You Don’t Have to Have Dry Parched Skin
Aging skin changes are generally related to the environmental affects that are all around you, your genetic makeup, the amount of good food nutrition that you may, or may not have in each day and how much sun you have been exposed to during your life.
Doing a comparison of the areas of your skin that have been regularly exposed to the sun with the areas that are continuously protected, you will notice a significant difference in your skin textures. The exposed areas are dry and parched and the protected areas are suppler.
The major percentage of your facial skin aging is due to the damaging affects of the sun’s ultra violet radiation. This will produce the leather-like appearance common to people who spend a considerable amount of their life outdoors.
Aging is a progressive process that occurs in all human beings as they mature. So, aging of the skin is inevitable, but the apparent rate of aging will vary greatly among different individuals.
With aging your outer skin thins even though the numbers of cell layers remain unchanged. The quantity of your skin cells that contain pigment will decrease, but your remaining skin cells will increase in size. Aging skin thus appears thinner, dry, parched and translucent.
Aging causes changes in your skin tissue which will reduce the overall strength of your skin and its elasticity. Other aging skin changes will be with your blood vessels that will become more fragile, which in turn will lead to bruising, bleeding under your skin.
With aging your skin’s fat layer, which provides insulation will thin. This increases your risk of skin injury and reduces your ability to be able to maintain your body temperature.
People will age at different rates. Obviously your genetic makeup cannot change, but your lifestyle choices, such as your diet, whether you are a smoker, your exercise schedule and the amount you have to drink will greatly affect the aging process.
Your skin glands produce less oil as you age and this can make it very much harder to keep the skin moist, resulting in dry parched skin.
But you don’t have to have dry parched skin as you grow older; there is a way to minimize the affects of the natural aging process on your skin.
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I live in Portugal where there is over 3000 hours of sun every year, so I very well know what affect the sun can have on a person’s skin. Being in Portugal also means that there is an abundant supply of virgin olive oil; we have many olive trees in our own garden from which we can get a suitable amount of olives that can then be crushed for producing virgin olive oil.
I always gently massage the virgin olive oil all over my own skin nearly every day, which really makes a huge beneficial difference to the way that my skin feels and looks.
Since I have been using this virgin olive oil treatment, which is almost five years now, I have noticed that my skin is no longer dry and parched, in fact quite the reverse it is now smooth, and much more supple than it had been before.
I would thoroughly recommend this virgin olive oil treatment to anybody who is finding that their skin is starting to show the affects of the natural aging process. You don’t have to have dry parched skin.
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