Saturday 17 April 2010

Collagen, Hyaluronic Acid And Elastin. 3 Essential Skin Components You Must Replace As You Age

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As you age your skin starts to show the signs of aging, including developing wrinkles, fine lines, crows feet and that dry feel. Why does the skin wrinkle as you age and what can you do about it? Today I want to examine collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin to answer this question.

You've probably heard that one of the best ways to reduce the appearance of aging is to increase skin elasticity. Skin wrinkles are primarily formed by the loss of elasticity as you age, and as you age your skin starts to lose stores of collagen, hyaluronic acid and elastin, 3 extremely components that help make up the elasticity of your skin.

Aging skin forms wrinkles gradually over time. There's a number of factors which cause this including cigarette smoking, excess consumption of alcohol, the gradual development of free radicals, excess exposure to the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight (sun damage), poor diet, low levels of exercise and more.

The results of all these causes is that skin starts to lose 2 essential proteins called collagen and elastin. These are largely responsible for maintaining elasticity and premature wrinkles will result from a premature reduction in elastin and collagen. That's why anti-aging skin care programs make every effort to increase levels of collagen and elastin.

But there's another component that is also important in the reduction of elasticity and that will also cause wrinkles with age. It's called hyaluronic acid.

Japanese women are renowned for looking great right into older age. Studies have shown that one of the major reasons for this is that hyaluronic acid is found in the Japanese diet in abundance. It helps the skin retain moisture, and loss of moisture as you age is detrimental skin health.

Hyaluronic acid also helps "plump" the skin making it look better and reducing the appearance of lines and wrinkles.

However there is an enzyme in skin called hyaluronidase and this breaks down hyaluronic acid. As it is extremely important you don't want it broken down as you age.

The best anti-aging skin care products work by improving the stores of elastin and collagen in the skin whilst at the same time inhibiting the actions of hyaluronidase thereby improving the stores of hyaluronic acid. Doing both these things together is highly effective at repairing the damage caused by aging.

This is achieved by using a range of ingredients, but in particular one found in Japan, (and eaten by Japanese women), a seaweed called Phytessence Wakame which is highly effective at reducing the effects of hyaluronidase.

Whilst many products will attempt to increase the levels of elastin and collagen in your skin it is relatively unique to find one which increases skin elasticity by increasing elastin and collagen whilst at the same time which also includes ingredients that help limit the effects of hyaluronidase.

In fact the products work so effectively the company that manufactures them is able to offer a money back guarantee, something very rare in the skin care industry.

By Peter Geraldson

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Tuesday 13 April 2010

Best Anti Aging Remedy - How Much Does Wrinkle Cream Cost?

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If you're looking for a good anti aging remedy, then you need to consider using the best wrinkle creams. Such anti aging creams will not only help remove wrinkles & fine lines, they'll actually firm and tone the skin so that you look years younger!

What to Pay for The Best Wrinkle Creams

At first, you should be pay nothing. Only when you know an anti-aging cream is working is when you'd cough up the cash. Does this mean you should go out and steal the best wrinkle creams? No, it simply means you have to look for free trials and risk free offers. With these sort of no risk offers, you can test the wrinkle cream and see if it works before paying a dime.

The price for good anti wrinkle cream can be anywhere from $30 for a month's supply to $180 for a few month's supply. Depending on your budget, you may be inclined to get the super effective cream for the higher price OR you'll have to settle for the lower priced products due to your low cash flow. Either way, don't start forking over your cash until you know the anti wrinkle cream actually works -- you can also verify this by reading over customer reviews.

Where You WON'T Find The Best Wrinkle Creams

Stores and cosmetic shops are completely out of the question. Not only are most of their anti aging creams complete junk, none of them will even come with a money back guarantee or free trial offer. If there is no money back guarantee, it usually means the product stinks to high heaven!

When it comes to finding a good anti aging remedy or the best wrinkle creams, you'd be wise to just stay FAR away from department stores and cosmetic shops.

