Friday, October 17, 2008

The Anti-Aging Secrets You Must Know For Great Skin In 30 Days

By Samantha E. Ford

Looking younger is the constant goal for many of us ladies - and for many of you men out there. Smooth, glowing, healthy skin looks more attractive and makes us feel great.

For many of us, as we get older, this takes a little work and the application of anti-aging products that give nature and our own natural beauty a little help in the right direction.

Our problem is which products work and which are, to put it mildly, a complete and utter waste of money. How do we know what anti-aging products to use without spending 100's and even 1000's of dollars on trial and error? It's not as if we can just trust the media and cosmetic companies to come clean with us!

What we can and must do is to take a very close look at the ingredients that we are sure are beneficial to the anti-aging process and have a proven, positive influence on our skin care regime. Add to that, and just as importantly, we can and must look at what these products do not contain.

My very first recommendation is that any products we use should be mineral oil free. Mineral oil, a petroleum based product, has been used for decades as a skin hydrating agent. While this sounds like a good thikng for the skin, in fact it is not.

Mineral oil has the ability to clog the skin to keep in water - and as we all know - clogging of the skin is a bad thing that can cause acne. It is widely used for basically s single reason - it is very cheap to extract. I don't recommend its use and I don't recommend any of the low price products that contain it.

Instead of mineral oil we should be using ant-aging products that contain naturally occurring moisturizers such as jojoba, almond, wheat germ as these do not clog the skin and therefore let out those nasty little free-radical agents.

Another ingredient, the vitamin B complex niacin, has been proven to be an effective moisturizing and anti-aging substance that will restores damaged skin cells. Whenever you see this ingredient you can be sure it will have a positive effect on your skin.

Your skin care program must be PH balanced. Whatever type of skin you have, adding acids or alkaline is not beneficial and must be avoided. You must also make sure your products are hypo-allergenic and formulated without the use of dyes and chemical fragrances.

And finally, you will not find everything in just one product. Reducing the effects of aging and keeping your skin in tip-top condition will take several products. There is just no one single product that does it all (don't we wish that were not true). Make sure you use a proven system of skin care with products that match and complement each other. This is the way to get the skin you want and deserve. - 15359

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