Because increasing your skin elasticity reduces wrinkles.

Have you ever done this? Taken a pinch of skin and pulled and let go, and watched your skin return to it’s normal condition? Flat?

If you do that with a 15 year old and a 75 year old you’ll notice a big difference. The skin of the 75 year old person returns to it’s flat state much slower. That’s because you lose skin elasticity as you age, and it’s skin elasticity that produces the reaction of returning your skin to flat.

What creates skin elasticity? Primarily it’s collagen and elastin. You’ve probably heard of collagen and elastin, 2 skin proteins that help hold your skin together and create elasticity in the skin.

Elastin, for example, is found right throughout our bodies and is a strong rubbery type substance. Elastin is found in many of the parts of our bodies that help hold us together, like ligaments.

Both collagen and elastin form fibres which help our skin hold together and contribute to that elastic feel.

But sadly as we age our stores of both collagen and elastin in our skin slowly decline. This is a result of a number of processes like glycation, which helps break down collagen. It’s not necessary to know why this decline happens, what matters is that it does happen, and what to do to increase the stores of collagen and elastin in our skin as we age.

And of course if our skin loses it’s elasticity it starts to sag and wrinkle, as may be happening to you as you age.

The traditional approach to increasing collagen and elastin in our skin taken by the big brand skin care companies is to add collagen and elastin to the bottles of skin care products that you see on the shelves of your local store.

But this doesn’t work to increase the levels of these proteins in the skin. The reason is that molecules of collagen and elastin are too large to penetrate the skin, so they just remain on the surface. This fact has been known for some time.

So why are collagen and elastin in the bottles? To sell more bottles.

So if adding them to the bottle doesn’t actually do anything how do you get more collagen and elastin into your skin as you age?

Yes you can, and it’s done using a revolutionary product manufactured in New Zealand called Cynergy TK. What Cynergy TK does is to actually stimulate the skin to produce more of it’s own stores of collagen and elastin.

The product is sourced from the wool of sheep and has been clearly shown in studies to increase the skin’s own stores of these 2 skin proteins. Visible improvements in skin elasticity from using skin care products with Cynergy TK in has been seen in as little as a few weeks. This results in a reduction in skin wrinkles.

Cynergy TK isn’t a skin care product and the consumer can’t buy it. It is used as an ingredient in the worlds best skin care products.

So why aren’t those big brand skin care companies using it in their products? Because it’s very expensive, it’s way cheaper to just put a small bit of collagen and elastin in the bottle and put it on the label so consumers buy it, but it doesn’t really do much for your wrinkles. Nothing actually.

So are the natural skin care products that use Cynergy TK really expensive? No. Because the company that makes them puts it’s budget into product quality not advertising. So you won’t know them because you’ll never see them on TV. They let their products do the talking.

Oh, and they offer a money back guarantee. Read the rest of this entry

Can eating foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin actually improve your skin health?

The quick answer to this question is yes and no. Sorry to be confusing. However we’ll explain further.

There’s no doubt at all that what you eat directly affects the condition of your skin and how well it ages. Eating a good diet rich in anti oxidants and vitamins and minerals is essential to optimum skin health and the look and feel of your skin.

You need to follow all the advice that you read everywhere about eating to stay healthy. Lower intake of fats, particularly animal fats, higher intake of fresh fruit and vegetables and lower intake of salt and sugar. What is good for our body generally is good for our skin. No doubt.

But there are many people who think that there are miracle foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin and which help slow the skin aging process. And to some extent that’s true. But actually producing the result you want, namely to improve your skin health and the looks of your skin simply by eating isn’t as easy as you might expect.

Lets look at 3 examples of foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin.

1. One of the good fats that help improve your skin health is omega 3. You’ve probably heard of omega 3, it’s a fatty acid found in, amongst other places, oily fish. It’s good for your heart, it’s good for your health generally and it is also very good for your skin.

A diet high in omega 3 fats is well worth it, for your overall heatlh as well as your skin health. However it is quite difficult to ensure adequate levels of omega 3 in your diet unless you regularly eat large quantities of oily fish. In some cultures this happens all the time. But in ours the right types of fish isn’t a huge part of our diet, and is very expensive.

2. Phytessence Wakame. Now unlike omega 3 there is a good chance that you’ve never heard of phytessence wakame. It’s a seaweed and is found around the coast of Japan, and is cultivated by the Japanese. It is a large part of the Japanese diet, both fresh and dried, and has been for centuries.

And it’s no coincidence that Japanese women have the worlds best skin right into old age. And science knows why this is, it’s because of all that seaweed they eat right throughout their lives.

There’s a range of reasons why phytessence wakame is good for skin elasticity, but there’s no need to explain the benefits of phytessence wakame further, we’ve written about phytessence wakame here before, suffice to say it’s one of the best things you can do for your skin.

To read more about phytessence wakame read our article on Japanese skin care secrets.

3. Sorbitol. Sorbitol is very good for your skin and is found in grapes and berries, plums and pears and seaweeds and algea. It helps the skin retain moisture and so acts as a natural moisutizer.

There’s many more foods that contain ingredients that are beneficial to your skin, but you might see what we’re getting at here.

It’s extremely difficult to put together a diet that will really make a lot of difference to your skin purely from what you eat. Certainly there’s no doubt that eating a healthy diet is extremely good for your skin, but just trying to eat foods that help improve skin elasticity in aging skin and offer other skin care benefits is like trying to catch a cloud. It’s very difficult.

And in many cases the active ingredients in come foods can actually be better for your skin when applied directly to your skin, rather than eaten.

So what do you do if you want to improve your skin elasticity? (And there’s no doubt that skin elasticity and improving skin elasticity is essential in the fight against wrinkles.)

What you can do is to use the best natural skin care products that contain all these ingredients in one easy to use product.

Most big brand skin care products tend to contain chemical ingredients manufactured in a lab, usually as these are much cheaper than natural ingredients. But it’s quite possible to get skin care products with the ingredients mentioned above, and lots more. Read the rest of this entry