Thursday, January 1, 2009

For Wrinkle Creams, Trial And Error Is The Best Method

By Jen Hopkins

The US population is getting older, but we Americans remain obsessed with beauty and youth. While many other cultures honor the aged by celebrating their wisdom and endurance, we in the US devalue our elders and continue to, as one country singer so aptly put it, athrow pennies into the fountain of youth.a

Of all, women are the most susceptible to social pressures to avoid aging. Although men's signs of aging, such as crow's feet or grey hair, can be seen as more mature and therefore more valuable in society, a woman's aging is considered to be her decline. As a result, women live their lives dreading old age, and doing everything they can to keep from aging further.

All sorts of options are available to women, from meditation to acupuncture to cosmetic surgery. New outpatient treatments allow patients to visit a doctoras office and have minor surgery all in one day. Sometimes people can even go back to work the same day! However, many of these measures are painful, inconvenient, time-consuming, or expensive. The most popular solution for aging skin is still the oldestiaa good anti-aging cream.

The nightly ritual of applying wrinkle cream has comforted many women for decades. The wrinkle cream feels good against your skin, and after it soaks in, you can feel it working. When you get up in the morning, your face is softer, more supple and with fewer wrinkles than the night before, giving it a more youthful appearance.

The most difficult part of using wrinkle cream as an anti-aging method is finding a wrinkle cream that works. There are many different things that you need to consider when researching the best wrinkle cream for you. Different wrinkle creams work best for different women, so it's important to treat your skin like an experiment, and take careful notes on what ingredients are in the products that work best for you.

A womanas skin type is the most important factor in determining which is the best wrinkle cream for her. Dry skins tend to drink in the moisture from heavier creams, while oily skins can be overwhelmed by creams and need a lighter lotion.

Chemical sensitivities are another important issue to consider. Sensitive skins may not be able to tolerate fragrances, colorings, or certain harsh ingredients. Acne-prone skins need a product that is non-comedogenic. Even a label that states a product is non-irritating, non-comedogenic, or hypo-allergenic is no guarantee that a product will not cause problems. Each woman has to let her skin be her guide.

Price will not tell you anything about whether a product will work for you or not. There are many drugstore generic products that work just as well or better than brand-name creams at the cosmetic counter. Likewise, you need to be just as vigilant with trial-and-error with expensive brands as you do with drugstore products. After all is said and done, what gives a product value is that it works, not the claims it makes. - 17944

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