FACIAL CARE FOR MATURE SKIN
Mature Skin
Mature skin is a condition we all eventually reach. As we age, our skin's needs change: with each passing year, lines and wrinkles become a more permanent part of our personality. Therefore, the right care involves protection, rich formulations, and a comprehensive package of highly concentrated active ingredients.
What is Mature Skin?
An exciting life leaves its marks – even on our face. Mature skin, or ageing skin, describes sensitive and often extremely dry skin that loses elasticity, moisture, and protection due to aging processes. In cosmetics, "mature skin" is typically referred to from around the age of 45. How the skin condition develops over the years is individual and depends on various internal and external factors.
Characteristics of the Ageing Process
The characteristics of mature skin include reduced firmness and elasticity, primarily due to dryness from decreased sebum production. This natural process leads to visible and tangible changes:
- Wrinkles and Fine Lines: These become more pronounced as collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid are no longer produced in sufficient quantities.
- Age and Pigment Spots: These are typical changes, often resulting from years of sun exposure.
- Thinner Epidermis: The complexion appears more transparent, bruises form more easily, and expanded veins or blood vessels become visible. Small injuries heal more slowly.
- Loss of Elasticity: This causes dark circles and bags under the eyes. The skin around the eyes becomes looser, and this process usually affects the neck and hands as well.
HOW OUR SKIN AGES
While young people's skin renews its top layer approximately every 28 days, older skin takes significantly longer – a 60-year-old's skin needs almost twice as long. The biological ageing process begins as early as age 25: consistent anti-ageing care becomes relevant by then and positively influences future skin appearance.
Good news: You can do more against wrinkles than you think. Skin ageing is influenced by 70-80% by external factors!
Internal factors of skin ageing: Genetic predispositions and hormonal changes
External factors of skin aging: UV radiation from the sun, unhealthy diet, smoking and alcohol, air pollution, lack of sleep, inadequate skincare
WHAT MAKES US LOOK OLD?
Collagen and hyaluronic acid are key substances for our skin, keeping it moisturised and firm. But that doesn't last forever! At the age of 50, we only have half of our hyaluronic acid reserves left and from the age of 25 / 30, our collagen also begins to slowly break down faster than it forms. The result: wrinkles.
FACE CARE IN WINTER FOR MATURE SKIN
The cold season is particularly hard on mature skin: it wants products that pamper it with particularly intensive moisturisation and at the same time strengthen the skin barrier. Our tip: The products in the Life Long Beauty range give mature skin the maximum support it needs to respond to the changes in the cold season.
