Thursday, January 1, 2009

Experiment On Your Skin To Find The Best Wrinkle Cream

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

Women are particularly susceptible to worries about again. While signs of aging such as crow's feet or grey hair may sometimes make a man look mature, American society views women's signs of aging as a handicap. As a result, women live dreading old age, and do everything they can to stop aging from progressing.

A plethora of options are available for those who wish to go a step further to maintain their youthful appearance. Those who seek the fountain of youth will try almost any option, ranging from techniques such as meditation to facial injections, and from acupuncture to full-on cosmetic surgery. Sometimes you can even do a minor procedure in a doctor's office in one day; in fact, for some procedures, you can be back to work by the end of your lunch break. The downside to these extreme procedures is the pain, the cost, the time off work, and inconvenient soreness during healing. Since it doesn't have all those drawbacks, wrinkle cream is still a viable option for many people.

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 hardest part of using the best wrinkle cream is finding the best wrinkle cream. There are many different factors that determine which wrinkle cream is best for you, since different wrinkle creams work better for different women. It is best to experiment with wrinkle creams and take careful notes about your skin's reaction to each one, in order to determine which wrinkle cream is best for you.

An essential factor that all women need to consider when examining different wrinkle creams is their own personal skin type and oil level. This is because dry skin tends to suck up a lot of moisture and needs heavier creams and lotions, while oily skin can become broken out or irritated if you use a heavy moisturizer, and if this happens you may need to try out a bit of a lighter facial moisturizer.

Make sure you carefully observe which chemicals your skin is sensitive to. Sensitive skin may not be able to tolerate fragrance, color or many other irritants that commonly appear in skin moisturizing and wrinkle creams. Beware: even a label the states that it is non-irritating, non-comedogenic or hypo-allergenic will not help you; everyone is sensitive to different things, and there may still be ingredients in products labeled hypoallergenic that will irritate your skin. Let your skin tell you what is right for you.

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. - 15255

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