Let's face it, we all tend to kid ourselves into believing our skin and body will be okay if we are reasonably careful and don't indulge in too many bad habits. Unfortunately the reality is our cells change because of the skin aging process every day.

Dryness, fine lines and wrinkles will keep on coming getting deeper year after year unless you take some sensible smart action right now, then continue to do so in the future.

There are three main reasons for skin aging.

Firstly your body doesn't produce anywhere near the same amount of new protein skin cells as it did when you were younger.

Keratin, collagen and elastin protein cells give your skin its structure, strength and elasticity. A skin cream that has ingredients capable of stimulating new protein cell production in your dermis tissue layer, will help to improve your skins strength, texture, moisture content and reduce wrinkles.

The second reason is the reduction in your natural antioxidant capacity to combat free radicals.

A free radical is highly reactive; this causes oxidative damage to your cell robbing it of its protective capacity. The best skin creams will contain several different natural antioxidant substances to limit the oxidative damage (stress) to the biological cell structure by making the free radical more passive.

The third reason is because your body doesn't produce enough hyaluronic acid (also called hyaluronan and hyaluronate) compared to what it did when you were younger.

Hyaluronic acid has a high molecular weight and is a major contributor to cell proliferation and migration; it is one of the major components of extracellular matrices. Excessive ultra violet rays cause inflammation resulting in halting hyaluronic acid production in the dermis tissue layer contributing to your skin degrading and wrinkling.

Now you know the three major factors contributing to the skin aging process -- What can you do about it?

Well let's look at three ways you can help to protect and improve your skin.

1. Try to stop any bad habits negatively affecting your skins strength and quality. Quit smoking -- ever noticed how sickly and grey peoples skin looks when they are heavy smokers. Try to improve your diet by including more healthy foods like fruit, vegetables, lean meats etc. Reduce your intake of saturated fats, salt, sugar and alcohol.

2. Improve your skin and health today by putting in place a couple of good health practices. Do more exercise like walking or playing more of your favorite sport that requires you to get your heart rate up. Don't let yourself get dehydrated... your skin suffers just as much as the rest of your body from dehydration. Protect your skin from the elements by using a good zinc based sunscreen when your outdoors.

3. Find and use only the best most effective natural skin cream ingredients, Don't believe the TV and media advertising -- topical creams containing collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid ingredients don't work because their molecules are too large to go through your outer skin layer down into your dermis.

Only use natural skin creams containing ingredients clinically proven to penetrate down into your dermis, that can stimulate new keratin, collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid cell growth.

If your interested to find out more about the natural effective new cell growth stimulating skin cream ingredients I have found and choose to use daily, visit my website below.

Discover the best natural creams available today that help combat the skin aging process.