Anti-Aging Routine For Glowing, Smooth Skin

As people age, they notice multiple signs and changes in their skin, including age sports, fine lines, under-eye bags, and crows' feet around their eyes. You may have accepted aging as a part of life, but following a good anti-aging routine can help your skin stay hydrated, healthy, and glowing. 

What happens to your skin when you grow old?

With age, the skin undergoes multiple changes as collagen and elastin start breaking down, leading to sagging or wrinkles. Collagen and elastin are the proteins responsible for keeping your skin firm and stretchy. 

Additionally, the oil production in your body also decreases, leading to your skin feeling rough and dry. The skin also becomes thinner and more delicate, making it more prone to damage. 

As you grow older, the process of skin cell turnover, where you shed your old skin, slows down, which means your skin loses some of its youthful glow. Exposure to sunlight and pollution over the years can also lead to age spots and pigmentation. 

Apart from all this, there are certain lifestyle choices that can also age your skin faster, like not using sunscreen, smoking, and not following a skin care routine that suits your skin. 

What can you do to keep your skin hydrated and healthy?

A good anti-aging skincare routine will keep your skin healthy and hydrated while also ensuring that it slows down the visible signs of aging on your skin. 

This general and basic anti-aging skincare routine will help you maintain healthier and smoother skin, with dermatologist-recommended products you can find at Your Derm Store. Let’s get started!

1. Use a Gentle Cleanser 

Cleansing your skin at the end of the day is an important part of your anti-aging skin care routine. It helps remove any skin care products, make up and the natural oils, pollutants and bacteria that accumulates on your skin throughout the day. Cleansing your skin will also allow your skincare products to enter your skin and work more effectively.

Avoid using harsh cleansers as they can irritate your skin and disrupt its natural barrier, stripping your skin of the much-needed moisture and hydration. 

Our recommendation: Cetaphil Gentle Foaming Cleanser 

2. Exfoliate Your Skin

As you grow older, your skin’s ability to replenish itself slows down and the dead skin cells aren’t replaced with new cells as quickly. This leads to your skin looking dull and uneven. 

This is where exfoliants come in! Choose a mild exfoliant and use it twice a week to leave your skin feeling healthier and clear your pores. 

While exfoliation is a great way to keep your skin healthy, over-exfoliation can damage your skin, and lead to irritation or sensitivity. 

Our recommendation: Triclear Gentle Exfoliating Foaming Cleanser

3. Moisturise. (Moisturise & Moisturise)

While exfoliating will clear your pores, the next important step in an effective anti-aging routine is moisturising. A nourishing and rich moisturiser will help keep your skin plump, hydrated, while preventing dryness. 

Try going for moisturisers with ceramides, peptides, shea butter, or glycerin as these help restore the skin barrier and give you hydrated and plump skin. 

Our recommendation: CeraVe AM Daily Facial Moisturiser with SPF 30. 

4. Make sunscreen your best friend 

All anti-aging skin care routines will tell you that using a broad-spectrum sunscreen should be a vital step. Applying a broad-spectrum sunscreen of SPF 30+ after your skincare routine will help prevent premature wrinkles, sun damage, and hyperpigmentation. 

You should reapply sunscreen every two hours, especially when exposed to direct sunlight, but don’t forget to use it on cloudy days or when you’re indoors, as UV rays can penetrate through windows and affect your skin. 

Our recommendation: Heliocare 360 Water Gel Sunscreen or Ethicare 360º Block Sunscreen Gel SPF 50+

5. Use targeted serums

Serums with active ingredients target specific skin concerns, including wrinkles, pigmentation, loss of elasticity, dullness, and fine lines. The active ingredients in serums include Retinoids, Hyaluronic Acid, and Vitamin C.

Retinoids is form of Vitamin-A that promotes collagen production while reducing the appearance of fine lines while Hyaluronic Acid helps keep the skin plump while providing it with intense hydration. Additionally, Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant that brightens and protects the skin from environmental damage, and peptides stimulate collagen production, helping you maintain the skin’s firmness and elasticity.

Choose a face serum depending on your skin’s needs, and ensure that you don’t rub it into your skin, but pat it on, instead. 

Our recommendation: Liftage Anti Aging Serum or Minimalist Retinol 0.6% face serum or ISDIN Hyaluronic Concentrate Serum

6. Don’t forget your under-eye area

One of the most common signs of skin aging are under-eye bags, dark circles, or both for some. The skin under your eyes is thinner and more delicate, this needing more attention and care. You can use an under eye serum or cream every morning and night to keep the skin firm and hydrated. 

Choose under eye formulas with peptides and caffeine, as they help reduce fine lines, puffiness, and dark circles around your eyes. 

Our recommendation: Sesderma K-VIT Anti-Dark Circle Serum or IS Clinical Youth Eye Complex

7. Use a night cream and have a set night-time skincare routine

While you sleep at night, your body has time to refresh and renew itself and your skin. Using a night cream with retinol, peptidesm or niacinamide will ensure that your skin recovers from daily stressors like pollution, direct sunlight, and makeup and that you wake up with fresh, plump skin. 

Depending on your skin, have a set nighttime skincare routine to reduce the signs of aging. Apart from the night cream or serum, ensure that you use an under-eye cream or gel to keep your skin hydrated and wrinkle-free. 

Our recommendation: Cetaphil Optimal Hydration Replenishing Night Cream

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Additional Tips:

• Stay hydrated: Drinking at least two litres of water each day helps keep your skin hydrated and supple

• Have a nutrient-rich diet: Try to consume foods that are high in antioxidants, collagen, and healthy fats, as they help your skin look and feel healthy. 

• Exercise regularly: A regular workout at the gym or at home improves circulation, thus delivering more oxygen and nutrients to your skin, leaving it healthy and supple. 

• Avoid excessive smoking or drinking: Excessive smoking or drinking often accelerates the aging process and can lead to premature wrinkles or dull skin.

With the right products and a good anti-aging routine for your skin, you can maintain hydrated, smooth, and glowing skin.