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The SUN is your skin's greatest enemy. It is "The Great Destroyer" of skin. Unless you protect you skin from the sun, no treatment, no moisturizer, no vitamin, no exercise, no surgery will help you!

What the Sun ACTUALLY Does to Your Skin

The sun damages skin in several highly significant ways. It does this by activating free radicals, which are the molecules that attack the lining of all cells. Free radicals are responsible for most illnesses, aging and death. They litterally "tear apart" the skin. Alcohol, smoking, and stress activate free radicals, but their biggest source, where the skin is concerned, is the sun.

The sun alters skin structure. That is why skin cancer is usually the result of exposure to the sun. But lets just consider what the sun does tothe looks of your skin:

~*The Sun causes your top layer of dead skin to thicken as a "protective response" and this becomes even more stiff, un-bending and rough.

~*Sun isn't stopped by this "protective" dead skin. It goes further to the living epidermis and this it from its normal 20 cell layers to about two layers. You acquire a thin-skinned look.

~*In a healthy epidermis, these 20 cell layers are organized like a well-build brick wall. The sun destroys this organization. Chaos in structure and cell size shows that the sun has actually altered DNA. This is considered a pre-cancerous condition. Your skin takes on an uneven texture.

~*Chaos spreads below the epidermis where the dermis responds to sun by forming little piles of pigment known as age spots, also considered a pre-cancerous condition.

~*In this lower layer of skin, elastin, the strechy net that holds your skin in place, is torn down by sun exposure. This is how the sun causes sagging skin.