The Best Rated Drug Store Brands Of Anti-aging Creams

You don't need to spend all your money on expensive department store-brand skincare products. Many skincare treatments found in your drugstore's aisles contain effective ingredients designed to combat signs of aging, like fine lines and wrinkles. But don't believe the advertiser's hype. For the most effective anti-aging results, choose a skincare cream that's been recommended by skincare and beauty experts.

Clarins Renew-Plus Night Lotion

Clarins enhances its anti-aging cream with a form of vitamin A, which the University of Maryland Medical Center says can be extremely helpful for limiting wrinkles and other forms of skin aging. Anti-aging skincare expert Paula Begoun tested the cream and called it very good, thanks to its moisturizing ingredients, herbal extracts and antioxidants.

Olay Total Effects

Olay offers several anti-aging creams under its Total Effects product line, which comes recommended by "Shape" magazine due to its use of lots of vitamins. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, topical vitamin products may help repair and defend the skin from new damage that contributes to wrinkles. Although specific formulas vary according to the specific cream's use—for example, the Total Effects eye cream varies slightly from the face cream—they all share beneficial ingredients, like vitamin E and B antioxidants, green tea extract and skin-conditioning silicone.

Neutrogena Visibly Even Daily Moisturizer SPF 30

Few products combat aging as effectively as a sunscreen, since the sun's UV rays are a major cause of most skin damage. Neutrogena's sun-protecting cream is one of the best, according to Begoun, who loved its broad-spectrum protection derived from a proprietary sunscreen complex and avobenzone. This gives it an SPF that's twice the minimum recommendation set by the American Cancer Society. Additionally, Neutrogena adds soybean seed extract, which Begoun says is effective as an antioxidant.

Olay Definity Restorative Night Cream

As your skin ages, it loses collagen and that can lead to sagging and other poor skin conditions. Olays' cream helps improve collagen thanks to a hefty dose of glucosamine, which leads "InStyle" magazine to call it 2010's best night cream. It also includes light diffusers, such as mica mineral pigments, to cosmetically even out your skin tone. Additional beneficial ingredients include several forms of wrinkle-smoothing silicone, wrinkle-fighting vitamin E and skin-soothing aloe vera juice.