By Sean Saunders

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Friday 9 April 2010

How to Get Rid of Under Eye Wrinkles and Under Eyebags

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Making positive changes to your daily life -- such as eating better, avoiding excess sunlight, and taking care of your skin -- will in fact help you to get rid of under eye wrinkles as well as eye bags. However, those daily changes will need to be in effect for a LONG, LONG time before you see any improvements whatsoever. That said, the absolute best & fastest way to treat under eye wrinkles and eye bags is by using under eye wrinkle cream.

You might laugh at the notion of a simple cream being able to get rid of eye wrinkles, but it is indeed true. Not only can a quality under eye wrinkle cream restore youth and beauty to the skin around your eyes, it can ensure your eyes remain like that for years & years to come.

Where NOT to Get Quality Under Eye Wrinkle Cream

You're not going to find a good anti wrinkle eye cream in a department store and that's that. You might find cheap moisturizers that promise to remove eye wrinkles and under eye bags, but that's about as accurate as two plus two equaling five. You can't trust them, period.

Another downside to department store eye creams is that none of them will come with a guarantee -- meaning if it doesn't work for your skin, you just wasted your money on a jar of useless goop. Department and cosmetic stores are just not a smart place to shop for anti aging products, plain & simple.

Where to Start Searching

As you probably guessed, the internet is the best place to search for eye creams that can get rid of under eye wrinkles and eye bags. There are dozens & dozens of reliable websites that not only list popular & effective anti wrinkle eye creams, they include customer reviews of those products! If you can't trust other consumers, who then can you trust?

Under eye wrinkle cream is the best, most inexpensive way to treat under eye wrinkles and under eye bags fast. If you don't believe that, well, then you can simply choose NOT to use under eye wrinkle cream to look younger faster -- it's up to you.

By Sean Saunders

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Monday 5 April 2010

Fight The Signs Of Aging In A Natural Way

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Signs of aging are the last thing that anyone wants. People don't worry about getting old, rather they are so much worried about looking old. Due to the increased amount of pollutants that people have to face everyday, the symptoms and signs of aging begin to appear very soon. Nobody wants wrinkles on their face and around the eyes and hence, the sales of anti aging creams and products are on the high now.

Before starting to use anti-wrinkle creams to remove lines and spots on face and around the eyes, you have to investigate the ingredients that are used in these products. It is best to avoid products that contain harmful chemicals claiming to work on your aging signs of aging skin. The product you choose to remove face wrinkle and eye wrinkle should function in a natural way.

For several years, researchers have said that red wine and dark colored fruits have excellent antioxidant properties that can postpone aging process. Resveratrol is that compound that has this property to postpone aging and replenish lost cells. Anti aging skin care product with resveratrol help removes lines in your face and lines around your mouth and eyes. The demand for such product is very high now after news was spread about the miraculous anti-aging properties of resveratrol.

Anti aging skin care product has high concentrations of resveratrol that has been found to diminish age signs and enhance younger looks. Rich antioxidant properties of resveratrol in anti aging product will increase the production of collagen which is required to maintain firmness on your face. Unwanted fat in your face will go away and lines near mouth and eyes will start disappearing as soon as you start using this anti aging product.

Healthy diet and exercise also plays an important role in maintaining healthy skin. Changes in lifestyle can't be ignored. However, these lifestyle good habits won't be able to reduce aging signs. To look younger, your face must look brighter and your body naturally becomes weaker to replenish damaged skin cells as you become old.

Fight the signs of aging in a natural way with products, which include ingredients such as resveratrol, it improve creation of new cells by accelerating your body's natural ability to repair damaged cells and promote new cell growth. Rich antioxidant of resveratrol is sufficient to promote collagen production to firm up the skin.

By Ginlins

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Thursday 1 April 2010

Discover How to Tell If Your Antiaging Skincare is Safe

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Have you been swayed recently into buying a specialized anti aging skincare product? What was it that motivated you into doing it? Was it any of the following?

* Cost

* Packaging

* Agreed with the sales person who painted it the best product since sliced bread

* The marketing campaign that is used to advertise it. i.e. did it have either a gorgeous male or female star as the main face that endorses it?

