Skin Care Products & Articles

If you use skin care products then you’re well aware of all those wondrous anti aging claims. As skin care science continues to progress, 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.

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?

The answer to this sixty four thousand dollar question is this – it’s part reality and part wishful thinking.

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 fantastic and appear improved after you’ve used them BUT sadly when you wash them off the saggy skin, blemishes and hardcore wrinkles are still there – unchanged!

See that I wrote “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 tangibly 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.

The crux of this is that these three causes are co-dependent! You must tackle all of them at the same time or your anti aging efforts will fall short. The best skin products include specialized ingredients which can address ALL THREE!

In this article I will concentrate on one of these three causes of skin aging – The action of Free Radicals! Understanding and combating the actions of free radicals is vital 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 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 answer is to manage 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, clearly we need to take a substantial 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

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 relate this to your skin. As you have almost certainly figured out, what we are looking for is the use of these potent antioxidants in skin care formulas. This is a main point of difference relating to the most effective anti aging skin care treatments and the less effective ones. 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

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 definitely 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 talk about the principal ingredients for the two other causes.

Lastly, you need to examine the critical factor of PRICE and VALUE FOR MONEY.

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 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 Simply Not 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.

Click the links in the author resource area just below and I’ll point you to anti aging skin care treatments which actually work and are currently 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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