The cause of baggy eyes can be from various things.Let's look at the most common reasons and then let's look at how to treat baggy eyes.

While allergies, illnesses, nutritional deficiencies and even genetics could be involved, in most cases the cause is sagging eye skin.

Sagging Skin?

If you have noticed some sagging around your neckline or the skin on the back of your hands is less elastic than it used to be, then the bags under your eyes are caused by the same thing.  It is sometimes considered a natural part of the aging process, although there is reason to believe otherwise.

Collagen & Elastin - Key Importance

There are fibers beneath the skin's surface and elsewhere throughout the body.  The fibers are composed of proteins known as collagen and elastin.
Collagen and elastin fibers are built by the body in an amazing process that mystified scientists for many years.  Only recently were they able to duplicate a portion of the process in the laboratory and create collagen strands.

Certain parts of the body regenerate as time goes by.  The body continues to make collagen and elastin fibers for most of our lives, possible for our entire lives.  No one seems to know for sure.

Baggy Eye Cause

What we do know for sure is that the production of collagen and elastin fibers slows down with age.  That's what causes baggy eyes, because it causes sagging skin.

In addition to decreased production of new collagen and elastin fibers, there is another problem.  Some of the things we do cause the fibers to degrade.

Habits to Break

We are not always gentle with the delicate skin around the eye.  We pull at it and rub it.  It gets red and irritated.  The redness and irritation is a sign of underlying inflammation.  Inflammation can eventually damage and degrade the fibers.

Combined with decreased production and degradation of elastic fibers, there is another problem that is a part of what causes baggy eyes.  That problem is thinning.

The skin around the eye is already thinner than it is anywhere else on the body.  As we get older, it becomes thinner and thinner due to decreased collagen and decreased production of new skin cells.

The cells of the skin's outermost layers are continuously replaced throughout our lives.  This is known.  Production of new cells slows down with age and that's one of the reasons we look older.

The older cells start to look dry and lifeless.  The newer cells struggle to make their way to the surface, but it takes longer to do that.  As a result, the layers of cells become thinner.

As I mentioned in the beginning, these parts of the aging process are not always what causes baggy eyes.  In most cases, they are the main culprits.  There may be other things going on, but at the very least, the effects of aging are involved in some way, shape or form.

How to Treat Baggy Eyes

Now you know more about what makes the skin elastic, what causes it to sag and what causes baggy eyes.  If you're like most people, your next question will be this one.  What do I do about it?  That question is answered in my next article.

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