Whether you’re drinking it, popping pills of it, stimulating or creating it – there’s no denying the importance of preserving or increasing collagen levels as the answer to younger looking skin.
WHAT IS COLLAGEN?
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body and is found mainly in the skin, muscles, bones, cartilage and all the body's connective tissues. In the skin, collagen is responsible for its strength and elasticity. Collagen is made by the fibroblast cells found in the dermis. In addition to making collagen, fibroblast cells are also responsible for elastin production, as well as natural moisturising factors such as Hyaluronic acid. Normal, healthy collagen is incredibly strong. It can be compared to a rubber band as it is extremely elastic and springs back when stretched.
There are several factors that contribute to collagen loss including; natural skin ageing and UV damage. Other key contributory factors to collagen loss include free radical damage and lifestyle (i.e. smoking, excess caffeine, alcohol and sugar consumption). If fibroblasts are damaged by UV rays or free radicals they will produce defective collagen. If deep, long term damage to the structural proteins occur then the skin loses its tone and structure. Therefore it is important to safeguard your natural collagen by ensuring you protect your skin from UV damage and follow a healthy diet and lifestyle.
ageing is a natural part of life and as time passes by collagen levels start to decline. From the age of 20, 1% percent less collagen is produced in the dermis each year. As we age less collagen is produced and both collagen and elastin fibres break, thicken, stiffen, clump together and lose their elasticity.
Without collagen the skin will lose its youthful, plumpness and slowly the signs of ageing becoming increasing visible. There's no stopping the ageing process. Luckily there are ways to slow it down and prevent some of the visible signs of ageing. One way to preserve youthful skin is to activate or regenerate fibroblast cells ensuring a good supply of collagen fibres and firmer skin.
HOW TO POWER UP COLLAGEN?
Research has shown that vitamin C, as well as vitamin A are vital for collagen production. In a scientific study, researchers found that Vitamin C plays a critical role in the maintenance of a normal mature collagen. Vitamin C stimulates at least four genes related to collagen and specific elastin production. Putting together vitamin A & C are vital for normal, healthy production of collagen and elastin.
- VITAMIN A AND COLLAGEN
Vitamin A influences up to a thousand of the body's genes, It is essential for the normal function of ALL skin cells. It induces the genes for collagen production - healthy lattice-type collagen I and III. Vitamin A also increases NMF (natural moisturising factors) in the skin, and improves the quality of elastin. According to research, vitamin A is effective in preventing and treating the collagen loss caused by photo damage. It found that treating the skin with vitamin A, prevents the loss of type 1 and type 2 collagen caused by UV exposure. Furthermore, the role of peptides, cannot be ignored. Peptides are made up of amino acids, which can help form collagen, elastin and GAGS (moisturising factors). Introducing Avance moisturiser or Avance Elixir to your skincare routine. these contain a powerful combination of Matrixyl 3000, Trylagen and Matrixyl Synthe 6 peptide complexes, can help to smooth out lines and wrinkles and restore collagen levels, making the skin appear plumper and smoother.
- IN-SALON TREATMENTS
Environ Essential Youth Reset Facial, is a peptide-packed treatment that boosts collagen, softens fine lines and tightens lax skin. Gentle sound waves and pulsed iontophoresis are used to drive a special nutrient-packed serum deep into the skin to give a plumper, more radiant appearance.
- COLLAGEN BEGINS AT HOME
As we are closed at present we do have an at home device you can use until you get back for some in salon treatments. Environ Electro-Sonic DF Mobile Skincare Device can help you maximise your results with at home use, especially for those concerned with fine lines and wrinkles. It helps to stimulate the skin and creates cavitations in the cell wall through low frequency sonophoresis and pulsed iontophoresis. This combined with a serum designed to target fine lines, can help deliver more essentials nutrients to skin.
stimulate collagen naturally by providing the skin with the vitamins it needs to build collagen on its own like advanced nutrition programmes collagen support, skin vit c, skin vit a and the fantastic all round anti aging skin ultimate pods.
By combining the skin with supplements and topically applied products you can keep your skin stimulated to continue to make collagen as you aging gracefully.
think of your collagen and elastin as your skins scaffolding, keeping it firm and strong, but is under attack daily from uv elements and blue lights and stress that damages the strong scaffolding.
Preserve your youthful look by feeding the skin from within, applying top quality products and finishing off with the most anti aging product SPF!
Stephanie 💋