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When it comes to skincare, sometimes it feels like you need a medical degree and a dictionary to decipher all of the different benefits and uses for each product. Fortunately, we’ve got decades of experience and want to help you to find the right skincare for you. Today we’re looking at elastin, it’s purpose within the skin and some of the products which will boost production.
What is Elastin?
Elastin is a protein that gives skin, and other tissues and organs throughout your body, elasticity.
Why is elastin important?
Just as collagen is responsible for skin’s firmness, elastin plays a role in your skin’s appearance. Elastin helps keep skin tight and a lack of elastin leads to sagging skin. It also plays a role in wound healing and scar formation.
Why do I need to use skincare to boost elastin production if it’s already in my skin?
As we age, our body slows down its production of certain key elements, like collagen and also elastin. This is what leads to our skin looking less firm and more wrinkled. Using products which contain ingredients that encourage elastin production can help to keep our skin looking firmer and tighter for longer.
Which products should I use to stimulate elastin production?
Elemis Pro-Collagen Advanced Eye Treatment – Elemis Pro-Collagen Advanced Eye Treatment is an advanced eye treatment that targets fine lines and wrinkles around the delicate eye area. It contains padina pavonica which supports elastin and improves moisturisation and firmness of the skin, resulting in a plumper appearance.
Skin Abode Derma Pro Microneedling Roller – Skin Abode Derma Pro Microneedling Roller uses super fine medical-grade stainless steel needles to instantly activate the production of collagen and elastin, helping improve skin texture and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
DecoLITE LED Decolletage and Neck Mask – DecoLITE LED Decolletage and Neck Mask is a clinically proven treatment to improve skin hydration, firming and signs of ageing. It uses two wavelengths of light, 633nm (red) and 830nm (near infra-red), which are proven to stimulate collagen and elastin production and improve blood flow and tissue oxygenation.
Maskology Squalane Professional Sheet Mask – Maskology Squalane Professional Sheet Mask intensely hydrates, enriches and replenishes the skin, resulting in a youthful and energised complexion. The abundance of vitamin A and C will also offer anti-ageing benefits such as the protection from free radicals and the increased levels of collagen and elastin.
Medik8 Bakuchiol Peptides – Medik8 Bakuchiol Peptides is a plant-based, anti-ageing alternative for vitamin A. A clinically proven alternative to retinol, bakuchiol helps to stimulate collagen and elastin production, smoothing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Incredibly gentle, it is suitable for those that cannot usually tolerate vitamin A.