Best Antiaging Skin Creams

Some of the best antiaging skin creams available today take advantage of the latest scientifica research about how skin rejuvenates itself by creating collagen out of nutrient compounds. Lots of good science is available which shows that substances called pentatpeptides are used by the body to create collagen. Collagen is produced by the body to heal wounds of the skin. Collagen is also the substance in skin that keeps it elastic and youthful. The best antiaging creams contain enough pentatpeptides to stimulate collagen production when applied directly to the skin, thus reducing or eliminating the need for invasive plastic surgery.

Many of the best antiaging skin creams are advertised as noninvasive, natural alternatives to plastic surgery. Is this claim true? The answer is both yes and no. It is absolutely true that some of the wrinkly-relaxing creams do contain substances that can help the skin rebuild itself. Injecting collagen directly into the skin (as part of a surgical procedure) can erase fine lines and fill in wrinkles, but rubbing a substance into skin that is rich in collagen-stimulating nutrients can do the same thing naturally, without the injection. That is the idea behind the best antiaging creams.

On the other hand, no cream will have the dramatic instant results of an injection or a surgical procedure. The best antiaging creams appeal to customers anyway because they offer a natural, noninvasive alternative for people who want younger looking skin by don’t want to go to a cosmetic surgeon.

Wrinkle-relaxing creams have to be used daily over time, and most take at least a month to show results. Using a wrinkle-relaxing cream is a good, natural alternative to surgery, especially when the best antiaging skin creams are combined with changes in diet, an increase in water consumption, regular exercise, and eight hours or more of restful sleep every night. Users who also stop smoking and drink in moderation only can improve their skin even more rapidly.

The best antiaging skin creams are not cheap, but the consumer shopping for a great wrinkle-relaxing cream does have lots of good choices. It isn’t necessary to spend hundreds of dollars for a wrinkle-relaxing cream that contains pentatpeptides. Many cost less than $50 a jar (although the jars are small).

One of the most popular and heavily advertised of the wrinkle-relaxing creams is Regenerist by Olay, which retails for about $18 for 1.7 ounces. Regenerist contains palmitoyl pentapeptide-3 as its active ingredient, and works by stimulating collagen production in the areas of the skin where it is applied on a daily basis.

Wrinkle Control Intensely Lifting Eye Get by Revolox Costs $19.99 for half an ounce, and contains the active ingredient acetyl hexapeptide-3, which also stimulates collagen production when applied topically on a daily basis. A night cream that contains the same active ingredient is Principal Secret Reclaim Antiaging Night Cream, which costs about $40 for a one ounce jar.

Anew Clinical Line and Wrinkle Corrector by Avon costs $32 for a one ounce jar and contains active ingredients and also exfoliants like apple root extract, saccharomyces/pichia petone (a yeast complex), pomegranate juice, and oxa acid. The Anew wrinkle-relaxing cream is a good supplement to dietary and exercise changes, and contains lots of natural ingredients for customers who are drawn to more holistic practices and treatments.

On the high end of the price scale, two of the best antiaging skin creams are Strivectin-SD by Klein Blecker and Wrinkle Relax by Doctor’s Dermatologic Formula. Strivectin-SD is sold at the cosmetics counters of upscale department stores and contains the active ingredient oligopeptide palmitoyl. Strivectin got a lot of press when it first came out, and while it isn’t cheap, the jar is a generous 6 ounces. At $135 that’s just a little over $22 an ounce, which is not outrageous at all when compared to the drugstore creams.

Wrinkle Relax by Doctor’s Dermatologic Formula contains two active ingredients: acetyl hexapeptide-3, palimtoyl pentatpeptide-3, and retails for $75 for half an ounce. That’s pricey no matter how you look at it, but it does deliver twice as many pentatpeptides to skin as the other creams, so it is more concentrated.

These wrinkle-relaxing creams do take time to work. On average, the creams deliver preliminary results in about a month, with better results appearing over longer periods of time. A single Botox injection runs about $400 and takes up to three weeks to work. Collagen injections directing into the skin to fill in wrinkles cost $500 per injection and can be very expensive if multiple injections are necessary.

When the best antiaging creams are compared in cost to the most common outpatient cosmetic surgical procedures, they turn out to be relatively inexpensive options, and best of all, there are no needles involved. Combine the creams with skin-friendly lifestyle changes and they can make a noticeable difference in a matter of months.

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The Wikipedia page about Collagen