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Article: Winterize your skin to keep it young and supple with this simple 4-step program.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Your skin would like you to live in a tropical rainforest. It wants to be shielded from the sun's damaging UV rays. It wants to be in a moist environment, not exposed to the drying heat from your furnace or the cold, dry winter winds. It would like you to reach up and pick a piece of tropical fruit and smear it all over your arms, legs, and face. But you don't need to live in a rainforest to have young, supple skin.
Our skin changes and needs increased care as we age. That's when some of the fat in our face decreases and our face begins to sag and get more wrinkles. Collagen shrinks and our skin gets thinner. It loses some of its elasticity and has less oil. The ...