Can anti-aging skin care products really fight aging?

The answer is, "It does work if you choose the right one, but don't expect it to lift your skin, remove wrinkles, and rejuvenate you overnight."

I have been working in the skin care industry for six or seven years, from off-the-shelf anti-aging essences to customized models in theaters. I have seen too many people take extreme views on this matter: either touting anti-aging skin care products as a magic medicine that can eliminate real wrinkles and change the face shape, or to just beat them to death. It is better to save money for medical beauty than to apply anything. In fact, both ideas are a bit biased.

We must first clarify what we mean by "skin aging": superficial dryness and roughness, dullness after sun exposure, temporary dry lines caused by staying up late, and true lines caused by the loss of collagen in the dermal layer, and face sagging caused by loose fascial layers, are not the same thing at all. There is a limit to the penetration of skin care products, which can only affect the superficial layers of the dermis. If you use it to deal with deep-seated looseness, it will definitely be in vain. I worked on a project for seven days recently, and now I have three small fine lines, and my face has collapsed like a deflated balloon. During that time, I applied a thick layer of cream containing 30% Bosein every night, and added peptide essence. In less than a week, all the dry lines disappeared, and my face became much tighter. This is a real anti-aging effect. You can't say that the thousands of yuan I spent on the cream was a psychological comfort, right?

But if you expect to use skin care products to get rid of nasolabial folds and real crow’s feet at the corners of your eyes that have been there for five or six years, then you are really overthinking. My best friend just couldn't bear to do Thermage last year, so she spent more than 20,000 yuan to stock up on a complete set of anti-aging products from a top luxury brand. She applied it for three months to see if the apples of her skin should droop or droop, and her nasolabial folds were not faded at all. In the end, she obediently pooled the money to do the project. After the project, she came back and complained to me that if she had known that she could save half the money on skin care products, she would have completed the project a long time ago.

This does not mean that skin care products can only deal with minor problems. Its core function is actually to "slow down the pace of aging." It is a bit like oiling your leather shoes regularly. It cannot make the leather shoes forever old, but it can make them wear for three to five years longer than the same model that does not care for maintenance, and the quality will be much newer. My mother is 58 years old. She has been applying retinol cream every day since she was in her early 40s and always wears sunscreen when going out. Now, like the aunties of the same age in the same neighborhood, the wrinkles on her face have been reduced by at least half, and her skin is firmer. This is the advantage of using anti-aging skin care products all year round. It cannot freeze your age, but it can make you look three to five years younger than your peers. It is really not difficult.

Nowadays, many people think that anti-aging skin care products are useless. In essence, they have raised their expectations due to the excessive promotion of the brand, and equated its effect with medical beauty. To put it bluntly, anti-aging skin care products are a daily basic item. As long as you choose the right ingredients and insist on using them, they will definitely be effective. If you hold on to the expectation that you will have to change your face after applying them for half a month, you will most likely be disappointed.