What are the Most Important Anti-Aging Ingredients
Listen up! Almost all brands, claim to have Anti-Aging Ingredients to wipe out wrinkles, crow’s feet, dark spots, and under-eye bags.
However, when it comes to delivering results, only the bold ones with guaranteed results have clear policies of risk-free, money back promise. This selective group passed the real test, The Test of Time!
In a world where hundreds, if not thousands, of skincare brands are fighting for a spot under the sun, I am asked almost every day, what is the best anti-aging available now?
When people are waiting for my answer with paper and pen ready to highlight a brand or a product, I say that there’s no best brand. Some ingredients and formulations make a product either good or great.
What turns a good anti-aging into an excellent anti-aging?
During my research, from the past two years, I found out that there are some ingredients and formulation that make a product worth a try, let’s see what are they, what to expect and how to use them.
Medical Grade Formulation – This definitely divides real results from shouting out loud trying to convince for results. In one side, you have the money invested in technology, on the other hand, OTC (Over the Counter products) you have millions of dollars in publicity.
Medical Grade in skincare means that the products are retailed under the supervision of a Licensed Physician. The products are also submitted to clinical research to prove that the ingredients and actives have not only bio-compatibility with human skin but also the real effect on what it advertises to look tasty, healthy and solving the main issue.
The purity and concentration level of these actives and ingredients can penetrate in the deeper layers of your skin, where the young new cells are produced, as well as collagen, elastin, delivering faster and efficient results.
Sunscreen with Broad Spectrum
If the mindset is not into sunscreen, we should definitely have this in mind. There’s no way to start any Anti-Aging Regimen, without sunscreen and broad spectrum. Sun is the number one factor for aging. Dark spots, freckles, wrinkles and crow’s feet are significantly reduced when sunscreen is present. Not necessarily in the anti-aging product itself, meaning it’s better when one bottle specifically carries at least 30SPF.
Cutting-Edge Actives and Natural Ingredients
Remember the technology I was talking about on Medical Grade Formulation? Here we have the translation for that. Researches and tests never stop on finding out the best combination of actives. Coming from nature, proved already that has better effects on skin, without causing any allergy and able to penetrate in the deeper layer of the skin, promoting long-lasting results.
Plant Stem Cells – These are cells where life begins, pure and vitality. It’s like drinking water from the fountain of youth. There is nothing more young and refined than that. Plant Stem Cells promotes a powerful rejuvenation process when applied to the skin. Our skin is in constant rejuvenation, and it happens entirely every twenty-seven (27) days, and the new cells need to be fed, so why not using the fountain of youth to nourish them?
Marine Extracts – There is a list of Marine Extracts that are incredibly good for the skin due to its emollient properties. Medicine and Science worked for long enough together discovering endless benefits of this powerhouse component, able to help on serious diseases, like cancer and Aids.
For skincare is the same, it is considered a powerhouse which includes a list of vitamins, amino acids, minerals, antioxidant, antimicrobial compounds that is rarely seen in other natural sources available. All working together synergetically with one mission reduce wrinkles and keeping the young look as long as possible.
The Best Marine Algae Extract in Skincare nowadays:
Undaria Algae Extract
Hawaiian Red Algae Extract
Seaweeds
Other Incredible Anti-Aging Actives
Vitamin C – Is the main ingredient to synthesize collagen, main component of our skin to be firm and plump. Vitamin-C proved to many scientists that have a massive influence in protecting the skin against UV light, number one enemy in aging. Please note that Vitamin-C is not “sunscreen.” It is a component important for protection.
Our skin constantly suffers from external agents, like pollution, bacterias attracted by the sebum and sweat produced by our body, causing little wounds. Vitamin-C plays a significant role in healing inflammations on the skin.
Antioxidants – The same environmental exposure we have on a daily basis, that threat our skin has to be addressed with antioxidants, protecting the skin against free-radicals, which influence the break of cells over time. The best sources of antioxidants for the skin are Vitamin-C, Vitamin-E, Beta-Carotene, which includes an extensive list of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices.
The Miraculous Anti-Aging Products
Retinol – Nowadays, it is impossible not to associate anti-aging with retinol. It is Vitamin-A (good antioxidant for the skin) in a different form. One of the most successful latest discoveries as the miraculous ingredients for anti-aging. Responsible for skin cell turnover. Meaning that is like doing little peelings regularly. But attention, it is a component that should be used with caution and under dermatologist supervision, otherwise, you can have damaged, dry skin.
Another thing to pay attention here is the concentrations. There are safe zones here, and there are purity zones as well. The wrong usage of retinol can cause dryness of skin, so it is essential that the product combines with other harmonious, pure ingredients to be effective and safe. Retinols should never be used during daylight and used three times a week.
Glycolic Acids – Another great miraculous invention for Anti-Aging products. It works as a superb exfoliant ingredient. It can be used as a stronger cleanser, removing dead cells in the blink of an eye. So it’s easy to say that if you want an instant glow, Glycolic Acid is the answer due to the capability to remove dead cells quickly. And the quickly dead skin cells are removed, more new ones show up.
Difference Between Retinol and Glycolic Acids
Usually, there’s a little bit of confusion between using Retinol and Glycolic Acid, but we can explain easily here: While Glycolic Acid helps to remove dead skin cells, Retinol promotes skin cell turnover. The confusion lies as it is quite the same, but retinol boosts the production of collagen in the long run.
This is why many dermatologists defend the combination of Glycolic Acid and Retinol in alternate days, like 2, three times a week with Glycolic and 3, four times of Retinol, or the contrary. Whatever feels best for you.
Important to reinforce one more time, that both components are susceptible to sunlight and should not be used during daylight. As there are severe risks of burn and stains.
Another quick benefit from using Glycolic and Retinol is the fact that the skin turns more receptive to other good ingredients for the skin, helping the whole system to deliver the benefits.
Nothing happens if Habits are not part of the equation
Everything we want for the good, it comes with patience, love, and consistency. When these three factors are aligned healthy habits start to grow, bringing long-lasting results. I’m saying all of this as I know it’s not easy to change some habits, sometimes not easy to hear or assume we have bad habits.
But the truth of the matter is that if we really want to get rid of wrinkles, dark spots, turkey necks, under eye bags, crow’s feet as the time goes by, the early we implement the right habits, more natural, more effortless it becomes.
That means that bad habits have to go away, like smoking, drinking, laying down under the sun without protection and eating junk food. No excellent product can replace all of that. We encourage you to have a beautiful, healthy life and when using cutting-edge actives and natural ingredients, the results come much faster than we can imagine!
Happy, healthy young life to us all!
