Health and Fitness

If you are looking for healthier, younger looking skin, you have a lot of choices. Your options range from invasive and expensive like Botox or easy and inexpensive like an anti wrinkle face cream. There isn’t one right method that works for everybody, but I would recommend you try out the easy and inexpensive method before deciding on something like chemical injections into your face.

Let’s start by talking about Botox. This is a trademark name that is short for botulinum toxin type a. Basically what happens is that you inject a “purified” toxin into your face. The injection interrupts your bodies signals that cause your muscles to contract. The result is your facial muscles are more relaxed and look smoother giving the temporary appearance of less wrinkles. You don’t really want to do this around your mouth as it can interfere with the muscles that are needed for eating and…

Aging is an undisputable fact of life that transgresses any human intervention. The most unmistakable sign of aging is the formation of wrinkles, and furrows on the face. Hormonal changes, heredity, and the skins inability to retain moisture are natural aging factors contributing to the formation of wrinkles, and are unavoidable. External factors such as over exposure to sunlight, pollution, stress, smoking and poor dietary habits are factors that we do have control over. All these factors make the skin less supple, thereby reducing skin tone creating a loss of firmness, and the appearance of wrinkles. Skin begins to show signs of wrinkles when skin cells dye off faster than what can be replaced by normal regeneration. With time, these wrinkles deepen, reaching the supporting dermal layer. When the dermis loses its elasticity, deeper, and more permanent wrinkles form. While all these changes are taking place, gravity exerts its influence…