Want to stay young forever?

We don’t know how to stop the clock, but we can help you fool the cameras and mirrors into thinking you’re a younger you. Here’s some essential tips to get the skin care routine you need.

Wash With Gentle Cleanser

Cleansing is important for removing and skin care products or makeup that you’ve applied during the day, well as natural skin oils, pollutants, and bacteria that’s accumulated. You skin care products will be able to enter your skin and work effectively.

You’ll want to use a gentle cleanser to preserve your skins natural barrier and keep it resistant to dehydration and damage. Cleansers with high pH like natural soaps are very harsh and can leave your skin vulnerable to irritation and infection. Cleansers with low pH works to maintain optimal skin balance.

Another ingredient to avoid is sodium lauryl sulfate, as it’s very harsh. You also don’t need to buy cleanser with fancy, active ingredients. Cleansers aren’t on your skin for very long. Those active ingredients are far more useful in later steps, like when you apply serum.

Always Apply Sunscreen

Sun protection is one definite way to keep your skin looking as young as possible. The sun is responsible for so much more of your skins visible sign of aging that sun damage gets its own special category in dermatology: photoaging

The sun’s UV rays can cause aging by breaking down collagen and causing abnormalities in elastin, leasing to thinner skin and wrinkles. It also causes uneven pigmented patches to develop. Using sunscreen is not just for when you go to the beach, use it on daily basis. Applying a broad spectrum of SPF 30 sunscreen every day can fade age spots, improve skin texture, and flatten out wrinkles by 20 percent in only three months, according to recent studies.

You can protect your skin from the sun in other ways as well. Wearing sun protective clothing like long sleeve shirts, hats, and sunglasses, and avoiding the sun in the middle of the day, will reduce your exposure to aging and UV rays.

Pat, Don’t Rub, On Your Anti-Aging Serum

Serums contains a higher concentration of active ingredients than a moisturizer. The best anti-aging ingredients to look out for are vitamin A derivatives known as retinoids and vitamin C. As well as increasing collagen in your skin, they also act as antioxidants to soak up the biological and environmental oxidative stress that builds up and causes aging.

Eat Less Sugar

A diet in sugar accelerates the process of glycation which ages skin. Glycation is when excess glucose from the blood-stream binds to the skin's 'youth proteins' (the collagen and elastin that makes youthful complexions appear so plump and doughy) and instead turns them brittle and stiff. Swap sugary food for aging antioxidants such as dark berries, avocados and green juices.