I’m a GP – here’s the best anti-ageing skincare routine to help you look younger in your 50s
A GP has revealed the best anti-ageing skincare routine to help you look younger in your fifties.
Dr Ginni Mansberg, from Sydney in Australia, said that your skin will become more sensitive in the decade after you turn 50 – so you’ll have to “up your skincare game”.
She told the Express: “At this age, most women go through, or have just hit menopause.
“What comes with this hormone change is sensitivity.
“Plus rosacea often makes an unwelcome appearance at this time causing flushing, redness, dilated blood vessels, and burning/ stinging.”
Ginni cited a Dutch study which found that nearly one in three women who had started or been through the menopause suffered dry, itchy or red skin triggered by “shaving, weather, toiletries and emotions”.
The GP added that strong skincare products can actually worsen sensitive skin.
She said: “You might need to cut back on using Vitamin C and Alpha Hydroxy Acids for a bit until your skin settles down.”
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Prescription Vitamin A, known as Tretinol, can also irritate sensitive rosacea skin – so it best to go for Retinal, a gentler type of Vitamin A.
Ginni recommended microneedles, which stimulate the growth of collagen, elastin and new skin cells.
Microneedles, which are often less than one millimetre long, work by puncturing the outer surface of your skin – causing tiny injuries which send your skin’s internal upkeep systems into overdrive.
She said: “Everything you’ve been doing up until now needs to continue but you might want to turbocharge your skincare by adding some microneedles.
“New technology has allowed us to make microneedles out of hyaluronic acid which is hard enough to penetrate the skin, but then dissolve in the outer layer of the skin.
Hyaluronic acid has anti-ageing properties of its own, and allows a controlled release of active ingredients into worn-out skin.
It comes after another doctor revealed the first senses people lose just before they die.