By Retno Kuswantoro

Nowadays, emphasis on image of youthfulness by the mass media and fashion, people like to have younger appearance. As we age skin sagging and wrinkles may occur because of loss of soft tissue and fat. Since ancient time people have tried to find procedures which give them younger skin. Skin Rejuvenation is any procedure used to increase or restore the appearance of a younger age to someone’s face. For specific term it refers to a set of surgical procedures.

Rejuvenate skin

Combinations of procedures usually do together depend on face area which needs corrections. They are combinations of brow lift, elimination of eye bags, eyelids lift, elimination of senile spots, skin aging, face lift and physical or chemical peeling, chin lift (reduction of double chin), restoration of facial hairline, etc. And don’t forget, clear acne take apart of younger appearance too.

Other medically effective to skin rejuvenations are: Botox injections, DMAE creams, facial toning, collagen injection, and microdermabrasion. Important thing you should aware is make sure all of those skin rejuvenations are done by dermatologist or doctor who trained and have experiences to do those procedures. These procedures are usually successful and in some cases achieve striking results.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Tighten skin

A lot of skin tightening products is rushed to the market to meet the demand of everyone who dreams to look younger. Their forms may come in creams, serum, or mask.

Companies claim that those skin tightening can tighten, firming, and reduce the visible signs of aging – fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin. With look appealing of their jar or bottles and their advertisement with youthful looking model or a well known celebrity, those products may confuse you

The reality is most people simply won’t take any time to research products and understand what ingredients work and what ingredients are actually bad for your skin.

These are some tips to choose skin tightening products:

1. Start by looking for active ingredients found in skin tightening products. Make sure the skincare products contain pure, natural ingredients. Many product lines often contain chemicals and synthetic ingredients that will harm your skin if used over long periods of time such as parabens and mineral oil.
2. Some ingredients are well known can tighten and firming skin. When choosing a skin tightening product, it’s not just about find out good ingredients in its label; you should choose products that contain good ingredients in high concentration to get best result.
3. Don’t neglect another people’s experiences about using those skin tightening products. If you consider buying these products via internet better you read customer reviews first. They can help you to make a decision.
4. Be patient. Efficient products can heal your skin, make it tighten and firming after a few days of normal use. There is no products can fade away the visible signs of aging – fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin dramatically. If you have acne, better you delay applying skin tightening products on your skin until you get clear acne.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Natural dry skin care

Dry facial skin care is facial skin care for people who having dry skin type. Dry skin is a very common problem of face and skin but for people that suffer from dry skin it can be the most difficult problem to deal with. Dry skin can be itchy and irritating, and gives a dull look to the skin and causes skin to age prematurely such as dry skin contributes to fine lines and wrinkles.

If you have dry skin type your skin needs moisture to stay smooth and supple. It is an important thing that you take proper care of your skin and consider dry facial skin care. These are few tips you need to know about taking dry facial skin care:

1. First, find out what causes your skin dry. Avoid them as possible you can. Few things that causes your skin dry are:

• Dry skin can be due to a genetic condition but it’s not common, and you can not avoid this condition.
• A very cold climate, the dry air from where you live in, or over exposure to the sun light contribute to dry your skin
• Clean your face too often or not use moisturizer routine

2.  Dry skin can be caused by bad nutrition, such as deficiency of vitamin A, C and D. Drink plenty of water, about 8 glasses a day.

3.   Using facial skin care for dry skin routine to get supple and radiant skin:

• Prefer use mild cleanser or cream cleanser than use soap to cleanse your face. Cleanse your face twice a day. Too often cleanse can cause your skin dry.
• Once a week you can facial your dry skin with exfoliating skin care. It will take the layers of dead skin off and reveal the glowing skin underneath.
• After cleanse your face you should use moisturizer, use the thick, oily-type which work better for dry skin. Apply cool compresses to any itchy areas. Use bath oils and moisturizers, or better yet, coconut oil, daily.
• If you have acne, it is better that you use acne product such as mild cleanser contains antibacterial.
• Before you sleep you can apply night cream and eye cream to your dry skin. It is good to delay skin aging.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Anti wrinkle creams

Anti-wrinkle creams are saturating the market nowadays and lots of people are patronizing them—men and women alike, young and old. For anyone who gives great value to beauty, wrinkles are simply upsetting. Apart from good looks, however, people use anti wrinkle cream for many other reasons.

As we age older, we start to get wrinkles. Aging has been classified into 2 types, “chronological skin aging” and “photo aging”.

Chronological skin aging is physiologic alterations in skin function. Its characteristics are dry, pale skin with fine wrinkles. In contrast, photo aging results from the UV rays of sunlight, and the damage becomes apparent in sun-exposed skin. Characteristics of photo aging are dry and sallow skin, displaying fine wrinkles as well as deep furrows. Wrinkles can appear as deep in the skin or thin surface lines that once smooth surface of the skin. Wrinkles — or laugh lines, crow’s feet and “signs of character” — are caused by the constant contraction of the muscles as we use our face.

Effects of each anti wrinkle cream vary. Some anti wrinkle cream may provide major changes to your skin while others only have a very little effect on the skin. What this skin care cream really does is it hides those ugly wrinkles and moisturizes your skin so you can achieve a more beautiful face. These ingredients may act as exfoliates, antioxidants and UV protection.

Exfoliates

Exfoliating agents can speed up the removal of the outer layer of the skin cells and encourage cell turnover. Alpha hydroxy acids (AHA) and beta hydroxy acids (BHA) have a peeling effect. However, the effects of these compounds likely depend on their concentration and mode of application. Usually anti wrinkle cream contains 5-10% AHA while it might contain 1-2% BHA. More is not necessarily better because these products can cause irritation. Another skin treatment that you must know is microdermabrasion. This skin treatment gives better effect on cell turnover.

