Fit and Youthful Life

Guest Author: Joan Gosselin


Undoubtedly, you have been slogging through a large assortment of different products while looking for the very best anti-aging skin creams.  It’s hard to decide on what to buy when every manufacture is without fail telling you that his and his alone is the pinnacle in anti-aging skin cream.

Most of these claims are made without a shred of scientific data to back them up.  The reason you’re not presented with said evidence is because more likely than not the data would utterly refute their claim to having the best anti-aging skin care creams on the market.  So, trust not he who would lead you blindly down the path.

Hard evidence of the products effectiveness is what you need, but with most of the flourishing cosmetics companies this proof is difficult to come by.  I would ask a company representative if the anti-aging skin cream in question had been clinically tested.  If the answer is yes, then there should be recorded data.  If the answer is no, then put the product down and back away slowly.

I know that I for one am not going to slather myself up with anything that hasn’t been proven to be safe.  The celebrity spokesperson can prattle on all day about what this product can do, but I’m not buying into the “best anti-aging skin creams” pitch unless you can show me something to back it up.

Of course I’m the kind of person who would never purchase something like that from television or an ad in a magazine anyway.  I want to hold it, I want to look it over, but mostly I just want to be able to see what it actually says on the label. 

What you’ll probably discover upon looking at the label is that the anti-aging skin cream that you’re holding in your hand isn’t nearly as pure and organic as you were led to believe.  You’ll most likely find in it the very cost cutting chemicals and additive that most cosmetics companies use in order to save enough money to pay for said ads, and ensure that the company Christmas party is in Vegas again this year.

It’s not ‘technically’ as though the company purposely tried to dupe you into believing that their “best anti-aging skin creams” were purely organic.  The sad fact is that the companies are not really required by law to tell you anything at all about what goes into their products.  They pretty much have free reign to tell you anything that they want.

This is because the governing bodies who are supposed to hold the makers of these products accountable don’t enforce the few regulations that are imposed on cosmetics companies.  They are allowed to put collagen into their products even though it is a known high risk allergen.  If you go to get collagen injections you must first take a battery of tests, but apparently you can slap it into some anti-aging skin cream and nobody cares.

When trying to find the best anti-aging skin creams for you, just be careful.

Guest Author: Peter Clark


So your getting older and starting to notice those eye wrinkles that were so lacking just a few short years ago? And suddenly you’re on the net trying to find out which are the best eye wrinkle creams. What advice do I have for you?

Eye wrinkles are indisputably a part of growing old. As we get older we find that our skin elasticity, which was so good when we were younger, is no longer as good as it once was. If you don’t believe me then pinch the skin of your arm, pull it up and release it and see how long it takes to shrink back into shape. Then do the same with someone who is 20 or younger and watch the difference.

Eye wrinkles, or facial wrinkles generally, are a function of our age. With age comes poorer skin health, including reduced skin elasticity. And our muscles, both in our face and eyes and generally weren’t what they were and just don’t seem to hold us together as well as they once did. Both around our eyes and in other areas we sag where we don’t want to.

There are some good eye wrinkle creams on the market, designed to help us combat the effects of skin aging and sagging, and help improve those troublesome wrinkles which just seem to get worse.

But there is some bad news too. Whilst a good wrinkle cream will help disguise those marks that look so – old, there are also other things that you should do to help combat those wrinkles and signs of aging. And while it’s oh so easy to smear on a wrinkle cream around our eyes it takes a little more effort to put together a complete skin care regime that helps us maintain good skin health and good health generally as we age.

Firstly comes diet and exercise. Good skin care creams usually include antioxidants that help reverse some of the negative effects of free radicals on our skin. However one of the best ways to combat free radicals is to improve our diet to include fresh fruit and vegetables high in antioxidants. And to increase our exercise level to improve our overall health, which in turn has good effects of our skin health as well.

And there are very good facial exercises that take a few minutes a day that can do wonders for our facial skin health, including the skin health and muscle tone around our eyes.

Combine all this with one of the best eye wrinkle creams and you have a total skin regime designed to have maximum effect on those annoying skin wrinkles that seem to have appeared around your eyes overnight. There is no doubt that there are some effective anti wrinkle products around, but you need to have a multi pronged attack to have a maximum effect.

But don’t forget the eye wrinkle cream, that’s an integral part of your skin regime, and shouldn’t be overlooked. Find the best eye wrinkle cream that works for you and use it religiously, eat and exercise well and you should minimise the look of those crows feet and fine lines around your eyes, and be healthier as well.



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