Skin is one of the elements of the body which is very important, because most are located outside, it can be easily seen and be touched, but also ensure our viability. Skin can endorse someone's appearance and personality, and is a mirror of life and health.

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The anatomical, human skin consists of three layers, namely:

1. Layer of epidermis

- Consists of 5 layers, the stratum korneum, stratum lusidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale.

- Safeguard outermost layer is the most thinly, almost setipis paper.

2. Layer of dermis

- Far more than the thick layer of epidermis, form a network by elastin and fibrosa, a dense cellular elements akan, gland, hair and skin as adneksa.

3. Layer subkutis

- It is a continuation of the dermis layer, the network consists of a loose ligament cells in fat.

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Function is to protect the skin, absorpsi, ekskresi, perception, the body temperature, the formation of pigment, the formation of vit.D, and keratinisasi.

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Along with time, changes occur in our skin.

Each man will be old, but we can prevent the process that does not happen too fast. It is not clear exactly when we began to ripen, but when the body is no longer the growth, the effect is penuaan appear on the new mid-age.

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Why become an old skin?

There are many factors that play a role in the process penuaan skin, which is usually divided into 2 main factors, namely:

1. Intrinsic factors (the body's own)

- Ã age is a physiological factors that cause skin to become older. Age increases every day and slowly but surely, there will be a process penuaan.

- Ã genetic factors also determine the genetic process metabolik body, and how long the process takes place penuaan.

- Ã racial people who tend to be pale with more vulnerable to the process penuaan because of the sun compared with people with dark.

- Hormonal à certain hormones in the human body has an important role in the process of forming new cells and the process metabolik to maintain the life of cells.

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2. Ekstrinsik factors (from outside)

- Environmental à UV rays can damage the skin and fibrous collagen matrix dermis so that the skin becomes tdak elastic, dry, and wrinkles. In addition, the exposure to excessive UV rays can also trigger the growth of malignant skin cells.

- Other:

* Smoking à terbentuknya cause free radicals that can merusak cell membrane and makes the skin more quickly ripen.

* Ã stress prolonged stress can also accelerate the process penuaan.

* A decrease in body weight that is too fast can cause wrinkling in the skin because of the reduced fat pad under the skin.

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With increasing age, some changes occur on the skin:

    Pergantian skin cells with a new a slower à skin becomes more coarse and rather dull.

    reduced ability to form cell-cell skin new skin becomes thinner Ã.

    Fiber collagen and elastin which are usually compact and work to make the skin more elastic, in the older age become fragmentary à skin does not become loose and elastic.

    Production of oil gland and sweat gland starts slowed, and the decreasing ability of skin to keep water in the selnya à skin becomes dry.

    In the face wrinkling may occur and bending or even as the case form on the skin. Usually arise the contraction of the longer a permanent contraction in the corner of the eye, eye brow to be down, and the skin become more loose on the top and fold down eye, it began to appear in addition to the lines at the corners of the mouth

    Network skin on the jaw and neck can become weak chin à visible pleated-fold (double chin)

    reduced power pigmentasi cells melanosit and power distribution to the entire layer of melanin skin color berbercak Ã-The speck.

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But note that this process does not take penuaan the same in every person. In some people, the process takes place more slowly penuaan so appear "ageless", while the others can take place more quickly. Penuaan because the process itself is influenced by many factors (multi-factorial), including hormonal, genetic, lifestyle, including eating patterns, and sports.

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Effort to prevent the skin penuaan

Many of the business can be done to slow the occurrence of skin penuaan, including:

à Conduct since early preventive action:

1. Face every day to clean with soap that contains moisturizer

2. Avoid exposure to the sun too long

3. Use sun block

4. Consumption of balanced diet that contains lots of fruits and vegetables

5. Drinking 6-8 glasses of water per day

6. Do sports regularly, and do little exercises for face muscles memperkencang face

7. Sleep 7-8 hours each day

8. Do not smoke cigarettes, or alcohol mengonsumsi.

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à type of action that often done so that people get younger skin:

  1. Terapi hormone

  2. Terapi cells

  3. Bedah cosmetics:

    botox needle,

    implan or skin filler,

    blefaroplasti,

    facelift,

    fat injection,

    chemical Peeling,

    laser resurfacing,

    laser photo rejuvenation,

    dermabrasi,

    mikrodermabrasi.Â