How To Improve Levels of Collagen and Elastin

Just about every woman who's interested in good skin care knows that improving the amount of collagen and elastin in your skin is a big part of making your skin healthier and younger looking. However although many women are aware of that, many are not aware of a trap that is laid for consumers of skin care products looking to increase the amount of collagen and elastin in their skin.

But before I explain the trap lets look a little at exactly what elastin and collagen do. They are both proteins, sometimes called structural proteins, because they have a very important role in maintaining the structure of your body.

Collagen in particular is highly important in so many of the areas of your body that help hold it together. It is found in many of the connective tissues in the joints such as tendons and ligaments for example. It is extremely important in a range of other areas of the body including the blood vessels, the lungs and skin.

When you cut yourself it is collagen which helps repair the damage.

When you were born your body was packed with these 2 important proteins. But gradually with age the levels of both start to decline. In fact the body does not produce any more elastin after puberty.

Both these essential proteins are found in the skin, and are very important in maintaining the strength, suppleness and elasticity of the skin, which of course keeps it looking good. Reduce elasticity and strength and skin starts to sag, and what are wrinkles other than sagging?

As you age these 2 important proteins start to reduce in quantity, and this is one of the major factors in you showing your age on your face.

So as stated at the beginning, just about every woman knows that you need to increase the amount of elastin and collagen in your skin to look better.

So what's the trap that so many women are not aware of? It's this.

Many skin care products show on the label that they contain collagen and elastin. Of course most women will buy the product merely because they see this listed on the label, and that's exactly why it is on the label, (and in the bottle).

You see it's been well understood for many years that the molecule size of these proteins is too large to enter the skin, and putting it on the surface really does very little to increase the amount below the surface.

But putting them in the bottle certainly sells lots of bottles.

So if using skin care products with these proteins incorporated doesn't actually increase their availability to your skin then how do you achieve this?

You do it by using products which stimulate the skin to grow more all by itself. Believe it or not it's really possible. There are products that do this.

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How Do I Make The Skin Around My Eyes Look Younger?

Many women wish to make their eyes look younger, because the eyes are the focus of the face. If you can make your eyes look younger then the face will look younger too.

Needless to say you can't actually change how your eyes look to any great degree. Their colour is fixed, unless you choose to use coloured contact lenses, and there's not much else you can do to change the way your eyes look.

However there is plenty that you can do to change how the skin around your eyes looks, and that's what women are really looking to do.

Because of course if your eyes are the focus of your face then if the surrounding skin is puffy and baggy and has dark circles and wrinkles then this doesn't help.

And that's the cause of the problem. Because as they age women, in many cases, start to find that they are developing fine lines and wrinkles around their eyes, puffiness, dark circles and bags and this has a serious impact on how they look.

The causes of all these problems are well known. For many years it's been understood that the primary cause of sagging and wrinkles is the loss of collagen and elastin in your skin as you age. Elastin and collagen are 2 essential skin proteins which contribute significantly to the elastic quality of your skin, and as you age stores of these 2 important proteins reduce, thereby reducing skin elasticity and suppleness. This causes the skin to sag, and wrinkles and lines are the result.

However there are also causes of unsightly skin around the eyes that are region specific. That puffiness is caused by a build up of fluid. The dark circles are caused by very small amounts of blood released after tiny capillaries become broken.

And for this reason an effective eye anti wrinkle cream has a number of jobs to do. Just like any effective skin care product generally it has to reverse the loss of collagen and elastin in the skin. However it also needs to do more. It needs to reduce the tendency of those tiny capillaries to break and to leak blood, and it also has to target the build up of fluid which causes that puffiness and bagging.

Over the last few years some excellent ingredients have been produced which target these specific problems. One is called Eyeliss, which is not a product of itself but is an ingredient of the best eye anti wrinkle creams, and there are others as well which are targeted to reduce these particular skin problems under the eyes.

It is now possible to buy a high quality eye anti wrinkle cream which targets not only the loss of elastin and collagen but also deals with the other 2 problems, namely build up of fluid and papillary breakage, with a combination of ingredients all of which work together to help reduce the appearance of ageing around the eyes, including reducing wrinkles.

Science is producing answers to questions. How many of these problems are caused is now well known, and some clever people are producing solutions.

To find out more about how to make your eyes look younger by targeting the skin problems that develop around them with age visit my main website.