Wrinkles

There are a number of different causes for facial wrinkles and wrinkle lines, such as ageing, gravity, and chronic pulling of mimetic muscles on the face - facial expressions.

Our Skin

Normal skin is composed of a variety of cell types and extracellular materials. Significant changes in the skin’s structure occur with ageing. Both intrinsic skin pigments such as those present in birthmarks and exogenous pigments such as those present in tattoos can produce cosmetically objectionable skin lesions.. Skin is the largest organ in the body by any measure: surface area, volume, or mass. It is much larger than its runner-up, the liver. It’s most obvious and perhaps most important function is to provide a protective covering for the rest of the body and an interface with the environment. The skin is much more complex than it might seem at first glance. It has two major layers: the epidermis (literally, “on top of the dermis”) and the dermis.

Ageing and wrinkles

 

Ageing causes subtle structural and biochemical changes in the skin independently of environmental factors. The most obvious and characteristic changes, however, are largely the result of many years of sun exposure. The damage ranges from an acute injury such as sunburn to the chronic structural changes that we associate with ageing skin, including splotchy pigmentation (age spots) and wrinkles.

 

The most obvious visible evidence of ageing is facial wrinkles that develop where the skin is folded by the contraction of expressive muscles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, raising the eyebrows causes horizontal forehead wrinkles, frowning causes frown lines, squinting can cause crow’s feet wrinkles in the temple area, and pursing of the lips causes upper lip wrinkles. In youth, the resilient elastic dermis resists permanent wrinkle formation. With sun-induced damage, the stiffer inelastic dermis collapses into persistent wrinkles. Wrinkles, though evident on the skin surface, are actually a defect of the dermis. The epidermis is of equal thickness within and between wrinkles. It is the dermis that is thinner in the centre of the trough of the wrinkle. The deepest wrinkles occur in facial areas with the greatest degree of solar elastosis, because the abnormally thickened dermis allows for even deeper wrinkles.

 

Smoking and wrinkles

 

“Smoker’s face” is used to describe the increased wrinkles and lines and subtle orange-red discoloration that is common in smokers. Cigarette smoke includes toxins that cause constriction of dermal blood vessels via both systemic and topical (through the skin) exposure. Constricted blood vessels result in chronic poor oxygenation of the dermis. The structural changes in the skin may be partly the result of this decreased blood supply. Facial skin is directly exposed to heat from smoke; this thermal effect may contribute to damaging the skin. Microscopic studies of smokers’ facial skin have revealed increased elastic tissue in even greater quantities than that seen in people who have had comparable sun damage.

Wrinkles on the eyes before using restorelite

Wrinkles on the eyes reduced after using restorelite

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