14 DAY TRIAL // Whether we like it or not, it's not just wisdom that comes with one too many candles on our birthday cakes. There are also wrinkles, and some can be quite unpleasant to look at and accept: the deep ones that form around our eyes, especially in the outer area.
Having studied and imaged skin samples taken from, well, cadavers, a team of researchers think to have at long last figured out why wrinkles grow deeper in the outer eye area.
In a report published in the science journal Clinical Anatomy, they argue that it all boils down to the anatomy of the skin. More precisely, it all comes down to differences in thickness and the distribution of oil-secreting glands across the human face.
Unlike the skin around the eyes, skin on the forehead packs a rather high density of oil-secreting glands. Besides, it is rather thick and not all that elastic, EurekAlert explains. As a result, wrinkles forming on the forehead are usually shallow, the researchers explain.
By comparison, the so-called crow's feet that sooner or later begin to fan out in the outer eye area correlate with the absence of oil-secreting glands and especially thin and elastic skin that is more vulnerable to deformations as the years go by.