Six anti-ageing tips

Here are six tips to protect your skin against premature ageing:

1. Use sunscreen liberally.

For daily wear, choose a sunscreen with at least an SPF of 15, if you do not expect to be outdoors or it is not a sunny time of year. If it is a sunnier season, step up to at least a 30 SPF.

2. Avoid tanning, whether from the sun or tanning booths.

It is one of the biggest mistakes that younger women make, whether it is tanning indoors or outdoors, on purpose or accidentally during sports.

Damaging your skin with ultraviolet radiation will make it look worse, and too much sun can also cause skin discoloration and damage to elastin and collagen.

3. Wear sunglasses.

Not only will you protect your eyes from the sun, but also the delicate skin surrounding your eyes. Furthermore, you will not be creating more wrinkles by squinting all the time.

4. Wear hats, visors, and sun-protective clothing.

The importance of physical protection from the sun, instead of relying only on sunscreen cannot be overemphasized. Hats with a broad brim are a good choice, while visors look good with sportier or more casual outfits.

5. Don’t smoke.

Smoking harms the skin in many ways. For instance, it speeds up collagen breakdown and constricts blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients to your skin.

Smokers are more likely to develop premature wrinkles, such as tell-tale lines around the mouth and crow’s feet from “smoker’s squint. In time, nails and fingertips will turn yellow, too.

6. Avoid too much alcohol.

Drinking too much alcohol dehydrates your skin. Furthermore, alcohol dilates your blood vessels. If you drink to excess, you could develop unsightly broken blood vessels and rosacea, a skin disorder marked by redness and tiny pimples.

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Top 10 Things You Must Know About Sunscreen

We all know we are supposed to wear sunscreen to protect our skin from sunburns, premature aging, wrinkles and skin cancer. What most people don’t know is without the right sunscreen products and application you aren’t actually getting adequate sun protection. Follow these sunscreen tips below to get the best protection while enjoying the sunshine.

1. Sunscreen should have a minimum of 30 SPF, anything less than that might as well be tanning oil.

2. Sunscreen over 50 SPF isn’t worth the extra money.  SPF 50 already protects you from 98% of the sun’s rays.  Costing an extra couple bucks, 70 SPF gives you less than 1% more protection than 50 SPF.

3. Purchase sunscreens that offer “broad spectrum protection” to shield skin from both UVA and UBA rays (UVA causes wrinkles and UVB causes sunburns and both can cause cancer).

4. You must reapply sunscreen every two hours to keep skin protected.

5. Water, sweat and moisture degrade the effectiveness of sunscreen, so reapply more often than every two hours in wet or moist conditions.

6. It takes about a “shot glass” full of sunscreen to properly cover your body with sun protection.  If you apply too thin of a layer, you reduce the SPF factor of the sunscreen.

7. Sunscreen bottles exposed to heat and sun have a reduced effectiveness to protect you from UVA and UVB rays.  The sunscreen ingredients are broken down by sun, heat and moisture.

8. Sunscreens don’t last forever! Check the sunscreens expiration date before using.  In generally, you should purchase new sunscreen each summer.

9. Most sunscreens take 20-30 minutes after application to absorb into the skin and reach their full sun protection potential.  Apply sunscreen at least 30 minutes before you plan to be in the sun.

10. You still need sunscreen on a cloudy or fogger day. Even if the sunshine is not directly hitting your skin the UVA and UVB rays are, so apply sunscreen when you plan to be outdoors.

By Girl Friday