While you can not avoid getting older, there are some important factors in aging skin that can be prevented. Skin aging is caused by a combination of factors, one of the most important is sun damage. So if you want the best skin care, sun protection is a huge part of it, but only part.

The component of sunlight that damages your skin is ultraviolet radiation. UVA and UVB are both present in sunlight and UVB burns the skin. But block only UVB radiation prevents sunburn, and there is more to prevent the aging of the skin against ultraviolet rays than simply prevent the UVB rays.

The reason is that the UVA radiation, although it does not burn, is much more important to aging skin and also causes many skin cancers including some of the worst.

The FDA does not require labeling of sunscreens to tell us how much UVA protection is included in the sunscreen and the result was that in the summer of 2008, there were only 29 percent of sunglasses had some protection against UVA. A year later, that percentage rose to 70 percent, but that still means that 30 percent of sunscreens on the market do not protect against UVA. The results can be a skin cancer and excessive skin aging....

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She said the skin - particularly women - that requires protection is equally effective in extreme conditions that we encounter in the south.

"You must protect your skin against the cold outside and inside the heat," she said. "It is wet outside, you're freezing, then you go to the office where the heat is blasting, and it is bone dry. "

We are more fortunate than most areas of high, with skin, protection from moisture. But "the loss of moisture is a real concern" for all skin types during the season, Karr said.

"Work your moisturizer is to build a barrier on your skin to keep moisture loss down," she added.

The region of the eye is particularly vulnerable because of a lack of sebaceous glands in the skin sensitive, so an eye cream every day is a must. These creams must be more rich in nourishing oils as moisturizer used on the rest of the face, Karr said.

Source: The Huntsville Times - al.com