How to Protect Your Skin From Aging
Skin Aging and Pigmentation Do Not Happen In One Day
Have you ever wondered why the skin on your hands and face( and other sun-exposed areas) seems to age faster than the skin on say, your stomach (and other areas covered by clothing)? Go ahead, just take a look and compare now.
While sun-tanning should be avoided completely as studies have proven that it’s extremely harmful to the skin, it is important to minimize daily exposure to the sun from driving, walking etc. This is because accumulative, long term exposure can also lead to wrinkles, pigmentation, sagging and worst of all, skin cancer in susceptible individuals.
Skin aging and damage caused by sun exposure does not occur overnight. If you don’t protect your skin from the sun, no amount of whitening cream or anti-wrinkle creams will be any good. Your skin will still age from accumulative exposure to the sun over the passage of time.
What Other Consequences of Sun Exposure?
Your body’s first line of defense is your skin because important immune cells, such as the langerhan cells are situated in the skin.
Studies have shown that the langerhan cells are very vulnerable to sun exposure, to the extent that even brief sun exposure could disable the skin’s immune system for the time-being.
Thus, regular, unprotected sun exposure could affect your body’s health condition, in addition to affecting your skin’s beauty.
Environmental Pollutants: Other Daytime Hazards
If you live in a city, besides UV rays, pollutants emitted from vehicles, ozone, etc can be real hazards to the skin. These pollutants not only choke up your skin, they also release harmful free radicals. Therefore, a good day cream must be able to do the job of both protecting your skin from UV rays as well as the harmful effects of pollutants.
Multiple Protective Functions of Protective Hydrator
After studying methods to fight the harmful effects of long-term sun exposure, Vitasence has formulated an ‘ultra smart’ day cream. Special bioactives are combined using the principle of synergy so that your skin will enjoy the best, total protection from UVA and UVB rays as well as harsh pollutants in the environment. What’s more, it also neutralizes free radicals produced by chemicals and pollutants and optimizes your skin’s cellular functions. Thus, you can enjoy beautiful and healthy skin for life.
1. Ultra-Micronized Titanium Dioxide
Ultramicronized titanium dioxide is natural, safe and non-sensitizing, making it one of the best sunscreen agents for protecting even the most sensitive skin. For total sun protection, you need a sunscreen that can block out both UVA and UVB rays because UVA is the one that causes skin aging, darkening and cancer while UVB causes redness, burning and cancer. Titanium dioxide has been clinically proven to be effective in protecting your skin from both UVA and UVB.
2. Thermus Thermophilus (TT)
TT is derived from the natural marine environment of the Gulf of California. It has been biotechnologically cultured for skin care applications. Scientists have discovered that TT, even with constant exposure to an environment that is extremely hostile (high levels of heat, radiation and free radicals), it is able to survive and thrive. Further tests and studies revealed that TT emits a natural substance whenever it is exposed to external stresses. This substance is powerfully protective.
TT demonstrates excellent protective and regenerative functions on the skin. Tests shown that it could ‘detect’ the level of protection needed by the skin against heat, free radicals and radiation in the environment. It will then adapt itself and provide the skin with the needed level of protection. Hence it is nicknamed as the ’smart’ bioactive.
What’s more, TT’s antioxidant capacity is many times more powerful than Vitamin E. Besides neutralizing environmental free radicals produced by the sun and pollutants, TT also enhances cell regeneration and fortifies the skin’s barrier function.
3. Bio-Immuno Complex
Earlier, we mentioned that the langerhans cells are an important component of the immune system of the skin. However, they are very vulnerable to the heat and radiation emitted by the sun. Such factors could disable the function of the langerhans cells temporarily. This would actually cause the skin’s immune system to be compromised. By protecting and supporting the activity of langherhans cells, Bio-Immuno Complex helps to support the skin’s natural defense.
4. Yeast Ferment
Consistent exposure to the UV rays could destroy the DNA of cells. To combat this, biotechnologically derived yeast ferment is used as they have been shown to be useful in protecting the cells’ DNA and preventing their damage and deterioration.
5. Beta Glucan
Beta glucan, a natural compound isolated from oats and mushroom, is wonderfully healing and soothing to the skin. In addition, it helps to enhance the immune and repair functions of the skin.
6. Oxido Reductase
Oxido reductase is a powerful enzyme which protects the lipid layer of the skin from damage and rapidly quenches free radicals produced by ozone in the environment.
Coreenna Ong, co-founder of Vitasence, is an expert in the use of Chinese and Western herbs in health and beauty care. She has appeared in numerous TV programs to share her expertise and has contributed articles to national publications. For more information on Vitasence and sun care products, please visit How to Protect Your Skin From Sun Damage