Whats In Your Anti Aging Skin Cream?
If you use skin care products then you’re well aware of all those wondrous anti aging claims. As skin care technology continues to develop, those anti aging promises are sounding more and more exciting and offering exactly what we all want! Vanity is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, constantly nurtured by the premium society places on ‘appearance’. As a result, people are prepared to pay an arm and a leg in a relentless mission to find that fountain of youth.
Of course the average shopper is dubious as to just how well anti aging skin care products do their jobs. Marketing is after all marketing. Savvy consumers know only too well that you cannot trust the professionally put together marketing presentations of skin care companies. So, what we sincerely want to know is simply this: do these products in realityhonestly meet their claims or is it all just marketing – smoke and mirrors – snake oil ?
Well, I’ll give you the answer! It’s part reality and part smoke and mirrors – clever illusion.
For the largest part of anti aging facial skin care products these claims are pure fantasy. A thorough scrutiny of most skincare formulas bares pitifully tiny concentrations of the vital active ingredient(s).
On the whole they do cause your skin to feel terrific and appear improved after you’ve used them BUT regrettably when you wash them off the saggy skin, blemishes and hardcore wrinkles are still there – unchanged!
Take note of the word “majority” of products? There are a quantity of skin care products available with the vital levels of primary key actives to truthfully assist with firming up your skin and substantially diminishing fine lines and blemishes.
You have to on the other hand be a pragmatist in acknowledging that there are limits to what the most effective products can carry out by themselves. The reality is you need more than solely a topical skincare strategy in your anti aging efforts. A three part, ‘inside-out’ anti aging skin care system is what you need for the most successful results.
Logically, you want to see which products will perform the best. Therefore, you must be aware of what causes your skin to get older. There are 3 core|essential[/spin] causes and any anti aging skin care treatments whose formula does not contain ingredients which tackle ALL THREE is not worth your money.
It’s crucial you understand that these three ‘aging’ causes are co-dependent! You must deal with all of them at once or your anti aging efforts will let you down. The best skin products include specific ingredients which can handle ALL THREE and that’s the benchmark you should look for!
In this article I will concentrate on one of these three cause of skin aging – The oxidative damage from Free Radicals! Understanding and limiting the actions of free radicals is critical for maintaining healthy, clear and firm skin as you age.
Free radicals play an essential role in a healthy human body! But here’s the catch, they are unstable molecules. Therefore your body tries to balance this problem. An unstable free radical swipes an electron from a neighboring (stable) molecule to become stable itself. But the molecule which lost an electron becomes a new free radical. Free Radicals can attack DNA, leading to dysfunction, mutation, cancer and create the conditions for the onset of debilitating degenerative diseases.
The Impact Of Free Radicals On Your Skin
The key to young looking skin is to maintain high levels of healthy collagen. But free-radical attacks on your collagen result in cross-linking of protein molecules which leads to stiffness in your tissue. As a result your skin begins to lose it’s suppleness and tautness. Since collagen stays in your skin for many years and the production of free radical attacks is constant and unpreventable, the damage to your skin is cumulative!
Your only solution is to control the production of your free radical ‘population’. Anti-oxidants allow you to do this. Anti-oxidants ‘give up’ a spare electron to a free radical thereby eradicating it. So, clearly we need to take a substantial quantity of antioxidants into our bodies!
But anti-oxidants are not all the same. Some are strong while others are much weaker. To be radically more victorious with your anti aging efforts you should prioritize the most powerful antioxidants into your daily diet. The well known vitamin antioxidants, like Vitamin C and A, are quite weak (and cheap). Vitamin E is a well recognized exception – a powerful antioxidant and essential to skin health. Clinical study identifies the following antioxidants as the most powerful ones:
L-Glutathione
CoQ10
Grape Seed
Green tea
Alpha Lipoic acid
Gingko Biloba
Lutein
Bilberry
But ‘modern living’ creates a catch! Some (and in many cases ‘most’) of these leading antioxidants are not present or exist in totally inadequate quantities in our everyday diets. That’s why 21st century diets require ‘help’ from a multi nutrient, nutritional health supplement. The most effective health supplement formulas hold ALL of these powerful antioxidants and much more. The kind of nutritional health supplement you use makes a vast difference in the results you’ll get. If your budget allows you should use science-based, PREMIUM GRADE health nutritional supplements.
Let’s look at this in relation to your skin. What it means is that one of your most important benchmarks is the inclusion of these super strong antioxidants in anti aging skin care formulas. This represents one of the biggest points of difference between the most effective anti aging skin care treatments and the runners up (which you obviously need to avoid). The antioxidants from our list above which are used in anti aging skin care products are:
CoQ10
Grape Seed
Green Tea
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Lutein
Your Critical Anti Aging Skin Care Criteria
Before buying you need to check on three decisive factors: Safety, Effectiveness and Cost. If you pay a visit to my website skincare-antiaging-secrets you’ll learn all you need to understand about the safety of skin care products.
For ‘effectiveness’ you categorically must make certain a product contains ingredients to address all three primary causes of skin aging. With the list above you already are aware of the names of the most effective ingredients for the free radical cause of skin aging. In my next two articles I’ll tell you the leading ingredients for the two other causes.
And of course PRICE and VALUE FOR MONEY must be added into skin care product evaluations.
Elite big brand name anti aging facial skin care creams have shockingly over the top price tags. Their purchase price is not set according to the expense of production (as they should be) but instead at the uppermost level the market will accept (based on a misleading perception which has been nurtured by the big brand name companies over the years).
What is typically the situation is that the more expensive a product is, the really effective ingredients are incorporated in tiny doses. This is because elite brands are manufactured to an established price. Accumulating the enormous costs associated with their marketing and supply methods, as well as shareholder pressure, these companies simply cannot afford to formulate highly effective formulas.
Over time these famous brand name companies have strategically educated consumers into believing that the more pricey a skin care product is, the more effective it must be. This is not even close to being true!
Thankfully, there are some committed skin care manufacturers, (they’re always smaller companies) producing the markets most effective products by selling direct to the consumer and pricing their products according to the expense of manufacturing them while accepting a reasonable profit.
Use the links in the author resource area underneath and I’ll point you to anti aging skin care treatments which actually work and are presently unmatched in the market.
I was a general manager in a company which manufacturers elite skin care products. I was privy to the science behind anti aging skin care products and since then I’ve evaluated hundreds of these products.
I also know all the industry’s nasty little tricks and well kept secrets! Want to know?