Anti aging products and skin care products is a massive industry. Millions or even billions of dollars are spent every year by women who are looking for anti aging skin care treatments that will keep their skin healthy and looking younger. And there are plenty of big companies in the anti aging and cosmetics industry just waiting to take advantage.
But many mainstream anti aging skin care products just don't work. The cosmetics and skin care industry is quite unregulated in the US, and so the big cosmetics and skin care companies can put any product on the market without first proving that it works, and even without showing that it is safe for the people who use it.
As a result there are many anti aging skin care treatments available that don't work, and contain suspect, or known to be dangerous ingredients.
But despite this they sell huge amounts of these products that advertise their ability to make you look younger. Everywhere you look you see products telling you they will make you younger and look great.
So how do you navigate through all the hype and choose a range of anti aging skin care treatments that actually work, and don't contain dangerous ingredients?
Here's how not to choose a good anti aging product.
1. Don't buy any skin care products that include fragrances in them. Now of course everyone likes to smell good, and the cosmetics companies pander to that, by adding fragrances to their products. Apply the cream and smell good and look young all at the same time.
Unfortunately there's 2 problems here. First the skin care cream or other anti-aging cream that you've bought probably won't do much to make you look younger.
And second, fragrances are just chemicals and not really all that good for you. It's the same with perfumes, but you just dab a little perfume here and there, you don't apply it to a wide area like you do with, say, a moisturizer.
2. Don't buy anti aging skin care creams with collagen in them. Now we all know that as we age our skin loses collagen, so surely we need collagen replaced to combat the sagging and wrinkling and lines that come with skin aging?
Yes and no. Yes we need to replace that lost collagen, and no adding it to the bottles of anti-aging products like those moisturizers and day creams and night creams and so on doesn't work. It doesn't work because collagen molecules are too large to penetrate the skin, and so it just stays on the surface.
The only way to increase the levels of collagen in our skin is to stimulate the skin to make more collagen itself.
So if putting the collagen in the bottle does nothing why is it in the bottle and why are those big name celebrities on TV telling you how well it works? Because they know there's lots of money to be made. That having collagen in the bottles sells lots of bottles.
Even if it doesn't do anything for you. Even if it's got suspect ingredients. It will sell.
That's marketing for you.
But there is a problem. It costs megabucks to pay that celebrity to go on TV and tell you how great the products are, and those fancy bottles cost a lot.
So the anti aging skin care treatment that really doesn't do much costs a bomb too. But that's ok because people believe that if it's expensive it must be good. So they pay anyway.
And there's lots more things to avoid when choosing a good anti-aging skin care treatment. That's 2, for more visit my website.
Does all this mean that you should give up on anti aging creams and products because they don't work? Not at all. There are excellent anti aging products that work fine, produced from ingredients from plants that are safe to use.
But they are produced by small niche companies that you've probably never heard of, who quietly produce high quality products at reasonable prices because they don't pay the good looking celebrities and spend up big on TV advertising. That's why you've never heard of them. If they started doing that their products would cost a bomb too.
But there's no need to despair. I've told you about some of the things you need to avoid when buying anti-aging skin care products. And that there are excellent alternatives. Now it's up to you. Find out more about natural skin care products on my website. - 30292
But many mainstream anti aging skin care products just don't work. The cosmetics and skin care industry is quite unregulated in the US, and so the big cosmetics and skin care companies can put any product on the market without first proving that it works, and even without showing that it is safe for the people who use it.
As a result there are many anti aging skin care treatments available that don't work, and contain suspect, or known to be dangerous ingredients.
But despite this they sell huge amounts of these products that advertise their ability to make you look younger. Everywhere you look you see products telling you they will make you younger and look great.
So how do you navigate through all the hype and choose a range of anti aging skin care treatments that actually work, and don't contain dangerous ingredients?
Here's how not to choose a good anti aging product.
1. Don't buy any skin care products that include fragrances in them. Now of course everyone likes to smell good, and the cosmetics companies pander to that, by adding fragrances to their products. Apply the cream and smell good and look young all at the same time.
Unfortunately there's 2 problems here. First the skin care cream or other anti-aging cream that you've bought probably won't do much to make you look younger.
And second, fragrances are just chemicals and not really all that good for you. It's the same with perfumes, but you just dab a little perfume here and there, you don't apply it to a wide area like you do with, say, a moisturizer.
2. Don't buy anti aging skin care creams with collagen in them. Now we all know that as we age our skin loses collagen, so surely we need collagen replaced to combat the sagging and wrinkling and lines that come with skin aging?
Yes and no. Yes we need to replace that lost collagen, and no adding it to the bottles of anti-aging products like those moisturizers and day creams and night creams and so on doesn't work. It doesn't work because collagen molecules are too large to penetrate the skin, and so it just stays on the surface.
The only way to increase the levels of collagen in our skin is to stimulate the skin to make more collagen itself.
So if putting the collagen in the bottle does nothing why is it in the bottle and why are those big name celebrities on TV telling you how well it works? Because they know there's lots of money to be made. That having collagen in the bottles sells lots of bottles.
Even if it doesn't do anything for you. Even if it's got suspect ingredients. It will sell.
That's marketing for you.
But there is a problem. It costs megabucks to pay that celebrity to go on TV and tell you how great the products are, and those fancy bottles cost a lot.
So the anti aging skin care treatment that really doesn't do much costs a bomb too. But that's ok because people believe that if it's expensive it must be good. So they pay anyway.
And there's lots more things to avoid when choosing a good anti-aging skin care treatment. That's 2, for more visit my website.
Does all this mean that you should give up on anti aging creams and products because they don't work? Not at all. There are excellent anti aging products that work fine, produced from ingredients from plants that are safe to use.
But they are produced by small niche companies that you've probably never heard of, who quietly produce high quality products at reasonable prices because they don't pay the good looking celebrities and spend up big on TV advertising. That's why you've never heard of them. If they started doing that their products would cost a bomb too.
But there's no need to despair. I've told you about some of the things you need to avoid when buying anti-aging skin care products. And that there are excellent alternatives. Now it's up to you. Find out more about natural skin care products on my website. - 30292
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