Baby Boomers Want to Know – Do Wrinkle Creams Work?

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It happens sooner or later to all of us. We wake up one fine morning, stumble into the bathroom and some old person has the nerve to stare back at us in the mirror, wrinkled and sad. Suddenly want to know, do wrinkle creams work? And if they do, which ones and how soon can I get some.

At some point we all add “wrinkle cream” to our personal care items shopping list and we need to know what to look for. We also need to know what else is involved in anti aging skin care. Before we go further, the answer to that nagging question do wrinkle creams work is a qualified “yes.” Some do great; others waste your time and money.

Before planning exactly what products will best reverse the appearance of aging skin, it helps to do some homework. Beauty and health magazines often report on products to diminish the effects of aging and these are usually objective. You can find them in paper magazine or the virtual one on the internet. Check consumer rating websites and other publications as well.

Be shameless about asking great looking older people for their secrets. And don’t be surprised if their lifestyle is as much the cause as their prize cream for wrinkles. No one minds being told how young we think they look and should be delighted to tell all.

Anti-aging means get plenty of rest, eating a very healthy diet and drinking those eight glasses of water a day. You want to add moisture, protein and antioxidants to your skin. You also want to avoid too much exposure and most certainly need to avoid smoking.

Once you have some suggested cream, start reading labels. Look for natural ingredients and few to no long strings of chemical names. Avoid any ingredients that you know you have sensitivities or allergies to. Don’t confuse cost with quality. Some cheaper brands are great and some extremely expensive ones are miserable.

A good wrinkle treatment will have several desirable ingredients. Some brands may have different formulas for day and night, so be sure the “day” type has a sunscreen. Sunshine or artificial tanning lights can damage the skin which creates new wrinkles and makes the one already there worse.

Creams to make wrinkles less noticeable usually have ingredients to draw moisturizer to the skin. Many products can do this, so any decent moisturizer should work. Other natural oils seal the moisture you do have in the skin. Dehydrated skin collapses a bit and makes wrinkles look worse and your skin needs water to function down to the cell level.

The same antioxidant vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in forms the skin can actually use. These include Vitamin A, Vitamin E, and several minerals. Other food components like flavonoids, carotenes, fatty acids and lycopenes can help reduce inflammation and help to repair the damage that has been done.

To answer for yourself the question do wrinkle creams work, find a mostly natural product with all the right stuff: antioxidants, moisture protectors and sun screen. Use it as directed and use it daily. Eat right, get plenty of rest, avoid too much wind and sun and avoid smoking like the plague. If you are a Baby Boomer, stay that way instead of becoming a Baby Pruner, because that’s the pits!

By: Geoff Hopkins

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Baby Boomers Want to Know – Do Wrinkle Creams Work?