Have Younger Skin

At some point, most women will experience menopause, and all the things that go along with it. Some women will have all the accompanying symptoms, such as hot flashes, night sweats, changes in your skin, hormonal acne, just to name a few, and others will have little or none. Menopause can create new and frustrating issues for your skin. It can even flash you back to your teenage years, remembering problems such as acne.

You can look at the brighter side and know there are also good things that come with menopause. Going through menopause can decrease production of oil, which will eventually help with hormonal acne, and will help to make your pores smaller. Your skin is more consistent and will not go through all the changes it did during pre-menopause. With technology as it is today, there are many good topical products on the market to combat and even prevent wrinkles. And by now you have much more self confidence, you’re a lot wiser and more comfortable with who you are!

When going through menopause and as we age, our skin produces less collagen and elastic fibers. Collagen is important because it’s the supportive protein structure of the skin. Elastic fibers provide the ability for our skin to rebound, or bounce back. When there are less of both, it can cause wrinkles and sagging to accelerate.
There are ways to keep your skin glowing after menopause. Building up the collagen and elastic fibers can keep your skin looking younger.

Using creams that will build collagen in your skin will help it to look younger, thicker, and have a healthy glow. The most common collagen building creams (prescription vitamin A creams) are Retinol, Renova, Retin A, Tazorac, and tretinon. These creams have twenty years of good data and millions of satisfied users.
There are also many good gentle scrubs on the market today that can help remove the outer, dead layer of the skin build collagen to allow the deeper layers to become more active. Be careful in overdoing these scrubs, especially if you have sensitive skin.

You can also build collagen by injectables, such as Sculptra. When injected, it sends a signal to the cells that make collagen to increase the process.
Resurfacing lasers is another way to build collagen in the skin. Some of these are less risky than others, and there is a downtime to these treatments. Usually treatments for a period of months, and then followed by once or twice a year for maintenance, can help your skin have a youthful appearance.

If as a teenager you suffered with acne, I’m sure you were anticipating the day when you finally were older, and your acne would be no more. But menopause can play havoc on your skin. For many women, menopause usually occurs in their fifties. But the process of menopause can start much earlier. Perimenopause causes our hormonal system to begin the changes. Acne is a hormonal disease. It begins in puberty and starts the production of oil glands. Once the oil glands start, they can become clogged, the oil builds up, pores become enlarged, and the bacteria grows. The end results for us are…blemishes. Without the production of oil glands, none of this would take place.

Because perimenopausal acne is different than teenage acne, many of the medications available are made for teenagers and do not have the same effect for women with hormonal acne. The medications are formulated for very oily skin in that age group and can be very drying for the skin of women over forty.

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