Peptides for Skin and Hair Care

Do you know someone who does not want fresh-looking youthful skin and shiny, silky hair? Well, I don’t. If you are someone who wants it then you must have been trying out skin and hair care products and familiar with peptides by now. Peptides, also known as polypeptides, are naturally occurring in the skin, but they’re also included in many skin care products — and for good reason of course. Peptides are amino acids that make up certain proteins needed by the skin. Collagen is made of three polypeptide chains, so adding peptides can stimulate your skin to make collagen. More collagen can lead to firmer, younger-looking skin.

What do peptides do for your skin?

Peptides have a lot of benefits for your muscles, bones, and health. Dr. Nhi Le describes the benefits of peptides for skin. Here’s why you need peptides in your skincare routine. Peptides used in beauty products are applied directly to the skin and it can penetrate deep inside. It helps cells to create more collagen and elastin.

So our body sees these peptides as ‘signals’. Dr. Nhi Le says further If someone is healing from an injury in his/her ankle, those peptides will signal body to focus its repair efforts in that joint. Sometime our skin starts aging prematurely, those peptides then signal our skin to boost its production of collagen, to boost our skin and restoring a healthy skin barrier.

Types of Peptides

Neurotransmitter Peptides

Neurotransmitter peptides help in reducing wrinkles and laughter or worry lines from our face. These are found in injectables like Botox and work to relax your facial muscles so they don’t contract as much. Neurotransmitter peptides can reduce certain wrinkle types by 30 percent.

Signal Peptides

Signalling peptides or palmitoyl pentapeptides promote the production of collagen and elastin. These re the most common peptides with regard to skin care. It stimulate the production of collagen, elastin and other structure proteins that make the skin appear firmer and fuller.

Carrier Peptides

Their role is to deliver trace elements like copper and magnesium to the skin. Carrier peptides combine with another ingredient copper and magnesium to help in healing wounds. Copper has been an especially popular ingredient to improve collagen production.

Enzyme-Inhibitor Peptides

It hinder the skin aging process and help retain collagen. Peptides derived from rice proteins work to retain more collagen, while certain soy-derived peptides can help prevent pigmentation.

How do peptides help for your Hair Growth?

As a matter of fact 40% women experience hair loss before they are 40. Many of our patients don’t know that peptides can also transform the thickness and length of your hair, Says Dr. Nhi Le, MD. She adds that Peptides are very much effective in hair treatment as they can easily penetrate the hair follicle. When they do, they have two main powerhouse effects: preventing breakage by increasing moisture and making your hair thicker.
Peptides restore the inner bonding of the hair. They contribute to better hair growth as well as increasing the diameter and elasticity of individual hair.

Using a specific copper peptides is very helpful in increasing blood circulation as the element copper may help maintain tissues found in blood vessels, which potentially means that copper peptides prolong new hair growth. It stimulates hair follicles to receive adequate oxygen. This results in getting healthier and thicker hair.

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