How Skin ages and Wrinkles

How the skin ages and wrinkles is a very complicated process that involves an almost limitless range of physiological occurrences. There isn’t any single cause that can be addressed with a cosmetic to erase or minimize the inevitable, because the “aging” process itself is so complex and intricate. Skin, all by itself, ages in many identifiable ways. Adding one plant extract or a vitamin to the skin won’t address what is needed to deal with the myriad issues that need to be confronted to slow down the aging process. A long series of extrinsic factors (sun damage, pollution, free-radical damage, smoking) and intrinsic factors (genetically predetermined cell cessation, chronological aging, hormone depletion, immune suppres­sion) combine and culminate in what we define as aged skin.