Innovation in technology has seen scientists successfully make breakthroughs in deciphering the human gene.
This was something that seemed far fetched in the past.
To date, the study of the human DNA is common thing in the medical fraternity.
According to researchers in skin care products, gene sequencing is one possible way our skin can be revitalised.
The more knowledge we acquire about how our skin ages at molecular level, the easier it will be to ascertain what is needed to completely win over and reverse the natural process of aging.
Scientists have always believed that solutions to the aging process can be found in genes.
The application of genetic research to skin care started nearly 10 years ago using state of the art technology available at that time.
This research involved testing the various ingredients in the genes and figuring out how each of them reacted to different skin types.
These experiments were done in such a way that the effects were felt at the molecular level.
Why? It's simply because the best way to overcome the aging process is at the molecular level.
Changes on the upper layers of the skin are only temporal.
The research particularly focused on the way skin metabolizes lipids; the compounds in charge of keeping your skin healthy and young.
It aimed at finding out how the process of metabolism changes with both age, as well as the influence of environmental elements to these changes.
Some of their findings revealed that prolonged exposure to the sun accelerates the aging process.
Specifically, the harmful rays from the sun have a tendency of reducing the skins ability to repair itself.
One way to protect a healthy skin is keeping away from the sun as much as we can.
The scientists involved in this research engaged their efforts in looking for ingredients that can be used to overcome the aging process by enhancing lipid production and the skin repairing process.
Procter and Gamble, one of the major brands in Health Care industry discovered an ingredient known as hexamidine.
If supplemented by niacinamide (or vitamin B3), this ingredient is believed to have the ability to increase the gene expression that is connected with lipid production.
Clinical experiments have shown amazing results.
Besides, people who have used products that had these two components were astonished by the results.
As a result, other companies such as LOreal and Estee Lauder followed suit.
Many women have regained their once young beautiful looks by using these products.
The glow on their skin has been restored.
However, you don't have to stop at merely using these products.
Feeling young requires more than that.
You need to involve yourself in some form of exercise on a daily basis, and eat healthy.
Cosmetic and skin care products simply complement a healthy lifestyle if you need to feel and look young.
These products are good for men as well.
Yes, modern scientists do acknowledge the contribution of past century scientists and alchemists in the search for the cure to aging.
The best possible way to slow down the aging process however is for the remedy to focus on the skins core.