Cosmetic Treatments At Every Age: The 40's

A few weeks ago, in Cosmetic Treatments for Every Age: the 20’s and 30’s, we covered the best at-home skincare tips and non-invasive treatments for early aging skin. Now is time to talk about the best anti-aging skin care treatments for the 40’s. Glowing, radiant celebrities like Eva Mendes and Rachel Weisz, who both celebrate 40-something birthdays this month, have managed to maintain a timeless appearance without overdoing it, achieving the perfect balance of age appropriate and ageless. During your 40’s, despite any preventative measures, skin inevitably experiences certain hormonal and age-related changes. But, by being proactive and taking advantage of the best anti-aging skin care treatments, you can prevent the onset of uneven skin tone, wrinkles, and loss of volume, and even slow down the aging process.

What To Expect From Skin During Your 40s

Many women begin to experience perimenopause, or the time around a woman’s transition into menopause. During perimenopause, hormonal changes and slowed collagen production coincide with an overall change in the texture and tone of your skin. Because your skin doesn’t produce natural structural elements, mainly collagen, as quickly as it did in your 20’s and 30’s, you may notice slight hooding of the eyelids, a loss of volume and reduced elasticity in the face, crepiness, and more pronounced laxity on the face, neck and body. Since cell turnover also slows down in your 40's, your skin may also begin to lose some of its natural glow, resulting in a duller complexion. A slower metabolism means it’s not as easy to lose weight or burn off that stubborn bulge with exercise and diet alone. Any existing imperfections on your skin that you already have tend to worsen with age, such as leg veins, broken capillaries, and sunspots. But don't despair...

Best Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments For Your 40s

1. Ultherapy: To counteract the loss of skin’s natural structure that occurs in your 40’s, I recommend Ulthera. Ulthera is an ultrasound procedure that stimulates the skin’s production of collagen and elastin, and can be administered on the face and body.

2. Fraxel: While gentle lasers like Clear + Brilliant work well in your 20’s and 30’s, more aggressive laser treatments like fractional resurfacing are more effective in your 40’s for improving the tone of skin and reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

3. Neurotoxin injections: Botox and Dysport, work proactively to soften existing lines in your face and also prevent the formation of deeper lines, by limiting the muscle movements that cause wrinkles.

4. Dermal fillers such as Juvederm Voluma counteract the visible signs of volume loss, smoothing fine lines and deep wrinkles, volumizing and defining lips, and adding contour to the face to recreate the fuller, more supple look of younger skin. Definitely one of the best anti-aging skin care treatments for your 40s.

5. CoolSculpting can target and erase age related fat deposits, like stubborn, small pockets of fat around love handles, the mid-section and the inside and outside of things.

6. Laser treatments reduce the visibility of broken capillaries and non-varicose leg veins. For more pronounced, bulging veins, Sclerotherapy can be combined with laser treatments.

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