Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Argireline: How it works in Anti-Aging Creams

By Julie Samtsonn

Wrinkles in the facial skin have various causes. They are part of the natural aging process, as skin cells lose fat content, elastin and collagen, over exposure to the sun over a period of time, and repetitive facial gestures, such as squinting or pursing the lips in the case of smoking. In addition, the skin cells lose their ability to retain moisture, as the fat contents become depleted, causing once plump cells, to take on the look of shriveled, dead skin cells and the underlying facial muscles to lay in a position they have been trained over time. This is where the smile lines, frown lines, eyebrow and forehead lines and crow's feet lines start forming.

The aim of anti aging creams is to prevent lines and crinkle from appearing. The aim of anti wrinkle creams is to retrain skin to seal in moisture and the skin muscles to relax all of the positions they have formed over many years. There are strategies to 'rebuild skin structure' or 'remodel skin cells' that many people know about. To do this, it usually means the use of peptides. Peptides heal wounds very much like the way a burn victim will have their skin remodeled to encourage the skin to grow again.

Peptides is often used with facial and skin muscle regrowth or retraining a sort of muscle relaxer. Peptides work on a deeper level than topical cream solutions. Argireline is the trade name for Acetyl Hexapeptide-3, which is a peptide. It is also a synthetic anti-aging chemical created from natural proteins, that can be used to stimulate muscle relaxation as well as reflex reactions. It's a way to treat the underlying cause of a wrinkles that show up in a certain position over time.

Argireline has been found to be very successful in reducing the muscle reactions over a period of time, with a small improvement over a 4 week period, and twice as good again over week usage. As with any anti-aging cream or anti-wrinkle creams treatment, when you stop using it the wrinkles will come back again.

The nature of argireline's treatment process (treating the underlying muscles rather than the skin cells on the surface) makes it like a topical form of Botox. It may relax facial muscle contractions but this is only temporary (as it is with Botox). The makers of Argireline use slightly less than 10% ingredient composure to avoid side effects on consumers (the side effects include over relaxation of facial muscles causing sagging). Argireline has been on the market for some time now, but not long enough to accurately measure long-term effects, for now, Argireline appears safe an very effective as a topical anti aging or anti wrinkle cream. There are many formulations available today. - 16650

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