The Ins And Outs Of Increasing Skin Elasticity
May 19, 2009 by Peter Clark
Filed under Skin Care
As you age your skin starts to lose elasticity, and sadly, skin elasticity is one of the most important factors in good skin care. For this reason so many people search for answers like pills to put elasticity back in skin, like collagen pills.
Do these ways of increasing skin elasticity work and is there any alternative?
Why not examine what skin elasticity is and what your options are to improve it as you age.
Good skin care is about, amongst other things, keeping the skin firm yet supple, and collagen and elastin are 2 essential skin proteins that do just that. This is important for great looking skin.
But gradually with age your skin loses some of it’s elastin and collagen and so loses this suppleness and elasticity and this isn’t good for keeping wrinkles away.
(Oh, and you also increase the chances of wrinkles hugely by sunburn and smoking too. Take note!)
Wrinkles and lines start to form as your skin ages and loses it’s elasticity and starts to sag.
So the obvious answer to increasing skin elasticity would seem to be increasing collagen and elastin in our skin as we age.
Youve probably seen many anti aging skin care products containing collagen and elastin on the shelves. Its quite common now to see this. Unfortunately though, this doesnt replenish the stores of collagen and elastin in your skin. Why? Because the molecules of collagen and elastin are too large to enter the skin. This has been known for some time.
So why are they in the bottles if they don’t really do anything? Because the companies know that consumers will buy them if they see them on the label.
And collagen supplements have never been conclusively shown to increase skin collagen either.
But fortunately we have some extremely smart scientists and some of them have found a way to do so. Rather than taking collagen pills or products containing elastin and collagen they have actually found a way for increasing skin elasticity by regrowing more of its own collagen and elastin.
And it’s now available through use of a patented new ingredient called Cynergy TK. This isn’t a product that you can buy but is an ingredient that goes into the very best skin care products. And trials have shown visible results fast.
But Cynergy TK is really expensive and so the big name companies don’t put it in their products. They spend more on advertising and less on product quality.
But not all companies are like this. One small niche skin care company has decided not to advertise but to spend on product quality instead, and they make superb products that do include Cynergy TK.
So increasing skin elasticity is quite possible, and is being done by many women right now, though not through collagen supplements or creams containing collagen and elastin, but by using a breakthough product that actually stimulates the skin to grow more of its own.






