When Should I Begin Using Skin Care Items?

November 23rd, 2008 by Andi Bradshaw

by Andi Bradshaw

Everyone really needs and should use skin care items, if they want to prevent skin care problems, instead of trying to correct them. I’m an esthetician so I know that the average woman uses a moisturizer, but most don’t understand why they need twice weekly exfoliating. Although twice daily moisturizing is great at working under the skins’ surface to help retain it’s health, exfoliators work on the top side of the skin and give immediate 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.

Your THIRTIES will bring skin that begins to look tired and dull, and you’ll begin to see tiny lines around your mouth and eyes and if you have oily skin your pores will begin to enlarge. Now you’ll need to be sure your moisturizers have anti-oxidants because twice weekly exfoliating and twice daily moisturizing with those anti-oxidants is needed to keep your face and neck, youthful and healthy looking. If you’re not using an eye cream, twice daily - you should be.

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.

Your skin will become dryer in your Fifties, and it doesn’t matter what type skin you’ve always had. That loss of moisture you experienced in your forties, becomes more intense and that equals a slackening of the skin in the neck and jawline area and those wrinkles will become creases. So, your list of anti-aging, and lifting and firming ingredients will need to include vitamins and extra moisture to help give added strength to your skin.

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 information was written to make you aware of what to expect if you get to a particular age without the use of skin care. If you do consistently use a twice daily skin care routine for your age and skin type, you’ll always look years younger than other women your age.

About the Author:

These facts were taken from information in the book “Skin Care for Moms & Other Working Women”. Check out andibradshaw.com for this and other affordable, age specific, step by step, illustrated makeup and skin care books. Affordable makeup and skin care books.