Skin elasticity (or elastosis) is your skin’s ability to stretch and then bounce back into place. With age or other environmental/hormonal/ lifestyle factors, along with inconsistent skincare, your skin may begin to sag, along with a visible deepening of wrinkles, loss of firmness and definition. However, there are ways to slow this process.
So what causes this loss of elasticity? Can Puraveda Organics provide long-lasting solutions for improving skin thinning/sagging? Let’s find out!
What Causes Skin to Sag or Lose its Elasticity?
Your skin’s firmness is determined by two key structural proteins – Collagen and Elastin. While collagen keeps your skin supple and firm, elastin is a fibrous protein that stretches like a rubber band and is responsible for giving your skin its elasticity and flexibility.
The first tell-tale signs of sagging (or when skin loses its elasticity) is when you notice visible fine lines, especially around the eye area (crow’s feet), jawline, and neck. If you try pinching your cheek a little and then release, it should stretch and then snap back immediately. If it takes a longer time, it is primarily due to the following four reasons:
- Glycation
There is a reason why your dermatologist would advise you to cut down on sugars. Both collagen and elastin are susceptible to glycation (due to excess sugar in the bloodstream) and react to Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs). The process not only makes collagen and elastin fibers stiff and brittle, but also inhibits production of new collagen and elastin.
- Dehydration
Stay hydrated to retain the elasticity of your skin. Long-term dehydration causes your skin show fine lines and wrinkles prematurely.
- Sun Damage
Exposure to UVA and UVB rays are responsible for the formation of free radicals that damage the collagen-elastin structure.
- Aging
Despite all the care, aging is a natural process and depending upon your Dosha type, the skin tends to produce less collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid with each progressive year. Our facial skin also loses net fat content. Lower fat reserves causes volume loss, which in turn makes the skin droop or sag.
How to Strengthen Skin Elasticity?
1. Moisturize & Hydrate your Skin
Keep yourself hydrated from the inside-out to keep skin plump and elastic and delay the appearance of signs of aging. With the ability to hold water 1000X times its own weight, a Hyaluronic Acid based moisturizer/ serum improves the moisture-retention power of your skin and prevents dehydration and dryness. Organic cold-pressed oils like Grapeseed Oil, Jojoba Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Apricot Oil, and others in our formulas keeps your skin moisturized round the clock.
2. Try Peptides
Peptides are building blocks of protein that send signals to the skin cells to stimulate collagen production. What Peptide Skin Therapy can do to your skin, no moisturizers, exfoliators, or creams can. Argireline and Matrixyl are the two biopeptides we use in our BioScience Peptide Complex to transform your skin and give results equivalent to Botox (but without the expense/time/pain) with visible results in less than 60 days.
The combination of ‘wrinkle relaxing’ and ‘collagen enhancing peptides’ along with growth factors, antioxidants, and other plant-based skin actives – are a great way to improve skin elasticity, reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and deep expression lines. The power of BioScience can be boosted 2X with Collagen Boost Serum.
3. Add Antioxidants and Vitamin C to your Skin Care Regimen
Antioxidants treat various skin concerns and are most importantly vital in limiting the interaction of free radicals with the skin cells. Vitamin A, C, E, B3, and flavonoids are powerful plant-based antioxidants that promote collagen growth.
All PVO products are made with potent antioxidant-rich actives (learn more about our 100% organic, natural, and USDA-approved ingredients here) in scientifically proven ratios, designed to give you the most optimum benefits.
4. Stay Protected with Sunscreen
Adequate sunscreen protection is one of the key measures to protect your skin from the damages caused by UV light exposure. SunProtect SPF 30+ – a broad-spectrum + mineral-based (mironized/ non-nano sunscreen) organic sunscreen not only protects skin by reflecting 98% of UV rays (learn more) but its antioxidant-rich ingredients, moisturizing Shea Butter and cold-pressed oils, and other botanical extracts prevents photoaging and promotes even skin complexion.
Do note that skin sagging is one of the last stages of skin aging. So the earlier you start your non-invasive anti-aging treatment, the better your results. Depending upon your Dosha type and skin tightening treatments, accompanied with BioScience Peptide Complex + Collagen Boost Serum application, it can take up to 2-6 months to restore skin elasticity and sagging (fine lines and deep expression lines usually start appearing less visible within 30-60 days). We highly recommend you continue treatment to prevent further skin damage and keep your skin looking younger for years to come.
