What An Amazing Age For Skin Care
Don’t we live in an amazing age? We know so much more about things these days than ever before, and that includes skin care for mature women.
Part of the problem is that we just don’t think of ourselves as ‘older.’ In our minds we’re still the same smart girls we started out as in our younger days, just more experienced. Unfortunately, our skin is ‘more experienced, ‘ too.
When we think about it, it’s amazing our skin lasts as long as it does. It’s the largest organ in our bodies and it not only covers us, it has all kinds of important purposes, such as helping to regulate body temperature and so on. However, by the time we reach that ‘certain age, ‘ we begin to worry more about how our skin looks on our faces, neck, hands and chest.
It used to be that cold cream was about the only thing a woman could use to try to stave off the ravages of time and weather from her face. These days, though, there are not only products, there are even treatments that sound like something out of science fiction. For instance, whoever thought we’d be able to use light to fix our faces? That’s right, thanks to treatments with intense pulsed light, our skin can be repaired for redness, broken capillaries, age spots and even minor sun damage. Women who’ve had the treatment say it’s nearly miraculous the way it restores an even skin tone.
Another treatment that’s made great strides is the whole realm of anti aging skin care products. Even 20 years ago we knew very little about things like antioxidants, collagen and the like. Now there are whole shelves full of these kinds of products in the health and beauty sections of department stores and drug stores.
Of course, the thing that works best with these products is the same kind of discipline we were taught early on about good skin care: the old ‘cleanse-tone-moisturize’ formula, twice a day. Only now we have so many new products to try, the regimen might be ‘cleanse-tone-moisturize-treat!’ It all depends on how a woman’s skin responds to the products she’s trying, because each woman’s skin reacts differently. The trick is to keep trying products until we find the right combination. It’s a good idea to try a new product for at least six to eight weeks to give it plenty of time to work properly. Otherwise, our skin might become over-sensitive from too many changes over too short a period of time.
Finding that perfect restorative product can take some time. However once it’s found, a woman would sooner give up her beauty perfume than part with her skin care product!
