Are estrogens effective as skin antiaging chemicals?

Estrogens prevent skin aging in several ways. Estrogens are female hormones which have many beneficial effects, in the body. However, the use of estrogens products, in antiaging has several cautionary tales, including the increased risk of breast cancer and other conditions.

How does estrogen work as a skin antiaging chemical?

• Increases collagen content
• Increases skin thickness and preventing wrinkling
• Improves skin moisture
• Improves skin pigmentation during sun exposure

Since estrogen use has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, hormone replacement therapy, in postmenopausal women has created much controversy. This is the basis for which estrogen use in the treatment of skin aging cannot be recommended.

Research is ongoing to find a way to use estrogen in antiaging skin treatments without the increased risk of breast cancer.

The drugs being studied are called selective estrogen receptor (ER) modulators (SERMS). These drugs have both estrogen like effects and antiestrogen like effects.

The hope is to develop an estrogen like drug with the antiaging skin benefits while removing the increased risk of breast cancer and other diseases know to be associated with the use of estrogen products.

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