5 Ingredients Your Anti-Wrinkle Products Must Have
 In this beauty issue:
- The 5 Ingredients your anti-wrinkle products must have
- Antioxidants, Skin-Identical ingredients, Cell-Communicating Ingredients, Sunscreen and AHA/BHA
- Why your skin needs these 5 ingredients
- What results you will see with daily use
Giving your skin the right ingredients it needs to be healthy, act younger, and appear less-wrinkled can give you some amazingly beautiful results. Here's what you need to know about what ingredients every state-of-the-art anti-aging product should absolutely contain, whether it's labeled as firming, lifting, re-sculpting, rejuvenating, anti-aging, and so on.
Skin needs a balanced mixture of powerful ingredients to improve the appearance of wrinkles, in much the same way as your body. If you only consumed one food or one vitamin you would soon be unhealthy. The same applies to skin! It's the body's largest o rgan and requires a complex range of ingredients to look beautiful and ward off the telltale signs of aging.
Looking for those types of ingredients is as close to anti-aging as you can possibly get in a product, and Fresh Team will help show you the way!
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Topically applied antioxidants are essential for skin and there are many brilliant ones that can and should show up in a skin care product. Antioxidants vary from different forms of vitamins A, C, and E; beta carotene; glutathione; selenium; green tea, soy extract, grape extract, pomegranate extract, among many others. An important fact to note is that the more anitoxidants that are included in your skincare product, the better!
- Antioxidants can:
- Reduce or prevent some amount of the daily free radical damage and inflammation that destroy skin over time.
- Boost the effectiveness of sunscreens and help skin resist environmental assaults.
- Help skin heal and produce healthy collagen.
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Skin-Identical Ingredients
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Healthy and young skin naturally contains substances that keep it smooth, retain water, protect from the environment, fight infection, and repair skin's actual outer and inner barrier structure. These ingredients range from ceramides to lecithin, glycerin, fatty acids, polysaccharides, hyaluronic acid, sodium PCA, collagen, elastin, proteins, amino acids, cholesterol, glycosaminoglycans, and many more.
- Skin-Identical ingredients function to:
- Provide skin with the ingredients it needs to repair its outer barrier; your skin can't hold moisture or look less wrinkled if the outside barrier of your skin is damaged.
- Mimic the actual structure of skin to prevent moisture loss and make skin look smooth.
- Help reinforce the skin's natural ability to function normally and fight environmental stress.
- Dramatically improve skin's texture and, with continued use, eliminate dry skin.
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Cell-Communicating Ingredients |
As a result of sun damage, age, and hormone fluctuations, skin cells become permanently damaged, which means they regenerate into irregular, rough and older cells. One way the skin can begin to produce healthier, younger cells is to give it substances that can communicate to a cell to stop making bad cells and start making better ones. The key ingredients in this group are niacinamide, retinol, synthetic peptides, lecithin, and adenosine triphosphate.
- Cell-communicating ingredients are believed to:
- Have the ability to tell a skin cell to look, act, and behave more like a normal, healthy intact skin cell would.
- Communicate with other cells that are causing damage, basically telling them to stop behaving badly.
- Reduce cellular damage that leads to destruction of skin's supportive elements, thus preventing significant wrinkles.
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Sunscreen - UVA & UVB Protection |
The sun ages the skin and causes skin cancer—in fact, sun is one of the most potent natural carcinogens around! About 75% of what we think of as aging is caused by unprotected sun exposure. Sun damage begins within the first minute of the skin being exposed to the sun. Other than sun smart behavior, use of a daily sunscreen is vital. To ensure you're getting sufficient UVA protection, your sunscreen must contain one or more of these active ingredients: titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, avobenzone, ecamsule, or Tinosorb.
- Daily use of a well-formulated sunscreen should:
- Prevent damage to your skin in the form of wrinkles, chronic inflammation and age spots.
- Adequately protect against both UVB (burning rays) and UVA (aging rays) sun damage—this is known as broad spectrum protection.
- Be rated a minimum of SPF 15.
- Remain the only real difference between a daytime moisturizer and a nighttime moisturizer.
Clinique
Sun SPF 30 Face Cream UVA/UVB
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Estee Lauder
Daywear Plus Lotion SPF15
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DDF
Moisturizing Photo-Age Protection SPF 30
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MD Skincare
Powerful Sun Protection SPF 25 Lip Balm
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Peter Thomas Roth
Max All Day Moisture Defense Cream SPF 30
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Clinique
City Block Sheer Oil-Free Daily Face Protector SPF 25
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Skin Ceuticals
Ultimate UV Defense SPF 30
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Clinique
Redness Solutions Daily Protective Base SPF 15
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Exfoliators: AHA & BHA |
There is no other part of a daily skin care routine can have the most immediate impact as gently exfoliating skin. Though there are a few different ways to exfoliate skin by far the most effective are alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs, with the most common ones being glycolic or lactic acid) and beta hydroxy acid (BHA's,with the active ingredient salicylic acid). The benefits of using a well-formulated AHA or BHA can be visible almost immediately.
We shed billions of skin cells every day. When that doesn’t occur in a normal manner, we`develop rough, hardened skin tha looks like leather. When we are young, skin cells are regenerated and turn over very quickly. As we age, the rate of skin cell renewal changes to every three weeks through our teens and 20s, and then slows as we get older due to sun damage and other factors such as menopause. Sun damage causes the outer layer of skin to thicken thus making it look more wrinkled. Exfoliation works to trigger skin cells to shed as they did when we were young.
Exfoliation is a key component for the health and appearance of your skin. It is necessary for most skin types and is as basic as a gentle cleanser, sunscreen, and the need for skin to get topically applied antioxidants!
- AHA's & BHA's can :
- Improve skin's condition over time by increasing the rate of cell turnover.
- Even the skintone of sun damaged skin. AHA's are suitable for sun damaged skin because they exfoliate on the surface of the skin.
- BHA is able to penetrate the oil in pores and exfoliate accumulated skin cells inside the oil gland.
- "Unglue" the outer layer of dead skin cells, allowing healthier cells to appear on the surface.
MD Formulations
Vit-A-Plus Anti-Aging Serum
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Murad
AHA Rapid Exfoliator - Regular Strength
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Shu Uemura
Phyto-Black Lift Radiance Boosting Lotion
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Skin Ceuticals
C+AHA Exfoliating Antioxidant Treatment
Fresh Price $211
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Peter Thomas Roth AHA/BHA Acne Clearing Gel
Fresh Price $81
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Estee Lauder
Idealist Dual Action Refinishing Treatment
Fresh Price $94
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DDF
Glycolic 10% Exfolating Moisturizer
Fresh Price $89
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Sircuit Skin Cosmeceuticals
4% Chocolate Lactic Acid Peel
Fresh Price $127
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