Lotion Firming

One of the best ways to firm your wrinkled and sagging skin is by lotion firming. That's the process of using specially formulated lotions that can actually react with the proteins in your skin and start the restoring process.

Your skin is made up of two proteins, elastin and collagen. Elastic makes your skin...well, elastic. Collagen gives it its structure. As we age these two proteins tend to break down. This is actually what causes wrinkles and sagging skin.

Fortunately for us, there are products for sale that have been clinically proven to reverse this aging process. They can do this by sinking into your skin and restoring the proteins its made of.

Of course, choosing a good firming lotion is more difficult than you might think. For one thing, many of the big names either don't have the right ingredients or if they do, they have them in such weak concentrations that the product does nothing for you. Also, many over the counter type lotions have non-natural ingredients that can actually harm your skin and increse your risk of various types of cancers.

To help you find the right product, let me mention a few of the really good ingredients that I look for.

1. Some sort of ingredient to rebuild proteins. Most of these are proprietary, but if you do a little research, you can find out what they are.

2. Ingredients that help soak up and neutralize the free radicals in your skin. Free radicals are thought to be responsible for many parts of the aging process.

Certainly, there's more to look for, and I've collected a lot of my skin firming information at my blog, Lotion Firming Blog. There you can find out the lastest in firming lotion information.