Lip wrinkles from different causes can lower the self esteem of a person. What exactly are the causes behind the lip wrinkle development? Most often lip wrinkles appear naturally due to the aging of the body, which includes the deterioration of collagen and the loss of the stretching abilities of the elastin. Elastin and collagen are two main natural body proteins that provide our skin with the ability to stretch and to contract.

Collagen is a natural body protein found in the connective tissue of animals and humans. Collagen makes up for about 30 percent of the total content of the protein in the body of mammals, including people. Collagen makes up about 1-2 percent of the human muscle tissue, as well as it accounts for about 6 percent of the total weight of the tendinous muscles. Collagen is responsible for the elasticity and the strength of the skin, and its natural degradation with age leads to the development of the wrinkles.

Elastin is another natural body protein that is located predominantly in connective tissue. Elastin allows many body tissues, including the skin, to contract after stretching. With age, elastin tends to become less elastic, leading to the development of the wrinkles on the sites of the face where the skin is most often stretched, such as the skin around the mouth.

It’s important to note that lip wrinkles from stretching will also appear in case you are performing face exercises. The old folk remedy for the face and lip wrinkles used to be performing regular facial exercises. The sad fact is that dermatologists and other scientists have managed to prove that facial exercises actually make you develop more wrinkles in the future, because of the further stretching of the elastin-bearing tissues.

Smoking is another common culprit of the wrinkle development. Ten cigarettes per day, smoked for a period of ten years, will result in the development of lip wrinkles from smoking. Lip wrinkles also often arise due to being constantly subjected to cold winds, and to UV exposure. It might be a good idea to protect your lips and the skin around them with a lip cream if you live in an area with various weather extremes.

Lip wrinkles that arise from aging and from gravity cannot be averted, but using a cream regularly may help you to slow down these natural processes.

If the lip wrinkles are deep, the only option that’s left for removing them is a surgical intervention, such as laser therapy or injections of lip wrinkle fillers.

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