Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Ins And Outs Of Increasing Skin Elasticity

By Peter Albertonach

As you age your skin starts to lose elasticity, and sadly, skin elasticity is one of the most important factors in good skin care. For this reason so many people search for answers like pills to put elasticity back in skin, like collagen pills.

Does taking vitamins for skin elasticity or collagen supplements or cremes really work? And what other avenues do you have?

Let take a look at what skin elasticity is and why you need to increase skin elasticity as you age.

You may have heard of collagen and elastin. Both of these are essential skin proteins that make up a large part of your skin. And both elastin and collagen are important factors in keeping your skin healthy and supple. Healthy supple skin makes for good looking wrinkle free skin.

But as you age your skin starts to lose its stores of elastin and collagen. And as these contribute hugely to keeping wrinkles and lines at bay the loss of collagen and elastin is a major cause of your skin starting to develop the wrinkles and lines that bedevil us as we age.

(And theres other factors too, like sun damage and smoking, both of which are terrible for your skin.)

Abut as your skin loses it's elasticity it starts to sag and that is the beginning of wrinkles and lines.

So for some time science has been trying to come up with ways to increase skin collagen and increase elastin stores in the skin.

So you see stacks of anti aging products on the shelves of your store with collagen and elastin on the label. But for some time science has known that molecules of elastin and collagen are too big to penetrate the skin, so don't go in.

So why are they in the bottles if they don't really do anything? Because the companies know that consumers will buy them if they see them on the label.

And as well it has never been conclusively established that taking vitamins to increase skin elasticity does so, or that collagen supplements do so.

But our scientists aren't resting, they have found a way to stimulate the skin to produce more elastin and collagen itself and it works.

Its done by use of a breakthrough new product called Cynergy TK, and the trial results have been impressive indeed. Results are visible in a relatively short time, including reduction in visible wrinkles.

But Cynergy TK is really expensive and so the big name companies don't put it in their products. They spend more on advertising and less on product quality.

But not all companies are like this. One small niche skin care company has decided not to advertise but to spend on product quality instead, and they make superb products that do include Cynergy TK.

So yes increasing skin elasticity through increasing elastin and collagen is possible, and does work. But not as you might expect, and not through collagen supplements or vitamins or creams that contain collagen and elastin. You just need to get the skin to grow more of it's own. - 14130

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