In an attempt to look like Jennifer Aniston (43), Kerry Washington (36) and Zooey Deschanel (32), many women seek anti-aging products and treatments at various ages and stages of their lives. But how young is too young to start trying to halt the aging process?
During their 20s, many women naturally begin losing some of the child-like plumpness in their face. This introduction to the aging process has many women fleeing to their local drugstore to buy the latest anti-wrinkle, max-volumizing, “I don’t want to look like my mother…yet,” creams. What they don’t seem to realize is that the best thing to do at this time is to let Mother Nature take its course.
“At such a young age, the only thing women should be doing to help their skin age gracefully is wear the appropriate level of sunscreen, exfoliate, and moisturize,” says DC Derm Docs’, Dr. Dale Isaacson. “Anti-aging products should be reserved for when you are much older. This is the best you will ever look, so there’s no reason to change that.”
In 2012, 30% of the five million Botox procedures performed in the US were on people their 20s and even younger. While paralyzing muscles under the skin may help to reduce the look of wrinkles temporarily, it may be your best bet to wait until you actually need Botox to get it. As much as we’d all like to believe differently, it has yet to be proven that using Botox at a younger age will prevent wrinkles later in life.
So stop stressing and losing sleep over a few slight changes in your face (Really…Stop stressing. It makes your skin age faster) and become best friends with your exfoliating cream, moisturizer, and sunblock. We look forward to seeing you…in 20 years.