3 Essential Tips on How to Prevent Loose Sagging Skin

Loose sagging skin is fairly common among people who are advanced in age since as people age there is a visible reduction in the elasticity of skin.

Age however is not the only factor in all cases of sagging skin even young people can suffer from one. This may be caused by sudden weight loss. This is because when a person gains a significant amount of weight, the skin stretches to give way to the increased weight or fat tissues. After drastic weight loss, what happens is that the skin fails to tighten back. Thus, it hangs or sags.

There are varied reasons for this condition or problem but more often than not, methods of prevention are fairly the same. But admittedly young people can regain their skin's elasticity faster or easier than older people.

One way to prevent loose sagging skin or that which looses its elasticity is through regular exercise and healthy balanced diet. There are food types with nutrients and vitamins or minerals that aid in tightening the skin. These include foods rich in vitamins A, C, and E. To hasten the effects of these vitamins in your skin, you can directly take vitamin supplements. Foods rich in zinc are said to be good for the skin as well. Vitamins A, C, E as well as zinc help form collagen, which along with keratin, bring about skin strength and elasticity. Essential fatty acids, also known as EFAs, which are present in most vegetables as well as fish oil firms up skin since they build skin cell walls. Drinking lots of water, needless to say, is great for hydrating the skin and flushes away toxins also.

There are hundreds of creams or topical lotion available over the counter of most pharmacies and beauty stores or in derma clinics. These are usually advertised as skin firming or tightening cream or lotion. Most of which have the same formulation and ingredients found in masks and wraps used by spa treatment clinics, thus are very effective in reducing not only cellulites or the sight of loose sagging skin, but tightens or firms up the skin as well. These products usually target sag-prone areas such as the neck, arms, belly, thighs, and hips.

Laser surgery or surgical treatments are of course the last resort of people who have problematic sagging skin. Liposuction is the most common where excess fat from the body is removed then the loose skin would be tucked and tightened. There are various types of tightening cosmetic surgeries such as abdominoplasty or the so-called 'tummy tuck', which immediately results into a flat and tightened stomach as it removes loose skin from the lower abdomen and tightens the skin of the upper abdomen in the process. There is also what is called as brachioplasty or arm tightening or contouring. Brachioplasty removes the excess skin tissue along the inner arm and thus reduces the circumference of the upper arm.

Whatever method or treatment used in preventing sagging skin, the result or how well the skin will tighten or firm up depend on the amount of extra or loose skin, how loose the supporting skin tissues have become, length of time the skin was stretched, how much it was stretched, the amount of elastin in a person's skin and, of course the age since as cited earlier the younger one is, the more elastic the skin is.