Monday, March 2, 2009

What Is The Best Anti Wrinkle Cream? It Depends On You.

By Jen Hopkins

The US population is getting older, but we Americans remain obsessed with beauty and youth. While many other cultures honor the aged by celebrating their wisdom and endurance, we in the US devalue our elders and continue to, as one country singer so aptly put it, athrow pennies into the fountain of youth.a

Women especially worry about aging and its effects on their outward appearance. While a few lines at the corners of the eyes or some grey hairs at the temple make a man look adistinguished,a women live in fear of laugh lines, wrinkles, and crows feet.

All sorts of options are available to women, from meditation to acupuncture to cosmetic surgery. New outpatient treatments allow patients to visit a doctoras office and have minor surgery all in one day. Sometimes people can even go back to work the same day! However, many of these measures are painful, inconvenient, time-consuming, or expensive. The most popular solution for aging skin is still the oldestiaa good anti-aging cream.

There is something comforting and satisfying about finding the best wrinkle cream and then slathering it on your skin at night. As soon as it sinks in, it feels like it is working. Your skin feels softer instantly. In the morning, your skin is moister and softer, and the extra moisture in the skin helps fill in the fine lines and crows feet, making them less noticeable.

The most difficult part of using wrinkle cream as an anti-aging method is finding a wrinkle cream that works. There are many different things that you need to consider when researching the best wrinkle cream for you. Different wrinkle creams work best for different women, so it's important to treat your skin like an experiment, and take careful notes on what ingredients are in the products that work best for you.

The most essential factor to consider when examining different wrinkle creams is your personal skin type. Dry skin tends to drink in moisture, but oily skin can become irritated if you use heavier lotions or creams on your skin. If your skin is oily, you may need to try a lighter facial moisturizer.

If your skin is sensitive, check your ingredients carefully. Sensitive skin will sometimes react badly to fragrance, color or irritants that commonly appear cosmetics. Be careful, because products can say they are non-irritating, possibly non-comedogenic or even hypo-allergenic and they may still irritate and break out your skin. Every woman is different, and it takes a little bit of trial and error to find the cream that is just right for you.

Price is not a good way to determine whether a product works or not; an inexpensive drugstore product may work better on your skin than something bought at a high-end retailer's cosmetics counter. It all depends on your skin and what works for you. You need to be just as active in taking notice of your skin's reaction to expensive designer cosmetics as you do with drugstore brand products, because you never know how your skin will react. - 16083

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