Antioxidants                                                                                                                  

Atmospheric pollutants are an important source of oxidative stress, and skin is particularly vulnerable to free radical damage. Antioxidants can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of free radicals.  Most anti wrinkle cream contains antioxidants such as vitamins, resveratrol, glutathione, co-enzyme Q10 etc. but the exact amounts needed topically to have an effect have not been established.

Vitamin A can clear acne, is effective in reducing the number and depth of wrinkles and lightening of pigmented spots when applied topically. Vitamins E and C are naturally occurring antioxidants and free radical scavengers. They can be a valuable weapon against premature aging while increasing the shelf-life of the product.

UV protection                                                                                                                   

 It’s important that anti wrinkle cream contains UV protection because the UV light can damage to the skin. UVA has a longer wavelength than UVB and penetrates deeper into the dermis causing wrinkles. UVB radiation causes the characteristic redness of sunburn and is associated with many skin cancers. SPF 15 is recommended for daily use. Anti wrinkle cream usually contains UV protection such as Titanium dioxide, Oxybenzone, or Cinoxate/Methoxycinnamate.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Anti aging products

Aging is an accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs. Sunlight, pollutants, smoking, stress, and even a bad diet can cause aging of the skin. Signs of aging are wrinkles, expression lines, blemishes, pigmentation changes, and discolorations of the skin.  If you are serious about the health of your skin and you want to keep your skin clear, radiant and young looking you need anti aging products.

There are many anti aging products in the market includes nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, skin treatments, hormone replacements and supplements. Choosing them may confuse you. If you are starting to notice that your skin is splotchy and what we many call “age spots” are developing, then you are suffering from the oxidation of your skin. The solution to such age spots is using anti aging products containing antioxidants.

Antioxidants can cancel out the cell-damaging effects of free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive atoms or molecules that are so unstable they end up damaging neighboring skin cells, causing further signs of aging. Antioxidants work by joining up with free radicals before they damage your cells, include your skin cells.

Anti aging products containing antioxidants are usually presented in two forms, supplements and skin care creams. Both of them, if you consume them correctly, will keep your skin clear, radiant and young looking.

Anti aging product supplements most contain antioxidants such as:

1. High potency antioxidant group such vitamin A, C, E, Selenium, Zinc, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Superoxide dismutase.
2. Herbal origin antioxidants like Red grape seed extract, mix carotenoid (ß-carotene, lycopene, astaxanthin, lutein, and zeaxanthin), citrus bioflavonoid concentrate, green tea extract.

These are Information for you when taking anti aging product supplement containing antioxidants:

• Take that supplement according to the directions of use or dosage listed in its leaflet. Taking excess supplementation may be harmful.
• Store that supplement at room temperature, avoid direct sun light because it can broken the antioxidants.

An anti aging skin care cream is only going to make you look younger if it contains the right ingredients to do so. Antioxidants in anti aging cream such as:

1. CoenzymeQ10. For it to work it has to be refined into a specific form. This form is called H-EQ10. It is an emulsion of vitamin E and CoQ10. In the manufacturing process, CoQ10 particles are broken down to a microscopic size, which allows them to penetrate more deeply and effectively into your skin’s numerous layers.
2. Retinol, which is a vitamin A compound, has antioxidant properties to protect the skin from the free radicals which cause wrinkles.
3. Vitamin C. Anti aging product contains vitamin C usually in concentrate form called serum. Use it after you clean your face and neck.

By Retno Kuswantoro

Skin care aging

Skin aging begins at the moment of birth. As we grow older, our skin grows older. Our skin is the largest organ in our body. It protects our body from the environment. Aging skin looses elasticity or the ability to stretch. The older we get the more elasticity our aging skin looses.

There are two factors that cause skin aging; they are intrinsic and extrinsic aging factors.

Intrinsic skin aging info

Intrinsic skin aging occurs naturally over time. Skin aging will occur no matter how well and fit your body and skin remains. The aging process begins in the early 30’s. The symptoms of intrinsic skin aging include fine lines, thin skin, hollowed cheeks, hollowed eyes, sagging facial skin, dry patches or areas on the face, hair loss and unwanted hair of the face.

Extrinsic skin aging info

Extrinsic skin aging refers to the external factors attributing the aging process. These factors can be controlled by a person in relation to aging and anti aging methods. External or environmental factors associated with aging skin include sun exposure, moisturizing, diet, smoking, drinking, and drug use and air pollution.

These are Seven Tips to delay your skin aging:

1. Consuming 6-8 glasses of water a day and put no strict diet. Diet too hard will age your skin. It’s the best you loose your weight not over than 1 kg a week.
2. Don’t smoke! The chemicals in the smoke are aging to the skin and will reverse your anti aging skin care process.
3. Wash your body and face with product that contains no ingredient that can dry your skin.
4. Exfoliation of dead skin cells and constant moisture and hydration are a very important part of an anti aging skin care regimen.
5. Avoid sun exposure. It is between ten am until four pm. Always use skin product that contains sunscreen with SPF min 15 even you are in indoor room. If you are work outdoor you must use sunscreen with SPF min 30.
6. Consume good food for your healthy skin, don’t eat junk food.
7. Always use face skin care products and skin products that suitable with your skin type.
8. If you use of anti aging skin care you must understand your skin condition such as acne skin, allergy, etc.