Whatever your reasons were I bet you didn't ask yourself the following question before you bought your last tube of cream.

This question is the most important one that you should ask yourself before you go purchasing anymore skincare products and it is:

"Is this skincare product safe for me to use?"

This question is overlooked by many of us but it is a vital question that needs to be answered as it relates directly to our health and well being. The answer to the above question can be easily found on the skincare label of the jar or tube.

You're probably saying, "You must be JOKING! - Have you ever tried reading one of those things?"

I understand entirely what you mean. You need a chemistry degree to know what goes into each tiny tube or bottle and that is exactly what the manufactures are hoping for.

If we were to understand what all the ingredients were we would be shocked and wouldn't want to buy anymore anti aging skincare.

But a little simple research soon reveals what some of these ingredients are, if not all of them.

Below is a typical ingredients list on a jar of shop bought anti-aging skin cream:

aqua,

cyclopentasiloxane,

squalane,

glycerin,

behenyl alcohol,

arachidyl clucoside,

cetearyl alcohol,

petrolatum,tocopheryl acetate,

cetearyl glucoside,

aluminum starch octenylsuccinate,

butyrospermum parkii,

C13-14 isoparaffin,

laureth-7 polyacrylamide,

retinyl palmitate,

bht polymethyl methacrylate,

dipalmitoyl hydroxyproline,

avena sativa kernel oil,

ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate,

disodium deta,

sodium hydroxide,

tricaprylyn,

parfum,

2-bromo-2- nitropropane-1,3-diol,

dichloroenzyl alcohol.

arachidyl alchol,

So what does that list of ingredients mean? Let's just look at a couple of them to give you the picture of why my question on safety is so important.

Cyclopentasiloxane - is made from sand and residue that can stay in the body for five years. It helps your skin to feel silky.

C13-14 Isoparaffin - is a gelling agent. It is a mixture of mineral oils derived from petroleum.

Petrolatum is a mineral oil with a jelly like consistency that coats the skin and blocks the pores preventing them from breathing properly.

It also causes bacteria to clog the pores as well as lots of other problems including promoting sun damage, and interfering with the body's own moisturizing mechanism. Basically it can lead to chapping and dry skin.

Another really bad ingredient is Parfum. Artificial aromas can be made up of 300 or more different chemical ingredients. Many of these substances are toxic but there is no regulation that makes skincare manufacturers list what exactly is in each aroma.

If we were presented with a menu that looked like this in a restaurant we would walk out in disgust and refuse to eat it. Yet, and this is the important bit.

Because your skin is porous whatever you massage into it or splash all over it will be partly ingested by it and the components of the mixtures will enter into your blood stream and will be delivered to other major organs.

Over the years the toxicity levels will continue to build up and eventually could lead to skin conditions, allergies and even diseases like cancer.

This particular disease has been found in samples of women's malignant breast tissue where a very popular skincare preservative - parabens was the common factor in each breast sample.

By Karen Graham

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Monday 29 March 2010

Anti Aging Products: Face Products

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Some of the best anti-aging face products are merely those with the richest formula of anti-oxidants as its natural vitamins and minerals which will help repair damaged cell tissue - nothing else.

Free-radicals are what break down the your molecular cell structure in your skin and however healthy your lifestyle, toxins in the air we breath, food we eat and water we drink are difficult to avoid.

Dermatologists now have the same opinion that there are two ways of addressing damaged skin broken down by free-radicals.

The first is a face cream rich in anthocyanins. One of the most powerful fruits recently discovered in South America known as the Acai berry contains the highest ORAC value of any food type tested by scientists and this berry, currently used to treat weight loss due to its fat burning attributes has now been manufactured to treat anti-aging.

A new innovative method which has taken the anti-aging cosmetic market by surprise, this cream offers your skin the ability to rebuild damaged cell tissue which has resulted in sagging, dark rings and dehydration, by up to 80% its original cell structure, thus offering rejuvenating qualities.

