Health and Fitness

The aging process causes the loss of collagen that contributes to wrinkling of the skin. Collagen is a fibrous protein that gives skin resilience, elasticity, and the capacity to retain moisture. With the loss of collagen come wrinkles. There are face wrinkle creams available that help restore the properties of collagen on the skin’s surface, but other actions should be taken as well.

In order to reap the maximum benefits of collagen, it is important to get below the skin’s surface. This can be done by collagen injections, laser treatments followed by a collagen facial, and living a healthy lifestyle.

Collagen injections consist of filling in wrinkles and adding volume under the skin’s surface. Collagen injections are FDA approved, but require an allergy test prior to treatment. The procedure normally lasts only 15 minutes and can cause minor discomfort. Swelling and redness can last up to a few days. The results can…

Quitting the smoking habit is one of the most effective ways to prevent wrinkles. It is actually more effective in fighting wrinkles than using a face wrinkle cream. Creams alone will not prevent wrinkles for smokers because the harmful side effects of smoking can not be reversed.

Smoking plays a huge role in developing wrinkles because smoking accelerates the aging process. Aging naturally produces sagging and wrinkling of the skin and smoking makes it happen at a much faster pace.

Smoking can wreak havoc on your skin and develop irreversible skin changes in as little as ten years. This means a person who starts smoking at the age of fifteen can easily start seeing smoking induced wrinkles by as early as age twenty-five. The last thing a twenty-five year old should worry about is wrinkles.

Smoking depletes the skin of oxygen and nutrients because of the narrowing of the blood vessels in the…