What is the best anti-wrinkle cream?

To buy a good anti-wrinkle cream one must read the product label looking for ingredients such as Growth Factors, Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C and Retinol because these are essential to keep the skin firm, without wrinkles, hydrated and fight the spots that appear due to sun exposure.

Anti-wrinkle creams when used daily, from the age of 30, have excellent results in the firmness and beauty of the skin since they have the ingredients that facilitate the formation of new cells, new blood vessels and new collagen and elastin fibers, which they give firmness and support to the skin.

So, to buy a good anti-wrinkle cream you must read the product label and know exactly what your skin needs. Look:

What ingredients to look for on the label

To make sure you are making a good purchase you should read the product label and look for the following ingredients:

Epidermal growth factor (EGF): Renews cells, creates new collagen and elastin fibers, reducing and preventing the formation of wrinkles Insulin growth factor (IGF): Promotes the creation of new collagen and elastin fibers, decreases wrinkles and increases skin firmness Fibroblastic growth factor (a FGF or b FGF): Promotes the creation of new fibroblast fibers, excellent in healing the skin after peeling, for example Endothelial Vascular Growth Factor (VEGF): Promotes the formation of new blood vessels, essential to nourish the new cells, regenerating and firming the skin Transformation growth factor: Stimulates the production of the cellular matrix, preventing fibrosis Hyaluronic acid: Deeply hydrates the skin, attracting water molecules to the skin Vitamin C: Stimulates collagen synthesis, is antioxidant, protects the skin from the sun, helps to heal and lightens dark circles and dark spots Retinol: Stimulates the formation collagen, providing firmer skin and improving facial blood supply, while smoothing wrinkles DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol lactate): Promotes cell renewal, increasing ceramide levels, and has a whitening effect Vitamin E: Helps healing, reduces sun damage and decreased elastin Matrixyl Sinthe 6: I deal to fill in wrinkles, evens skin and stimulates collagen synthesis Sun protection: To protect skin from the effects of UV rays that favor the formation of wrinkles

The dermatologist or physiotherapist specialized in aesthetics can personally indicate the best product for each person, after observing some characteristics such as age, presence of wrinkles or expression lines, types of wrinkles, habit of using cream daily or not, skin tone and presence of spots or dark circles, for example.

Wrinkle creams that contain neurotoxins like Ageless, contain Argireline, are not recommended as the only treatment against wrinkles because they have a paralyzing action, preventing the correct muscle contraction, which initially may seem to improve wrinkles, in a Cinderella effect, in fact it leaves the skin even more flabby and fragile in the long run. In addition, its effect decreases and lasts a maximum of 6 hours, being necessary to reapply the product several times a day.

How to apply the anti-wrinkle cream correctly

Applying the anti-wrinkle cream correctly is essential for it to have the expected effect. For this, it is recommended to follow these steps:

Wash your face with water and moisturizing soap, or clean your skin with a moisturizing cleanser and a piece of cotton Apply a moisturizing facial cream with sun protection all over your face, neck and neck; Apply the eye contour cream, starting at the inner corner of the eye and going towards the end of each eyebrow. Then with spiral movements insist on the 'crow's feet' regions Apply the cream directly on the wrinkles or expression lines, with circular movements across the crease, from bottom to top and then with 'opening' motion, as if trying to do the wrinkle disappears; Apply whitening cream to darker areas such as freckles, spots and dark circles.

The amount of cream to be put in each region is small, with about 1 drop the size of 1 pea in each area.

If you want to apply makeup, it should be applied over all these creams.

Why use creams on different areas of the face

It is necessary to use different creams, using one only for the eye area, another only on top of the wrinkles and and a general cream for the other areas such as forehead, chin and cheeks because each of these parts of the face needs a different treatment.

Using eye cream on every face can be a waste of product, but using a moisturizing body cream on every face can have no effect in fighting wrinkles and expression lines. Find out what each area really needs:

Around the eyes

Around the eyes the skin is thinner and tends to stick with the famous 'crow's feet' because it is common for these muscles to contract to try to protect the eyes from the sun or to force the eyes to see better. So this is one of the first regions to have sagging skin and wrinkles.

Use: Creams with sunscreen, but specific for the eyes that have growth factor that guarantee the formation of cells that give firmness and elasticity to the skin.

In the expression lines:

These appear around the smile after a good laugh and can be seen more easily when waking up after a night of little rest. It is also common for them to appear between the eyebrows, after trying to protect the eyes from the sun, without sunglasses, but they disappear when stretching the skin.

Use: Cream with sunscreen, hyaluronic acid and DMAE

In creased wrinkles:

The deepest wrinkles, which do not disappear when trying to stretch the skin, usually appear after the age of 45, but it can appear earlier in people who do not use moisturizing creams and who are frequently exposed to the sun, without sun protection.

Use: Anti-aging creams with growth factors that can fill in wrinkles, making the skin firmer and more uniform.

In dark circles, darker areas, spots or freckles:

These areas need lightening and sun protection to prevent them from getting even darker.

Use: Cream with sunscreen and products with lightening action on the skin, such as vitamin C or DMAE.

Another important precaution is to observe if the cream is to be used during the day or at night, because the time of action of the night products are longer and can act during the whole sleep, when there is not so much contraction of the muscles of the face. Creams to use during the day usually have sun protection.

Other anti-wrinkle treatments

In aesthetic physiotherapy there are several techniques that can be used with specific massages, traction, mobilization of the fascia and myofascial release in addition to equipment such as laser and radiofrequency that have excellent results in combating wrinkles, with lifting effect, postponing the need to use Botox or plastic surgery.

The sessions last about half an hour and can be held once a week and the results are cumulative, but the effects can be seen right at the end of the first session.