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Natural Anti-Aging Skin Care
by: Jennifer Kays
Our skin is of vital importance to our
health. Our skin is responsible for providing protection from
environment, providing us with an emotional sense of boundary,
creating sensual awareness to communication with the "outside"
world e.g. feeling pleasure or pain signals that are vital to
our survival and well being.. How our skin feels physically
often determines the way we feel emotionally.
Our skin is one way that we communicate infomation about
ourselves to others. We blush, turn pale, signal "worry" or "stress" with
wrinkles in our forehead or around our eyes and mouth. Our skin
often is used by others to form an impression of our age, how
much we are indoors or outdoors and our activity, through scars,
wrinkles, colors, and texture of our skin. Our skin is a signal
to ourselves and others about our overall health internally,
externally, physically and emotionally. "How do I look?" i.e.
"What are others seeing and, perhaps, thinking about me?", is a
question about the appearance of our skin. This information
comes from the tone, texture, firmness, and aroma of our skin.
Our skin is one of the largest "organs" of our body composing
about 10% of our body weight. Our skin entirely replaces it's
surface about every 60 to 90 days. Our skin eliminates waste,
toxins, sends signals to our internal bodies, and actually
breathes. Disturbances in our skin, e.g. eruptions, dryness,
oil, rash, "age spots" wrinkles, blotches, etc are often an
indication of our internal health..
Many of us have used synthetic prescription drugs, lotions, or
creams, to care for our skin. Often these synthetic substances
are accompanied by undesired and sometimes harmful "side
effects". Our bodies are designed by nature to absorb and use
substances that are natural. When an "unnatural", i.e. synthetic
substance, is introduced into or on our body, it "interprets"
that synthetic, unnatural substance as "foreign" or as an "invader". Our
body protects itself either through the production of antibodies
from our immune system or does not absorb these synthetic
substances.
In contrast, our body readily recognizes, absorbs and uses
nautural substances as the appropriate material to use to build,
repair and sustain itself. Our skin operates in the same way as
the rest of our body in terms of what it will or will not absorb
and use. Natural substances are recognized by our skin,
internally and externally, as "welcome" ingredients for use in
building, repairing, and sustaining itself.
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There are many natral anti-aging skin care products we can use
topically on the outer surface of our skin. All natural
anti-aging skin care products contain vitamins, minerals,
antioxidants, amino acids, essential fatty acids, and aromas
from nature that our skin readily recognizes as appropriate for
use. All natural lotions and ointments, help our skin to
maintain it's healthy tone, texture, elasticity, aroma and to
repair injury, discard waste, breathe properly, sense
appropriately, release used skin cells, build new skin cells,
protect us, and improve our appearance.. These all nautural
products contain amino acids, vitamins, antioxidants, herbs,
enzymes, aromatherapy oils, and other natural substances that
support our skin health.
Remember that the most important factor in the health of our
skin is our internal physical health. An important aspect of
antii aging skincare is helthy digestion and elimination. Our
intestinal system is responsible for absorbing food, nutrients,
and water and for eliminating waste and toxins from our bodies.
When our intestinal digestive system is overwhelmed, it places
an extra burden on our skin to increase it's waste disposal
function. When our skin's waste disposal function becomes
overwhelmed, we develop skin disorders. This is particularly
true when we are tying to digest processed foods, dairy
products, or other foods lacking fiber. Food becomes putrefied
and toxic because it cannot be processed or eliminated properly.
Our skin then attempts to remove these toxins. Pores may become
clogged, inflamed, discolored, dry, or oily. If we want healthy
anti-aging skin, we need to keep our intestinal digestive system
functioning properly. We can help our digestive system with all
natural enzymes, essential fatty acids, probiotics and fiber.
