Can Any Anti Aging Skin Care Formulas Actually Meet Their Product Claims?

If you use skin care products then you're well aware of all those marvelous anti aging claims. As skin care technology continues to progress, those anti aging promises are sounding more and more exciting and offering exactly what we all want! Vanity is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, constantly nurtured by the premium society places on 'appearance'. As a result, people are prepared to pay an arm and a leg in a relentless mission to find that fountain of youth.

Putting aside all the scientific claims and devious marketing spin, there's really just one thing which we all want to know: do any of these products really work to any great degree? Do any truly meet their marketing claims or is it all just pretend - clever illusion?

Well, I'll tell you why it's part reality and part fantasy.

For the largest part of anti aging facial skin care products these claims are pure fantasy. A thorough scrutiny of most skincare formulas bares pitifully tiny concentrations of the vital active ingredient(s).

On the whole they do cause your skin to feel lovely and appear enhanced after you've used them BUT alas when you wash them off the saggy skin, blemishes and hardcore wrinkles are still there - untouched!

Take note of the word "majority" of products? There are a quantity of skin care products available with the vital levels of primary key actives to truthfully assist with firming up your skin and substantially diminishing fine lines and blemishes.

You have to however be a realist in understanding that there are limitations to what the most effective products can achieve by themselves. The reality is you need more than just a topical skincare methodology in your anti aging efforts. A three part, 'inside-out' anti aging skin care system is what you need for the most effective results.

Naturally, you want to identify which products will work the best. So, you must comprehend what causes your skin to age. There are 3 fundamental causes and any anti aging skin care treatments whose formula does not contain ingredients which attend to ALL THREE is not worth your consideration.

It's crucial you understand that these three 'aging' causes are co-dependent! You must deal with all of them at once or your anti aging efforts will let you down. The best skin products include specific ingredients which can handle ALL THREE and that's the benchmark you should look for!

In this article I will address one of these three cause of skin aging - The action of Free Radicals! Understanding and negating the actions of free radicals is essential for maintaining healthy, clear and firm skin as you age.

Free radicals play an essential role in a healthy human body ! But they are unstable molecules. Therefore your body tries to balance this problem. An unstable free radical swipes an electron from a neighboring (stable) molecule to become stable itself. But the molecule which lost an electron becomes a new free radical. Free Radicals can attack DNA, leading to dysfunction, mutation, cancer and create the conditions for the onset of debilitating degenerative diseases.

The Impact Of Free Radicals On Your Skin

The key to young looking skin is to maintain high levels of healthy collagen. But free-radical attacks on your collagen cause cross-linking of protein molecules which lead to stiffness in your tissue. As a result your skin begins to lose it's suppleness and tautness. Since collagen stays in your skin for many years and the manufacture of free radical attacks is nonstop and unavoidable, the damage to your skin is cumulative!

Your only solution is to control the production of your free radical 'population'. Anti-oxidants let you to do this. Anti-oxidants 'give up' a spare electron to a free radical thereby eradicating it. So, obviously we need to take a huge quantity of antioxidants into our bodies!

But anti-oxidants are not all the same. Some are powerful while others are far weaker. To be significantly more victorious with your anti aging efforts you should prioritize the most powerful antioxidants into your daily diet. The well known vitamin antioxidants, like Vitamin C and A, are fairly weak (and cheap). Vitamin E is a well established exception - a powerful antioxidant and essential to skin health. Clinical research identifies the following antioxidants as the most powerful ones:

L-Glutathione

CoQ10

Grape Seed

Green Tea

Lutein

Gingko Biloba

Alpha Lipoic acid

Bilberry

The problem here is that most of these are not there or exist in insufficient quantities in our diets. That's why 21st century nutritional intakes need the 'help' of a multi nutrient, nutritional health supplement. The most effective health supplement formulas include ALL of these powerful antioxidants and a great deal more. The class of nutritional health supplement you use makes a huge difference in the results you'll get. If your budget allows you should use science-based, PREMIUM GRADE health nutritional supplements.

Now, let's relate this to your skin. As you have almost certainly figured out, what we are looking for is the use of these potent antioxidants in skin care formulas. This is a main point of difference relating to the most effective anti aging skin care treatments and the less effective ones. The antioxidants from our list above which are used in anti aging skin care products are:

CoQ10

Grape Seed

Green Tea

Alpha Lipoic Acid

Lutein

Your Critical Anti Aging Skin Care Criteria

Prior to buying you must look into three critical factors: Safety, Effectiveness and Cost. If you visit my website skincare-antiaging-secrets you'll come across everything you need to understand about the safety of skin care products.

For 'effectiveness' you definitely must make certain a product contains ingredients to address all three primary causes of skin aging. With the list above you already are aware of the names of the most effective ingredients for the free radical cause of skin aging. In my next two articles I'll talk about the principal ingredients for the two other causes.

Lastly, you need to examine the critical factor of PRICE and VALUE FOR MONEY.

Elite anti aging facial skin care creams are over-priced and we all know it. They are not priced according to the cost of manufacture (as they should be) but rather at the highest level the market will bear (based on a false perception which has been nurtured by the big brand name companies over the years).

What is usually the case is that the more expensive a product is, the really effective ingredients are included in tiny doses. This is because elite brands are manufactured to a set price. Adding the tremendous costs associated with their marketing and distribution methods, as well as shareholder pressure, these companies simply cannot afford to formulate highly effective formulas.

Over time these famous brand name companies have strategically educated consumers into believing that the more pricey a skin care product is, the more effective it must be. This is INCORRECT!

Thankfully, there are some committed skin care manufacturers, (they're always smaller companies) producing the markets most effective products by selling direct to the consumer and pricing their products according to the expense of manufacturing them while accepting a reasonable profit.

Follow the links in the author resource area underneath and I'll lead you to anti aging skin care treatments which actually work and are presently unmatched in the market.

Why should you trust my recommendation? I was an executive for a skin care product manufacturer. So, I understand the science behind anti aging skin care products and since I foundered my website I've reviewed hundreds of them

I also know all the industry's nasty little tricks and well kept secrets! Want to know?