To help us take better care of our neck and décolleté, cosmetics brands have devised creams specially designed for them. We asked Anne Clément, scientific director at Dr Pierre Ricaud, to tell us a little more about these new booster treatments for tone and firmness . Explanations and advice.

Why do we need a dedicated neck and décolleté care?
We take care of the skin of her face more and more early ... but we often forget to take care of her neck and décolleté . Yet it is she who betrays the first signs of age (folds, wrinkles tasks, ...).
In addition, the skin of the neckline is much thinner than the rest of the body and it fully supports the chest. The consequence: its elastin is damaged faster, it tends to refine and collapse with the years if we do not take enough care.

And then we must admit, if in town we often think of applying face cream with a protection factor, we forget most of the time to protect his neck and décolleté. But on the terrace of a café, in the park as in a walk, our cleavage also receives the rays of the sun and receives them (unlike the face) perpendicularly. Rays that are primarily responsible for skin aging and these small unsightly folds that crease the neckline.

Cream neck and décolleté: what she has more
If, as an anti-aging care, it repairs and regenerates the skin in depth, it acts primarily on the specific needs of the neck and décolleté: tone, elasticity, firmness but above all, smooth small wrinkles.

Its flagship assets:
- Firming and tonicity booster active ingredients : Biopeptide EL, wheat proteins, royal jelly.
Anti-glycation active ingredients (one of the phenomena responsible for skin aging): Ratanhia and Alchemilla extract, oat sugar, marshmallow powder.
- Antioxidant ingredients : vitamin E, green algae extract, sunflower auxin.

At what age do you start using a special neck and décolleté cream?
Generally around 30 years, in prevention , or from 40 years to act on the tonicity and the suppleness of the skin. Before, no need to complicate his routine care: it simply drops his face cream in his neck to the bottom of the neckline (at the nipples).

How to apply it and at what rate?
It is performed by upward massages to play on the tone and elasticity of the skin of the neck and décolleté. No need to "pull down" this part of the body that already tends to sag with the years ... In addition, it is scientifically proven that massage stimulates fibroblasts, cells that provide support and flexibility cleavage! The right rhythm: at least once a day, after the shower.