Digestive enzymes reduce large food particles so that the body
can absorb nutrients and the entire body, skin included,
benefits. Discolored skin, wrinkles, or blemishes, can be signs
of enzyme deficiency and the loss of collagen that accompanies
it. Digestive enzymes reduce free radical damage, help us remove
toxins and maintain a healthy balance of beneficial intestinal
microflora. Probiotics provide and maintain a helthy balance of
intestinal flora, vital to our intestinal digestive health and,
in turn, the health of our skin. Beneficial flora promotes the
health bacteria we need and destroys harmful bacteria that can
lead to illness and infection. Unfortunately, synthetic
prescription antibiotics destroy the good bacteria along with
the harmful bacteria. Probiotics help restore the healthy
microflora and bacteria after synthetic antibiotic use.
Probiotics also help the skin to have healthy bacteria it needs
and eliminate the growth of harmful bacteria.
All natral vitamins such as Vitamins A, C, and E are essential
for anti-aging skin care. Vitamin A is needed for skin cell
growth and renewal. Vitamin A is an antioxidant that fights free
radicals, provides nourishment for the fat layer under the skin.
Vitamin A deficiency results in dry, rough skin, eruptions,
wrinkles, poor texture and tone. Vitamin C helps repair skin by
building collagen and fighting infection. Vitamin C deficiency
is connected to aging and ultra violet ray damage. Vitamin E
also protects our skin from UV damage, reduces free radicals on
our skin surface, and helps prevent the peroxidation of fats
which results in skin cell damage.
All natural herbs improve complexion, help remove heat, toxins
and swelling from our skin. Herbs can help lighten skin and
maintain natural skin moisture.. Herbs help prevent scar
formation and facilitate new healthy skin growth.
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Amino Acids fight harmful bacteria and
viruses. Amino acids help carry vital oxygen throughout the body helping our
skin breathe. Amino acids are part of facilitating enzyme efficiency and
hormonal balance which is a major aspect of antii aging skincare. Amino
acids help stimulate collagen production. Collagen is the tissue that
determines skin firmness. By increasing the production of collagen, amino
acids can help our skin retain it's firmness, therefore reducing lines and
wrinkles.
Essential fatty acids, EFAs, help our skin to become softer, smoother, and
retain proper moisture content. Essential fatty acids have a very beneficial
efects on the synthesis of prostaglandin hormones in our skin cells. Omega
3, an essential fatty acid, greatly benefits skin texture and may also help
prevents the development of skin cancer and aging of our skin.
Our bodies produce Hyaluronic acid which is found to be abundant in young
skin. The affects of aging and environment gradually reduces the amount of
hyaluronic acid our bodies produce and maintain. Hyaluronic acid is
important for our body's connective tissue, especially in our skin.
Hyaluronic acid also helps to cushion, lubricate and provide needed
flexibility for our skin.
Alpha Lipoic Acid is becoming well known for it's anti-aging efects and is
a potent antioxidant that combats skin damage and helps repair past skin
damage. Alpha lipoic acid provides great free radicals defense especially
when combined with other anti-aging antioxidants. Alpha lipoic acid is
soluble in both oil and water. Alpha lipoic acid enhances the benefits of
vitamins C and E and Coenzyme Q 10.
Coenzyme Q 10 helps decrease cellular oxidation in skin that accompanies
aging. CoQ10 enters the layers of the epidermis and reduces the level of
oxidation.. CoQ10 helps protect against UV light. CoQ10 activates
phosphotyrosine kinases which prevens oxidation damage. CoQ10 is a very
important natral nutrient for anti-aging skin care.
Our natural skin requires natural antii aging skincare. Many all natural
anti-aging skincare nutrients are available for us. They include amino
acids, essential fatty acids, vitamins, anti-aging antioxidants and
anti-aging skin care formulas. We can help our skin externally through the
use of topical all nautural lotions, ointments, creames and solutions. We can
keep our skin helthy internally through the use of all natural supplements,
vitamins and formulas. Our skin keeps our internal system in place and
protects our internal structure. Our skin provides valuable infomation
about our overall health. Our skin is importan not only for our appearance,
but more vitally, for our complete well being.
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