Choosing your Anti Aging Skin Care Products

We are bombarded everyday with skin care advertisements claiming to have the best anti aging skin care products available. This makes it very difficult to know what anti aging skin care to use. To be honest with you, ‘the best’ is relative. There really can’t be anything like ‘The best skin care product’, because the active ingredients in anti aging skin care products work differently for different people. A product that is the ‘best skin care product’ for one person might end up being the worst for another person. So, a more logical question to ask would be ‘What is the best anti aging skin care product for MY skin?’ However, this still is not completely logical. We tend to segregate people into 4 groups based on their skin types, i.e. dry skin, oily skin, normal skin and sensitive skin. This is also too broad to be used definitively in determining the best anti aging skin care product. We can say ‘best skin care product for dry skin’ or ‘best skin care product for oily skin’, which are better statements than just ‘best skin care product’. But really, that is what it is – ‘better’, which is still not entirely accurate.

So, it really comes to rephrasing the question to – ‘What is the best anti aging skin care product for ME’. Yes, this is exactly the question that you should be asking, and unfortunately there is no easy answer for this. Arriving at the best skin care product for yourself will need some effort on your part.

First of all, you need to understand how skin care products work. This is simple. You can consider all skin care products to be composed of 2 types of ingredients, Active and inactive. The active ingredients are the ones that actually work on your skin. The inactive ones just help in delivering these active ingredients to your skin. Both the ingredients are needed in order for the product to be effective.

Besides the ingredients, the way you apply your skin care products is equally important. In fact, this is even more important. If you do not know how to apply your anti aging skin care products, you might think a great product is not working, when in fact you are not applying it correctly. Moreover, it’s also important to know how often you need to apply the anti aging skin care. Environmental factors also need to be considered, i.e., temperature, humidity and pollution level.

Here are a few rules that you could use to ensure that your best anti aging skin care product is really the best for you:

* Cleanse your skin before applying that best anti aging skin care product.

* Use a makeup remover instead of plain water and remove your makeup before going to bed.

* The effectiveness of active anti aging ingredients is reduced when applied over a heavy cream or moisturizer.

* You will have to experiment with a few products before you arrive at the one that is the best anti aging skin care product for you.

* Do not exfoliate too much or too hard.

* Vary your skin care routine as per the seasons (winter/summer etc), changes in environmental factors and changes in your skin type. It is also a good idea to find several anti aging products that work for you and alternate them.

Note that the best anti aging skin care product cannot be determined overnight. It’s only through experiment and awareness that you will find the ‘Best anti aging skin care product’.

As always wishing you only best!