Each day our skin is assaulted by agents and factors that can cause aging. Your skin may begin to look dull and you may see wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. But you can fight against premature aging of your skin with just a little know how and action.

Young people don’t often ask what damages the skin. Instead they worship the sun, forget to moisturize, eat junk foods and don’t drink water. When, in fact, those are many of the pieces of the puzzle that damage the skin and cause wrinkles, fine lines and age spots.

Free radicals are a harmful byproduct of sunlight, smoke and pollution. These free radicals gobble up collagen and elastin, the fibers that support skin structure preventing wrinkles and other signs of aging.

To start you should know there are two types of factors that are causes of skin aging. There are internal and external factors. Internal factors are ones that can’t be stopped and are related to the decreases in hormone production, elastin, collagen and structure of the skin. External factors can be controlled which will decrease your risk for premature aging of the skin.

There just isn’t a way to stop the hands of time. And the hands of time affect your skin and your body. There is no getting around that. Aging decreases the amount of collagen and elastin in the skin that will decrease the amount of flesh under the skin. Between the lack of collagen and gravity you develop jowls, wrinkles, fine lines and crows feet.