Öko-Test in Germany has tested anti-aging creams on the ingredients. Conclusion: A price comparison is worthwhile, because expensive cosmetics is not automatically good.
Gives you the advertising slogans of the cosmetics industry faith, anti-aging creams are real magic. After four weeks should be used regularly fine lines and wrinkles smooth out considerably, so expect the manufacturer to customers. The evidence that anti-aging creams to bring more than ordinary care creams is not yet provided. Are creams for wrinkles so overpriced nonsense and they do harm the skin?
Wrinkles permanently sustained only by cosmetic surgery
Smooth, wrinkle-free skin is a sign of youth and beauty. Unfortunately, the elasticity of the skin decreases by 30 Age from. No later than the 40 show up to the eyes, forehead and around the mouth, the first visible wrinkles, there are the traces of lived life. Who wants to erase the signs and lines partout, can involve great expense and with some risk, bring back his youthful appearance with plastic surgeons.
Wrinkle injections, botox, natural fat-handling are just a few words in the vocabulary of cosmetic surgery. Except for the real facelift, the effects of the treatments for wrinkle reduction are unfortunately not last, under the injected substances are absorbed by the body, the wrinkles reappear after a few months. However, the methods of cosmetic surgery are much more effective than any anti-aging cream.
Anti-aging cream better than normal cream?
The cosmetic industry always mixed into new active ingredients in anti wrinkle creams. Against real wrinkles she has found to date, no panacea. Evidence that substances such as Q10, collagen, or so-called "Nano Parts," which should bring approached the vitamins to the cells, make a difference, is not provided by the manufacturers.
Expensive anti-aging creams is not what they promise and are no better than ordinary care creams, which provides least eco-Test Sun The magazine has been studied in a recent survey, 20 anti-wrinkle creams. Here, the effectiveness of the creams was checked, but found that these harmful substances. According to the motto: If anti-aging creams do not help better than normal creams for wrinkles, then they should at least do not harm the skin.
Expensive anti-wrinkle cream is not necessarily better
Almost half of the tested creams fared very well, but the grade five products were insufficient. Among the winners and losers both expensive and cheap anti-wrinkle cream. The best value for money achieved the cream of the drugstore chain dm. "Vital Activating Balea Day Cream for Mature Skin" received a "very good" and unbeatable cost € 2.45 per 50 milliliters. By contrast section "lipofilling Lierac Anti-Age Lifting low volume correction" beginning with insufficient. It costs 72 € per 50 milliliters and is sold in pharmacies.
Harmful Ingredients in Anti-aging creams
Most of the low marks creams containing problematic substances, such as polycyclic musk compounds that accumulate in fatty tissue and are excreted in breast milk. Also led to a devaluation of the presence of more than 1% of crude oil derivatives and silicones as well as the ingredient polyethylene glycol, PEG shortly. The latter is often used in creams as cheap to produce emulsifier. PEG can decay when exposed to UV radiation in highly reactive hydro-peroxides. This can cause the skin to the dreaded "Mallorca acne". Who eincremt So with PEG-containing cream, should avoid the sun, an anachronism.
Spending more on anti-aging creams are senseless, nor is there any relation between the price and quality. Who will care for his skin with ordinary creams, has already done much for themselves.