Does Anti Aging Cream Work At All?

Reversing the effects of age on your appearance is a very popular topic today.  With the first of the Baby Boomer generation coming into the retirement age, there are more and more people that are interested in finding ways to look younger.

There are thousands of different anti-aging creams available on the market today.  Since women are especially concerned with the effects of age to their skin, most of these anti-aging creams are targeted towards the women market, but many men have turned to them as well.

Do does the anti aging creams work at all?

Most of these products promises reduced wrinkles, which normally can be noticed after a short use of the cream.

However, there aren’t any known anti-aging creams that will actually eliminate wrinkles or otherwise permanently reverse the aging effects to the skin.

The facial creams remove layers of dead skin from the surface, and hydrate the lower layers giving them a plumper and fuller look that helps reduced the appearance of those wrinkles.

The wrinkles are not permanently removed, and will reappear after the discontinued use of the skincare product.  Therefore, you have to keep applying the cream everyday.

These creams are not cheap, and it is expensive to maintain the effect.

You can still achieve the same effect by using the less expensive type of moisturizers.

The only anti-aging cream ingredient that was proven scientifically are vitamin C and E, and also the Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA).

Though these three ingredients have been proven to work, there are also many other ingredients that will produce similar effects as well.

The result differs user to user and it is good to try out different brands and see which is the best for you.

The other two most effective things you can do to slow down the appearance of wrinkles is avoid smoking, and to apply sunscreen at the beginning of everyday if you plan on being outside for more than fifteen minutes.

SPF 15 or higher is recommended here.  It looks good to be tan, but excessive UV exposure is a sure way to bring on wrinkled skin before its time.

Hgh. Can It Really Work As An Effective Anti Aging Product?

There have been several clinical studies of HGH (human growth hormone), mainly of the injectable variety, and the results have been amazing.

The results of those studies have been interpreted by some manufacturers to claim that HGH can effectively roll back the years and defeat the aging process. The positive benefits now widely attributed to the use of HGH include:

Enhanced Memory

Improve skin texture and vitality

Skin Wrinkling reductions

Reduce Fat comined with Gained Muscle

Improvements in sleep

Enhanced Energy Levels

Reduction ofAches and Pains

Increased Libido and enhanced Sexual Performance

New manufacturing and marketing companies have been created to take advantage of this mushrooming “Human Growth Hormone” market.

The measurable and statistically sound results were seized upon by the new HGH manufacturers. Their key selling point was that their product could roll back the years and defeat the effects of aging. Sadly, a proportion of them have produced products containing no evidence of efficacy or no independent clinical evidence that their product actually worked.

As a result, it is claimed that there are HGH products now available which, although they do contain the correct ingredients, they are in such small quantities that they will have no effect. Some other products contain largely the wrong ingredients, and others have the right HGH ingredients but in the wrong proportions, so that they have little or no potency.

Homeopathic Confusion But some writers on this subject have gone overboard in their condemnation of the manufacturers. I have seen numerous articles claiming that HGH manufacturers are nothing short of crooks because they are selling HGH in such low concentrations that it is totally impossible for it to work. These people are ignoring the fact that homeopathic practitioners claim that the lower the dosage, the higher the potency of the product!

Actually, I have heard precisely the same criticisms used to target manufacturers of other products over the last thirty years, long before HGH was commercially available.

To supply homeopathic products is not illegal, and many dedicated users of homeopathic products are also top figures in society, and they are not likely to be casual where their health is concerned.

Several members of my own royal family (I am British) are ardent supporters of homeopathic medicine, even though they also retain knowledgeable and expensive doctors to look after them too.

The argument thirty years ago was exactly the same as it is today -that it is just impossible for Homeopathic HGH to work. Article writers imply that the Human Growth Hormone concentrations are impossibly low, so low that it is almost certain that there is not a single molecule of the product in any particular dose.

My problem is, my scientific brain tells me they are right, it can’t work!

But my logical brain knows that millions of intelligent people use homeopathic products, often for many years. Why would anyone continue to use a product that clearly didn’t work when there is usually another product available that will? Are they all crazy except for me?

“Ah” I hear you say. “It only works because they want it to work, it’s all in the mind” Well I’ve heard that one too, but I’ve also heard of horses and dogs being successfully treated with homeopathic remedies. I really can’t believe that someone somehow has managed to convince a horse that he’ll feel better by drinking some homeopathic water!

But back to HGH. I have an extensive HGH web-site containing lots of free information and a few HGH product recommendations too. But I am now selecting what I recommend on my web site using a much broader set of tests than those used by others.

My parameters include the numbers being sold (particularly re-orders by existing HGH product users), and feedback from satisfied and dissatisfied purchasers. I also take into account HGH product testimonials on manufacturers’ web sites (they’re suspect, I know), and also the very high volume of comment on the web in forums, social sites etc I only take into account unbiased and reasoned comment. I also use the supplier’s quality of service - like quick deliveries, rapid response to enquiries, warranties and so on.

That last one is so important. Why is it so wrong to treat adults like adults and give them the chance to make up their own minds? If they buy a product with a “money back if not satisfied” guarantee, so that they can protect themselves from disappointment, what right have writers, politicians and big business to make their minds up for them!

Whoops, I’m in danger of drifting into another debate here, that of the big pharmaceuticals companies who dominate government policy and unfairly influence decisions which (accidentally of course) damage or destroy their competition - the small independent nutritional supplement and alternative medicine manufacturers and distributors. I’ll save that rant for another article (after I’ve engaged a top lawyer)