I feel like it must belong to someone else. Estrogen plays a very important role in skin health and during menopause we often see skin dryness, wrinkling, fragility, bruising, and even acne. Hair loss or thinning, and changes in nails may also occur.
Estrogen stimulates the production of collagen, which provides the structural support of the skin.
Skin collagen decreases in women after age 40. Additionally, falling estrogen levels in menopause can cause a breakdown of collagen, resulting in laxity of the skin which leads to sagging and wrinkles. Additionally, the elastic fibers in the skin become less resilient, which decreases general skin tone. This results in cuts or bruises from relatively minor injury. And because falling estrogen levels affect cell turnover rate, the healing time for these cuts is usually doubled.