article by Nora Kuch

Forehead lines: horizontal lines, often called worry lines. These lines form mainly because the underlying frontalis muscle, which stretches across the forehead, moves when you make facial expressions. When you lift your brow—sometimes referred to as the “aha” or surprised look—the muscle contracts, which causes the skin that is covering the muscle to pull, wrinkle, and then return to its original position when you relax the muscle. Now consider the countless number of times you’ve used these muscles. As you age, your skin be­gins to lose its elasticity, it suffers from sun damage, and the constant contracting and relaxing of the muscle results in forehead lines. These can be eliminated using Botox or filler injections such as collagen or fat.

Frown lines: vertical lines, also known as glabellar lines, that appear between the eyebrows. These linescan make you appear serious, angry, or stressed even when you’re not. It is for the removal of these lines that the Food and Drug Administration gave approval for Botox in April 2002. These lines are best removed with Botox. If you’ve frowned a lot over the years and the lines are very deeply etched, you may also need wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat) to eliminate these lines. Your doctor will discuss your options with you.

Crow’s-feet: lines that radiate from the outside corners of the eyes. They’re also known as periorbital lines. If you have these lines, they’re most likely the result of smiling and squinting. If you look in the mirror ands mile or squint, notice how your muscles contract and cause your eyelids to nearly cover your eyes and how the muscles contract at the corners of your eyes where the lines appear. Crow’s-feet are best eliminated with Botox, plus adjunctive treatment such as collagen, chemical peels, or laser resurfacing.

Laugh lines: also known as smile lines or nasolabial lines, they are the two vertical lines that run from the out­side corners of the nose down to the top of the outside of the upper lip. Even though they are called laugh lines, gravity and aging are also factors in their development. They can best be eliminated using wrinkle fillers (e.g., collagen, fat, AlloDerm, Cymetra, Gore-Tex, or SoftForm).

Lipstick or smoker’s lines: the tiny radiating lines that appear above the upper lip and below the lower one. It seems as though everyone has a different name for these annoying wrinkles, which are best removed using laser resurfacing, chemical peel, microdermabrasion, or wrinkle fillers—tissue augmentation (e.g., collagen in­jections, AlloDerm, fat)—in addition to Botox.

Marionette lines: the often deep lines that run down from the outside corners of the mouth toward the chin. These lines develop from a combination of factors, in­cluding gravity (the cheeks tend to sag from the force of gravity) and thinning of the supporting tissue that comes with age. These wrinkles are best eliminated using wrinkle fillers or laser resurfacing. Another option is a face-lift, a complex surgical procedure.

  By Nora KuchN

What type of skin do you have? To have a perfect skin you have to treat each cell within perfectly. You need to know your skin type! You may think you know it already, but you need to remember, our skin changes with age, with seasons , with diet and even according to the time of the month.. So truly know your skin type, you have to reassess it regularly.

Is it dry?
Is it oily?
Is it combination skin?
Is it sensitive skin?
Is it maturing skin?
Is it stressed out skin?
Is it tiered skin?

In series of articles about skin types, you will be able to assess your skin type and take better care of your skin and hopefully have a healthy, glowing skin.

Dry skin.
What are the characteristics?
If you have dry skin, your face feels tight, never relaxed, dull and some times gray. It’s flaky and has lots of tiny fine lines. Dry skin occurs when the protective barrier of oil in the lower level of skin starts to break down and water evaporates from skin. The problem with dry skin is that it will make you look older. Getting those moisture levels back up to normal is therefore priority.

Dry skin care:
To take care for dry skin means making sure the products that you use contain no drying ingredients like alcohol or soap. Choose creamy or milky cleansers that will add moisture and leave a fine protective film. If you have to use soap, choose glycerin based one.

You need to exfoliate. One of the reasons why dry skin looks dull is that its cell renewal is slow. Using a cleanser with alpa-hydroxy acids can help to exfoliate. Apply them every day for a week, then stop for 2-3 weeks. In between use facial scrub to remove dead skin cells.

Use the right moisturizer. Moisturizers use two types of ingredients to hydrate the skin:
- humectants, which attract moisture to the skin
-emollients, which help reinforce the protective barrier.

Choose product, which include both. Look for ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and lactic acid, which are humectants and lanolin, which is emollient.

Choosing moisturizers high in water will also help the skin look and feel hydrated.

Apply moisturizer twice daily.

Top five tips for dry skin:
Cleanse your skin once daily (only once) at the end of the day. This will remove dirt and grime and will prevent further drying. In the morning, use some moisturizer.

Exfoliation is essential for dry skin. When choosing facial scrub, avoid any made from seeds or salt – these can have sharp edges which may tear dry skin , increasing moisture loss.

Never expose your skin to really hot water. It dries out parched skin. Never dry your skin completely. One of the best way to hydrate your skin is just to pat it with the clean towel after washing, then apply moisturizer to seal the extra moisture.

Increase your intake of oily fish or take a supplement of essential fatty acids.

Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Cleanse your skin once daily (only once) at the end of the day. This will remove dirt and grime and will prevent further drying. In the morning, use some moisturizer.

