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Eat well - have a healthy diet with at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day to provide the vitamins, nutrients and powerful antioxidants your skin needs to resist free-radical damage and stay young looking.
Make sure you eat foods containing the vitamins A, B, C and E as well as potassium, zinc, magnesium, bioflavonoids, iron, calcium, and essential fatty acids.
Pay particular attention to the B vitamins, especially B1, 2, 6, 12 and folic acid, but take them in food, NOT in supplements
Drink plenty of water - as well as its many other benefits, water helps to keep the skin plump and moist and acts as a solvent for nutrients, oxygen, hormones, antibodies and waste products.
Stay active - exercise gives your skin a glow because of increased oxygen in every cell in the body, the hormones that feed the skin, and increases levels of oestrogen which helps the skin to look young.
Don't forget your neck. As we grow older, the skin of the neck is inclined to sag and become crepey. Here's why:
First, the neck is very mobile, so the skin is stretched more than skin elsewhere and becomes loose.
Second, we often neglect skin on the neck and don't cleanse and moisturise it as much.
Third, the neck is nearly always exposed to sun, so it ages in the same way as the face. Use a sunblock on the neck whenever you go out, and clean and moisturise neck skin along with the face.
Smoking Nicotine constricts the fine blood vessels in your skin, so it can't be well-nourished and rapidly shows signs of ageing.
Smoking, too, ages your face. Deep lines appear around the mouth and eyes from the action of drawing on cigarettes and the tobacco chemicals starve the skin of oxygen. Think of what the nicotine-stained walls of a pub look like - the same thing is happening to your skin if you smoke.
Smoking produces an excess of free radicals in the skin which are thought to be the chief culprit in ageing.
Alcohol is an anti-nutrient, depleting the body of vitamins A, B and C - all-important for a healthy skin. It also dehydrates your body, robbing the skin of its natural moisture, causing broken veins and premature wrinkling.
Stress, anxiety, overwork and lack of sleep are all damaging to the skin - increasing the tendency to wrinkles and weakening the skin's natural renewal processes.
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