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Everyone really needs and should use skin care items, if they want to prevent skin care problems, instead of trying to correct them. I’m an esthetician so I know that the average woman uses a moisturizer, but most don’t understand why they need twice weekly exfoliating. Although twice daily moisturizing is great at working under the skins’ surface to help retain it’s health, exfoliators work on the top side of the skin and give immediate results.

In your Teens and Twenties, you probably won’t see any real signs of aging unless you’ve spent many long days in the sun. You can expect to see patches of dull or dead facial skin cells which result in a loss of your youthful, natural radiance due to uneven texture. At this age you’ll need to be sure to use a sun screen.

When you’re Thirty-something, you’ll begin to see fine lines around your mouth and eyes in addition to having tired, dull looking skin. For those with oily skin, your pores will enlarge, those with normal or dry skin will experience patches of flakiness. You’ll need to look for an anti-oxidant in your sun screen and/or moisturizer.

When you’re Forty-ish, you’ll experience a reduction of collagen and elastin in your skins cells; which holds the moisture that helps to keep skin firm. The lack of firmness results in a deepening of the fine lines you saw in your thirties and they’ll become wrinkles. To help combat that effect, you should include anti-aging or lifting and firming treatments (collagen and elastin) to your twice daily moisturizer.

Your skin will become dryer in your Fifties, and it doesn’t matter what type skin you’ve always had. That loss of moisture you experienced in your forties, becomes more intense and that equals a slackening of the skin in the neck and jawline area and those wrinkles will become creases. So, your list of anti-aging, and lifting and firming ingredients will need to include vitamins and extra moisture to help give added strength to your skin.

Sixty year old skin will show severe loss of strength, which equals sagging skin. Dark spots will appear on your face, neck and the backs of your hands. Furrows will appear where you used to have creases; like those above your nose, your forehead and laugh lines. Your moisturizing routine will need to include age spot reducers as well as the industries most powerful lifting and firming components.

This article describes what you can expect if you get to that age group and are not using skin care at all. Of course a little skin care is better than none, but with the above information you’ll know what you need for your skin type and when you need more. Ultimately, using your full twice a day, skin care regimen will pay off with your skin always feeling firmer and looking younger than you really are.