Cosmetics and Skin Care are the Foundation of Real Beauty.
People's preoccupation with anti-ageing skin car products that claim to make you look younger, is not surprising when most of us can expect to live longer and have fuller more active lives. This group of products generally work by enabling the synthesis of collagen, which is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals. The protein, Collagen, is related to groups of other Substances named Anti-Oxidants which assist in helping the anti-ageing process.
Vitamin C is probably one of the better known anti-oxidants in use today but the debate about the daily quota required is ongoing. The problem with vitamin C derived skin care treatments, is they can become oxidized when exposed to the atmosphere, often even before they are used.
More stable skin care treatments are now available that are almost as efficient and actually cost less to manufacture. These new anti-oxidant products are not quite as good as vitamin C although other naturally occurring compounds, vitamin E and lipoic acid can achieve the same effect.
Our body uses vitamin E as an anti-oxidant and increases our bodies natural defense against disease, which does include many forms of cancer, and is a fat-soluble vitamin found in our blood. On the other hand, lipoic acid or alpha-lipoic acid is necessary for energy production which keeps us alive; it is in every human cell and another function is to repair skin damage caused by the normal ageing process.
Phyto-chemicals form another major category of anti-ageing skin care products which consist of unique chemicals that are derived from a wide variety of plants that are used in skin care today. A secondary but more important use of phytochemicals is the effect they have on the prevention of breast, prostate and colon cancers.
Some B-vitamins like B5, B6 and B12 are also in use for anti-ageing skin care products. This just goes to highlight just how complex and far reaching the whole field of anti-ageing skin care products is and why so much more research is required.
While a great deal has been learned about this subject, it is only the tip of the iceberg and more long term effective methods need to be discovered to reverse or slow down the effects of time. Hopefully, these challenges will get resolved in due course and better and cheaper anti-ageing skin care products will be produced.
Incidentally, if your skin care product is not a natural one, it should be only used as a supplement. These are physical activities, restful sleep, maintaining good dietary habits and removing stress from your life.
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November 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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November 8th, 2008 at 10:26 am
[...] Cosmetics and Skin Care are the Foundation of Real Beauty. Hopefully, these challenges will get resolved in due course and better and cheaper anti-ageing skin care products will be produced. Incidentally, if your skin care product is not a natural one, it should be only used as a supplement. … [...]