How to Help Crepey Skin: Causes and Care Tips

Looking for some tips for how to help reduce the appearance of crepey skin? Find out how here.

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Introduction
What is crepey skin?
What causes crepey skin?
How to help crepey skin
Helping crepey skin with NIVEA
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How to Help Crepey Skin

Everyone should be able to feel fully comfortable in their own skin. However, signs of aging like fine lines, wrinkles, or crepey skin can be a source of self-consciousness. What causes crepey skin and how can you best support skin to encourage a firmer appearance? Read on to find out the answers to these questions, including additional tips & tricks to help support firmer-looking skin.

What is crepey skin?

Crepey skin refers to skin that resembles crepe paper, marked by a thin and wrinkled appearance. Crepey skin is commonly seen under the eyes, on the arms, neck and chest¹.

What causes crepey skin?

Crepey skin appears when skin loses elasticity. Common contributors to this loss of elasticity include aging, photoaging (sun damage), weight changes, and dry skin.

Crepey skin from aging

As you age, your body experiences a decline of collagen and elastin in your skin, proteins that contribute to skin’s elasticity². When the skin’s elasticity is reduced, it has a hard time returning to its place when stretched which, over time, can lead to wrinkles.

Crepey skin from sun damage

Prolonged and repeated sun exposure can weaken skin’s structure and make it more apt to wrinkle¹. This type of premature aging due to sun damage is known as photoaging and can cause skin to have a crepey appearance.

Crepey skin from dryness

Dry skin can cause temporary wrinkles due to dehydration and can develop a rough texture³.

Crepey skin from weight changes

Losing mass in a short period of time, such as rapid and significant weight loss or giving birth, can leave skin wrinkled from having been stretched out over a larger amount of the body for so long. The amount the skin has stretched can make it difficult for skin to snap back to a smaller area and can create a crepey appearance¹.

How to help crepey skin

There are several ways you can take care of your skin and help to both minimize the appearance of crepey skin and help prevent it from forming.

How to help reduce the appearance of crepey skin

Using skin-firming skincare products
Certain skincare products specially formulated to help provide firmer skin may be helpful in mitigating the appearance of crepey skin. Look for products that specifically help with crepey skin such as NIVEA Skin Firming & Anti-Crepe Body Serum-Lotion.

Staying hydrated
Dry, dehydrated skin can exacerbate the appearance of crepey skin, so ensuring that you’re well hydrated can help give skin a more plumped appearance. Be sure to drink plenty of water and use hydrating skincare products if your skin is looking and feeling dehydrated.

How to help prevent crepey skin

Wearing sunscreen year-round
Exposure to the sun’s harmful rays can contribute to the development of crepey skin, so it is important to wear sunscreen daily, not just on warm and sunny days. Wearing sunscreen as directed, year-round as part of an overall sun protection strategy with other sun protection measures can help protect your skin from sun damage while also helping to prevent crepey skin caused by photoaging.

Staying hydrated
Just as staying hydrated can help support skin that may already be showing signs of a crepey texture, hydration is a key way to support skin and help keep it looking supple before crepiness starts to form.

Eating a diet rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals
While eating a balanced diet of course can’t guarantee that your skin will never wrinkle, supporting your overall health with a diet rich in nutrients, particularly antioxidants, can help support skin health and appearance¹.

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The information provided herein is not intended to be medical advice. Nor is it intended to treat the underlying skin disease or condition. The information is provided solely to:

1. Moisturize, soften and smooth dry skin

2. Improve the appearance of the skin

3. Achieve healthier-looking skin

Sources

1. Crepey Skin? A Surprising Cause — and 4 Expert Fixes. Cleveland Clinic. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/whats-causing-your-crepey-skin-and-how-can-you-fix-it

2. National Institute on Aging. Skin Care and Aging. Skin Care and Aging. 3. Dry skin: Signs and symptoms. www.aad.org https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/skin-care/skin-care-and-aging