What Are the Best Anti-Aging Skin Care Products?

What Are the Best Anti-Aging Skin Care Products?
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Aging affects everyone, and many people will spend lots of money to try and limit its effects on their skin. The University of Florida estimates that the annual sales of anti-aging skin care products is more than $60 billion dollars. Don't waste your money on ineffective products. Instead, choose anti-aging treatments that have earned the praise of beauty and skin care experts.

Elizabeth Arden Prevage Eye Anti-Aging Moisturizing Treatment

Skin care expert Paula Begoun tested Elizabeth Arden's anti-aging eye treatment and found it exceptional. Its formula is "impressive," she says, thanks to antioxidants like idebenone, plus emollients and skin conditioners. The University of Maryland Medical Center states that antioxidants can effectively help combat wrinkles and other signs of aging. Begoun also liked its inclusion of mineral pigments like titanium dioxide, which instantly brighten your skin tone and even out your complexion.

Decleor Vitaroma Lift Total

Nothing lifts skin like a surgical lifting procedure, but some lifting effects can be accomplished at home for a much lower price. "Shape" magazine's beauty editors highlight Decleor's lifting cream as one of the best facial skin care products, liking its exfoliating action and skin-tightening results. Beneficial ingredients include a wide range of natural moisturizers like sunflower oil, which helps plump your cells with moisture for less apparent fine lines. It also includes antioxidant-rich grapefruit extract, vitamin A—this can help reduce wrinkles, according to the University of Maryland—and algae extract.

Garnier Nutritioniste Nutri-Pure Microbead Cream Scrub

Garnier's cream scrub uses polyethylene beads to slough off dead skin cells, reports Begoun. Such beads are gentler than rough abrasives, like apricot kernels, so it exfoliates with less risk of damaging your skin. Besides lifting away dead skin and dirt, which can dull your complexion, exfoliating also helps limit the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Garnier doesn't use oil in its facial scrub, so it won't provoke a breakout.

Biotherm Source Therapie

"Shape" magazine loved the skin-conditioning benefits of the Biotherm serum, suggesting that users apply it in conjunction with other anti-aging products. The lighweight serum helps moisturize your skin while Begoun says its marine ingredients like algae, which "Shape" also praised, are intended to help prolong the life of your skin cells to help limit the appearance of new damage.

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Article reviewed by Christine Brncik Last updated on: Jul 13, 2010

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