I am returning once again to the subject of the sun: too much sun causes ageing of the skin, resulting in wrinkles, including around the eyes. Fortunately there is an attractive solution for this: sunglasses.
Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health, and many also know that smoking is no good for the skins condition. This photograph of twins shows how much older you can look through smoking (Aging studies on twins – American plastic surgeon Dr. Antell). But why, in fact, is this?
The American plastic surgeon Dr. Antell photographed hundreds of twins in order to see what effects external factors (sun, stress, smoking) have on skin.
“Noticeably younger looking after three weeks” or “80% less wrinkles”.
Everyone knows these claims and fortunately most people don’t take them too seriously. I’ve written before about this in my blog, that you cannot get rid of wrinkles with the freely available so called ‘over the counter’ products.
Because I know what the sun can do to skin I always smear lots of sun cream in. I don’t mind not having a ‘beautiful healthy brown colour’. This is actually your skin’s defence mechanism reacting to an excess amount of rays and is therefore not good at all! Really: most skin ageing is due to the sun. Apart from the fact that the sun accelerates the ageing process of your skin in the form of wrinkles and pigment spots, it also becomes less resilient (think about a golfer’s neck who is always out in the sun and gets to look leathery). This is, of course, a slow process. But unfortunately the benefits and advice given about sun creams and staying out of the sun are still taken, by many, with a pinch of salt.
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