Skin Care And Anti Aging – What’s Really Possible?
No matter where you look in the anti aging skin care market you can’t help but see all those fantastic claims from all kinds of ‘new breakthrough’ facial skin care formulas.
While all these wondrous products offer us exactly what we most desire, 21st century consumers have long since woken up to the reality of the half truths and mis-leading scientific ‘facts’ in the marketing literature for these fountain of youth products. Naturally then the thing that’s uppermost on our minds as we depart with huge amounts of cash is simply, do any of these products completely meet their marketing claims?
Well, I’ll tell you why it’s part reality and part dream.
For the best part of anti aging skin care skin products these claims are pure fantasy. A careful investigation of most skincare formulas divulges pitifully tiny concentrations of the fundamental 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!
Notice I wrote “majority” of products? There are a quantity of skin care products available with the needed levels of principal key actives to actually assist with firming up your skin and substantially lessening fine lines and blemishes.
But you must be a realist however in accepting that there are limits to what the most effective products can achieve by themselves. With this in mind you need more than a topical skincare line of attack in your anti aging efforts. A three part, ‘inside-out’ anti aging skin care system will give you 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 address one of these three cause of skin aging – The action of Free Radicals! Understanding and reducing the actions of free radicals is imperative for maintaining healthy, clear and firm skin as you age.
Free radicals play an central role in a healthy human body ! But they are unstable molecules. Therefore your body attempts to balance this problem. An unstable free radical grabs an electron from a adjacent (stable) molecule to become stable itself. But the molecule which lost an electron becomes a brand new free radical. Free Radicals can damage DNA, leading to dysfunction, mutation, cancer and establish 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 cause cross-linking of protein molecules which lead 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 manufacture of free radical attacks is nonstop and unavoidable, the damage to your skin is cumulative!
Your only response 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 large amount of antioxidants into our bodies!
But anti-oxidants are not all equal. Some are powerful while others are considerably 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 established exception – a potent antioxidant and important to skin health. Clinical study identifies the following antioxidants as the most powerful ones:
L-Glutathione
CoQ10
Grape Seed
Green Tea
Alpha Lipoic acid
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Alpha Lipoic acid
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.
Now, let’s connect this to your skin. As you have probably guessed, what we are searching for is the inclusion of these strong antioxidants in skin care creams. This is a important point of difference concerning the most effective anti aging skin care treatments and the ones you shouldn’t waste money on. 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 Key Criteria Checklist Before You Buy
Prior to buying you must investigate three decisive factors: Safety, Effectiveness and Cost. If you pay a visit to my website skincare-antiaging-secrets you’ll see[/spin] 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.
Lastly, you need to examine the critical factor of PRICE and VALUE FOR MONEY.
Elite anti aging facial skin care creams are over-priced and we all know it. They are not priced according to the cost of manufacture (as they should be) but rather at the highest level the market will bear (based on a false perception which has been nurtured by the big brand name companies over the years).
What is typically the case is that the more costly a product is, then the really effective ingredients are included in tiny doses. This is because elite brands are manufactured to prearranged price. Adding the tremendous costs associated with their marketing and distribution 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 INCORRECT!
Thankfully, there are some reputable and quality focused skin care manufacturers, (always the smaller medium sized companies) producing the markets most effective products by selling direct to the consumer and pricing their products according to the cost of manufacturing them while accepting a fair 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 know what the manufacturers don’t want you to know!
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