Can you answer ??Mrs. Rose??’s question about Anti-Aging?:

I’m petrified of getting wrinkles and saggy skin on my face when I’m older so I have started a savings account for a face lift for the future. How much money will I need in there? I’m 21 now so I probably won’t need it until I’m 35 or 40.

Anti Wrinkle Skin Care

Can you answer Deeyendra’s question about Anti-Aging?:

I am in my mid-twenties, but heard that using anti-aging cream early will help skin resiliancy and help prevent wrinkles from forming until later. I still break out pretty easily, so whatever I use would have to be oil-free and non-comegentic.

Best Anti Aging Cosmetics

Can you answer Smart Ass’s question about Anti-Aging?:

I am looking for the BEST anti-aging system for under eye treatments.. I hear gel is what I need to use since I am only 24 - I will be 25 soon and i am noticing wrinkles and dark spots under my eyes.. I need some tips / advice / recommendations on products that will fix and help prevent this from happening for a long time! Also - what are the pro’s and con’s to these methods.

Anti Aging Product Review

Are you interested in the best skin care available? If so you need to know about collagen skin care treatments. Collagen is one of the most important proteins in our bodies, and in particular in our skin, and collagen replacement as we age is essential. But most collagen treatments don’t actually resupply our skin’s store of collagen.

Collagen is an extremely important protein for our bodies, and our skin, because it is extremely strong and forms fibers, or strands, that help hold us all together. And collagen in our skin helps keep our skin firmer and more elastic, and more supple.

Pinch a piece of your skin and pull and let go and it snaps back into place. It’s collagen that supplies that “snap”. Well at least our skin snaps back into place if we’re young, but as we age that “snap” back reduces.

Why? Because as we age our skin starts to lose it’s essential supply of collagen, and doesn’t produce as much as it did. Gradually our levels of skin collagen reduce, and that is one of the major causes of our wrinkles, lines, crows feet and sagging skin that we seem to be stricken with as we age.

Basically our skin is losing it’s “snap”. It’s losing it’s skin elasticity, and is suffering more and more from the forces of gravity.

So the question is, how do we restore our skin’s supply of collagen as we age? Are there collagen skin care treatments that successfully restore our skin’s collagen supplies? Do collagen treatments work?

The basic answer is that most collagen skin care products don’t restore our skin supply of collagen. Traditional collagen skin care treatments found in most anti aging and skin care products revolve around adding collagen to that bottle of moisturizer or night cream or day cream or whatever cream it is that is promoted as an anti aging cream with collagen. Sadly though, there is no evidence that supplying collagen to the skin can result in the skin increasing it’s supply of collagen, because it is not known if skin collagen can even absorb any more added to the skin.

And it is known that collagen molecules are too big to penetrate the skin anyway, so any applied topically to the skin remains on the surface of the skin, unable to penetrate.

So why would these skin care and anti aging companies put it in those bottles of skin care products if it really doesn’t actually do anything? Because when people see collagen listed on the label they buy the products, and those collagen skin care products you see on the shelves sell like crazy. So it’s in the bottle.

But there is a product that is known to restore skin collagen. It doesn’t do it by adding it to the skin, because that isn’t shown to work. It does it by stimulating the skin to make more of it’s own. If the skin produces it’s own supplies that has to work, because the skin is restoring it’s own stock of collagen itself.

It’s a product called Cynergy TK, and it’s found in the best natural skin care products. It’s very effective, studies have shown visible results within a month. But it’s expensive, so the big brands don’t use it. Why would they when their anti aging products sell like crazy with cheaper ingredients.

But there are small niche skin care companies that make excellent collagen skin care products using Cynergy TK. They can’t possibley compete with the big brands on marketing, because they can’t afford the TV advertising, so they compete on product quality instead. So when they get a new customer they usually get a customer for life.

And their products are cost competitive because they don’t need to factor in the cost of TV advertising. But because they don’t advertise you are unlikely to know their name.

So if you’re looking for effective collagen skin care treatments they do exist, but you need to work a little harder to find them.



Thanks to Peter Wilson for contributing this article to our Anti-Aging blog:

Anti Wrinkle Skin Care

In the recent years fashion and looks have become a billion dollar industry and as expensive life altering procedures become less expensive and more affordable it looks like this trend will continue for many years to come. Everyone is questing for the fountain of youth and apparently it can be found in the field of plastic surgery. They can make your skin look younger, tighter and more youthful for a price. One of the most popular treatments is the skin peel. They consist of everything from light peels like fruit and sugar derived (glycolic) peels and deeper peels like TCA and phenol. These peels can reveal younger skin and rejuvenate your face. Some of them are quite literally even considered to be the fountain of youth in a bottle (like the TCA peel).

There are basically four different kinds of peels and they range from light and superficial peels like glycolic to deeper peels like the TCA peel and phenol peels. We will not discuss phenol peels as they are dangerous and are rarely ever used. The deepest peel doctors use today is the TCA peel, which is the most effective and safest of all the skin peels. The basic function of a chemical skin peel is to loosen bonds between cells in the top most layers of skin through a mild and controlled chemical burn to cause peeling and to reveal more youthful skin from underneath. This process when done regularly can result in a reduction of wrinkles, fine lines, age spots and other symptoms of aging skin. In the case of the TCA peel it is also been proven to be highly effective in the treatment of acne and resultant acne scarring.

The light or superficial peels are generally glycolic and salicylic acid. There are many off shoots of these like fruit acids, the pumpkin peel, etc. Any of these acids that you see available at your local store have a concentration or strength that is so low that it is basically ineffective. For these light peels to have any visual effect at all the concentrations must be in the range of at least 30 percent. Regardless, even when done in a doctors office they must be redone every 2-3 weeks for any lasting effect. And at $100 to $300 per peel it can become expensive quickly.

The salicylic peel is a little different from the rest of these lighter peels as it is oil soluble and the others are water soluble. This gives salicylic the distinct advantage of being able to migrate deeper into oil blocked pores and to help with pimples and very light acne. This is why it has recently been added to some current acne products like Murad. This is why Murad is more effective than Proactiv. The problem is that just like glycolic it must be used at a higher concentration to have lasting and visual effect. Low concentrations and strengths, like in most over the counter acne products, is ineffective in fighting acne. Concentrations of at least 10 percent are recommended by dermatologists.

Then there is the TCA peel. TCA stands for trichloroacetic acid. It is a synthetic acid that has the ability to do everything that all the lighter peels can and more. It can completely kill acne causing bacteria and rid the facial skin of it for good. It can reduce and minimize scarring, tighten the facial skin and rejuvenate the skin. It can treat more skin problems than any other skin peel. From skin blemishes, pigmentation problems, acne, aging skin, and even precancerous and cancerous skin legions. The TCA peel is offered in almost every dermatologist and plastic surgeons office as it is the most effective treatment outside of actual surgery. Its results also last the longest, up to 6 months or more depending on the strength and depth desired or achieved. It has even ben stated in numerous medical journals that the TCA peel is every bit as effective as Accutane, the strongest acne medicine available, without the bad and very serious side effects. The TCA peel normally runs between $300 and $500 per application at your doctors office, but can now be purchased for under $30 for in home use.

Skin peels can be very effective in treating both aging skin and acne and it is obvious that the TCA peel is the best of these.



Thanks to David Maillie for contributing this article to our Anti-Aging blog:

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