Understanding skin aging: Exploring anti-aging modalities

Abstract

With ever-improving life expectancy, skin aging has become the first casualty of exuberant health. People are progressively seeking remedies for their age-related skin problems. Understanding the aging process is unfolding newer realms in the molecular biology of the skin, giving us new insights to combat senescence more effectively. Epidermal dysfunction, compromised permeability homeostasis, elevated skin pH, diminished stratum corneum hydration, and dermal extracellular matrix aberrations with changes in its cellular composition are now well understood. Thus, a more scientific approach can be utilized while evolving various specific anti-aging therapies. The present communication attempts to address both the process of skin aging and various therapies to combat it in a concise yet succinct way.