This article aims to help the reader in the rapid identification of natural remedies useful in the treatment of various symptoms, disorders and pathologies. For some of the listed remedies, this utility may not have been confirmed by sufficient experimental tests conducted with a scientific method. Furthermore, any natural remedy presents potential risks and contraindications.
If available, we therefore recommend that you click on the link corresponding to the individual remedy to learn more about the topic. In any case, we remind you of the importance of avoiding self-treatment and to consult your doctor beforehand to ascertain the absence of contraindications and drug interactions.
The wrinkles are folds or linear furrows, permanent and more or less deep, dug on the surface of the skin.
They are distinguished in actinic wrinkles, favored by prolonged exposure to sunlight, in expression wrinkles due to the traction of mimic muscles, in gravitational wrinkles, linked to the laxity of skin support structures, which lose the ability to counterbalance the strength of gravity, and in sleep wrinkles, unilateral as determined by the prevailing nocturnal posture.
Considered by most to be an aesthetic problem to be prevented and countered at all costs, wrinkles recognize a wide range of possible treatments, both in the nutritional and in the cosmetic, medical-aesthetic and surgical fields. With regard to supplements and "anti-wrinkle" herbal treatments, antioxidants and essential fatty acids, substances able to increase skin firming (superficial action to increase skin tone and firmness) are proposed substantially both for internal and external use. ), as well as topically moisturizing and emollient substances.
Medicinal plants and supplements useful against wrinkles
Active substances on the dermis that increase skin firming : Retinol; Panax Ginseng; Centella Asiatica; Echinacea Angustifolia; fucose; Ursolic Acid; vegetable derivatives (Olive, Avocado, Soy, Wheat germ, Shea, algae); genistein (extracted from licorice), hyaluronic acid.
Antioxidants: resveratrol, rutin, quercetin, canferolo, selenium, oleuropein, caffeic acid, anthocyanidins, procyanidins, derivatives of vitamin A (ester), derivatives of vitamin C (ester) and finally vitamin E derivatives (ester, tocopherols, tocotrienols). Vegetable oils are a good source of vitamin E, especially wheat germ.
Omega three / Omega six against wrinkles: borage seed oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, flaxseed oil, hemp oil, evening primrose oil, sesame seed oil.
Pool of essential amino acids.
Emollients and moisturizers: almond oil, jojoba oil, wheat germ oil, shea butter, sedum, Aloe gel, Guar gum, Altea, mallow, oats, Calendula, Fennel, lettuce, linen, Licorice, aubergine, Passiflora, Butcher's Broom, Vine, goldenrod, pimpinella, raspberry, fig, prickly pear, Melissa, olive.
Behavioral interventions useful in the prevention of wrinkles: abundant introduction of water; avoid exposure to the sun during the hours of maximum sunlight (between 11 and 15 in the warm months); avoid tobacco smoke; early use, already at 25/30 years, of cosmetic products with a moisturizing, dermocontent, emollient, UVA filtering, antioxidant and anti-free radicals action.
