Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Is It Possible To Increase Skin Elasticity?

Will increasing skin elasticity improve your skin care?

Aging comes with skin aging, and as your skin ages it slowly loses it's elasticity. As skin elasticity is important for great looking skin increasing skin elasticity with age is important too, and for this reason so many women are looking for ways to do so with vitamins and supplements and creams.

Does taking vitamins for skin elasticity or collagen supplements or cremes really work? And what other avenues do you have?

Let take a look at what skin elasticity is and why you need to increase skin elasticity as you age.

Good skin care is about, amongst other things, keeping the skin firm yet supple, and collagen and elastin are 2 essential skin proteins that do just that. This is important for great looking skin.

But gradually with age your skin loses some of it's elastin and collagen and so loses this suppleness and elasticity and this isn't good for keeping wrinkles away.

(And there's other factors too, like sun damage and smoking, both of which are terrible for your skin.)

Abut as your skin loses it's elasticity it starts to sag and that is the beginning of wrinkles and lines.

So for some time science has been trying to come up with ways to increase skin collagen and increase elastin stores in the skin.

And that's why you see so many skin care products on the shelves with collagen and elastin in them. But this doesn't work. Why? It's been known for some time that the molecule size of collagen and elastin is too big to penetrate the skin.

So why would these skin care companies put them in the bottles? Because they know that the people who buy skin care products want to see them in the bottles, because then they buy them believing that they are increasing skin elasticity through increasing these proteins.

And collagen supplements have never been conclusively shown to increase skin collagen either.

But our scientists aren't resting, they have found a way to stimulate the skin to produce more elastin and collagen itself and it works.

Its done by use of a breakthrough new product called Cynergy TK, and the trial results have been impressive indeed. Results are visible in a relatively short time, including reduction in visible wrinkles.

But Cynergy TK is really expensive and so the big name companies don't put it in their products. They spend more on advertising and less on product quality.

But there is one company that has reversed this and spends way more on product quality and none on advertising, so you probably wont have heard of them. But their products are superb, and as they don't advertise they keep their costs down so the product price is very competitive.

So increasing skin elasticity is quite possible, and is being done by many women right now, though not through collagen supplements or creams containing collagen and elastin, but by using a breakthough product that actually stimulates the skin to grow more of its own.