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.

In your Thirties in addition to the dull, tired looking skin, the skin around your eyes and mouth will begin to show those dreaded fine lines or if your skin is oily, you’ll get enlarged pores. Oily skin will need 100% oil free moisturizers with pore minimizers, while dry skin needs creams with extra hydration and combination skin will need lotions with anti-oxidants to keep your neck and face healthy and youthful looking. Everyone should also be using a twice daily eye cream for dry or combination skin and an eye gel for oily skin.

In your Forties, you body will produce less collagen and elastin which is what supports the moisture in your skins cells and keeps your skin firm. As a result you’ll begin to see a lack of firmness which means that those fine lines and wrinkles that appeared in your thirties, will deepen and become wrinkles. Now, lifting and firming or anti-aging are the ingredients you should be looking for in your day and night moisturizers.

Every type of skin can depend on becoming dryer when you get to your Fifties, particularly when exposed to extreme climates. Dry skin is due to a loss of moisture and that loss translates to relaxed skin along the jawline and neck area, and those wrinkles become creases. That’s why you’ll need to add more hydration and vitamins to your list of anti-aging, lifting and firming ingredients in your hydrating products.

In your SIXTIES and OLDER, the dark spots appear on your face, neck and hands. Your face and neck will show extreme loss of elasticity. Your relaxed skin will become sagging skin. Your forehead and above the nose creases will become furrows and you’ll need to add anti-age spot treatments to the strongest possible lifting and firming additives, in your twice daily skin care regime.

This information was written to make you aware of what to expect if you get to a particular age without the use of skin care. If you do consistently use a twice daily skin care routine for your age and skin type, you’ll always look years younger than other women your age.