Are you starting to notice wrinkles on your face? Do you think your face looks like its losing its firmness and smoothness? It's likely from a loss of collagen production. Collagen is naturally produced in your body. It helps hold your skin together and gives it a firm, smooth look. However, as you get older, your collagen production slows, which leads to wrinkles and sagging skin.

The two best ways to restore your skin are by either replacing lost collagen or boosting collagen production. With increased collagen levels, you'll see a noticeable improvement in your skin.

Here are four of the best ways to get more collagen in your system:

Consume more vitamin C

By consuming more vitamin C, you'll give your body more of the ingredients it needs to produce collagen. Vitamin C plays a critical role in collagen production. It helps link amino acids together, which then bond with protein to form collagen.

You can get more vitamin C by eating foods like oranges, broccoli, red pepper, and tomato. You can also use skin creams that include high levels of vitamin C. Look at the labels of skin care creams to see which vitamins they have in them. Sometimes, vitamin C is listed as ascorbic acid or ascorbyl palmitate.

Quit smoking

There are few things that are more damaging to collagen production than smoking. The nicotine creates enzymes in your body called matrix metalloproteinasis. Those enzymes destroy the collagen that your body has already produced. This is so damaging because it takes collagen out of your system before it even makes it to your skin.

So your body could be producing high levels of collagen, but you don't see the effects because the collagen is destroyed by the nicotine. This is why you often see long-time smokers with deep wrinkles and sagging skin.

Exfoliate

Your body produces collagen to replace dead layers of skin. When you exfoliate, you remove that dead skin, which triggers the production of new collagen. By exfoliating often, you can keep your body in a regular collagen-producing cycle. You can find any number of exfoliating products at your drug store, makeup store, or any other retailer that sells skin care products. You  may need to try a few to see which one your skin responds to best.

Get Botox and Voluma injections

These fillers actually insert collagen directly into your wrinkles, which allows them to temporarily correct age-related skin damage. Botox is usually for forehead wrinkles. Voluma is designed to correct wrinkles and loss of fullness in the cheeks. While neither is a permanent solution, they can last for extremely long periods of time. With regular injections, you may be able to offset the natural loss of collagen and maintain young-looking skin.

Talk to a skin care specialist for more information. They can recommend solutions and tell you whether Botox or Voluma are right for you.