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The following is from Consumer Reports
The Best Treatment Is Prevention
By age 40, most people’s skin shows some wear and tear. As skin becomes thinner and less resilient, people develop wrinkly eyes, frowny foreheads, and puppetlike crease lines from the sides of the nose to the corners of the lips.
This process is exacerbated by sunlight. Every ultraviolet ray that penetrates the skin acts like a molecular bullet, setting off a biochemical chain reaction that damages collagen (the main component of skin) and creates fine lines and wrinkles. UV light also disturbs the skin’s pigment cells, creating age spots and freckles in light-skinned people, and uneven distribution of pigmentation in darker-skinned people. (See our full wrinkle creams report and Ratings, available to subscribers.)
Though pigment changes, age spots, and fine wrinkles are not themselves a health problem, the sun overexposure that causes them is the principal risk factor for skin cancer.
Here are ways to slow down the clock:
Wear sunscreen. The higher the SPF the better, and not just when you’re at the beach. This advice applies even if you are able to tan easily or have naturally dark skin.
Shade your face. Wear a hat and sunglasses.
Avoid tanning parlors. Visit them only if you want to get a spray-on tan (which doesn’t stop sunburn).
Stop smoking. Tobacco ranks second only to sunlight in its dire effects on skin.
The following is from Consumer Reports
The Best Treatment Is Prevention
By age 40, most people’s skin shows some wear and tear. As skin becomes thinner and less resilient, people develop wrinkly eyes, frowny foreheads, and puppetlike crease lines from the sides of the nose to the corners of the lips.
This process is exacerbated by sunlight. Every ultraviolet ray that penetrates the skin acts like a molecular bullet, setting off a biochemical chain reaction that damages collagen (the main component of skin) and creates fine lines and wrinkles. UV light also disturbs the skin’s pigment cells, creating age spots and freckles in light-skinned people, and uneven distribution of pigmentation in darker-skinned people. (See our full wrinkle creams report and Ratings, available to subscribers.)
Though pigment changes, age spots, and fine wrinkles are not themselves a health problem, the sun overexposure that causes them is the principal risk factor for skin cancer.
Here are ways to slow down the clock:
Wear sunscreen. The higher the SPF the better, and not just when you’re at the beach. This advice applies even if you are able to tan easily or have naturally dark skin.
Shade your face. Wear a hat and sunglasses.
Avoid tanning parlors. Visit them only if you want to get a spray-on tan (which doesn’t stop sunburn).
Stop smoking. Tobacco ranks second only to sunlight in its dire effects on skin.
