Maintaining clear, healthy skin is why you should bother and because prevention is easier than correction. Working as an esthetician, I know that most womrn understand the need for twice daily moisturizers, but many still don't realize the importance of using exfoliators and facial masks. Moisturizing provides under the skin benefits while twice weekly exfoliating gives you immediate topical results.

In your Teens and Twenties, most young women don't see serious signs of aging unless they have been extreme sun worshippers. What you will see is the accumulation of dead skin cells, which equals skin texture that looks uneven and a loss of your healthy, natural, youthful radiance. You'll need to be sure that sun screens are in all your products. If you spend 3 minutes, on your face - twice daily - in 21 days you'll have established a skin care routine and you'll never regret it.

When you're Thirty-something, you'll begin to see fine lines around your mouth and eyes in addition to having tired, dull looking skin. For those with oily skin, your pores will enlarge, those with normal or dry skin will experience patches of flakiness. You'll need to look for an anti-oxidant in your sun screen and/or moisturizer.

By the time you've reached your FORTIES, your neck and facial skin cells lose their strength because the collagen and elastin in your skin lessens, and your skin is unable to hold the moisture that helps keep it firm. Because of that lack of firmness, the tiny lines you saw in your thirties, deepen and become wrinkles; this is the age when you'll begin to add anti-aging treatments to your routine. Your moisturizers should also contain anti-aging (elastin and collagen) and firming ingredients.

Your skin will become dryer in your Fifties, and it doesn't matter what type skin you've always had. That loss of moisture you experienced in your forties, becomes more intense and that equals a slackening of the skin in the neck and jawline area and those wrinkles will become creases. So, your list of anti-aging, and lifting and firming ingredients will need to include vitamins and extra moisture to help give added strength to your skin.

In your SIXTIES and OLDER, the dark spots appear on your face, neck and hands. Your face and neck will show extreme loss of elasticity. Your relaxed skin will become sagging skin. Your forehead and above the nose creases will become furrows and you'll need to add anti-age spot treatments to the strongest possible lifting and firming additives, in your twice daily skin care regime.

This information was written to make you aware of what to expect if you get to a particular age without the use of skin care. If you do consistently use a twice daily skin care routine for your age and skin type, you'll always look years younger than other women your age.