Age brings visible effects on your skin like wrinkles, dark spots, fine lines, and crow’s feet around the eyes. Anti-aging skin care products, today, cover a major part of the cosmetic market. Increasing demands of anti-aging solutions have set huge competition among companies that manufacture skin care products. But do these anti-aging products actually reverse the signs of aging? Can someone look younger after the regular application of a topical anti-aging product? Well, yes! These products work very well!
Skin experts agree that high quality anti-aging products by top skin care companies like Synergie Skin can produce major benefits. Clinically proven ingredients used by such manufacturers can help neutralize free radicals, stimulate natural collagen production, reduce wrinkles, slow down premature aging, and achieve younger-looking skin. These skin care companies formulate products with many different active anti-aging ingredients that work in a variety of ways. Below are some commonly used active ingredients that have been scientifically proven to decrease the signs of aging:
Most Significant Ingredients in Anti-Aging Products
The effectiveness of a skin care formulation depends on the type of product and its active ingredients. Here’s a list of some of the key ingredients of anti-aging products that work to improve your skin.
- Retinoids (vitamin A)
- Niacinamide (vitamin B3)
- Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C)
- Antioxidants
- Peptides (building blocks for proteins, enzymes, etc)
- Polysaccharides (carbohydrate-based molecules)
- Tea extracts
- Coenzyme Q10
- Resveratrol
- Alpha Hydroxy acids (lactic acid and glycolic acid)
- Ceramides
When To Start an Anti-Aging Skin Care Program
Dark circles, pigmentation, dull skin, fine lines, and crow’s feet are some of the early signs of aging. But you can age gracefully by starting your anti-aging skin care routine before such signs are visible. Experts believe that you should start incorporating anti-aging skin care products during the late 20s or early 30s. Surprised? It’s true, and prevention is easier than cure. After 30, your skin starts losing elasticity due to the effects of sun and environmental damage. So a good starting point is the application of an effective sunscreen like Überzinc Moisturizing Sunscreen as the first preventive step to stop the aging process. The next important step is to use a vitamin A product as retinol is one of the only things proven to reverse skin damage caused by sun exposure. Synergie’s Ultimate A Serum contains retinol as Rovisome™, which wraps the sensitive little retinol molecule in a protective lipid envelope. Retinol has many beneficial effects on the skin (like promoting new collagen and reducing its breakdown, to improve skin’s texture). You can read about all the benefits of retinol and the different types of vitamin A in our primer here.
Facts You Should Be Familiar With
When you finally make up your mind to get an anti-aging product, be familiar with all facts related to the application, effects, and results.
Price: Does It Matter?
People say, “The costlier the product, the better the results.” And “you get what you pay for.” Unfortunately, the first statement is not necessarily true, but the second one often is. Rather than judging a product by its high price tag, look for the list of ingredients. Are there clinically proven ingredients listed? And are those ingredients at the start of the list, or way down at the bottom? (If they’re closer to the end of the list, then they are going to be in very small amounts in your product.) For lower priced products, manufacturers have to cut production costs somehow, and the easiest way to do it is to use less effective (but cheaper) forms of certain ingredients, and also to reduce the amount of active ingredients in a product. Synergie Skin’s formulators choose to create products with high concentrations of active ingredients in the forms for which there is lots of scientific proof of their effectiveness. And while that means they’re priced above many chain store brands, they’re less than so-called ‘prestige’ lines, but actually more effective. This makes Synergie products a very cost-effective choice.
Active Ingredients: What is the right concentration?
As mentioned above, it’s a good idea to look at the ingredient list before you buy a cosmetic product. What do you see first? Active ingredients, right? Not necessarily! For great biological effects, active ingredients like antioxidants, retinol and other vitamins, peptides, and etc. should be placed near the top of the list. Their placement in the list indicates how much of that ingredient is in the product, so if an ingredient is near the bottom, there may not be enough to deliver optimal effects.
Effects: Does it happen overnight?
A fake ad on the television can be too good to be true. Remember, transformation does not happen overnight. Be patient and give the product some time to work efficiently. For example, Ultimate A Retinol Serum restores skin thickness, reduces the appearance of sun damage, fine lines, and hyperpigmentation, and promotes healthy oil levels. But the skin must pass through a full cycle to form new skin cells, so don’t expect it to produce visible change within days… it’s more likely take four weeks (or longer, the older you are). Be consistent with your daily skin care routine and expect to see results within a month or two for most products. The exception is vitamin B3 (niacinamide): this essential vitamin increases the skin’s own ceramides within a week or two, so with regular use, your skin will look dewy with a couple of weeks – assuming you’re using a product with a high concentration of niacinamide. Synergie’s Vitamin B Serum contains a massive 13% niacinamide, higher than any other product I’ve found.
Expert Recommendation: Is it important?
Anti-aging products work incredibly well to minimize the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, large pores and sagging skin and improve the surrounding support matrix of the skin. Before purchasing or using any anti-aging product, it’s helpful to get recommendations from a skin expert to learn what are the best anti-aging skin care products and which ones you should use for optimum results. We suggest you consult your aesthetician or dermatologist to find out the best products for your skin, or contact us for more information if you’re worried about skin sensitivities.
Types of Anti-Aging Skin Care Products
There are certain steps in your skin care routine that should be done no matter what your particular skin concern is. So just as with other skin care routines, an anti-aging skin care plan should include cleansing first, then the application of essential vitamins, and specialized serums, followed by a moisturizer. In the morning, we recommend using vitamin C (a potent anti-oxidant, and an important requirement for collagen health). Next, use SuperSerum+ anti-aging serum, containing a combination of six potent active ingredients. Follow that up with ÜberZinc moisturizing sunscreen or Reclaim Age Management Moisturizer (which combines moisturizing botanical oils with two active cosmeceutical ingredient that benefit collagen and help lift and firm the skin) and then a sun-blocking foundation. In the evening, after cleansing use Ultimate A and Vitamin B serums as your essential vitamins, then moisturize with either Reclaim, or – if you’re prone to very dry skin – Hydrolock Intense Moisturizer.
Check Synergie Skin’s range of products for aging skin and download our guide for your anti-aging skin care routine.
