What alternatives do you have to anti aging facial treatments?

Anti aging facial treatments are big business nowadays and there are many many anti aging facials to choose from, some extremely expensive. And we’re not saying that these facial treatments are all bad, just that there may be better ways to achieve the same result at a much lower cost.

An anti aging facial can involve a considerable amount of time as well as expense. A facial may well include a range of different skin treatments including skin exfoliation to remove dead skin cells, an extraction to open the pores and clean the skin, facial massage and sometimes a range of masks and peels. Whilst you may enjoy having an anti aging facial you may find that it’s very expensive.

The purpose of an anti aging facial treatment is to clean the skin and nourish it to produce clear healthy skin. It’s intended to make your skin glow with health and feel great.

Lets see if there is another way to achieve the same result at a much lower cost and to produce a result that is more long-lasting.

The best way to have clear, healthy and glowing skin is to improve your overall skin health. As you age your skin starts to lose some essential components that contribute to skin health such as collagen and elastin. Aging and a reduction in skin health and in particular in skin elasticity means that your skin starts to show the signs of aging such as skin sagging and wrinkles.

Is it possible to combat this? Yes it is. And if you are able to achieve better skin health overall then this will be much more permanent than the results of an anti aging facial treatment.

So how do you achieve better skin health and at a reasonable cost? Here’s a few things that you need to understand about skin health that will help.

The first of these is that skin health reduces with age but it is not just age that contributes to a reduction in skin health. There’s a range of other lifestyle factors all of which help reduce overall skin health as you age. Here’s the things that you need to do to achieve better skin health right throughout your life to keep signs of skin aging at bay better than any anti aging facial treatment could ever do.

1. One of the biggest contributing factors to skin health, as well as to your overall health, is your diet. Many people understand that what you eat contributes to your general health, but don’t make the connection to their skin health.

A diet high in fresh fruit and vegetables is also high in essential nutrients as well as a wide range of antioxidants, all of which are very important to optimum skin health.

Skin is just like the other organs in your body. The good health of your skin depends on what you eat. And because skin is the most visible organ of your body then what you eat shows to everybody.

If you live on a diet of burgers and pizza this will show in your skin. You can’t have a healthy glowing skin on pizzas and burgers.

2. Exercise is also something that is overlooked when it comes to skin health. Whilst most people understand that exercise is important to overall health many do not consider the importance of exercise to skin health. Just as with diet, how much exercise you get in your life will show in your skin.

Exercise improves the circulation of the blood and this is very important to skin health.

3. One of the worst things you can do to your skin is to smoke. Smoking damages your skin and is about the fastest way to show your age prematurely.

If you’re interested in the best skin health then don’t smoke.

4. Almost as bad as smoking is getting sunburned. Sunburn is terrible for your skin and just like smoking and sunburn will age your skin prematurely. It is very important to avoid getting burnt.

If you’re out in the sun in the middle of the day, particularly in summer, make sure you wear a hat and a shirt. If you can’t do this then use sunscreen however it is better, if you can, to cover up.

5. Use anti aging skin care products that help improve overall skin health. We previously mentioned one of the most significant factors in skin ageing, namely the loss of collagen and elastin with age.

There are excellent natural anti aging skin care products which help stimulate the skin to produce more of it’s own collagen and elastin and by doing this skin will start to improve it’s elasticity and an improvement in skin elasticity will help reduce the visible signs of skin aging, skin sagging and wrinkles.

If you follow that 5 step program you’re well on the way to better skin health. Your skin will look better and feel better. You will achieve much more than you will simply by getting the occasional anti aging facial treatment.

And you’ll be much healthy generally and you’ll save plenty of money. Read the rest of this entry

Want to know more about the down side of anti aging skin creams? (And the upside)?

If you’re worried about your gradual ageing then you may be much more interested in anti aging skin creams than you were when you were in your 20s. The more you see the visible effects of ageing on your skin the more you begin to think about your aging skin and what to do about it.

Chances are you’ve spent hours reading the advertisements, browsing the shelves of your department store and reading women’s magazines to try and determine whether any of the anti aging skin cremes on the market actually work. There are hundreds or even thousands of aging skin care products that make all sorts of promises about reversing the effects of ageing on your skin, and the reality is that many do very little.

Unfortunately the problem is that the market for antiaging products is enormous and is worth billions of dollars. In any industry where there is that much money to be made there will be companies, often the biggest and most profitable companies, who focus on the profit rather than the product. That’s true in the anti aging and skin care industry just as it is in many other industries.

The result is a plethora of new and supposedly wonderful skin care products which are advertised to reverse premature skin aging and make you look 30 years younger. The reality is in many cases they do very little.

The reason is that it is very easy to make huge amounts of money by making a poor quality product that costs very little and then spending big dollars advertising it. Advertising of skin care products, particularly on television using big name stars, is highly effective and sells millions of dollars worth of products, many of which are worthless.

That’s the bad about the skincare and anti-aging industry. Most of the big players are prepared to spend as little as possible on product quality and as much as possible on advertising because it works to make big dollars.

Now for the ugly. Not only do many of the glitzy anti aging skin creams that you see advertised do very little for your skin, they can also be damaging to your health and your skin as well.

There are many products that contain chemical ingredients which are known to cause cancer and a range of other health problems and which are also known to irritate your skin. There are petrochemical products such as mineral oil and petrolatum in anti aging skin creams and these are known to be dangerous when applied to the skin and in some cases are banned in Europe for this reason.

The reason for this is the same. These ingredients are extremely cheap to use whereas safer alternatives which are known to be effective at promoting better skin health are much more expensive. If you’d like to find out more read some of the articles listed under the categories at the right.

Now to the good news. What I said above does not apply to all anti aging products. There are companies that seek to produce high quality products and which have a different business philosophy to most of the big players. These companies, one small one in particular, seek to produce high quality products with ingredients which are known to be extremely effective at promoting skin health and which are also known to be safe.

The products that these companies make are much more expensive to produce. However they are cost competitive to buy for one reason.

These companies rarely advertise. If these companies were to produce expensive products and also to engage in television advertising to compete with the big players they would be unable to market their products at a price that was competitive in the market place. However by saving the money they would have spent on advertising and applying that to product quality they are able to produce a much higher quality product and still sell it at a comparable price.

But of course because these companies don’t advertise you won’t see anything about their products in the magazines or on the television and so chances are you won’t know them.

These companies rely on their products doing the talking. The companies understand that slow organic growth of customers who buy the products and who use them for life is still an effective long-term business strategy.

One company in particular takes this to the extreme and even offers a 100 percent money back guarantee on all of their natural anti aging skin creams (all of which are highly effective and safe to use) which allows a potential customer to try the products knowing that they have the money back guarantee to rely on if they wish.

This company honors it’s guarantee in full but is rarely called on to refund any money as customers are invariably extremely happy with the products.

I believe this company makes the finest anti aging skin creams in the world however it’s unlikely that most people will be using them any time soon because they don’t advertise.

That’s the good, the bad and the ugly of anti aging skin creams. Read the rest of this entry