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Maintain
Young, Beautiful Hands
Maintaining beautiful hands is important for
maintaining a youthful look at any age. Your hands
get the most exposure and show your age the most, so care of them is
care for your age. Knowing how to maintain your hands as you
age is the best way to make sure they look your best and that
you, in turn, look your youngest and best.
As you enter your 20’s, your hands look young and healthy
for the most part. This is your skin’s glory years as it
is likely yours overall. While in your 20’s is the best
time to start preventing the effects of aging, because
you don’t yet have to worry about treating the effects
that are already there.
Premature
aging is most often caused by exposure to the sun. In your 20’s is the best time to begin protecting
your hands. At least twice a day, use a moisturizer with
an SPF of at least 15. If you are going to be outdoors
in the sun for long periods of time, apply a sunscreen
with a UVA blocking agent in it. UVA rays are what cause
brown spots and wrinkles. About once a week, exfoliate
the skin on your hands by using a facial scrub. Removing
old dead skin will help the daily moisturizer you are applying
to penetrate deeper into your skin. Finally, apply an over
the counter lightening skin ream nightly to your hands.
This will fade minor brown spots and discoloration that
may already be infiltrating the skin on your hands. Beware,
though, if you are not using your sunscreen, the spots
will reappear.
As
you enter your 30’s, your estrogen levels will begin
to drop. This drop will cause more dryness in your hands
than you experienced in your 20’s. In addition, this is
the time when the first signs of photo aging may occur
(loss of tone in your skin or blotchiness). There are still
steps you can take.
Each morning, when you get up, apply a moisturizing cream
with a sloughing agent (lactic acid, glycolic acid, or
salicylic acid). This will help to keep dead cells from
accumulating on your skin’s surface. After you moisturize
you will need to layer on the sunscreen. Again, the sunscreen
should have an SPC of at least 15 and contain either transparent
zinc oxide or Parasol 1789. You will also tend to lose
moisture during the night. To prevent this, apply an emollient
serum to the backs of your hands about a half an hour before
you go to bed. Lastly, to fade out any brown spots that
have begun to show, apply a prescription bleaching cream
(see your dermatologist) in the morning and then some sort
of vitamin A derivative in the evening.
As
you reach your 40’s you skin will begin to thin out,
which is a normal part of aging due to a loss of collagen
in the skin. You will begin to notice more veins, wrinkles,
and sun spots on your hands (if any of them look strange
or change shape or color, see a dermatologist).
In your 40’s you will want to change to a hand cream that
contains whey protein, which has been shown to help the
production of collagen. Also as always, don’t forget to
put on a layer of UVA/UVB blocking sunscreen. In an effort
to help produce collagen as you sleep, apply a nonprescription
retinol cream or Renovo. If serious wrinkles and spots
continue to appear on your hands, you may have to resort
to in-office dermatological procedures. Consult your doctor
before making any decision about serious treatments. Many
of these procedures can help reverse some of the effects
of aging that all the measures discussed simply cannot
prevent.
It is your face that probably gets noticed first, but
your hands get the most exposure: the most exposure to
people, the sun, and the elements. Because of that exposure,
your hands are what is going to display your age. By taking
proper care of your hands you will be able to look your
best, and maybe even look younger than you thought you
could. So take care of your hands, no matter what your
age, and enjoy the benefits.
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: 2006
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