Thursday, January 1, 2009

Experiment On Your Skin To Find The Best Wrinkle Cream

By Jen Hopkins

Even as the United States population grows older on average every year, we still worry about signs of aging. Many other cultures see aging as an honor, but in the United States, elders are looked down upon, so Americans continue to throw money down the drain on expensive products so they can retain their youth.

Women especially worry about aging and its effects on their outward appearance. While a few lines at the corners of the eyes or some grey hairs at the temple make a man look adistinguished,a women live in fear of laugh lines, wrinkles, and crows feet.

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.

However, it is still a struggle for many women to find the best wrinkle cream for them. Many factors determine which cream works best for each woman, and no two women are the same. It is best to experiment and even take careful notes, to determine which cream is best.

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.

If your skin is sensitive, check your ingredients carefully. Sensitive skin will sometimes react badly to fragrance, color or irritants that commonly appear cosmetics. Be careful, because products can say they are non-irritating, possibly non-comedogenic or even hypo-allergenic and they may still irritate and break out your skin. Every woman is different, and it takes a little bit of trial and error to find the cream that is just 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. - 16650

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