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How To Determine If You Have Found A Good Anti Wrinkle Cream?

By Einar Eskeland


The perfect anti aging anti wrinkle skin care product,- does it exist?

Thousands and even millions of dollars are used every day on cosmetics, anti wrinkle creams and skin care products in general. The demand is astronomical.

Much of what is bought ends up in the garbage though, or the buyer has to give the product to someone else, because he or she develops allergies or other adverse effects from using it. This is more common than anyone likes to think.

How could you find a perfect anti wrinkle skin care cream? Which criteria would you use, and what would that type of cream look like? What would have been the characteristics of the perfect anti aging anti wrinkle cream if you happened to find it?

As a medical doctor, I have given it some thought and in my perspective it looks like this:

1. A cream should ideally consist of healthy constituents only.
One should actually not put something on the skin that one cannot ingest through the mouth.

What you wouldn't eat you shouldn't put on your skin!

Why?

The skin has absorbent abilities that is far beyond what most people know, and in the medical science, this is utilized and exploited more and more. By applying medicines to the skin, one actually needs less of the substances, because the skin absorbs so well, and because the blood doesn't go directly to the liver which detoxes the blood or inactivates some or all of the substances in the medicines. It goes all around in the body without being processed first. When you eat something, every little bit of nutrition that is absorbed from the intestines go to the liver, and is thereby made agreeable and useful to the body through many chemical processes, or if toxic or useless, is neutralized and excreted. This is to protect the body against harmful elements and burdens. When applying something to the skin on the other hand, the elements go directly to the systemic circulation. Whatever is absorbed goes right to the entire body, without going to the liver first for processing.

This makes it more important to consider carefully what one puts on the skin than what one eats. Putting on toxic substances is to ask for trouble.

2. The elements in the cream should be all natural. It seems that natural substances are more agreeable to the body than synthetic, non-physiological substances. The substances should, if they are synthetic, be exact replicas of natural substances. They may also be extracted from natural sources. This way many allergic reactions and sensitizations can be avoided. Many people are allergic to all cosmetics and creams due to the synthetic, non-physiological contents and chemicals in them. Many people drop all skin care for this reason. They simply cannot use it because they fall ill or get adverse effects on the skin. Not only are there allergic reactions, but many people experience flu like symptoms after having had a facial or having had a consultation with a cosmetologist. One may think one has contracted a virus, but guess what.... you may have reacted to a toxic substance in the products that have been applied to your skin. The cosmetologists don't always learn about this, because the unhappy victim doesn't understand the connection between the products and the symptoms. Anyone may get a flu when out among lots of other people, right!?

As a doctor I happen to see some of those cases, and I feel sorry for innocent people who strive to bring out the best of themselves, and end up poisoned, and don't even understand the connection.

They may even end up with their bag full of products that are actually unhealthy for them.

3. All the elements should be active and essential, important constituents of the cream. It should contain no extra, inert base or substance. Many chemicals burden the body unnecessarily, unless they are positively healthy. Avoid anything that is unhealthy, toxic or unnecessary. The elements in the cream should be active and essential for the effects. No extra burden on the body is wanted, and unnecessary constituents should simply be left out. Ingredients that are put in the product without reference to the effects and the health of the skin and the body is not acceptable.

4. The cream should be normalizing all skin types; the oily, the dry, the sensitive and the normal, and even to the oily dry skin type. This would show that the cream is well designed and for general use, and not some sort of specialized medicine that is to be taken only by those with sick or unbalanced skin. It should moisture the dry skin, it should even out too much greasiness or oiliness of the skin, soothe the sensitive skin, stabilize the normal skin and balance the dryness and oiliness of the dry oily skin type.

5. The perfect cream should have medicinal properties, so that one could experience unforeseen positive side effects, like getting rid of minor skin blemishes, moles, acnes and exzematous changes etc etc. Here you find the extra bonus that your purchase involves. Expect good things, and if you don't get to experience those bonuses, move on to another product.

6. All aspects of the aging process should be addressed: The increased cross-linking in the collagen in the sub-cutanous tissue and the tissue just below the basal membrane, the reduced elasticity of the elastine deep in the skin, the reduction of skin thickness both below the Dermal Epidermal Junction and above it, and the water content of the skin should be restored. Old skin is to normal skin what the raisin is to the grape. The difference is the water content. This is of course an oversimplification with regard to the skin, but the importance of the water content should not be underestimated.

