Anti-aging Skin Care: Vitamin E slow’s down the Aging process and keeps you looking Younger Longer

For anti-aging purposes, Vitamin E is essential to slow down the aging process, although it won’t reverse the effects of aging. Taken as a daily supplement, especially if you’re over your mid 30’s, will, inter alia, assist in your anti-aging skin care routine.

Our bodies produce free radicals and anti-oxidants on a continuous basis. As we grow older, we produce more free radicals, and less anti-oxidants. Free radicals are like rust to metal. Utra violet light, pollutants, and smoke produce free radicals which cause oxidation to skin cells, and the degeneration of internal organs. Anti-oxidants, on the other hand, fight and prevent free radicals from harm to body tissue at the cellular level.

Vitamin E contains powerful anti-oxidants which can be obtained from diet. Foods including broccoli, almonds, blackberries, bananas, apples, kiwi fruit, sunflower seeds, peanuts, Brazil nuts, pine nuts, avocadoes, spinach, and leafy green vegetables are rich sources of Vitamin E. However, many people are Vitamin E deficient because they cannot receive their full RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) from diet alone. So an oral supplement might be necessary. For adults, a normal daily intake of 10 to 30IU of Vitamin E is recommended, and 200IU to 400IU for anti-aging purposes.

Other than anti-aging skin care benefits, Vitamin E boost immunity levels, reduces hot flashes in menopausal women, thwarts arthritis, fights cancer and heart disease. A topical solution of Vitamin E cream applied to the skin reduces wrinkles, heals minor cuts and abrasions without leaving scars. A Vitamin E cream heals, seals, and soothes broken and stressed skin tissue.

Too much Vitamin E taken daily can do you harm, so try not to ingest more than 400IU per day. If consumed excessively, it can cause hemorrhaging and disrupt blood coagulation, and also interfere with certain medications. So if in doubt, consult your physician.

Ingested with care by not exceeding 400IU per day, Vitamin E will definitely benefit your anti-aging skin care efforts, and help you in many other ways. Applied topically, it will reduce wrinkles and help heal broken skin.

Wendy Wilken is the author of “Facelift Without Surgery” and also a practitioner of natural anti-aging skin care techniques. She spends her free time researching and writing about anti-aging and non-surgical facelifts. See her other products too.

Non-Surgical Facelifts: Why Facial Acupressure can make you look years younger

As a form of non-surgical facelift, a program of acupressure applied to twenty different parts of the face, neck, hands, and arms can make you look years younger in as little as a month. There are many benefits one can derive from this form of massage, inter alia, looking younger, improved blood circulation, and better performance of certain internal organs.

By applying pressure via certain circular motions to thirteen nodal energy points on the face, one chin slap, two neck points, two hand points, and two arm points, on a daily basis for the first 30 days, and then 2 to 3 times a week thereafter for maintenance, you would have accomplished a DIY non-surgical facelift. This will result in your face looking a great deal younger and refreshed than before you started the natural facelift program.

The wrinkles and lines you had before will be smoothed out or would have disappeared; the eye bags and puffiness around your eyes will have become lesser, the skin on your face will have lifted, and you will have new color to your cheeks and rest of your face. A free, non-invasive facelift at the control of your own fingertips!

But how and why does facial acupressure work as a form of natural facelift?

• The body has a complex network of nodal points and energy channels between these points called meridians. The Chinese call this “Chi” and the Japanese call this “Ki”

• Each point correlates to another part of the body, and if stimulated via acupuncture or acupressure, it treats that part of the body.

• When the nodal points are stimulated via acupressure, an electrical charge is sent through the meridians, thereby healing and unblocking the body’s energy channels, and also the nodal point itself.

• If acupressure is applied starting from the head, downwards to the face, neck, arms and hands in a specific order and on the particular points, the energy points are opened, the energy lines are stimulated, there is a rejuvenation of blood flow from top to bottom, and the skin and underlying tissue will be re-energized.

• Because the skin and underlying tissue is stimulated, blood flow is increased, which means that the much needed nourishment is fed to the areas massaged resulting in the re-growth of the skin cells. This stops sagging, reverses skin wrinkling, increases skin elasticity, better skin texture, and adds extra glow and color to the skin.

• The underlying tissue at the place of the acupressure points is plumped up over the time, which fills the face, resulting in a younger looking face where the skin is now taut instead of loose.

• Other parts of the body also benefit from facial acupressure e.g. the spleen, liver, sinuses, and digestive system.

Results between patients vary, depending on how early in life they start with a non-surgical facelift acupressure program, and also how committed they are to the program. The more you apply the routines, the better the result. All will benefit in some way, though.

These are the basics behind how and why a non-surgical facelift conducted with facial acupressure is so effective and can result in you looking years younger in a space of a month. A non-invasive facelift is more effective than a surgical facelift because you can apply the massage to the points as often as possible, keep your natural facelift under your control, and can enjoy permanent benefits. It's better than the surgeon’s knife with only temporary results!

Wendy Wilken is the renown author of Facelift Without Surgery and a practitioner of natural anti-aging techniques. See her other products too.

Anti-Aging Skin Care: How to protect your Skin from the Sun and repair Sun Damage

One of the most important things you can do in anti-aging skin care is to try and stay out of the sun. Due to carbon emissions over the past two centuries, the ozone layer has become a lot thinner, resulting in increased dangerous sun ultra-violet (UV) light radiation which causes serious harm to the skin, especially to light-skinned people, and those that enjoy basking in the sun.

People with lighter skin are more prone to skin sun damage than their darker skinned counterparts because they have less melanin, which is the first line of defense against the sun. Melanin in the skin absorbs the UV rays to protect itself.

Try stay out of the sun’s menacing rays between 10am and 2pm. If you’re going out into the sunshine for prolonged periods of time, use a good sun block with at least 15 SPF. The higher the SPF number, the better. If you’re going into the water, it is advisable to apply a water-resistant sun block so that it protects the skin in and out of the water. Even if you don’t deliberately tan in the sun, it is still advisable to protect yourself from its rays as much as possible. Anti-aging skin care is foremost!

Exposure to the sun’s UV rays can cause wrinkling, permanent dryness of the skin which causes premature aging, loss of elastin and collagen (which keeps the skin moist, young, healthy, and stretchable), and in the worst scenario, skin cancer in the form of melanoma. Sun damage often results in the DNA of the skin cells to become damaged resulting in the thickening and thinning of the skin in the healing process. Each time the skin cells heal from sun damage, the dead skin peels off, and doesn’t heal back in the same state as they originally were. This is how wrinkles develop. In extreme cases, cancer can develop in the regeneration process of these damaged skin cells.

Some solutions to repair or reverse sun damage are:

• Topical application (in the form of a cream or ointment) of green tea and Vitamin C helps protect and heal the skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays.

• Topical applications of Retin A, Glycolic Acid, or Lactic Acid applied to the skin after being sun burnt will result in exfoliation of the skin, assist with the healing process in repairing the damaged cells, and prevent future damage from UV radiation.

• One can also undergo intense light-pulse laser treatment that can reverse the effects of sun damage.

• Visit a dermatologist periodically to check for cancerous growths or tender areas where the skin has been damaged. Light-skinned people should be extra vigilant.

The best anti-aging skin care treatment against the sun is avoidance. Don’t expose yourself to excessive quantities of harmful ultra-violet sun rays, use sun blocks, and apply certain topical solutions to assist in the skin repair process. Don’t let it get to treatment phases: prevention is the key word here.

Wendy Wilken is the renown author of "Facelift Without Surgery" and a practitioner of holistic anti-aging skin care techniques. See her other products too.