How Do You Choose Good Facial Skin Care Products?

Not all facial skin care products are good ones. Some are terrible.

As you get older your thoughts turn more and more to facial skin care. You start to see the lines and wrinkles forming, you start perhaps to see some dry skin. You start to notice that your skin just doesn’t seem to look as good as it did in the past.

That’s aging. That’s why your mother seemed to worry about her skin more as she got older, and looked for a solution to better facial skin care.

As you age your skin loses skin health. More specifically your skin loses various skin properties that are common in youth but decline with age.

For instance your skin loses it’s skin elasticity with age. Elasticity is what holds your skin in place. It’s what gives it that smooth youthful look and feel.

Pinch a piece of skin on a child and pull and let go and it snaps back. Do that on an older woman and it has lost the “snap” and it takes longer to go back into place.

Loss of skin elasticity means that your skin loses some of it’s ability to keep itself smooth and strong. So wrinkles form. You get fine lines around your mouth and eyes. Your skin sags. You may notice this on your neck.

One of the major factors in aging skin is the loss of collagen and elastin. You’ve probably heard of collagen and elastin, 2 essential skin proteins. And you’ll see collagen and elastin listed on the labels of so many facial skin care products. We’ll look at that shortly.

Your skin produces it’s own collagen and elastin, and this ability decreases with age. So if you want to get the best facial skin care you need to do something to keep your skin healthier, and to help replace lost collagen and elastin.

Lets look at how you do both of those things:

1. Keeping your skin healthier.

There are a range of lifestyle factors that help contribute to loss of skin health with age. The first of these is excessive sun exposure. It’s called “photoaging”.

The sun strips out natural oils from your skin. And it burns your skin. Sunburn is one of the worst things you can possibly do for your skin. You must avoid sunburn and excessive sun exposure. Don’t become a hermit, but don’t go out in the sun for long periods in the middle of the day in summer.

Smoking, along with sun damage, is just terrible for your skin. It affects your blood circulation and poorer blood circulation creates skin damage and skin aging. Don’t smoke if you want great skin.

Other lifestyle factors are all the things that you know you should be doing but probably aren’t. Each of the things that help keep you healthy help keep your skin healthy. A healthy body will support a more healthy skin. So eat a diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables. Avoid too much salt and sugar and avoid high fat foods. Avoid to much processed and fast food. It all damages your health and your skin.

And believe it or not exercise even helps your skin by improving your blood circulation.

2. Replacing lost Collagen and Elastin.

A good facial skin care system should do this. The problem is that most facial skin care products tell you they will replace lost collagen and elastin, and don’t.

Do you remember seeing collagen and elastin listed on the label of that last bottle of moisturizer that you purchased for instance? Well if there’s collagen and elastin in the bottles then you’ve got to be getting it into your skin, right?

Wrong.

You see it’s been known for some time that the molecule size of collagen and elastin is too large to enter the skin. It just remains on the surface.

So why is there collagen and elastin in all those bottles of facial skin care products on the shelves? Because the skin care and anti aging companies aren’t silly, they know if consumers see collagen and elastin listed on the label they’ll buy the products. It’s there to sell the products, not help your skin.

So what is the solution? If you can’t replace lost collagen and elastin by putting them in the bottle how do you do it, given that replacing collagen and elastin that are lost with age is so important?

You stimulate the skin to start producing more of it’s own collagen and elastin.

Is this possible? Yes it is. You see there’s a company that makes a fine facial skin care treatment range that does exactly that. It makes high quality natural skin care products that stimulate the skin to start producing more collagen and elastin.

How? By using  new patented ingredient that actually helps the skin to produce more of it’s own proteins. There’s no collagen or elastin in the bottles.

And studies have shown visible result beginning within a month. Pretty impressive.

Are these natural facial skin care products expensive? No, in fact cheaper than many big name brands, because this small company, called Xtend Life, doesn’t spend a fortune on TV advertising, so doesn’t have to factor a huge marketing budget into it’s product price.

So if you’re aging, and if you’re wondering how to get the best aging skin care products that actually work well, the natural skin care  products of Xtend Life are the first you ought to try.

Don’t be seduced by all those bottles with collagen and elastin on the label, they don’t increase the amount of collagen and elasin in your skin. Read the rest of this entry