If you look great at age 35, it means you know the rules of proper skincare. But you’ll have to modify them after 35, because your skin enters a new life stage at this age. In order to “preserve your face,” you now have to compensate for a deficiency in the “protein of youth,” i.e. collagen.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, you can see for yourself that collagen is the “protein of youth”: the appearance of non-expression lines is the first sign of collagen deficiency.
Collagen is the skin’s “reinforcement”: it provides for its tone, elasticity and smoothness. What’s more, collagen fibers can accumulate moisture. Collagen accounts for 70% of all protein in young skin. But the collagen synthesis process starts to slow down in most people between the age of 25 and 30, and this process will continue until the end of life.
Collagen quality changes as well: it loses its ability to accumulate moisture, becomes less resilient and elastic.
Collagen fibers of people in the prime of life are very strong: if they are strung together at a diameter of 1 mm, they can sustain a load of more than 10 kg: comparable to cable or metal wire. Therefore, skin containing “high quality” collagen is able to stretch without becoming damaged, easily returning to its former shape.
Collagen fibers become thicker by age 35; as a result, “cross-linked” non-elastic collagen is accumulated, deep wrinkles develop, and facial skin “sags.” At this age, the processes of “new” collagen production are significantly slower than the rate of “old” collagen degradation. The skin needs a supply of collagen from the outside.
It used to be that cosmetic products containing collagen boasted surface action alone. Its molecules were gigantic and could not overcome the epidermal barrier. Today, manufacturers have learned to break up these molecules by means of hydrolysis, thereby significantly increasing the efficacy of such cosmetic products. Easily-assimilated (hydrolyzed) collagen is the main ingredient in the Collagen Active line.
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