The ins and outs of everyday life take a toll on your skin. Sun damage and the natural aging process can leave you with fine lines, wrinkles, discoloration. While you can’t stop the hands of time, you can do something about your skin. To choose the wrinkle-fighting products best suited for individual needs and concerns, it is essential to first understand the different types of wrinkles and what causes them. Here, the three most common types and how to outfight them.

Time & Gravity

As the skin loses firmness with age it begins to sag, pulling away from the underlying fat and muscle. This creates folds that are particularly prominent on the neck, chin, and jowls. Products that work to support the skin’s natural renewal process by promoting the production of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid can help combat the impact of gravity on the skin.

Expression

The facial muscles – more than thirty of them – are often called upon to express emotions, such as joy, sadness, anger, doubt, and disbelief. Over time, these constantly repeated expressions cause the contraction of the facial muscles even when they’re at rest. That’s why expression lines appear on the forehead and nose and around the eyes and mouth. One way of guarding against expression lines is to impede facial muscle movement, but that requires dermatological procedures in a specialist’s office. Another effective way is to look for products that contain peptides that help to inhibit the signaling pathways of facial muscles, relaxing the surface of the skin and smoothing out existing expression lines.

Sun

Repeated exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV rays) causes the premature aging of your skin – photoaging. The sun hits us with these harmful UV rays naturally, but the artificial UV rays from tanning beds are just as damaging. Guarding against the sun’s UVA and UVB rays is fundamental to skin health, as both are responsible for long-term damage, including wrinkles. Scientists have also recently learned that within the solar spectrum, longer wavelengths such as Infrared Radiation (IRA) have been shown to alter the collagen equilibrium, while decreasing the synthesis of collagen itself. Choose products that contain an SPF of 30 or more with UVA, UVB and IRA protection to stop photoaging.

Décaar Solutions

Décaar targets all three types of wrinkles with its unique Oxygen and Age Reverse line. The day formulas focus on expression lines and helps protect against line-causing UV rays, while the accompanying night formula fights vertical lines. The complete line-defying ritual begins with the Elixir Serum, which is followed by Youth Elixir Day Cream, Lift Firming Eye cream, Neck And Décolleté Lifting Cream and BB Oxygen Cream SPF 50, and which ends with the Youth Elixir Night Rich Nourishing.