The wrinkles and grooves on our faces appear as a result of the fact that we live on Earth and that we are public animals. What does the earth have in common with wrinkles?
Wrinkle Causes
Wherever you are - at school, at work, on top of a mountain, gravity acts on your skin, pulling your face skin down. In addition, when you leave the house, ultraviolet radiation acts on the skin, which, penetrating through its surface layer, damages the inner layer.
Interesting fact: The formation of wrinkles has three main causes: the Sun, the Earth's gravity and facial expressions.
In addition to this, you constantly collect the skin in folds and straighten it - smiling, frowning, raising eyebrows in surprise. Years pass, these folds are firmly imprinted on your face, reminiscent of all the conversations that you conducted and the tears that you shed.
Some people have very few wrinkles. This is partly due to heredity: if your parents, grandparents had few furrows on your face, then you most likely will not have many. If you have dark skin, then, as a rule, your skin will not be wrinkled, because the color of the skin protects it from the ultraviolet radiation of the sun.
The monks, who spend most of their lives in the silence of the monastery cells, in the gloom, praying and reflecting, show us how the protected skin changes with age.The monks do not go to the sun, their life is measured and calm, they worry a little and they have very scarce facial expressions. Therefore, the smooth skin of a 90 year old monk allows him to look like a 50 year old.
Earth Wrinkles
Why is it like a 50 year old and not younger? Because even a monk in his monastery cannot escape the gravity of the Earth. The skin sags under the influence of ruthless gravity, leaving us with wrinkles on the chin and bags under the eyes. In addition, with age, subcutaneous tissues atrophy, not being replaced by anything. Her cheeks and temples are sunken, her skin is getting too much, she has nothing to tighten tight as before, and she sags limp folds.
Wrinkles from the sun
Most of us cannot or do not want to live like monks. The main culprit in our wrinkles is the sun. Intense ultraviolet radiation damages the dermis - the inner layer of the skin. There is collagen in the skin - a protein whose fibers give the skin a shape. Due to ultraviolet radiation, collagen sticks together, and the skin loses its supporting structure. In this case, radiation makes the skin thinner. And just as it is easy to bend a thin piece of paper and a thick stack is almost impossible, thin skin becomes wrinkled more easily.
Interesting fact: ultraviolet radiation makes the skin thinner, and thin skin becomes wrinkled more easily.
Facial wrinkles
When we express our impressions and emotions with facial expressions, each time we collect facial skin in folds, while skin damaged by ultraviolet radiation is prone to wrinkles.But it is very easy to protect against ultraviolet radiation. Do not sunbathe and do not spend time in the sun without applying sunscreen to the skin, which prevents the penetration of ultraviolet rays into the deeper layers of the skin.
Wrinkles from smoking
Interesting fact: smokers have wrinkles at an earlier age than non-smokers.
Facial skin becomes wrinkled from smoking. Scientists compared the skin condition of smokers and non-smokers. Here's what they found: smokers have wrinkles at a younger agethan non-smokers. The more a person smokes, the more wrinkled his face becomes.
Many and often smokers wrinkles five times more than those who never smoked. Scientists think that smoking damages collagen in the deeper layers of the skin. In addition, cigarette smoke, getting into the eyes, makes the smoker squint, which causes wrinkles to appear around the eyes, which are called "crow's paws." Puffing, the smoker curls his lips, and wrinkles also form around them.
