Got Crepey Skin? Here's How To Treat It From The Inside Out

If your skin feels like fragile paper or wrinkles easily, you might be dealing with crepey skin. Now, everyone experiences this at some point thanks to the natural skin aging process, but that doesn't mean you can't encourage firmer skin from here on out. 

At the most basic level, crepey skin is caused by a lack of collagen and elastin in the skin—collagen makes skin look super plump, so a loss leads to that paper-thin exterior. We naturally lose collagen as we age, so that's one contributor to crepey skin we can't really control.

However, you can take preventive measures from within to make sure that process doesn't happen earlier than it needs to, most notably by taking hydrolyzed collagen supplements. 

These can help promote your body's natural production of collagen1 and other molecules that help the skin stay firm and taut, like elastin and fibrillin.

Aside from keeping your skin firm, they can even help support your skin's hydration levels: One double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial found that participants' moisture levels in the skin were seven times higher2 than those who did not take the supplements.