To What Extent Do Anti Aging Skin Care Products Really Work?
Throughout the massive anti aging industry we can see all those tempting anti aging claims for so-called ’scientifically proven’ breakthrough products.
Putting aside all the scientific claims and devious marketing spin, there’s really just one thing which we all want to know: do any of these products really work to any great degree? Do any truly meet their marketing claims or is it all just pretend - clever illusion?
Well, I’ll tell you why it’s part reality and part hope.
For the best part of anti aging skin care skin products these claims are pure fantasy. A vigilant investigation of most skincare formulas exposes pitifully minute concentrations of the fundamental active ingredient(s).
Generally they do make your skin to feel soft and smooth and give the impression of being 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 however be a realist in acknowledging that there are limits to what the most effective products can do by themselves. The reality is you need more than solely a topical skincare line of attack 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. Accordingly, you must know what causes your skin to deteriorate and age. There are 3 fundamental causes for this and any anti aging skin care treatments whose formula does not contain ingredients which attend to ALL THREE is simply not worth your time or money.
The heart of this is that these three causes are interdependent! You must tackle all of them at the same time or your anti aging efforts will be unsuccessful. The best skin products contain specific ingredients which can handle ALL THREE!
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 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 let you to do this. Anti-oxidants ‘give up’ a spare electron to a free radical thereby eradicating it. So, obviously we need to take a huge quantity of antioxidants into our bodies!
But anti-oxidants are not all on a par. Some are more effective 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 comparatively weak (and cheap). Vitamin E is a well recognized exception - a powerful antioxidant and important to skin health. Clinical study identifies the following list shows the most powerful antioxidants.
L-Glutathione
CoQ10
Grape Seed
Green tea
Gingko Biloba
Gingko Biloba
Alpha Lipoic acid
Bilberry
The challenge we face however is that, generally speaking, these leading antioxidants are simply not present or appear in significantly insufficient quantities in our daily diets. That’s precisely the reason why our modern, 21st century diets absolutely need the ‘help’ of a broad spectrum, multi nutrient nutritional health/vitamin supplement. The markets most efficacious health supplement formulas contain ALL of these powerful antioxidants. The grade of nutritional health supplement you buy makes a terrific difference to your ongoing health and anti aging efforts. If you can afford to use science-based, PREMIUM GRADE health nutritional supplements and improve your regular dietary intake, your health and longevity has a tremendous advantage.
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 Most Important Criteria
Prior to buying you need to check on three essential factors: Safety, Effectiveness and Price. If you visit my website skincare-antiaging-secrets you’ll see all you need to know 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 anti aging facial skin care creams are over-priced. They are not priced according to the cost of manufacture (as they should be) but rather at the maximum 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 usually the case is that the more expensive a product is, the really effective ingredients are included in tiny doses. This is because elite brands are manufactured to a set 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 customers into believing that the more pricey a skin care product is, the more effective it must be. This is Simply Not True!
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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