Exfoliation is essential for dry skin. When choosing facial scrub, avoid any made from seeds or salt – these can have sharp edges which may tear dry skin , increasing moisture loss.

Never expose your skin to really hot water. It dries out parched skin. Never dry your skin completely. One of the best way to hydrate your skin is just to pat it with the clean towel after washing, then apply moisturizer to seal the extra moisture.

Increase your intake of oily fish or take a supplement of essential fatty acids.

Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Nora Kuch is an author of many skin care and beauty care articles and owes website: http://www.beautyuno.com and her newest addition is http://www.beautyuno.com/skintype.html

As a baby boomer I try to avoid aging as much as possible. I try to buy every possible anti-aging cosmetics available on the market. But some ingredients are very confusing even for me, who is familiar with chemistry and biochemistry.

Lets start with some explanations.

Alpha-hydroxy acids: These slough off dead skin cells to reveal smoother, younger-looking akin underneath.Antioxidants: Ingredients like vitamin C, A and E, green tea, copper, grapeseed and kinetic help skin by neutralizing molecules called free radicals, that destroy your skin.

Aqua( water): Number one ingredient listings, is vital for you.Beta-hydroxy acids: These work in the same way as alpha- hydroxy acids but are less iritating to the skin. The most common one is salicylic acid, which also fights bacteria on the skin.

Botanicals: Ingredients from natural source(plants) believed to have some healing and regenerative powers on the skin, like aloe vera, gingko, and ginseng.Coenzyme 10: A nutrient found in every cell of our body, this is also a good wrinkle booster.

Emollients: Found in moisturizers, these help protect skin by reinforcing the moisture barrier in the lower layer of skin.Essential Oils: Most commonly used in aromatherapy, these are plant oils used to scent products, but also as ingredients-lavender or chamomile is commonly used in skin creams as it soothes irritation.

Humectants: Similar to emollients, this attract moisture to the skin from the air.Hypoallergenics: Ingredients shown to be least likely to cause allergic reaction.

Liposomes: These aren’t ingredients, but ways to deliver ingredients like vitamins deeper into skin. Mattifiers: Ingredients like witch hazel or cornstarch, that soak up oil on the skin.

Non-comedogenics: Ingredients shown to be less likely to block pores.Retinols: Another word for products made from vitamin A, these are powerful antioxidants and some ( the RX only Retinol A and Renova) have been ahown to dramatically reduce skin damage from ultraviolet rays.

Sun Protection Factors: The most important ingredient in any skincare product, they screen out harmful and aging UV rays. So here you have it explained. This should help you by choosing the right anti-wrinkle skin care product for you.

Nora Kuch is an author of many skin care and beauty care articles and owes website: http:www.beautyuno.com

Confused with all anti-aging ingredients in skin care products?

Article deals with the short explanation of anti-aging skin care products ingredients and their short description.

Nora Kuch is an author of many skin care and beauty care articles and owes website: http:http://www.beautyuno.com

Nora Kuch is an author of many skin care and beauty care articles and owes website:

http://www.beautyuno.com/antiwrinkle_ingredients.html 

As a baby boomer I try to avoid aging as much as possible. I try to buy every possible anti-aging cosmetics available on the market. But some ingredients are very confusing even for me, who is familiar with chemistry and biochemistry.

Lets start with some explanations.

Alpha-hydroxy acids: These slough off dead skin cells to reveal smoother, younger-looking akin underneath.

Antioxidants: Ingredients like vitamin C, A and E, green tea, copper, grapeseed and kinetic help skin by neutralizing molecules called free radicals, that destroy your skin.

Aqua( water): Number one ingredient listings, is vital for you. Beta-hydroxy acids: These work in the same way as alpha- hydroxy acids but are less iritating to the skin. The most common one is salicylic acid, which also fights bacteria on the skin.

Botanicals: Ingredients from natural source(plants) believed to have some healing and regenerative powers on the skin, like aloe vera, gingko, and ginseng.

Coenzyme 10: A nutrient found in every cell of our body, this is also a good wrinkle booster.

Emollients: Found in moisturizers, these help protect skin by reinforcing the moisture barrier in the lower layer of skin.

Essential Oils: Most commonly used in aromatherapy, these are plant oils used to scent products, but also as ingredients-lavender or chamomile is commonly used in skin creams as it soothes irritation.

Humectants: Similar to emollients, this attract moisture to the skin from the air.

Hypoallergenics: Ingredients shown to be least likely to cause allergic reaction.

Liposomes: These aren’t ingredients, but ways to deliver ingredients like vitamins deeper into skin.

Mattifiers: Ingredients like witch hazel or cornstarch, that soak up oil on the skin.

Non-comedogenics: Ingredients shown to be less likely to block pores.

Retinols: Another word for products made from vitamin A, these are powerful antioxidants and some ( the RX only Retinol A and Renova) have been ahown to dramatically reduce skin damage from ultraviolet rays.

Sun Protection Factors: The most important ingredient in any skincare product, they screen out harmful and aging UV rays.

So here you have it explained. This should help you by choosing the right anti-wrinkle skin care product for you.