Anti-aging skin care products

Choosing the right product that suits your skin type and needs can indeed delay skin aging and improve mild to moderate fine lines.； If you make the wrong choice or expect it to reverse real wrinkles and replace medical beauty, then it is an IQ tax.

A while ago, I helped my best friend in my third year of work choose a birthday gift. She spent all her $3,000 budget on anti-aging. After reading Xiaohongshu for three days, I almost felt emo: Some people said that Vitamin A is the anti-aging ceiling, and vitamin A milk worth more than 100 yuan is more effective than essence worth thousands of yuan.； Someone said for a while that Bosein is the king, and anyone who doesn’t buy 30% concentration is a hooligan. ； There are also dermatology bloggers who directly throw cold water on it, saying that no matter what you apply, it is better to do Thermage once a year. Skin care products are all psychological comfort. You see, they all talk about anti-aging, but what people in different circles say can be vastly different.

The group of friends around me who are obsessed with ingredients are staunch "raw material bucket believers". They talk about the three golden tracks of the vitamin A family, Bosein, and peptides. Even my dressing table is filled with half a table of retinol essences of different concentrations. To be honest, I have been using retinol night cream with a concentration of 0.3% for half a year. The two dry lines on the corners of my mouth caused by laughing every day have indeed faded a lot. However, my colleague with sensitive skin followed suit and bought the same product. After applying it twice, he broke out into a red rash on his face. He went to the hospital and prescribed ointment for a week before it disappeared. Even within the constituent parties, there is fierce strife: Some people think that A-alcohol is very cost-effective and even the student party can afford it. ； Some people advise people with sensitive skin not to touch alcohol. Mild peptides such as acetyl hexapeptide-8 are the ultimate snake oil. ； Some people only recognize Bose, saying that the effect of promoting collagen production is the most intuitive, but it is expensive. Everyone has a jar of black bandage with a concentration of 30%. However, many people are angry, saying that the affordable version with a concentration of 10% is enough for daily skin care, and the extra money spent is all brand premium.

I had dinner with a R&D engineer of a domestic product before, and he complained with a curled lip that consumers are now being deceived by ingredient marketing, and no one cares about the formula and penetration-promoting technology. It is also a 5% concentration of Bose. Some brands use liposome encapsulation technology to deliver it to the dermis, and some formulas have molecules so large that they can only float on the surface of the skin. After application, it is no different than applying a layer of ordinary moisturizer. He also showed me the test data from their laboratory: the same anti-aging cream was applied by someone and massaged along the skin texture for 3 minutes, and the absorption rate was 27% higher. Another person applied a layer of it on his face after washing his face and then lay down and swiped his phone. The effect was not even half as good. I suddenly remembered the lady's face cream that my mother saved up money to buy a few years ago. She would smear it all over her face as big as a soybean grain. After using it for half a year, it had no effect. Later, I gave her a peptide face cream worth more than 100 yuan, forcing her to use the size of a one-yuan coin each time. After using it for a month, she told me that her face felt a lot tighter. The product was useless, and the amount was not enough.

If you ask a dermatologist in a public hospital, you will probably get a more direct answer: skin care products can only solve dry lines and fine lines, and slow down the loss of collagen. If you have static forehead wrinkles, nasolabial folds, or the skin has obvious sagging, no matter how many anti-aging products you apply, it is useless. It is better to directly consider medical beauty projects. I went for a skin test last year, and the doctor pointed to the small dry lines under my eyes and said that applying eye cream can improve them. If they turn into real wrinkles, they can only have Botox or fillers, and no skin care products can reverse them. He also added that if you spend thousands of dollars on anti-aging essence, you might as well make sure you apply enough sunscreen every day when you go out and don't stay up late at night. If you make these two habits, they will be more effective than any anti-aging product.

I have been through a lot of pitfalls in the past two years. I followed the trend and used high-concentration fruit acids for anti-aging. I thinned my cuticles and took care of them for more than half a year. Now I don’t have to worry about choosing anti-aging skin care products. Don’t bother with expensive anti-aging products before you are 25. Sunscreen and moisturizing are the most economical anti-aging methods.； If you are 25 to 35 years old and don’t have sensitive skin, try low-concentration alcohol A or peptide essence. If you have sensitive skin, choose Bose-based products. Don’t use strong medicines. ； If you are over 35 years old and are pursuing obvious improvement effects, it is better to allocate half of your budget for anti-aging creams to medical beauty. Using them together will give you much faster results than applying tens of thousands of dollars of cream.

In fact, there is no standard answer to the matter of anti-aging. Some people are willing to spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy lady face cream and apply it happily. Some people think that a few dozen yuan of vitamin A milk is enough. As long as you are comfortable using it and your skin condition is stable to a level you are satisfied with, it is better than anything else. There is no need to be bound by marketing rhetoric.