Ever since the world became aware of beauty, a softer, supple skin has always been the benchmark of good health. With harsh winter months around the corner, many of us start to see flaking and stretchy feeling around the face and neck. It makes us feel worried about our skin, its complexion, and our face glow. The reason for an ever-glowing skin and texture is due to skin elasticity that keeps fine lines and premature wrinkles at bay.

Skin elasticity – What’s that?

Our skin comprises of proteins called collagen and elastin that hold our skin together and give it an ability to stretch. But with time and sometimes due to lack of skincare, the production of collagen reduces causing micro-ageing, also the first sign of premature ageing. Studies suggest after our twenties; our skin collagen starts dropping every year by one per cent. Drop in the collagen is caused by harsh direct sun exposure. India being a tropical country, leads to a lot of sun damages to our skin’s elasticity, thereby speeding up ageing and pigmentation. Along with sun exposure, pollution, neglecting skincare, sleeping with makeup on and smoking can also cause your skin’s elasticity to decrease drastically.

How can you improve skin elasticity? 

Proper sun protection

It is the most important habit to keep that skin, supple and glowing. Make sure you apply sunscreen gels, creams or SPF 30 BB creams every day to protect your skin from the sun. Cleaning your skin with a gentle after sun cooling wipes after 2- 3 hours and then reapplying the creams is essential. So that your face is free of any pollutants that stick on the skin, this can also cause further skin damage. Natural skincare routines are the best for all of us, and with the help from a skincare therapist you can achieve the desired beautiful skin   

Quick Cheat: Don’t neglect your lips. The lips are also a sensitive part of our faces, and it is imperative to safeguard it from the sun. Invest in good quality, lip balm with sunblock that would prevent your lips from pigmentation and darkening.

Quit smoking

Might sound like a cliché, but smoking is a sure-shot way that leads to premature ageing. Smoking narrows blood vessels, thus decreasing blood flow and reduces the oxygen levels of the skin and lack of oxygen reaching skin fibres damage the growth and regenerations of collagen and elastin fibres too.

Quick Cheat:  Increase the consumption of biotin-rich foods in your diet for e.g., Egg yolks, legumes, sweet potatoes, avocado, apples and bananas to get healthy collagen levels on to your skin, reverse that smoking damage to some extent and have healthy hair and nails as well. 

Start a skincare plumping routine early.

It is no secret, but anti-ageing skincare starts much earlier. Invest in an excellent age-preventative skincare regime, gentle natural products regular facials for healthy blood flow to the skin and milder collagen-boosting serums. This routine would help to moisturise and keep the skin lubricated and plumped during these winters and maintain adequate skin elasticity that would keep your skin healthy and glowing. 

Quick Cheat: It is the age of work from home and zoom calls. Whenever you are sitting in front of a laptop screen, try to support your neck with a neck pillow and apply light Aloe Vera, watermelon or Mint face gel on your face, eyelids and neck. It is an excellent way to keep blue light exposure at bay. Supporting your neck keeps neck wrinkles at bay, and your skin looks plump and healthy.

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Reach for retinol

Retinol is the gold standards of healthy skin. It is a form of Vitamin A and boosts collagen production in the skin. Retinol is known to neutralise our free radicals, free radicals slow down the production of collagen and elastin, and retinol frees up these from our middle layer of skin also known as the dermis; where they get trapped. Retinol also has an exfoliating effect on our skin, which improves overall texture and tone too.

Quick Cheat: Try a Peel facial treatment, which is a water-based treatment that will improve your skin significantly. The therapy uses Vitamin A rich fruit infusion gel that is then sprayed by a supersonic stream of water. Water not just cleanses and unclogs pores but the water when interacts with retinol gel helps loose skin retract faster, thus creating a natural firmer binding effect of the skin. 

Sleeping right

Sleep is essential for not just women but men as well. With increasing unstipulated working men don’t get enough sleep. Making sure you’re sleeping right to prevent fine lines and wrinkles. Luckily for men, there is a large gap in years compared to women when it comes to signing of premature ageing. Men’s skin is constructed quite differently and is much thicker and coarser than that of a woman.

Studies have suggested that the majority of men and women sleep on their bellies. For better skin elasticity, it is advisable to have healthy sleep posture where one should sleep on their backs or their opposite sides; that is if your right-handed sleep on your left side and vice versa and avoid squashing your face against the pillow. These minor improvements would not pull your skin against the rough bedspread that cause lines. But also sleeping on opposite sides gives your neck and shoulder muscles better posture, muscle strength and thus, a healthy shoulder face and neck balance that enhances your skin and helps better circulation.
Quick Cheat: Skincare before sleeping for men as well as women is significant. One should not just rinse and cleans one’s face before sleeping, but investing in good under eye gel pads for sleeping would reduce crow feet and premature wrinkling around the eyes.