It is so important to switch up your skincare as you get older.
In fact, many of us will find the skincare that we use in our twenties just won’t cut it once we reach our thirties, forties, fifties and beyond.
Having the right skin care will be more important than ever before.
Why? Because our skin changes all the time and what you may be using when you’re younger just won’t be as effective as you get older.
Moral of the story: You need to be using the right skin care, especially when it comes to moisturisers.
Looking for a new moisturiser for mature skin? But also, how does our skin change as we age?
Keep scrolling for everything you need to know, plus my mature skin moisturiser recommendations.
How Does Skin Change As We Get Older?
Mature skin often refers to skin that is beginning to show some signs of ageing like fine lines, wrinkles, dullness, loss of elasticity, dryness, pigmentation etc.
It’s not a skin type, just a way to refer to ageing skin.
It’s all those years of exposure to the sun, pollution, irritants etc. that cause incremental damage that becomes more noticeable as we age.
Pigmentation that you’ve never noticed before? That may suddenly appear.
Not to mention all those habitual facial expressions from years of smiling (yay!), frowning (wah!) and squinting (sounds about right) can cause some of our wrinkles to slowly etch their way onto our face for good.
Oh yeah, and throw in a decline in oestrogen production in our 40s, which leads to a decline in the skin’s ability to produce more collagen and stay adequately hydrated.
This basically means our skin’s overall skin thickness and elasticity is nowhere near what it used to be, which can lead to skin sagging.
Plus, our skin cell turnover dramatically slows down to half of what it was in our 20s, and the skin’s ability to bounce back from wound healing tends to take longer. This includes acne pimples, which yes, we can all still get thanks to our hormonal fluctuations.
Pheeww. So, it can be a lot.
Watch over 40s makeup expert Amanda Ramsay share what she’s learnt about mature skin in her 40s in this TikTok video below.