1. HOW DOES AGE AFFECT THE SKIN?
The impact of aging on skin depends on multiple factors, such as—
- Lifestyle.
- Diet.
- Genes.
- Personal habits such as smoking.
Factors resulting into wrinkled and spotted skin include
- Normal ageing
- Loss of subcutaneous support (fatty tissue between skin and muscle)
- Stress
- Daily facial movement
- Obesity
2. WHAT ARE THE SKIN CHANGES AS WE GROW?
With increasing age, the skin loses collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, resulting in wrinkles and sagging of the skin.
As you age your skin may become:
- Rough
- Slack—the skin hang loosely
- Transparent, caused by a thinning of the epidermis (surface layer of the skin)
- Fragile
- Easily bruised, due to a loss of support around the blood vessel walls
- More susceptible to lesions such as benign tumours
- Dry
3. WHICH ARE THE OTHER FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE SKIN?
Pollution, dust, UV rays, harmful light emitted from computers and phone screens cause the skin to lose moisture. Also, the skin over your face, ears, neck, and chest, is very sensitive to environmental changes and can develop problems commonly.
4. ARE AGEING AND DRY SKIN RELATED?
Dry and itchy skin is common in later life and almost 85% of older people develop “winter itch”. As you age the skin dryness can get worse due to the loss of sweat and oil glands. If your skin is very dry and itchy, consult your doctor as it can affect your sleep, cause irritability, and can be a symptom of a disease.
5. WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF NNO?
NNO contains—Natural Vitamin E in the oil form (4.70mg) and Jojoba oil (85.80mg).
6. WHEN & HOW TO USE NNO?
NNO is applied at night time, while applying NNO, first wash your face properly, take 1 applicant of NNO & twist open the tip of NNO applicant to pour the content on your palm, Apply NNO across your face over different areas like neck, around the eyes, forehead and start massaging gently with your fingertips. First on your neck then chicks followed by nose and then around the eyes and at last forehead. Follow this complete massaging procedure for 1 to 2 times.
7. HOW MANY TIMES A WEEK SHOULD THE NOURISHING NIGHT OIL BE USED
Apply one capsule daily at bed time.
8. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF NNO?
NNO is a skin rejuvenator and moisturizes the dry skin. It is rich in jojoba oil and natural vitamin E. NNO has been successfully tried and tested by Spin Control Institute of France for its efficiency. It is best night nourishment for dry and dull skin. A research paper has shown that treatment of facial skin with 1 NNO capsule daily was able to significantly improve the moisture of the outer layers of the skin without any side effects.
9.WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF JOJOBA?
Jojoba is an effective occlusive moisturizer and softener for skin. Following are the benefits of jojoba:
- It helps softens the skin.
- Reduces the wrinkles and stretch marks.
- Lighten and help heal scars, and promotes healthy skin.
- Promotes skin suppleness.
- Forms a non-greasy, non-tacky layer over the skin.
- It can be used for the treatment of acne, cold sores, and psoriasis.
10. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF VITAMIN E?
Vitamin E has an important antioxidant function in skin protection. It protects the skin from the adverse effects of oxidative stress including photo aging. It also has protective effects on UV-induced oxidative damage, immunosuppression and depletion of Langerhans cell, skin carcinogenesis, and erythema.
11. WHO CAN USE NNO?
NNO is ideal night nourishment for all the women in the house including teenager daughter to mother in a menopausal age.
REFERENCES
- WebMD. The effects of ageing on skin.
- Available from: http://www.webmd.boots.com/healthy-skin/guide/effects-ageing-skin.
- Accessed on 14th September 2017.
