REVERSE AGING:} Give your hands a Youth boost!
Thefirst place to usually show signs of aging? If you guessed your hands, you’re right! Just like the face, they’re prone to crepiness, wrinkles and age spots. However, because we’re less focused on protecting the delicate skin on our hands, they can look old before their time! The great news is that you can stop trouble in its tracks— and even make your hands look young again— by:
Remedying crepey skin with drinkable collagen!
“Crepiness in the hands starts with collagen loss,” says dermatologist Jeanine Downie, M.D. In fact, after age 20, 1% less collagen is produced in the skin each year! To the rescue: Drinkable collagen! “It helps increase collagen content in the skin, and might also help improve texture of skin on the hands,” says dermatologist Debra Jaliman, M.D. One easily absorbed option: Reservage Collagen Replenish Powder ($16.99, iherb. com). Or simply sip a cup a day of bone broth soup, which is packed with collagen hydrolysate, a compound that the journal Skin Pharmacology and Physiology reports can significantly increase skin elasticity within four weeks. One option: Sam’s Choice Chicken Bone Broth ($2.28 for 32 oz., Jet.com).
Smoothing scaly skin with fish oil!
“The skin on your hands becomes rougher and drier with age as the moisture barrier decreases and oil glands shrink,” says Dr. Jaliman. To make that skin supple and smooth again, she advises taking a daily 250mg. to 500- mg. dose of omega-3 fatty acids, which moisturize from the inside out. Or, eat more omega-3
Fading spots round-the-clock with salves!
The sun is the number- one cause of dark spots on your hands— and up to 80% of the damage occurs while you’re driving, walking around and just living your life. Is it possible to prevent and undo that incidental sun damage? Yes! “More than anything else, you need to keep applying sunblock to your hands to prevent future damage,” says Dr. Downie. Just make a habit of slathering on an Spf-infused moisturizer (such as Supergoop Hand Cream, $12, Nordstrom.com) after each hand washing. Also, apply a pigment-blocking niacinamide hand cream (such as Cerave Therapeutic Hand Cream, $6.59 at Target.