Wrinkles are not caused by dry skin, but by environmental damage, especially the sun's radiation. This damage is cumulative, meaning that the total dose that you received in your life determines how much damage was caused. If you have many tan during your childhood and your adolescence, the damage is still present. It is therefore particularly important to avoid things worse by continuing to lie in the sun or burning your skin when you are at a high altitude or you do spring skiing.
Daily treatment with tretinoin (retinoic acid) for an extended period, following the correct dosage, improve the skin by repairing some damage in the past. This medicine should be applied every night, allowing more uniform skin texture and pigmentation. Also improve fine lines.
Since wrinkles are not caused by dry skin, moisturizers can not prevent them or treat them. It is not true that the cream "feed" the skin. The nutrients go to the skin in the same way they go to other parts of the body - through the bloodstream. The pores do if "open" and does not "close" it, nor do they "breathe". All that a moisturizer can do is to reduce water evaporation from the surface of the skin. Everything you need to prevent dry skin is a water-based emollient (softening lotion) that does not block pores.
In winter, expect that your skin is dry. Your legs and torso have far fewer oil glands than your face. These areas are more likely to be dry. Dry skin itches because the main function of the skin is to form a barrier against the outside world and that dry skin is a barrier less effective. Soap, water and heat more easily irritate the small nerve endings in the skin and frequent showers and chemicals in the deodorant soaps will only aggravate the situation.
The heaters also dry out the air. The relatively moist air from outside loses moisture when heated by a stove in the "room temperature". Therefore, try to humidify your home at the right level, or about 50%. Use a simple moisturizer after your shower while your skin is still damp.
Finally, if you smoke, stop. The smoke is as damaging to skin as it is for other body parts too.
Daily treatment with tretinoin (retinoic acid) for an extended period, following the correct dosage, improve the skin by repairing some damage in the past. This medicine should be applied every night, allowing more uniform skin texture and pigmentation. Also improve fine lines.
Since wrinkles are not caused by dry skin, moisturizers can not prevent them or treat them. It is not true that the cream "feed" the skin. The nutrients go to the skin in the same way they go to other parts of the body - through the bloodstream. The pores do if "open" and does not "close" it, nor do they "breathe". All that a moisturizer can do is to reduce water evaporation from the surface of the skin. Everything you need to prevent dry skin is a water-based emollient (softening lotion) that does not block pores.
In winter, expect that your skin is dry. Your legs and torso have far fewer oil glands than your face. These areas are more likely to be dry. Dry skin itches because the main function of the skin is to form a barrier against the outside world and that dry skin is a barrier less effective. Soap, water and heat more easily irritate the small nerve endings in the skin and frequent showers and chemicals in the deodorant soaps will only aggravate the situation.
The heaters also dry out the air. The relatively moist air from outside loses moisture when heated by a stove in the "room temperature". Therefore, try to humidify your home at the right level, or about 50%. Use a simple moisturizer after your shower while your skin is still damp.
Finally, if you smoke, stop. The smoke is as damaging to skin as it is for other body parts too.
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