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 Xtend TK. What Xtend 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 Xtend TK in has been seen in as little as a few weeks. This results in a reduction in skin wrinkles.

Xtend 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 Xtend 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

Interested in natural skin care products? Where do you find a natural skin moisturizer?

Gradually there is a worldwide movement towards natural non chemical products, and the skin care industry is no exception. Natural skin care products like natural skin moisturizers are selling like hot cakes.

Yes there is a natural skin moisturizer, in fact there are a number of natural skin moisturizers. If you can source them all yourself you could even use them as they are, but it isn’t easy to source these moisturizers, so it’s way easier (and probably cheaper) to get them all in one good quality natural skin care product.

Here’s a few examples of excellent and quite natural skin moisturizers. You might not have heard of them.

1. Shea butter. What is shea butter? It comes from the seed of the shea tree, and has many properties that are good for your skin, including natural moisturizing. It is high in vitamins A and E, both good for your skin, and also some essential fatty acids that are extremely good skin moisturizers. These ingredients are virtually identical to the moisturizers produced by your own skin in the sebaceous glands.

Shea butter softens the skin and makes it smoother and look younger.

2. Phytessence Wakame. This is a seaweed from Japan and is eaten by the  Japanese. Science has discovered that phytessence wakame is very good for the skin, something Japanese women have known for years. The Japanese have the worlds best skin right into old age.

Phytessence Wakame is packed with all sorts of vitamins and minerals that are good for your skin and has natural moisturizing properties.

3. Sorbitol, found in grapes and berries, plums, pears, seaweed and algea is a fine moisturizer, helping the skin retain moisture and also smoothing the skin.

4. Capuacu oil from the nut of the capuacu tree. It regulates the activity of lipids on the surface of the skin, very important to protecting skin moisture.

5. Cynergy tk. Cynergy tk is derived from the wool of sheep. It is one of the best moisturizers that you can get for your skin. Along with a wide range of ingredients that have various benefits for your skin it is also very successful at helping the skin retain moisture.

Retaining moisture is one of the most important parts of successful skin moisturizing.

There’s 5 great natural skin moisturizers. And of course if you have a capuacu tree and a shea tree in the backyard, along with the berries and maybe a beach nearby with the right type of seaweed you could probably do wonders for your skin just by eating. Oh and a sheep.

But of course for the vast majority of women (and men) this isn’t practical. Far more useful is to buy the worlds best natural skin care products that contain all these ingredients and much more, all in one product.

Proven to moisturize successfully as well as contribute to a visible overall improvement in skin health. Read the rest of this entry