Best Anti Aging Creams

Best Anti Aging Creams

Posted on August 10th, 2009 by antiagingbeautyproducts

best anti aging creams figure Best anti aging creams come from the nature. Nature always gives us best support for our health. The cream contain a variety of active compounds that are extracted from plants and other natural sources. The worst contain by products from the petroleum industry, ingredients that have not been tested for safety, known allergens and hazardous chemicals.

Consumer safety groups have been trying for years to improve regulations governing the cosmetic industry. You might not think that something you put “on” your skin can affect your health, but that’s not true.

The newest lotions are specifically designed to penetrate deeply, in order to improve effectiveness. That’s fine, as long as all of the ingredients are safe for the human body. But, cosmetic companies in the United States are not required to test for safety. The European Union has better standards for manufacturers.

The best anti aging creams are manufactured according to the EU standards. They contain nothing that is known or strongly suspected of causing cancer. They don’t contain compounds that disrupt the delicate endocrine system, because they affect the natural production of hormones.

Some of the ingredients found in your typical anti-aging cream build up in the body over time. It’s referred to as “persistence and bioaccumulation”. For example, high levels of parabens have been found in cancer tumors.

Parabens are preservatives. They are not discharged as waste. They stay in the body and accumulate over time. A popular firming cream made by Clarins contains five different parabens.

The creams don’t contain parabens, because they are not necessary. Natural vitamin E is an effective preservative. It’s just too expensive for most companies to work into their budgets.

If they didn’t do so much advertising and marketing, they could use better safer ingredients. But, then of course their sales would go down, because they don’t get a lot of “repeat” business. Once a customer realizes how worthless they are, they look for something else.

The best anti aging creams provide the nourishment that the skin needs in order to produce new cells and fibers. It is decreased production of collagen and elastin fibers that causes loss of firmness, leads to sagging and wrinkles.

Ingredients to look for include Functional Keratin, Wakame Kelp, and Coenzyme Q10, natural vitamin E, grape seed oil and passion fruit extract.

The best anti aging creams that we have seen in terms of clinical research and scientific data contain an ingredient called functional keratin. Lots of products contain “keratin”, a protein found throughout the body. It is the “functional” part that is important.

In a patented process, a New Zealand company was able to convert natural keratin to a functional form that is readily available for the skin to use.

The company’s name is Keratec and the ingredient is only found in a few new products. In most others, the keratin has been de-naturalized through a rendering process called hydroyzation. The process involves applying high temperatures to animal parts like hooves, horns and feathers. That could be a problem for animal rights advocates, but most of us simply wouldn’t want it on our faces.

Functional keratin, on the other hand, was extracted from the wool of New Zealand sheep. It even sounds better. Sheep have to be sheared. It certainly doesn’t hurt them. It’s like a hair cut. The other animals are long dead. The sheep live happily on, a little cooler and more comfortable.

The creams containing functional keratin work in several ways. First, they increase production of skin cells by as much as 160%. Second, they reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines immediately by creating a new layer that bends light, making lines less noticeable. Third, they allow the skin to stay moister and improve elasticity by as much as 27%. Forth, it acts as an antioxidant, destroying free radicals that further age and damage skin cells.

Wakame kelp blocks an enzyme that normally reduces levels of the amino acid hyaluronic acid, also necessary for skin cell production. When combined with vitamin E, COQ10 has been shown to increase collagen and elastin production.

Grape seed oil has been shown to reduce stretch marks and wrinkles. Passion fruit extract is a natural and effective moisturizer that improves firmness.

If you can find a manufacturer that uses all of these natural ingredients and is committed to providing safe products for their customers, then you will have found the best anti aging creams.