Curing Wrinkles - Basics About Your Skin

For most women trying to find why skin ages, it is a mystery that cannot be solved. We have taken all that pills, use all of the creams and other facial exercises until we literally turn blue trying to make our skin look younger. Now, everyone is trying their hand at plastic surgery. But if you watch any TV, you're sure to see some of the drastic failures and horrible side effects of plastic surgery that have gone bad. Is there any alternative? How do you make your face look younger? Does anyone have the fountain of you?

Before we go into how to look younger, you first need to understand why your skin ages. No matter how many lines, blemishes, or dark circles you see in the mirror, we all started out with a clear complexion. So what is responsible for changing our baby smooth skin into wrinkles and crinkles that we get in middle age?

First we must understand that our skin is an organ. It's no different than your heart, your liver or your kidneys. It performs numerous tasks that helps us live a long and sustaining life. It regulates body temperature, it registers pain and its shields our body against outside elements and also bacteria, viruses and other external threats. It also shows the body's condition by acting as a mirror to what's going on inside. If we are stressed emotionally or physically our body will show it.

You skin is made up of three levels. Your outer layer is called your epidermis. This is a protective coating of dead skin cells that are form when new skin cells are created in trying to push their way to the surface. The old skin cells falloff as new skin cells are pushed upward. As we age this process begins to slow down. A younger person would have a cell turnover of 25 to 30 days, by the time we're 68 takes 45 to 50. This is why it seems that our youth leaves us as we get older. Even though these dead cells seem to have no purpose, they do. They are responsible for holding the moisture in our skin.

The second level of your skin is called the dermis. The dermis holds all your skins nerves. It is actually 90% of your skins mass. The nerves in your dermis are sensitive to pressure, pain, temperature changes, etc. The dermis also contains your sweat glands which not only cool your body, but also helps to remove toxins.

The final layer is your fat layer. This layer has two jobs. The first job is to act as insulation for your body. It is the fat layer that keeps your body warm when it's cold and also assists in the regulation of your body's temperature. The fat layer also acts as a protective pincushion for your organs.

It's important to know what your skin does to understand the aging process.