Best Selling Anti-aging Creams
By mati. Filed in Skincare |Tags: Beauty, Skincare
While I was studying the products in Walgreens the other day, I asked the lady who runs the makeup and skincare department what their best selling products were, and it was no surprise to hear that it was anything anti-aging.
We are a culture of youth worshippers and we haven’t yet discovered any kind of beauty that is deeper than skin-deep. Whatever happened to worshipping your elders for their wisdom? Perhaps the wisdom is all gone, and now, only stupidity remains?
Anyway, I can understand that women want smooth skin – and I am no different. Inside, I’m as young as I always was, and outside, the skin shows that I have been around the block quite a few times…
So, what can we do about this? Are those anti-aging creams any good? When I took out my reading glasses and started looking at the label ingredients, here is what I found in the best selling brands:
Olay Regenerist @ $27.99/1.7oz
Contains glycerin, panthenol, hyoluronate, green tea, aloe vera, collagen, elastin, allantoin, B3, propyl and methyl parabens (high hazard) and phenoxyethanol. At least it contains not only chemicals, but also a few vitamins, humectants, anti-oxidants and even collagen for anyone who thinks it will make a difference. If you don’t mind carcinogenic parabens, it is not a bad product.
Loreal Revitalift @ $19.99/17oz
Contains algae extract, shea butter, sunflower seed oil, chemicals and methylparaben (high hazard preservative). I don’t see a lot of goodness in this one – and personally, I wouldn’t bother buying it. I’ll rather wait until they come up with a more natural alternative…
Garnier Nutritionist Regenerating Moisturizer
This cream contains only a handful of recognizable substances, like mica, glycerin and tomato extract. The rest are just chemicals. 12 of those are rated moderate hazard in the cosmetic database, and three of them are rated high hazard. I didn’t see anything in the ingredients that indicate any regenerating or anti-aging ingredients, so in my opinion, this one is just a waste of money.
In addition to these best sellers, I also found a brand that, based on the ingredients, seems to be a better product than all of the ones mentioned above. It is called:
ProVectin Plus by Skin Essentials, advanced wrinkle remover @ $29.99/6oz (great value).
It contains 3 different peptides for the people who believe in those –
Palmitoyl oligopeptide
palmitoyl tetra peptide
acetyl hexa peptide
In addition, it also contains hyaluronic acid, which is a humectant that can hold its own weight in water 1000 times and is supposed to help stimulate collagen production. Although it does contain carcinogenic parabens, propylene glycol (anti-freeze) and a long list of other unpronounceable chemicals, it also contains cocoa butter, mango butter, aloe, vitamin E/A/C (anti-oxidants), cucumber extract, green tea, grapeseed, peach, seaweed, lemon, calendula and gingko. So, if I were to buy one of these three, the ProVectin Plus offers more in terms of anti-aging ingredients, hydration, natural ingredients as well as value (amount of cream for the money), so this would be my number one anti-aging semi-natural product.
They also offer an eye cream for @ $19.99/1.3 oz – again good value for the money, since that is the price that is normally charged for ½ oz of eye cream.
I also found a paraben free anti-aging skincare line by Keri Glassman called Skin Appetit, nutria-collagen daily moisturizer. It is a skincare line made by a nutritionist who claims to use superfood nutrients in her products. And, yes, it is true, her products contain things like chamomile, comfrey, honey, blueberry extract, aloe vera, cocoa extract and walnut seed extract, but on the first half of her label there are only chemicals listed, like alkyl benzoate, ethyl hexyl palmitate, propylene glycol, PEG 100 stearate, dimethicone etc. Because these ingredients are at the beginning of the label, the cream base is obviously made from these components, and then the superfoods and herbs are added in small amounts to the end product. Although this is a common thing to do, it is not very nice to the consumer! It also contains acrylates, crosspolymers, phenoxyethanol and fragrance. Even though some of these chemicals are rated green by the cosmetic database, they are still chemicals that shouldn’t be in a so called natural skin cream made by a nutritionist. She is using her title as a nutritionist to give people the impression that her products are basically edible, which is an extremely misleading perception! According to the cosmetic database, this particular skin cream contains 4 high hazard ingredients, seven moderate hazard ones, and the rest green. For a skincare line that is made by a nutritionist, I am certainly not impressed! I expect more from someone who knows better!!!
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