature. They are made to help anti aging ingredients effectively absorb into the skin, nourishing it. Continue reading →

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Three Myths About Aging Skin

29 Feb

Myths About Anti Aging Skin CareWhen you’re figuring out your own unique anti aging skin care treatment regimen, it’s difficult to sort out what are the facts versus what are the myths about aging skin.  Maybe you’re wondering if you can still suffer sun exposure when the clouds are out. Maybe you’re asking, “How does cellulite form?” Perhaps you’re wondering about when you should start your anti aging skin care routine. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there, and we’re here to clear three of those up for you!

 

Myth #1: You Don’t Need Sunscreen on Cloudy Days

We all know that the biggest danger to your skin is regular exposure to the sun and that applying sunscreen or sunblock is essential to fighting off those UV rays. So that means that when it’s cloudy out, you won’t really need to use sunscreen, right? Yes, you do! Just because the clouds are out, it doesn’t mean that UV rays aren’t going to reach you. But that means your makeup with an SPF will protect you, right? Actually, it won’t! Research has shown that makeup with an SPF alone won’t protect your skin, so make sure you’re using proper sunscreen along with your makeup in your anti aging skin care regimen to make sure your skin is fully protected from the sun. Remember, UV rays not only cause the premature and accelerated breakdown of collagen, they also mean that you’ll form sun spots and age spots. And that means that eventually you’ll need to fade sun spots and age spots. Wear sunscreen or sun block, even if it’s cloudy or grey out! Continue reading →

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Anti Aging Skin Care and Body Mass Index

15 Feb

Anti Aging Skin Care and WeightYou may have heard about famous people, and most famously Madonna, talking about how what would they do if they had to choose between their bodies or their faces. The theory is that after a certain amount of time, keeping the body thinner would mean the face would look older. On the flip side, if the face is kept looking younger that would mean the body would look older (heavier, in other words). Studies have proven that body mass index (or BMI) is related to fine lines and wrinkles on your face. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should abandon your anti aging skin care treatment and instead just eat more food!

 

The Science of Aging and Weight

Experts at Discovery Health have reported on their studies linking low BMI with heavier wrinkles on the face. One study was done on identical twins over a long period of  time. What they found was that when the twins were under forty years old, the twin who was heavier looked older. However, after forty, the heavier twin was the younger-looking twin. Is it because the wrinkles were deeper or that skinnier people tend to get more wrinkles? Continue reading →

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Anti Aging Skin Care Concerns: More Than Just Wrinkles

8 Feb

Anti Aging Treatment is More Than WrinklesWhen we think about aging, usually the first signs we think of are wrinkles. Worry lines, laugh/frown lines, and crows feet are all very easy to spot and take care of with the proper anti aging skin care regimen. But what we don’t realize is that there are other signs of aging that we tend to think aren’t as important because they aren’t as prevalent or obvious. The environment and even our own skin can create more anti aging issues that go beyond wrinkles. So what should you also be looking out for in your anti aging skin care treatment?

 

Cellulite: Weakening Skin with Age

Cellulite can be a problem for men and women, but the prevailing idea for most people treating cellulite is that it’s a fat problem that can be solved by merely losing weight – when in fact it’s the skin that should be treated! The cellulite is actually caused by the skin losing firmness and becoming looser, causing the fat underneath the skin to become more visible. While keeping a regular workout routine will help your body look better, a healthy diet along with a cellulite treatment like Murad Firm and Tone Serum will treat and smooth the skin. Firmer skin will reduce the appearance of cellulite. Continue reading →

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When Should You Start Your Anti Aging Skin Care Regimen?

30 Jan

When to Start Anti Aging Skin Care TreatmentsWe all don’t want to wait until it’s too late to start our own unique anti aging skin care treatment plan, so it can be a tricky to know what age that it’s a good idea to start. While you might want to start using anti aging skin care products as soon as you start seeing the signs of aging, the problem is that aging can begin even when you don’t see the signs! So if you want to effectively combat and prevent the signs of aging, you should start an effective anti aging skin care treatment regimen as soon as you can. That way, you’ll stay looking younger for longer! So how do you get started on the road to youthful skin?

 

Go Inside Out with Antioxidants

Environmental pollution contains free radicals that can cause some serious damage on your face. When you’re in your twenties, you forget about how much pollution can hit your face on a daily basis! You can combat those free radicals by loading up on antioxidants. A diet rich in fruits and dark green vegetables packed with antioxidants can give your skin the protection it needs to fight off free radicals and slow down the signs of aging. Want to learn more about the role that antioxidants play in reducing and even reversing aging? Check out The Water Secret, Dr. Murad’s best-selling book, for all the details on the power of antioxidants. Continue reading →

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Anti Aging Treatments: An Environmental Aging Primer

18 Jan

Environmental Aging Skin Care AdviceWhen you’re thinking about anti aging skin care, most of us can address the signs of Hormonal Aging or Genetic Aging based on our background and ability to take care of our own bodies, as well as some basic knowledge of anti wrinkle creams and products. But what we often don’t think about in anti aging skin treatments is the fact that the environment makes a big impact on our skin – it’s all around us, after all! But what exactly is Environmental Aging, and what can you do to protect your skin from it?

