Saturday, October 10, 2009

How Could The Best Anti Aging Moisturizer Not Even Be A Moisturizer?

by Peter Clark

If you're looking for the best anti aging moisturizer that money can buy you need to know something about moisturizers and skin care products in general, and you also need to know why the best moisturizer is in fact not a moisturizer at all.

The very first thing to understand about skin care products in general, including big name moisturizers, is that most of them contain suspect ingredients that may well damage your health and which generally don't work well. Mineral oil is a fine example of this kind of ingredient.

Mineral oil is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil. It is found in many personal, skin care and beauty products and is a petrochemical product. Baby oil is mineral oil. Unfortunately there is a range of health concerns linked to the use of mineral oil and personal products.

You may be familiar with Material Safety Data Sheets. These sheets list a wide range of information about chemical ingredients including potential health concerns. Examine a Material Safety Data Sheet for mineral oil and you will see that it says that mineral oil is a suspected carcinogen of a number of organs in the body and also can cause irritation to the eyes, skin and lungs.

So if mineral oil has these problems why would any skin care company use it as an ingredient? The reason is that mineral oil is exceedingly cheap, costing virtually nothing.

And mineral oil is not an effective moisturizer. In fact it has no moisturizing properties, the reason it is included in moisturizers is that it coats the skin in a thin layer of oil thereby preventing moisture loss. To some degree this works but it is far more effective to use ingredients which actively promote moisture levels in the skin.

There is a wide range of naturally occurring ingredients which actively moisturize and which are safe to use. Olive oil, avocado oil, babassu oil and shea butter are good examples of natural oils which actively moisturize skin and are safe, in fact many are eaten.

There are also other ingredients used in the best anti aging facial moisturizers which moisturize successfully by different methods. A fine example of one of these ingredients is called Cynergy TK which is sourced from the wool of sheep. It actively promotes increased levels of collagen and elastin in the skin thereby improving skin health and reducing wrinkles. Healthy skin is always better moisturized skin.

There are very few products in the world that use Cynergy TK because it is extremely expensive. None of the big brand skin care companies will use it because of the cost. But there is one company that does use it and produces the worlds best anti aging moisturizer which isn't even a moisturizer.

Rather their products all moisturize successfully because the ingredients mentioned above are in the entire skin care line. There is no need to produce a dedicated moisturizer because if you use any of their skin care products you will get moisturizing properties anyway.

So there's some extra information for you that may help in your search for the best anti aging tips for skin care facial moisturizers. The best anti aging facial moisturizer is not a moisturizer at all but a skin care line that uses naturally occurring safe ingredients effectively that moisturize the skin and improve overall skin health.

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