The second treatment also described as one of the best anti-aging face products is an ingredient which contains a rich variety of Amino Vitamins.

For centuries in fact amino acid vitamins and minerals have been used to treat anti-aging of the skin in the many forms.

In Thailand the mango stein fruit has been used for generations as part of massage therapies to help rejuvenate fragile skin surrounding your eyes as well as many Allovers recipes from Okinawa obtained from sea fauna to help replenish the skin in the form of a paste.

One of the foremost disadvantages however of Amino Vitamin based face products are that they often fail to make much of an impact unless their Amino content is varied and rich.

If you are considering using Amino mineral and vitamin based anti-oxidants to help replenish your skin then the best anti-aging face products of this type should consist of:

a) An "Anti-Aging Serum" - which contains the 4 powerful anti-oxidants of Vitamin A, C, D and CoQ10.

b) A "Counter Clockwise Eye Cream" - Designed to drastically improve the appearance of fine lines, dark circles and puffiness around the eyes.

c) An "Anti Aging Day Cream" with SPF 18- This is the most concentrated amino formula which comes registered with the prestigious AAD Seal of Approval.

It's very important that in order to help replenish the skin, just some form of mild anti-oxidant won't deliver.

In order to reap the full reimbursement of anti-oxidant based skin care products, those which are considered the best anti-aging face products are those based with an anti-oxidant volume that really "packs a punch".

By Peter Carmichael

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Thursday 25 March 2010

Daily Dose of Turmeric in Anti Aging Supplements

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When it comes to turmeric health benefits and recommended daily amount of intakes, there are several uncertainties. Here you can learn about the possible benefits, side effects and uncertainties about a recommended dosage.

The turmeric spice is one of the plants that were used in Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional practice in India that is still present to this day. Scientific evaluation has shown that the “active” components of the spices are the curcuminoids, most notably curcumin.

Curcuminoids are responsible for the yellowish orange color of the root. Researchers have learned that the compounds responsible for the various colors of plant foods act as antioxidants in the human body. Some of them have other activity, as well.

That brings us to the turmeric health benefits and recommended daily amount. Laboratory testing has concluded that curcumin has chelating, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-arthritic, anti-amyloid, anti-ischemic, anti-coagulant, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic and anti-cancer activity. It all sounds good, but there’s a problem.

As a medicine, it was traditionally used to for stomach ailments, such as ulcers, heartburn, irritable and inflammatory bowel. It was also believed to “strengthen” the liver, which has been supported by some modern studies. All of the other things that are currently being investigated require that curcumin gets to the bloodstream, but it is quickly degraded by stomach acid. Researchers have concluded that high doses, as much as 10 grams or 10,000 mg do not significantly increase the amount of curcumin in the bloodstream.

Researchers refer to this as low bio-availability and it is one of the reasons that the turmeric health benefits and recommended daily amount of intake are uncertain. You might think that a higher dose would be better, but high doses are accompanied by unwanted side effects, including nausea and stomach upset. There are other unwanted side effects that I’ll get to in a moment, but first, let’s look at the answer to bioavailability.

The actual answer is to take a moderate dose, 50-100mg, add an enteric coating to protect it from stomach acid and include other plant compounds that increase its bioavailability. An enteric coating reduces the risk of stomach upset, as well.

Taking any anti-coagulant is accompanied by risk, particularly if the dosage is too high. For example, daily aspirin intake is often recommended for people that have had heart attacks, because of the anti-coagulant effect, but the recommended dose for an adult is about what you would find in baby aspirin.

That’s one reason that there are questions about the turmeric health benefits and recommended daily amount. Anti-coagulants prevent the blood from clotting when there is an injury. Another risk has to do with the chelating activity. Chelating agents help the body rid itself of toxic heavy metals, but can also interfere with iron metabolism, which could cause anemia, in susceptible individuals.

There is no doubt that there are turmeric health benefits and recommended daily amount of intake that does not exceed 50-100mg is safe. Anything higher is risky. The best supplements contain this amount, along with a variety of other plant extracts, as well as basic vitamins and minerals.

By Jack Black

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