Natural Skin Care Blog

Senior citizens always have skin that looks like a map from the automobile club. Or so anyone who hasn’t yet been invited to join AARP seems to think.

Deep wrinkles in the cheeks

Sagging skin

Age spots

Dry, crinkly-looking surface

Drab, drab, drab

Far too many people display these unattractive features as they add years.

Does that mean these are inevitable? That there is no way to avoid them? Or at least minimize them?

I’m glad you asked those question (you were going to ask, weren’t you?)–

Short answer?

It’s the shortest possible answer, actually: No.

No to all three parts to that question. (Or all three questions, if you prefer.)

Perhaps when we stop expecting to look like that, we’ll start to take effective measures to repair past damage. Then move on to positive steps to prevent future problems.

The present and future condition of your skin is largely under your control. Accept the wear and tear of gravity, the blueprint your ancestors passed along in your DNA and get started on the many ways you can improve your appearance. (And, no, you will never again have skin like a twenty-something.) You’ll be surprised at how much you can do.

Here are a three simple suggestions to start you off:

Remove dead surface cells gently and completely. (You can learn specific techniques for doing this yourself.)

Protect your face 24/7 from further environmental damage with a surface shielding product suitable for your skin type. Not just AnyOldCream.

And the third?

Healthy skin is beautiful skin.

Beautiful skin grows – from the inside out – it is not applied to the surface. Take a hard look at your eating habits…

Healthy “Senior Citizen” skin can be beautiful, too.

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Relax. “Liver spots” are misnamed, to start with. They have nothing to do with your liver. Perhaps it was the color that attracted the name. They are also called brown spots or age spots.

Most brown spots are the result of sun damage. (How about calling them “sun spots”?) It would be more accurate to say that brown spots are a visible sign that your skin has been trying to protect you against sun burn. That sun tan you worked so hard to get is the same sort of thing… Your body doing its best to keep the surface cells from burn damage.

Back to those brown spots — They did not jump up overnight and paste themselves on your face. The process started years ago, as long ago as 15-18 years. And it built up from deep inside your skin layers. Each exposure to the sun without adequate protection added a little bit to them. Then, one day, you began to notice them.

The usual recommendation seems to be bleaching. Your dermatologist will be able to suggest chemical mixtures that may or may not bleach the surface of the spot without harm to other cells. The difficulty is that, because these are not strictly surface blemishes, the color will return as your cells grow toward the surface. And the process will have to be repeated.

The same difficulty comes when you try to bleach brown spots using natural skin care products.

In the end, it’s going to be your choice. Do you prefer to reach the same temporary result using chemicals or using natural products?

Either way, the best you can do is reduce the appearance of those liver spots.

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