Living an unhealthy lifestyle can age a woman's skin by over 10 years, an in-depth international study has revealed. The true damage caused by sun beds, smoking and deficiencies in fruit and moisturisation in accelerating the ageing process emerged following research on 585 ladies in the UK, China and Spain.
The study, published yesterday, showed the factors influencing their skin were exactly the same even considering the backgrounds and skin kind of the women involved.
In addition it emerged'lifestyle choices'often account fully for as much as 33 per cent of how old a female looks.
Dr Andrew Mayes, who led the research for Simple skincare, said:'We already knew genetics accounted for about 50 per cent of how old people look, but we didn't discover how much will be accounted for by their lifestyles.
'Even we were surprised by simply how much it was; both when it comes to the number of years and the percentage.'
The study that was carried out throughout the last eight years involved women aged 45 to 75 in the UK, 30 to 70 in Spain and 25 to 70 in China.
Study sites with controlled laboratory conditions were established in Bedford in the UK, Madrid in Spain and Shanghai in China.
Those who took part were asked a line of questions about their lifestyles including whether or not they liked to sun tan and if these were smokers or non-smokers.
Other questions included how usually the women moisturised, whether they eat fruit and veg, whether they brush their teeth and if they've all their own teeth.
The study team also took digital images of the ladies of then assessed for how old they looked to recognize their perceived age and if they looked younger or avove the age of their actual age.
The study team, led by Dr Mayes, then compared the perceived ages of people that have good versus bad lifestyles.
They concluded the difference was 10.4 years.
Dr Mayes added:'How many years'difference was most staggering - we had just seen some data out of a group of plastic surgeons in the US and Canada suggesting that the face and neck lift (together with eyelid and forehead modifications) could take typically about 8.5 years off your facial age.
'Then we got our data through demonstrating a saving of over 10 years. It's fair to express initially we couldn't quite believe it.
'But the evidence was there before us - women with a healthy lifestyle looked much younger than people that have an unhealthy lifestyle.
'Simply put; good skin health is all about a lot more than fancy creams and lotions - it's about how we live our lives and how we treat our anatomical bodies and the steps we must take don't need to be extreme.
'They could be small and steady and the effects will be seen with time without the necessity for plastic surgery.'
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