To buy a good anti-wrinkle cream one should read the product label looking for ingredients like Growth Factors, Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C and Retinol because these are key to keeping the skin firm, wrinkle-free, moisturized and fighting the spots that appear due to sun exposure.
Anti-wrinkle creams when used daily, from the age of 30, have excellent results in firmness and beauty of the skin provided they have the ingredients that facilitate the formation of new cells, new blood vessels and new collagen and elastin fibers, which give firmness and support to the skin.
So to buy a good anti-wrinkle cream you should read the product label and know exactly what your skin is needing. Look:
What ingredients to look for on the label
To make sure you are making a good purchase you should read the product label and look for the following ingredients:
- Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF): Renews cells, creates new collagen and elastin fibers, reducing and preventing wrinkles
- Insulin Growth Factor (IGF): Promotes the creation of new collagen and elastin fibers, decreases wrinkles and increases skin firmness
- Fibrotic growth factor (FGF or b FGF): Promotes the creation of new fibroblast fibers, excellent in skin healing after peeling, for example
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF): Promotes the formation of new blood vessels, essential for nourishing new cells, regenerating and firming the skin
- Transformation Growth Factor: Stimulates cell matrix production, preventing fibrosis
- Hyaluronic Acid: Deeply moisturizes the skin, attracting water molecules to the skin
- Vitamin C: Stimulates the synthesis of collagen, is antioxidant, protects the skin from the sun, helps to heal and lightens dark circles and dark spots
- Retinol: Stimulates collagen formation, providing firmer skin and improving facial blood irrigation, while smoothing wrinkles
- DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol lactate): Promotes cell renewal by increasing levels of ceramides, and has a whitening effect
- Vitamin E: Helps in healing, reduces sun damage and reduces elastin
- Matryxil Sinthe 6: I deal to fill wrinkles, uniformizes the skin and stimulates the synthesis of collagen
- Sun protection: To protect the skin from the effects of UV rays that favor the formation of wrinkles
The dermatologist or physiotherapist specializing in aesthetics may personally indicate the best product for each person, after observing some characteristics such as age, presence of wrinkles or lines of expression, types of wrinkles, habit of using cream daily or not, skin tone and presence of spots or dark circles, for example.
Wrinkle creams containing neurotoxins such as Ageless, which contain Argireline, are not recommended as the only wrinkle treatment because it has a paralyzing action, preventing proper muscle contraction, which initially may appear to improve wrinkles, in a Cinderella effect, actually leaves the skin even more flaccid and brittle in the long run. In addition, its effect decreases and lasts for a maximum of 6 hours, requiring reapplication of the product several times a day.
How to Apply the Anti-Wrinkle Cream Correctly
Applying the anti-wrinkle cream correctly is critical so that it has the expected effect. For this, it is recommended to follow these steps:
- Wash your face with water and moisturizing soap, or clean the skin with a moisturizing cleanser and a cotton swab
- Apply a moisturizing facial cream with sun protection on every face, neck and neck;
- Apply the eye cream, starting from the inner corner of the eye going toward the end of each eyebrow. Then with spiral movements insist on the regions of the 'crow's feet'
- Apply the cream directly to the wrinkles or lines of expression, with circular movements all wrinkles, from below and then with movement of 'opening', as if trying to make the wrinkle disappear;
- Apply the whitening cream to the darker areas such as freckles, pints and dark circles.
The amount of cream to be placed in each region is small, with about 1 droplet the size of 1 pea in each area.
If you want to pass makeup this should be applied on top of all these creams.
Why to use creams on different areas of the face
It is necessary to use different creams, using only one eye area, another only on top of wrinkles and a general cream for the other areas such as forehead, chin and cheeks because each of these parts of the face needs a different treatment.
Using eye cream on every face may be a waste of product, but using a moisturizer to the body on every face may have no effect in combating wrinkles and fine lines. Know what each area really needs:
Around the eyes
Around the eyes the skin is thinner and tends to stick with the famous 'crow's feet' because it is common to contract these muscles to try to protect the eyes from the sun or to force the view to see better. So this is one of the first regions to get flaccid and wrinkled skin.
- Use: Sunscreens, but specific for the eyes that have a growth factor that guarantee the formation of cells that give firmness and elasticity to the skin.
In the expression lines:
These arise around the smile after a good laugh and can be more easily seen waking up after a night of little rest. It is also common to appear between the eyebrows, after trying to protect the eyes from the sun, without sunglasses, but disappear by stretching the skin.
- Use: Sunscreen, hyaluronic acid and DMAE
In creased wrinkles:
The deepest wrinkles, which do not disappear when trying to stretch the skin, usually appear after 45 years, but may appear earlier in people who do not use moisturizing creams and that exposes themselves in the sun frequently, without sun protection.
- Use: Anti-aging creams with growth factors that can fill wrinkles, making skin firmer and even.
In dark circles, darker areas, spots or freckles:
These areas need whitening and sun protection to keep them from getting even darker.
- Use: Sunscreen cream and products with whitening action of the skin like vitamin C or DMAE.
Another important care is to see if the cream is to be used day or night, because the action time of the night products are bigger and can act during all the sleep, when there is not as much contraction of the muscles of the face. Daytime creams usually have sunscreen.
Other anti-wrinkle treatments
In esthetic physiotherapy there are several techniques that can be used with specific massages, traction, mobilization of the fascia and myofascial release besides equipment such as laser and radiofrequency that has excellent results in combating wrinkles, with lifting effect, delaying the need to use botox or plastic surgery.
Sessions last about half an hour and can be held once a week and results are cumulative, but effects can be seen as early as the end of the first session.
