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The New Rejuvenators: Anti-Aging Skin Creams
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What can mere skin creams do? A lot more than the ones our mothers used. Now, even drugstore brands are packed with buzzword ingredients like peptides (said to plump up skin by boosting collagen production). Here are 11 we've tried and liked.
Nuxe Nuxuriance
Brightening Serum ($73)
Made specifically for menopausal women, this serum -- beauty-speak for a lightweight, concentrated formula -- contains botanicals that soothe skin and stimulate cell turnover.
Clinique
Turnaround Concentrate ($37)
As we age, our skin gets less efficient at sloughing off dead cells. This has salicylic acid to help clear them away.
Kiehl's Dermatologist Solutions
Powerful Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate ($55)
Vitamin C is a first-rate antioxidant that helps restore texture and tone. This self-heating serum delivers a huge dose directly onto skin.
Dr. Jan Adams Woman of Color
Night Replenishing Cream ($15)
Plastic surgeon Jan Adams noticed that his darker-skinned patients were more likely to have sensitive skin, so he developed this gentle exfoliating treatment.
Lancome
High Resolution with Collaser-48 ($60)
Age spots are tough to treat, but this has a mild chemical exfoliator plus a rice peptide said to imitate the collagen-stimulating effects of laser therapy. (Laser treatments are more effective -- but they cost more too.)
Estee Lauder
Resilience Lift Extreme ($70)
Tested on women over 40, this cream contains a peptide designed to help minimize the impact of hormonal changes on skin. Sweet almond extract provides an instant firming sensation.
Givenchy
No Surgetics Plasti Sculpt Lifting Cream ($100)
Contains caffeine to reduce puffiness, green tea to protect against environmental damage, plus beech-bud extract for a tightening effect.
Skin Effects by Dr. Jeffrey Dover
Wrinkle Effects Relaxing Cream ($30)
One of the new over-the-counter creams that are distant cousins of Botox. It contains lycopene, a natural muscle relaxant that smoothes skin for up to a day.
Sally Hershberger Face Place
Face Volumizer ($95)
From the stylist who brought you the $600 haircut, a new line of treatments for over-40 skin. This contains
moisture-attracting humectants plus, of course, peptides.
SK-II
Advanced Signs Treatment ($150)
The key ingredient is a yeast strain discovered at a Japanese sake brewery, where workers have perennially youthful-looking hands.
Olay Regenerist
Target Tone Enhancer ($19)
Contains Pro-Retinol, a lightener for sensitive skin, to diminish blotches.
Originally published in MORE magazine, February 2006.
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rubypoet1 wrote:
LADIES! THE MOST IMPORTANT ANTI-AGING TOOL IS SUNBLOCK111 Use every day, everywhere, without fail! I live in the SW desert of Tucson, AZ and the sun is very dangerous around here. It doesn't just wrinkle us, it gives us skin cancer too, plus it's damage is cumulative. I'm 56 and no one, but no one believes it. I routinely have to show ID to prove it! SUNBLOCK ALWAYS
4/14/2008 12:46 PM CDT
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jillhstein1048066 wrote:
All beauty experts state that the best beauty and skin care product is Retin A or retionids! Its so true that they are the best products to use on your skin. I have been using Retin A for about 12 years now. I get compliments on my skin and the fact that it looks so good for my age all the time. One must be patient and start out using Retin A slowly, then work up to every other night! It is worth getting a RX from your doctor, you will not be disapointed, then use a copper peptide by skinbiology.com and you will be so very pleased with your skin!!
2/19/2008 1:19 PM CST
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britstarr wrote:
try the old remedy of using warm tea bags steeped and placed on eyes or using some cucumber peels )cold)layed on your eyes for about 15 mins ,or use a concealer blended in well and try to use eyeliner on upper lid dark blue or teal color to attract away from the bagginess underneath the eye !
1/29/2008 3:02 PM CST
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britstarr wrote:
Oh forgot to mention I also rub this mixture into my husbands face neck and arms that are exposed to sun harshly daily we live & work in the hot weather of the south and he too is baby soft with no wirnkling and hes 54 and looks 40-43 yos old too ! so I think I've found the magic potion here works great !!
1/29/2008 2:02 PM CST
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britstarr wrote:
I have really never used all these expensive waste of money cremes ! my secret is dove soap wash morning & nightly into a good lather rinse well pat dry, and then moisturize with apalm full of 2 medium squirts of johnson & johnson baby oil(jel) 2 squirts if palmers shea butter lotion and 2 squirts of simply basic(moonlitway)from walmart mix all toghether in palm and spread evenly & generously over face,neck and wills often palms & hands like butter and will last almost all day ,then re do from beginning with face washing with dove again at bedtime,when it really soaks into skin overnite also works on all over the whole body area !!!! give it a try all togehther the 3 lotions cost about $11.00 and will smooth you all over & works great on wrinkling of skin due to smoothness !! and if ya do have some laugh lines starting or already there then use L'oreal wrinkle de-creaser (collagen filler) nightly thats all ya need ladies !I am 49 and in the sun daily due to my job in construction & I've been told repeatedly I look 39-40y.o's old !!also have your daughters start this mivxture of lotions early in their teens & 20's and they 'll have great soft supple skin for years to come !!!
1/29/2008 1:57 PM CST
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