Anti-aging Anti wrinkle cream

Anti-aging skin care includes Anti wrinkle cream. Although Botox treatments many be all the rage for celebrities....and you many even have a friend or two who has undergone the procedure, there are non-invasive alternatives that are far less expensive. First. let's review those creases come in the first place. . .

There are several different reasons why you develop those wrinkles as you grow older.

1. Your body does not make as much collagen as it did when you were young. Collagen is partof your second layer of skin, called the demis. Collagen is what gives strength firmness to your skin so when you have less collagen, your skin can sag a bit. The result is many small wrinkles.
2. Some of us have sharp creases or wrinkles in our faces. It could be a firm line between the eyebrowsor parallel lines across the forehead. These come from our muscles being in habitual contraction. If I frown a lot raise my eyebrows a lot or squint my eyes the affected muscles will eventually be in 'habitual contraction.'The resultis an deep line on my face.

   One of the reasons why Botox injections are used for these kinds of wrinkles is that Botox paralyzes the muscle - so it can not contract.....until the injection wears off in a few months and the line appears onceagain.

What can you do ?

• Creams that hydrate your skin with natural oils often hide or reverse fine lines right away.
• Other Anti wrinkle cream formulas contain antioxidants. These not only protect skin cells from damage of free radicals but they stimulate the skins production of collagen. A study published in Pharm Dev. Technology in 2006 noted that Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is one of these moisturizing and Anti-aging active ingredients.
• Other Anti wrinkle creams contain Acetyl Hexapeptide 3 (also known as Argireline ). This is an amino-peptide developed specifically to reduce frown lines and crow's feet caused by contractedmuscles. Argireline has a muscle relaxing effect. In 2002 the International Journal of cosmetic Science published an article that noted that Acetyl Hexapeptide 3 effectively reduced wrinkle depth up to 30% after just 30 days of treatment

The key to any and all Anti-aging Anti wrinkle cream treatment is using the product....rather than its cost.I know that is not what the ads say. But a study done in Sweden published in 2007 gave some remarkable results.

In this study women age 35 - 64 participated. One group of women were given a high-priced luxurious anti-wrinkle cream in its original packaging. the second group was given the same cream in a neutral package. The third group was given an ordinary Anti-aging cream but it was put in the samepackaging as the very expensive cream.

Evaluation was made by the subjects, by a cliniacal trained observer, and measurement of skin surface relief by optical profilometry.

RESULTS: Those using jars the cream in the luxury jars consumed more product than participants using the neutral, ordinary jar.

There were no significant differences between the three groups relating to the effects on wrinkles and smoothness, nor in the women's assessment of their skin feeling younger or more beautiful. Facial appearance was the same. Profilometry showed reduced surface microrelief with all products. The scientists concluded that all the Anti-wrinkle creams did the job adequately.

When you are buying a product, pick something that YOU like...and that you will use regularly.

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