The bottom line is that you should avoid the sun during the high-intensity hours and use sunscreen at all times. During appropriate weather cover your skin with clothing that provides the best protection against the sun. You don’t have to hide away indoors, and in fact under fluorescent lighting, staying indoors isn’t really protection. Be sharp about your sun exposure, wear protection and think smart.

Other things that damage the skin are a lack of moisture from poor fluid intake and poor external moisturizer. You should drink 8-10 8-ounce glasses of water each day. When your skin becomes dry it can show more wrinkles. You can use moisture from the outside and the inside. Start by staying hydrated each day. This helps your skin cells to stay plump and healthy, which gives your skin a healthy glow.

You don’t need to spend a great deal of money on moisturizers; coconut oil and olive oil after a bath when your skin is still wet is a great addition to your daily routine.

Or you can treat yourself to a good facial moisturizer and massage it into your skin twice a day. This will create a barrier that stops the skin from losing essential moisture. Facial moisturizers will help slow the aging process, decrease the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and slow the development of age spots. Establish a daily routine and you will soon notice a decrease in the appearance of fine lines.

Interestingly one of the external factors that are a cause of skin aging is facial expression. Repeated facial expressions can actually lead to fine lines and wrinkles. As your skin ages and loses elasticity it stops springing back to its line free state. So if you are frowning constantly – stop! The groves become permanently etched in your face.

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