Why Anti Aging Skin Care Products Make A Great Holiday Gift
Anti aging skin care products are becoming increasingly more popular and will make great gifts during the upcoming holiday period
. When it comes to gifts, people like to receive one of three different types: something that entertains them, something that they can use or eat, or something that makes them look better. You can likely think of more, but these are mine, and anti aging skin care products are a very important factor in making you look better.
Most people, young or old, want to keep looking young, and whether you, personally, are young, old or intermediate is immaterial to the way you will age because you cannot stop the process of cellular degeneration over time. So how can anti aging skin care products actually help to hold back the years and slow down your visible aging process. To understand that you have to understand what causes the signs of visible aging such as wrinkles, leathery skin and liver spots.
Free Radicals and Your Skin
There are small molecules known as free radicals that are generated by the cellular respiration that enables your cells to generate energy. They are also formed by the UV portion of sunlight - particularly strong sunlight as you go further south and the sun is more directly above you with fewer clouds to filter out the harmful UV radiation.
Free radicals destroy your body cells, particularly your skin cells, and causes your skin to wrinkle and look older. As you age, the effect of these free radicals becomes increasingly more apparent, and that is why those living in Australia and the southern states of the USA tend to form wrinkly and leathery skin if they spend too much time out in the sun. But what has this got to do with anti aging skin care products?
Simple! Anti aging skin care products contain a large number of different components, as a brief examination of the 'Ingredients' on the label will show, and some of these will be what is known as antioxidants.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants destroy free radicals, and an example is Vitamin E, often seen on the labels as tocopherol or alpha-tocopherol. Vitamins A (retinol) and C (ascorbic acid) are other antioxidants. Tocopherol, in particular, is a component of anti aging skin care products that can help to destroy free radicals, and therefore reduce the effect of the sun on visible aging.
Such anti aging products also contain moisturizers that help to hydrate your skin and keep it moist, and others help cracked and dry skin to regain its normal shiny and healthy appearance, and also protect your skin from atmospheric toxins from industrial and traffic emissions and insecticides.
Helichrysum - The 'Everlasting You'
However, many of these ingredients are synthetic, and do not have the same powerful effect as natural ingredients - not because they are chemically different, but because they don't have the other minor plant chemicals that help the active ingredients to be absorbed into your skin. For that you need a true plant extract, and one of these is Helichrysum, the 'everlasting flower'.
First, let's be clear that no anti aging skin care products will stop aging. That is not possible, and your skin will look older as you age. However, they can slow it down significantly and while you will never again have a 30 year old skin once you reach 50, you can look a lot younger than your real age.
Helichrysum is exceptionally rich in anti-inflammatories and antioxidants, and 100 times as powerful as the arnica commonly used in skin care products. Helichrysum not only hydrates your skin, keeping it fresh and moist as you age, but also destroys the free radicals that cause wrinkles. It is also a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps to prevent the small spots and whiteheads generated by the inflammatory response of your immune system to blocked pores and bacteria.
Make the Right Choice
Helichrysum goes a long way to prevent the oxidation of fatty deposits under your skin that turns them brown, know as liver or age spots. Anti aging skin care products containing Helichrysum extracts are very good at what they do: keep your skin moist and supple, reduce the incidence of wrinkling and keep it clear of blemishes. There are proven scientific and medical reasons for this which is why many of the better and more active of the anti aging products contain Helichrysum extracts.
A 50-year old with a 20-year old skin? No! But you looking the youngest in a room of 40-50 year olds? Yes! Often Helichrysum is enough, but some of the more respected cosmetic houses also include other ingredients such as borage that improves your skin's elasticity and rosemary that possesses antiseptic and deodorant properties. Check the ingredients and make the right choice.
If you have friends or relatives who are growing older, then give them a gift this holiday period that shows them that you care: anti aging skin care products that will help them to retain the fresh and natural appearance of their skin as they age gracefully. In fact, they will do the same for younger friends and even yourself: the sooner you start the better the results.
by: Peter Nisbet
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