Why You Need to Be Careful When You Choose an Anti Aging Skin Care Product

Let's face it, when it comes to anti aging skin care, there are hundreds of products available on the market. It's a huge industry and manufacturers of products know that people, for better or worse, will spend just about any amount of money on making themselves look younger and better.

Which, of course, explains why cosmetic surgery is such a huge industry with billions of dollars spent yearly on it. Well, the anti aging skin cream market is no different.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on these products every single year. The problem is that most of them don't work. They are produced by unscrupulous marketers who are just trying to take advantage of people's desire to look younger.

On the other hand, there are also some really great products on the market as well. This article will give you some tips and pointers on how to choose a good product. So, let's get right into it.

First, you should avoid products with fragrances in it. Many anti aging skin care products will have fragrances in them so that when you apply the cream, you also smell nice. But the problem is that the chemicals in fragrances have toxins in them. Because skin is porous, these toxins enter into your skin and bloodstream and can cause you long term harm.

If you want to use fragrances, stick to a bit of perfume or some bodyspray. This is the better route to go because with an anti aging skin cream product you are topically massaging it into your face and body and, therefore, covering a large surface area. With perfumes and bodyspray, you can smell nice with just one or two short sprays.

Next, avoid any anti aging skin care product that has collagen in the product label. These manufacturers are trying to exploit the general public's ignorance. Here's what we mean. Many people understand that one of the primary reasons our skin starts to age, sag, and get wrinkles, is because the collagen in our skin breaks down. So, it would seem to make perfect sense that if you are using a product that contains collagen you can regain your youthful skin.

This is pure hogwash. Collagen molecules are way too big to penetrate the skin when applied topically. The only type of product that will help is one that contains ingredients that are proven to stimulate your own body to produce more collagen itself. Now, let's discuss why some of these product are not only ineffective, but so expensive.

Manufacturers of most products know that marketing is everything. Which is why most of them spend the vast majority of their budget on marketing the products and not actually on making the best products possible. They know that if they get a model or a well known celebrity to promote the product, people will buy it. They know that if they put the products in beautiful glass jars or really fancy looking tubes, it will be more appealing to the consumer. They know that if they spends hundreds of thousands of dollars buying full page advertisements in magazines or running TV and radio ads, people will buy it.

But all of this costs a fortune. Just think about a celebrity. There is a product, although it's not an anti aging skin cream, made for acne prone skin. The product is called Proactive Solutions . Jessica Simpson is a well known celebrity who endorses this product. Now, how much money do you suppose this company has to pay Jessica Simpson to be the spokesperson for their product?

Most likely MILLIONS of dollars! Now if they have to put up that sort of cash or ongoing royalties to Jessica, that means they have to mark up the price of their product to compensate for this. Which is why I am a firm believer that it's actually the little, unknown companies that represent your best bet when it comes to the best anti aging skin care products.....or, for that matter, any type of so-called vanity product.

These little known companies can keep their product cost lower, and put more money into actually producing a better product, simply because they aren't paying some celebrity millions of dollars to endorse their product. My job as a researcher is to find products produced by companies that are just like this.

In conclusion, find a skin care product that has ingredients proven to stimulate your own body's production of collagen and doesn't spend all of their money on fancy marketing, and you will most likely have a winner.

01 Dec 2008 03:24:45

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