7. The cream should not be too expensive. This is self explanatory. It needs some explanation nevertheless. What should one accept to pay for a cream or an anti aging skin product? To use 150-200$ a month in the beginning, and a little less later on should be acceptable, but very many creams are far beyond this price. Paying more is to pay for the label, the name of the company, the wrapping etc. It ads nothing valuable to the cream or to you. Some are priced lower. That may mean lower quality, but not necessarily. If you are lucky to find one such cream with low price and that satisfies all quality criteria, then please make it known to the world!

8. The cream should be easy to apply to the skin, be nice smelling and fresh, and leave least possible residue after it has been applied to the skin. This has a twofold significance: 1) The skin should be free from greasiness or remnants of the cream a short while after application. 2) The contents of the cream should be absorbed easily into the deeper levels of the skin and all the cells in all the different levels of the skin, meaning that the ingredients should be very bio-available to the cells, and not remain on the dead surface layer of the skin, the keratinic layer. If they remain there they are actually useless. They must be absorbed, at least to a certain degree. So 1) no residue on the skin, and 2) good absorbability is absolutely essential.

9. From what we know about illnesses and aging processes today, we can safely say that the cream should contain high concentrations of antioxidants that are bio-available to the cells.

Illnesses are the expressions of increased, pathological aging in different areas of the body, and aging is more and more viewed as a result of the cumulative effects of oxidative stress. To counteract the aging process, antioxidants are absolutely essential. Without them, one will be dependant on hormones or hazardous elements, or less effective (read useless) substances.

Antioxidants are generally healthy and therefore desirable in creams. They have the scope of stopping or even reversing the biological aging processes by promoting healthy conditions, and without causing harm.

10. Also avoid all creams that offer you ONE ACTIVE INGREDIENT. Oooops,- there most of the creams available dropped to the ground! Did you hear the sound of these useless creams as they rushed out of our sphere of interest? These creams are made for your exploitation. They may create some effects, but you are throwing money out the window. Many companies (that includes most of the very famous ones) base their products and reputation on such strategies.

That way, they keep customers busy with trifles for years and years, and earn big bucks without offering you what you search for. They can produce a new cream every year without running out of good ideas. For example, ascorbic acid, known as vitamin C is an active substance, an antioxidant that may come from natural sources, or from a chemical laboratory. The burden of this substance is zero. The effect is positive, among other things on the collagen in the deeper layers of the skin. The same is true for all the other vitamins, anti-oxidants, many essential oils, many plant oils etc etc, and even some substances of animal origins, like Co-Enzyme-Q10 or ubiquinone, L-carnosine, collagen and hyaluronic acid. But basing a whole product on only one such substance is not acceptable and it is not in your interest to buy any of those.

Buy a cream that is full of active substances (it should be VERY GENEROUS!); 10, 20, even 30 ACTIVE SUBSTANCES. And we are not advocating homeopathic doses here! The ingredients should be available in substantial amounts and concentrations!

Is anything available that satisfies all these criteria? Well, not many in my experience. There has appeared one clear winner though, one that satisfies all the criteria, and even criteria that have not been mentioned so far.

11. The cream should have antimicrobial properties, strong enough to help cure minor skin infections of all sorts. Very many substances have antimicrobial properties, like tamanu oil, essential oils, hyaluronic acid, many herbs and many other substances, so being without it means that the cream is of lesser quality.

The 12.th criterion is the efficiency of the cream as an anti aging, anti wrinkle agent.

It must be efficient in helping the user reach the goal of reversing the signs of aging when using the cream regularly.

I know I am harsh on most companies and most products, but when the ideal is possible for a reasonable price, why buy anything less than optimal for your skin?

My hope is that these lines enable you to navigate better in the ocean of cosmetic, anti aging anti wrinkle products, and to find THE CREAM for your aging skin.
http://www.naturalskinrepair.com/rejuvion.html or http://www.rejuvion-skin-care.com

My name is Einar Eskeland. I am a Norwegian medical doctor, and a yoga and meditation enthusiast since youth. I promote several high quality resources in the health area and for self improvement, evolution and growth as a part of my practice as a doctor, and as a help for my patients in their struggle to regain health and balance.
http://www.naturalskinrepair.com/rejuvion.html

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