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Botox is increasingly becoming the residing place for one’s pay check, but recent research has noted that it is all a waste of money as there is a much cheaper and more accessible way of keeping wrinkles at bay. A study which was published in the June issue of the British Journal of Dermatology and led by Dr. Greg Hillebrand, the principal scientist for Olay, has revealed that the best way to prevent wrinkles is to use moisturiser. This study was done over an eight year period with various girls and women between the ages of ten and seventy-two.

The dryer your skin, the faster the wrinkles come

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The study was done to discover the speed of wrinkle development and it was discovered that women whose skin was hydrated tended to develop wrinkles slower than women that had dry skin. Over a hundred women were studied and in the research it was discovered that a 28-year-old woman with dry skin’s visible wrinkles will increase by about 52 per cent by the time that she reaches the age of 36, while the wrinkles of a 28-year-old woman with skin that is well hydrated will only increase by 22 per cent. The women were examined, their hydration levels were noted and photographs were taken of them. Eight years later the women were photographed again and the images were analysed by expert graders. A spokesperson for the scientists commented that the one of the most notable discoveries of this study was that showed that the quality of the skin eight years previously showed the rate at which the women’s skin started wrinkling.

Just a simple moisturiser

Many people believe that a moisturiser is too simple a tool to combat an enemy like wrinkles. Editor-in-chief of beautyinthebag.com, Wendy Lewis, commented that the way moisturiser works is that it traps the moisture in the skin so the skin cells remain hydrated. She also noted that sunscreen and exfoliating are also important in keeping the skin hydrated. The key is to start early: do not wait until the wrinkles come, and encourage your children to keep their skin moisturised in order to combat those wrinkles.

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