Fit and Youthful Life

Guest Author: Elizabeth Ruby


You will without a doubt encounter a huge variety of products when searching for the best anti-aging skin care creams. Many manufactures will claim that their anti-aging skin cream can do what no other product can do. How do you know what and what not to believe?

Many of these company representatives haven’t got a clue as to if the product actually works or not. It’s not his job to know, because he is nothing more than a ‘propaganda man’. He gets paid by convincing people to buy based on the belief that he has the best anti-aging skin creams ever created.

You don’t need a sales pitch; you need factual scientific data in order to have the necessary information to compare the different products out there. Has the anti-aging skin cream been clinically tested is a question you should ask, and if so where are the results of these tests?

Also never buy a cosmetic product through a magazine or from television. Of course the ad or the celebrity spokesperson will happily tell you about all of the natural ingredients that make theirs the absolute best anti-aging skin creams available.

What they won’t tell you is that the ad you’re currently looking at was paid for by money the company saved by using all of the expense cutting chemical additives they lace their anti-aging skin creams with. Many of these chemicals could possibly harm or irritate your skin. Others could simply kill you.

They didn’t forget to mention shipping and handling charges or about the 4 to 6 weeks you’ll have to wait for delivery did they? So how can the producers of the so-called best anti-aging skin care creams forget to tell you about the possibility of harmful side effects from using their products? Could the horrible truth be that they didn’t forget, they just don’t care?

The use of all natural, healthy ingredients would be better from a health perspective. These natural ingredients are more costly, and the makers of these anti-aging skin creams see it only from a financial perspective.

Besides, even though the chemicals in their product could possibly be harmful, they are not required by law to warn the buying public about them. These are health related products, how come the Food and Drug Administration allows them to get away with this? Funny you should ask.

Even though technically cosmetic goods are health related products, the makers of the “best anti-aging skin care creams” are not bound by FDA regulation. This is because even though these anti-aging skin care creams are absorbed through the skin and into the bloodstream, they are topical and not orally introduced.

Leave it to bureaucratic reasoning to come up with a distinction like that. Control actually falls to the Federal Trade Commission whose regulation of the industries under them is vaguely reminiscent of the Keystone Cops.

Remember to do your homework when it comes to finding the best anti-aging skin creams out there. Look for all natural ingredients and no additives or fragrances, and I’m sure you’ll be just fine.

Guest Author: Laurel Levine


Don’t buy anti aging natural skin care products, until you get some education. The best anti aging skin care products are safe and contain nothing harmful, but the ones that you see in the department stores and on TV are simply not the best. They’re not even very good.

Most anti aging natural skin care products rely on advertising, fine print and the consumer’s lack of knowledge to sell their products. That’s why they are always coming out with something new and improved.

They cannot rely on their effectiveness and reputation. Manufacturers of the best anti aging skin care rely heavily on research and development, so that they can be sure to have high quality ingredients that will keep their customers coming back for more.

Regulations concerning advertising and marketing, as well as labeling, are lax, to say the least. A company can say that it provides anti aging natural skin care products and still include harmful chemical preservatives and cheap components that actually do more harm than good.

Paraffin wax and petrolatum for example are common ingredients in the so-called best anti aging skin care systems. Bovine collagen is also used as well. Many people are allergic to these compounds.

Paraffin wax, petrolatum and other petroleum or mineral oil derivatives clog the pores and destroy the healthy pH balance naturally found in the skin’s layers. One company that claims to offer the best anti aging natural skin care for around the eyes uses paraffin wax. When used at night, it irritates the eyes, disturbs sleep and you end up looking worse in the morning than you did the night before.

Another, of the so-called anti aging natural skin care products contains a compound that was recently classified as possibly carcinogenic. A compound may be naturally occurring and still be unsafe.

The best anti aging skin care system combines dietary, lifestyle factors and nourishing supplements that we know are safe, because we eat them every day. Unless, of course you happen to be allergic to food stuff like avocados, you should be perfectly safe.

When we talk about dietary factors, we just want you to eat right. A complete guide to eating healthy would take a book to write. Lifestyle factors have mostly to do with the sun. Proper nourishment applies to both and there are special anti aging natural skin care products that provide specific nourishment applied directly.

The best anti-aging skin care creams contain antioxidants, including wakame, co-enzyme Q10 and vitamin E. They have to be manufactured correctly or the body cannot use them.

H EQ10 is a specially formulated combination of naturally occurring vitamin E or alpha-tocopherol and Coenzyme Q10 that has been shown in clinical studies to penetrate deeply through many of the skin’s layers. Only the best anti aging skin care products contain these antioxidants in the right form and the right content to be effective.

This is by no means everything that you need to know before you go shopping for anti aging natural skin care products. It’s just enough to get you pointed in the right direction.



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