Choosing Skin Moisturizer by This Active Ingredients

Many people are not aware that the age of 20 years was a "glory" period of the skins. At this age skin have the best moisture, elasticity, and the best color and evenly distributed throughout the skin. The regeneration of the skin is also running optimally so that the skin will be more easily absorb vitamins and other active ingredients found in skin care products.

"So actually, at the age of 20 is the perfect time to begin to treat the skin to keep skin healthy and youthful," said Dr. Nadia Yusharyahya Shannaz, GDSS, dermatologist and sex, while discussions with Vaseline in Aston Brass Suites, South Jakarta, some time ago.

To protect and nourish the skin, Nadia suggested for routine use moisturizer and sunblock. In order to get the benefits of moisturizing the skin is the maximum, consider the active ingredients contained in the formula. According to Nadia, there are several active ingredients to be found in moisturizers, namely:

1. Retinol
Retinol is a derivative of vitamin A is beneficial to increase the collagen in the skin to maintain skin elasticity one. In addition, retinol also serves to help speed up the regeneration of dead skin cells and replace them with new skin cells healthy.

"Usually the change of skin takes place every 28 days, but in the 30s, leather dressing process is getting slower. Retinol helps to keep normal," he said. The process is easily visible skin change when taking a bath. When rubbing the skin, dead skin cells that are black (you know him as dirt) will be shed and replaced with a new skin epidermal cells.

2. Alpha Acid hidroxy
Hidroxy Alpha Acid (AHA) derived from various natural materials such as plants or fruit. Like, glicolic acid derived from sugar cane, lactic acid from milk, citric acid from citrus or orange, and malic acid from apples. "Of all the variants of the AHA, the most popular is the citric acid from citrus fruits," he said.

AHA also has a function that is not less important, which helps reduce wrinkles, and helps the formation of the stratum corneum (the skin on the epidermis, or outer skin, called skin off). In addition, the content of AHA moisturizers help increase production of collagen in the skin layer.

3. Vitamin B3
The content of vitamin B3 helps to support skin barrier function. Barrier function of skin is skin that could help deter a variety of dirt or pollutants that enter and attack the skin. Vitamin B3 also works to increase the production of skin's natural emollients to help improve the process of hydration to keep skin moist and healthy. Vitamin B3 also serves to reduce uneven pigmentation or dark spots on the skin, and helps disguise the stain.

4. Antioxidants
Exposure to sunlight, or room air-cooled, make the skin dry and damaged easily. One way to avoid skin damage is to use a moisturizer that contains antioxidants. Antioxidants can scavenge free radicals, prevent wrinkles, reduce skin pigmentation, and improve skin color tone.

Antioxidants are divided into two groups: water soluble antioxidants such as vitamin C, glutathione, lipoic acid, and uric acid. There are also fat-soluble antioxidants such as carotenes, vitamin E, and co-enzyme Q.