Guides | Ageing
A complete Resource for Help With Your Mature Skin
As we age, our skin gradually slows its natural cellular processes
These are essential for maintaining resilience, repair, and a healthy, luminous appearance.
As your cell turnover slows, your skin’s protective barrier can weaken, and its ability to respond to environmental stress is reduced.
This is why visible signs of ageing often become more pronounced over time.
Sun exposure accumulated across the years commonly shows up as dark spots and uneven tone.
Your skin’s texture can feel less refined, and fine lines and wrinkles become more noticeable.
Your skin may also lose firmness and develop a looser, crepey quality as collagen, elastin, and the supportive structures within the dermis gradually decline.
What causes these changes is complex and highly individual, because genetics plays a role.
But lifestyle factors such as sun exposure, stress, nutrition, inflammation, and environmental pollutants can all influence how the skin ages and how quickly visible changes appear.
Because skin ageing is not driven by one single factor, but by a combination of internal and external processes.
We good folks at the Naked Chemist have compiled several in-depth articles that explore these mechanisms in greater detail, which you may enjoy: