Another one of the causes of skin aging is the position you sleep in at night. When you rest your face on the pillow in the same way every night for years it leads to wrinkles. These wrinkles are called sleep lines and are etched into your face and don’t disappear when you are awake and walking around. People who sleep on their back do not develop these wrinkles since their skin doesn’t lie crumpled against the pillow.

Smoking is another factor that damages the skin. Smoking causes wrinkles from the squinting of your eyes due to the irritation of the smoke, pursing your lips to smoke the cigarette and a breakdown of collagen and elastin from the nicotine in the tobacco.

Researchers have found that tobacco increases the loss of collagen and elastin, which improve the structure of the skin. Loss of the collagen and elastin increase the development of wrinkles, jowls and deep lines.

And last, but certainly not least, of the factors that damage the skin, is poor nutrition. We really are what we eat. When we feed our cells junk food and saturated fat we really can’t expect the body to convert those things to vitamins and minerals needed to run the body smoothly. Although a multi-vitamin is a good adjunct the body doesn’t metabolize these as well as from a natural source. So eat your vegetables and fruit and drink your water!

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