Other causes of crepey skin include smoking cigarettes environmental pollution and collagen stress dr.
Crepe paper skin causes.
Chang said as well as extreme body weight changes and dry skin which can worsen the appearance of crepey skin.
Smoking is also highly damaging and can cause crepey skin as the chemicals in cigarettes damage collagen and elastin.
Smokers often have crepey skin around the mouth as well as back of the hands and eyes.
People with fair skin are particularly susceptible to crepey skin wrinkles skin damage and even skin cancer caused by the exposure to uv radiation.
Eyes legs face trunk hands arms.
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Age and exposure to the sun are a couple of factors that often cause this condition.
Sun damage is the most common cause of crepey skin but it can also be caused by aging a lack of moisture or excessive weight loss.
One reason why crepey skin is more noticeable in older females is due hormonal changes which also cause dry skin.
Mulkey agreed that the most common cause of crepey skin is chronic sun exposure.
But when skin begins to feel thin as paper or like crepe the most common cause isn t age says dermatologist amy kassouf md.