The Sun Is Making Your Cellulite Worse
One of the nastiest elements in the battle versus cellulite is that suntanning – one of the handful of things which disguises your dimples – may really often be adding to the issue. In high summer it requires as little as four minutes of sun exposure for harm to start taking place to the collagen and elastin fibres beneath your skin. And just like the results of getting older or smoking, this damage thins the skin over the subcutis and makes cellulite much more noticeable.
When it comes to the skin’s function in reducing cellulite therefore, one of the most important things you can do is step up your sun-care regime because the sun‚Äôs damage causes massive destruction of the that support system within the skin and makes the septa shorten and tighten further – making even the limited fat stores you have left more prone to bulging and dimpling.
However, 80 per cent of the sun damage we expose our skins to is done by the time we are 18 – it just takes 15-20 years to show up. But this doesn’t mean that all is lost; if you start applying sun screen today – and wear it every time you put your skin in the sun – you can actually reverse some of the damage. According to research by Dr Lorraine Kligman at the University of Pennsylvania, when sunscreen is applied to the skin every day, it actually begins to grow new collagen within just ten weeks.