Skin Care

Friday, 7 November 2008

What is the Highest Rated Wrinkle Cream?

If you're anything like me, you probably personally know many people who buy wrinkle cream. As we age, we may not feel old on the inside, but on the outside it starts to show up: some sagging here, lines and wrinkles there, some age spots on the sides of the face, our skin's texture becoming less smooth.

Millions are spent each year in the pursuit of turning back the hands of time.

This article is going to discuss the notion of the highest rated wrinkle cream.

First, who is doing the rating?

Personally, I use a product that I would give the highest rating, but that's because I've done my due diligence.

But other than a subjective rating, you have to wonder who is doing the rating. Is it a celebrity who is lending their face and name to a product and collecting millions in royalties for it? Perhaps they don't even use the product!

If you want to buy wrinkle cream, my humble suggestion would be to forget about trying to find any so-called highest rated wrinkle cream and just focus on what works and what doesn't work.

Let's start with what doesn't work. Unfortunately, there is a big scam going on right now with wrinkle creams. I know that's a harsh phrase, but here's what I mean by it.

A lot of products contain collagen and elastin. For those who don't know, collagen and elastin are two extremely important skin proteins. In fact, these two are primarily responsible for our nice skin when we are younger: supple, smooth, elastic skin with nice tone and texture.

As these proteins become more scarce as we age, our skin then suffers all of the problems associated with aging skin: it becomes more dry, more uneven, more lined, and the skin itself actually gets thinner, which is why sagging develops.

Now, you may be wondering what's the problem. Well, it's certainly not collagen and elastin itself. The problem is that these two proteins are absolutely worthless when they are applied to the skin directly as they are in a wrinkle cream.

They cannot penetrate into the skin.

When it comes to wrinkle creams, the only useful ones are products that helps your own body produce more of collagen and elastin, which is very different than acturally rubbing them in the skin directly.

Collagen and elastin are very complex structural proteins. Even if you could somehow magically rub them into your skin, there's no way they would be able to assimilate themselves into the complex structure that exists.

So, whatever you do, make sure you avoid these products, which in my opinion are scams.

Instead spend your time, as I do, on researching natural substances that have been clinically tested with human volunteers. I'm talking studies that show certain ingredients that help your body stimulate more production of collagen and elastin naturally, of course.

Or ingredients that have been shown to boost the actual regrowth of entirely new skin cells.

Or ingredients that been shown to dramatically increase skin elasticity or skin hydration (moisture) retention.

I now use products like this daily but I had to do my due diligence first. So, forget about just hoping some overpaid celebrity is going to tell you what the highest rated wrinkle cream is. Find out for yourself.


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