Shopping Guide and Reviews

Here’s a brief anti aging skin care guide for my readers. It covers things like safe ingredients and hazardous compounds that may be found in anti aging skin care treatment, as well as some lifestyle advice. Let’s get started.

Eat right, drink right and exercise. Sounds like healthcare advice, but eating lots of fruits and vegetables will improve the moisture content of your skin, as well as improving your overall health. Drinking lots of purified water and other healthy fluids will also improve moisture; remember moist equals firm and elastic.

Toning the body tones your skin. There are special neck exercises that reduce sagging. If you aren’t used to exercising, take it slow. Start with light weights and build up. Building a little muscle can go a long way in tightening the skin.

The sun is our friend, but too much exposure causes excessive dryness and wrinkles. The most common advice from any anti aging skin care guide is to use sunscreen. You won’t get that advice from me.

Stay in the shade. Wear a big floppy hat and large sunglasses. Use only broad spectrum “sun-block” with zinc oxide, not sunscreen, on exposed areas when you are in direct sunlight for extended periods of time.

Find an anti aging skin care treatment that contains vitamin B5 and lots of antioxidants. Antioxidants like coenzyme Q10 are quickly depleted when exposed to UV light from the sun. Why? UV radiation increases production of free radical molecules. Radicals cause damage like wrinkles, age spots and cancerous growths.

The most effective anti aging skin care treatment contains lots and lots of different antioxidants to fight free radical damage. The best ones even correct damage that has already occurred.

Something you don’t often see in an anti aging skin care guide is a list of hazardous compounds to avoid. I’m concerned about my overall health, as I’m sure you are, but I’m not about to use anything that can cause the appearance of black bumps all over my face and body. How about you?

Anti aging skin care treatment for lightening dark circles or uneven pigmentation typically contains hydroquinone. In some cases, the ingredient causes the appearance of these little black bumps that never go away. The condition has a long name that I’m not even going to try to include. Just remember to avoid hydroquinone.

Here’s your anti aging skin care guide of compounds to avoid: royal jelly, argireline, petrolatum, mineral oils, paraffin wax, oxybenzone, parabens, and fragrance. I’m sure it’s not a complete list, but this will help a great deal.

Here’s the anti aging skin care treatment to look for: Functional Keratin, Wakame Kelp, coenzyme Q10, natural vitamin E and grape seed oil. There are other beneficial botanical extracts, but with Functional Keratin and Wakame Kelp alone, you will increase skin cell proliferation and elasticity. The other ingredients provide moisture and protection from free radical damage.

That completes my little anti aging skin care guide. I hope it helps you look younger for life.

If you’re looking for an anti aging skin care guide, you are not alone. In today’s world, people are living longer than ever before but they do not want their appearance to reflect their increasing years.

With movie stars and fashion supermodels flaunting flawless skin as role models, it’s no wonder that women and men of all ages are becoming obsessed with youthful looks. But there is a bewildering array of anti aging skin care treatments on the market many of them promoted by those very same supermodels.

The problem is knowing where to start in your quest for a skin care product that will work for you. Let me be your anti aging skin care guide and give you some hints and tips on the things to look out for.

Check the list of ingredients. Many skin care products include a long list of ingredients on the label, but not all are good for your skin. In particular watch out for:

Mineral oil, also known as liquid paraffin or paraffin wax. This tends to clog the pores of your skin thus preventing its natural ability to eliminate toxins. Prolonged use can encourage the very thing it is supposed to stop.

Dioxane. This substance is often found in skin care products and is readily absorbed by the skin. Unfortunately it is known to be carcinogenic.

Parabens. These are found in many skin care products. They act as a preservative to prolong the shelf life which would be a good thing except for the fact that parabens may cause cancer.

Alcohols. Several different types of alcohol are used in skin care products. Not all are harmful, but some cause dryness and irritation.

Fragrances. Because fragrances are produced from materials that are known to be toxic it is best to avoid products which contain them. Whilst a dab of perfume or some bodyspray are entirely harmless, use of these ingredients over a large area of skin is another matter.

So those are the substances to avoid, but what about the beneficial ingredients that you should look for? Well, here are three: Phytessence Wakame, Cynergy TK and Coenzyme Q10 (or CoQ10).

While all three work in different ways, the net effect is to promote the growth of collagen and elastin which are the proteins that provide firmness and flexibility to your skin. It is the depletion of these proteins that allows the skin to slacken and form lines and wrinkles.

You may find products that list collagen as one of their ingredients, but unfortunately this is no use because applied externally collagen provides no benefit.

I hope that this anti aging skin care guide has given you some pointers to the way you can distinguish between the myriad of creams and lotions in the marketplace. Look beyond the advertising hype and check the ingredients with care before choosing the products for your anti aging skin care treatment.