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That Cose Your Money and Waste Your Time Many if not most skin care products contain a lot of useless ingredients that raise the price of the product without providing any benefits. Some companies do it because they think that a long list of ingredients justifies a higher price in the eyes of the consumer, others indirectly imply that these ingredients help skin rejuvenation while unable to provide any real evidence for it. Some of the most common examples are given belo: RetinolMany anti-wrinkle/skin rejuvenation products contain retinol which is a form of vitamin A. Many retinol, on the other hand, has no effect on wrinkles or skin smoothness unless used in very high concentrations. Typical commercial creams, however, contain relatively low concentration of retinol and are therefore ineffective. Creams wiht high retinol concentration are not very stable and degraded too quickly to be viable for commercial distribution. Besides, high concentration of retinol can be irritating to the skin. Nevertheless, there are always ways to make retinol work for your skin. Topical Collage and ElastinCollagen and elastin are important structural components of the skin. Loss of collagen and elastin in the dermis (the inner layer of the skin) leads to wrinkles and facial sag, whereas replenishing these substances in the dermis may partially reverse signs of aging. Nonetheless, creams with collagen and elastin are useless because these substances are large proteins which cannot penetrate the skin deep enough to have any lasting effect. Fortunately, ways to introduce collage into the dermis do exist. B VitaminsWhereas the deficiency of B-vitamins may cause certain skin diseases, excessive amount are of no use for skin rejuvenation and wrinkle removal. If you eat a balanced diet or take a supplement that contains 100% RDA for B vitamins will produce no benefit. ChamomileChamomile is an herb with a mild anti-inflammatory action, and therefore can help soothe irritated or inflamed skin. On the other hand it is of no use against wrinkles or other signs of aging. |