- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Active Ingredients, Anti Aging Skin, Anti Aging Skin Cream, B Vitamins, Building Blocks, Collagen Elastin, Free Radicals, Hyaluronic Acid, Hyaluronidase, Laboratory Analysis, Little Animal, Name Brands, Natural Ability, New Skin, Pores, Prime Ingredient, Protein Levels, Sea Kelp, Skin Cells, Skin Creams
The best anti-aging skin creams encourage and support the body’s natural ability to grow new collagen, elastin, cells, tissue and fibers. The average anti-aging skin cream contains few if any truly active ingredients. Rubbing a little animal collagen on your face will not produce results.
One of the best anti-aging skin creams on the market contains Cynergy TK, which has been clinically proven to stimulate the growth of collagen, elastin and new skin cells. Slowly but surely, wrinkles disappear as the levels of these things increase.
Skin’s Building Blocks
You see, a couple of different kinds of protein are the skin’s “building blocks”. One is called keratin. An anti-aging skin cream may claim to contain keratin, but if it is not manufactured properly or comes from the wrong source, it cannot be absorbed through the pores and used by the human body.
Cynergy TK contains “functional keratin”, created through a patented process that is readily available for use by the skin. You won’t find it in the big name brands that are often advertised as the best anti-aging skin creams. You have to really look for it.
Another prime ingredient for an anti-aging skin cream is Wakame. Wakame is a specific type of Japanese sea kelp or algae, whichever you prefer to call it. It is rich in calcium, sodium, iron, potassium and many of the B vitamins.
It is cultivated throughout Japan as a food and was used traditionally by women there to keep their faces looking young and smooth. Recent laboratory analysis has revealed that a component of the kelp inhibits the activity of hyaluronidase. That’s an enzyme that breaks down one of the skin’s protein building blocks, hyaluronic acid.
The best anti-aging skin creams contain wakame, because when used regularly, it increases the skin’s protein levels to that of a much younger person. Also, it is a fine antioxidant.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants destroy free radicals that are responsible for changes in the cellular structure that result in wrinkles and even skin-cancer. It is a relatively new idea to include antioxidants in an anti-aging skin cream. Our daily vitamins contain them, but apparently that’s not enough.
The best anti-aging skin creams contain a number of antioxidants, including wakame, co-enzyme Q10 and vitamin E. They have to be manufactured specifically for this purpose, or the body cannot use them.
Nano-lipobelle is created in such a way that it will penetrate through seven layers of skin. It contains both COQ10 and vitamin E in a special emulsion created specially for use as an anti-aging skin cream.
Ingredients to Avoid
Briefly, let’s look at a few of the things that an anti-aging skin cream should not contain:
-alcohol because it is drying.
-fragrance because it can be irritating.
-sunscreen because it alone does not reduce the risk of skin cancer and some compounds are hazardous.
-parabens because they cause cancer.
-paraffin wax or mineral oil because they clog the pores and strip natural oils, leading to dryness.
There are other ingredients that should be avoided. The best anti-aging skin creams contain safe and all natural ingredients, because whatever you rub on your face, eventually ends up in your bloodstream. Hope this helps you find them.
By: Margaret Bell
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Allergens, Best Bet, Dark Girls, Dead Skin Cells, Drastic Results, Freckles, Home Remedy, Lemon Juice, Melanin Production, Modern Technology, New Skin, No Doubt, Pale Girl, Ph1, Plastic Surgeon, Self Tanners, Sun Damage, Sun Protection, Uv Exposure, Worth The Wait
Have you ever longed for fairer, brighter skin? Strange isn’t it? How some very fair ladies feel they look sickly and bask in the sun for a so called healthy tan. They were healthier pale than browned because a tan is a sign of sun damage. If you are born brown, then you would be the envy of these women. Then again, the grass is always greener on the other side. Dark girls often want to be fair.
Modern technology is amazing. A pale girl can get tan skin without even stepping out in the sun. Thanks to self tanners in the form of lotions or even pills.
Likewise, dark girls can go fairer. Going to a plastic surgeon for skin bleaching can give you very drastic results. Your best bet is to stay out of the sun and use sun protection and wear long sleeves and pants by day to allow your skin fade to the color you were born with.
An old home remedy to fade away the freckles and dark spots with lemon juice. It is a risky thing because lemon juice is very acid pH2. Sulphuric acid is just 1 point away at pH1, so you can imagine how acidic lemons are. You could end up burning or irritating your skin with lemon juice. At very least, it would make your skin more sensitive to sunlight. UV exposure triggers off melanin production. If your skin is continuously irritated, not just by sunlight, but by pollutants and allergens, your skin will react by producing more melanin and darkening even further.
Basically, your skin gets dark because melanin is produced by your skin, to shade it from the sun. The freckles, dark spots and even the even tan is due to melanin clustering together to protect your skin.
To get fair, you slowly exfoliate off the darkened skin over time and prevent the new skin from darkening. As the darkened dead skin cells are rubbed off, younger,lighter skin is revealed. It takes time no doubt, but the results are worth the wait.
There are several things commonly used to lighten the skin.
Hydroquinone is one of them but in higher concentrations, it can cause irritations and may even be carcinogenic. It makes skin lighter by preventing melanin from being formed.
Alchemilla a plant popular amongst the alchemists in the Middle Ages, slows the release of melanin pigments to your skin, hence slowing down the darkening of your skin.
Kojic acid is used to to prevent melanin formation.
Black-Out Yeast Complex, a formula by clinique, used extensively in its Derma White range breaks down the melanin clusters so that these can be disposed of via exfoliation and defuses irritants that would otherwise darken the skin, through its delivery of antioxidants. Most importantly, it prevents more melanin from forming by blocking away the signals to produce melanin.
Then there are the skin bleaching treatments by a plastic surgeon using AHAs or retin-A amongst other things. These are for more drastic results. For something gentler, I suggest you get a skin whitening range from your favourite skin care brand.
By: Janice Tham
- Categories: Skin Whitening
- Tags: Biological Functions, Biological Process, Cellular Level, Dark Skin, Functions Of The Skin, Michael Jackson, New Skin, Pigment Removal, Skin Blotches, Skin Care Products, Skin Pigment, Skin Treatment Products, Skin Whitening Products, Skins, Substrate, Sun Exposure, Time In History, Truth Of The Matter, Tv Man, Watching Tv
When was the last time that you saw Michael Jackson on your TV set and said to yourself or the person sitting in the room with you watching TV, “man he looks great”! Probably never, because the truth of the matter is that he has really screwed himself up good.
If you stop for a moment to thing about it though, there is something to be learned from what he has done to himself. That is that it is now possible more than any other time in history to actually change the way that you look.
For instance, have you ever noticed that he has treated his skin to lighten the color that it is? This is because, there are now substances available that can actually remove pigment from a persons skin. These substances are what is contained in new skin treatment products that are available for treating dark skin blotches that are the result of aging and exposure to the sun.
These products were developed as the result of years of research into to actual intrinsic biological functions of the skin its self. The fact is, that your skin has a natural biological process by which it rids itself of skin pigment and this is why a tan goes way in time.
In dark skin blotches this process has shut down and that is why the pigment in them stays. Effective skin whitening products on the market now function in the skins substrate on a cellular level to click the skins pigment removal process back on long enough for it to rid itself of the accumulated pigment in dark skin blotches.
More and more skin care products now function on this same principle of functioning below the skins surface to temporarily stimulate the skins natural biological functions that have been lost due to aging or sun exposure.
By: Ceci Lewis