A fine line between…the facts about small wrinkles

 

 Most anti-ageing creams are more hype than substance, but there are a number of oils that have been proven over hundreds of years to help greatly in reducing and preventing wrinkles. Flick through any women’s or men’s magazine and you will see dozens of full page, glossy advertisements for the latest "wonder cream". The advertisement will boast that the cream contains some new, miracle ingredient (often with a scientific-sounding name) whose rejuvenating properties can be yours – for a price. In most cases, you are being asked to part with your money, and it can be a substantial amount of money, on nothing more than hype and hope.

There are literally hundreds of supposedly anti-ageing creams to choose from, all claiming to be the one you need, so how can you be sure that those special ingredients do what they actually say they do and the cream is worth the money?  Well simply, you can’t, unless you spend weeks, even years and an awful lot of money testing every single one for yourself or doing extensive research into the advertisements claims and product ingredients.

One way to avoid all that time and expense is to opt for a product that contains ingredients that have been used for hundreds of years to help keep the skin soft and youthful.  So, why should you do this? The main reason is that generation after generation has recorded down their beneficial effects. They have done all the hard work, the results are proven and if these ingredients didn’t work, people would not have kept on using them.

So what should you be looking for in an anti-ageing cream or lotion that has at least a chance of working?

For a start you are going to have to avoid 99.9% of all the creams you can buy at your chemist or beautician, namely, the mass market products. Why? Because, more often than not, the major ingredients in these products are water and mineral oil. But you won’t find them listed as such on the product, but you might see a listing showing aqua and liquidium pariffinium.

There’s no doubt that these creams do have a moisturising effect. They hold the water against your skin, which stops it drying out so quickly, but that’s all they tend to do. The mineral oil fails to actually penetrate the epidermis and penetrate deeply into the lower, supporting layer (dermis) where it can actually help. Any rejuvenating effects you may have noticed using these kinds of cream is probably due to the effects of massaging the skin. This alone promotes improved circulation to your skin, rather than the cream itself.

So, having dismissed most of the mass market products, we need to look for a natural substance that, not only has been proven over the years to help keep the skin looking younger for longer, but one that has been proven to actually penetrate the skin more deeply.

And this is what we will be looking at in the next article.

See ya…

 

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