 

Environmental Aging: What is it?

Environmental aging is exactly what it says: aging of the skin that’s brought about from environmental factors. There are numerous environmental factors that can damage your skin. Free radicals from the pollution of daily living, cigarette smoke, smog, and a stressful lifestyle can all contribute to environmental aging. However, the sun is the biggest culprit, because not only does it cause fine lines and wrinkles, it can also cause age and sun spots to occur. We are most exposed to the sun, so protection from UV is vital for combating fine lines and wrinkles. UV rays cause the premature breakdown of collagen, the damaging of elastin, the formation of sun and age spots, and an increased in skin-damaging free radicals. While pollution and toxins can damage the skin, the UV rays of the sun are the greatest factor in Environmental Aging. Continue reading →

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All About The Murad Anti Aging System

12 Jan

When the signs of aging start to show, finding an effective anti aging skin treatment regimen can seem as simple as choosing the right kind of anti wrinkle eye cream or anti wrinkle cream. But just finding the right kind of anti aging plan should involve a complete, balanced regimen. Not only should it include the right kind of anti aging skin treatments, it should a holistic and Inclusive Healthcare approach that helps repair and prevent the signs of aging. Murad has a complete anti aging system that includes three anti aging systems that can address your unique anti aging issues.

 

Age Reform® Anti Aging System Reduces Fine Lines and Wrinkles

More than likely, the first signs of aging that you might notice are the fine lines and wrinkles that appear around the eyes in the form of crows’ feet, or perhaps worry lines on the forehead or laugh lines around the mouth. As you get older, you may also notice a change into uneven skin tone on your face. Age Reform utilizes the science of Cellular Water™ to reduce fine lines and wrinkles while restoring firmness and resilience. Continue reading →

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Why Today’s Anti Aging Treatments Aren’t Your Grandmother’s Wrinkle Cream

1 Dec

anti wrinkle productsThink back to your memories of your grandmother, and chances are one of them will be of her preparing for bed. She’d slather an anti wrinkle cream onto her face. That anti wrinkle cream probably smelled a whole lot like perfume, and it most likely also was thick and goopy. Now, consider this. Did that anti wrinkle cream really do anything to give your grandmother younger looking skin? Chances are that it did not, which is why today’s anti wrinkle skin care products are nothing like your grandmother’s wrinkle cream! What are the big differences that have happened in anti aging skin care and wrinkle creams in the past generations? Here are the big ones.

 

Anti Wrinkle Cream Improvement: Less Cosmetic Ingredients, More Effective Ingredients

We all like when a skin care product that we use smells great. But it’s more important for a skin care product to give us healthy and beautiful skin. While the anti wrinkle creams of yesterday focused on ingredients that would make the cream feel rich and creamy or would make it smell perfume-like, today’s anti aging and anti wrinkle products focus on ingredients that will actually give you younger looking skin. Retinol, Glycolic Acid, and natural ingredients full of antioxidants are just some of the key ingredients that have been proven, through scientific study and clinical trials, to improve skin’s youthful appearance. While your grandmother’s wrinkle cream may have smelled great and felt great, today’s anti wrinkle treatments actually reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for a younger look! Continue reading →

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A Genetic Aging Skin Care Primer

16 Nov

When putting together your own anti aging skin care treatment regimen, it’s important to know the factors that go into aging so you can properly reduce and prevent fine lines and wrinkles, a loss of skin firmness and even age spots and sun spots for great looking, youthful skin. Anti aging products should target the three major types of aging: hormonal, environmental, and genetic. You might know about the first two, but you might ask, “What is genetic aging?” We’re here to help you find out what that means, and what you can do to help combat it for healthy skin and younger looking skin. .

 

Defining Genetic Aging

Simply put, genetic aging is the type of aging that comes down to our genetic makeup. For the men, the most obvious type of genetic aging is in the form of balding. For everyone, however, regardless of the signs of aging that we all experience – from changes in skin texture to the development of wrinkles – aging skin can be directly related to our genetic makeup. DNA determines how quickly your skin loses firmness, reduces collagen and elastin production, and how and where you are apt to develop wrinkles. Genetic aging happens to all of us, because we all get older and there’s no avoiding it! As we age, all body processes slow down, and that includes the production of collagen and elastin which give skin its firm, full, youthful look. The good news is that there are anti aging skin care products that will help you prevent and even reverse the signs of aging. Continue reading →

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