Ready for some scary facts about aging? Your skin starts aging even while it may look smooth and supple. Aging starts with the skin’s building blocks. Collagen is the fibrous protein material found in your flesh and connective tissues (Molecular Cell Biology). It’s one of the proteins, in addition to elastin, that gives your skin its elasticity. After maturation — which happens surprisingly early (around age 21) — your collagen production decreases by about 10 percent (Cosmetic Dermatology). But that’s not the only scary part. What’s more upsetting is that all that time spent in the sun getting UV-radiation speeds […]
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