Best Beauty Products for Aging Skin

Best Beauty Products for Aging Skin
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There are thousands of beauty products available to help combat the signs of aging in your skin. This includes cosmetics that conceal and camouflage, as well as skin treatments like serums and creams that are designed to fix the underlying problem. For the best results for rejuvenating the health and appearance of aging, mature skin, choose a beauty product that's been recommended by skincare and beauty experts.

Benefit Firmology

Anti-aging skincare expert liked Benefit's inclusion of skin-conditioning ingredients like silicone in its serum. She says it gives your skin a silky feeling--the silicone helps fill in and smooth over wrinkles and fine lines--and a illuminated glow, thanks in part to its inclusion of cosmetic mineral pigments. Benefit also adds antioxidants and skin-nourishing ingredients like vitamin A and E--both may help fight wrinkles, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center--and hydrolyzed soy flour.

Yves Saint Laurent's Touche Éclat

YSL's concealer is the gold standard for concealers, reports Real Simple magazine's beauty editors in their roundup of the best concealers available. It's not a traditional concealer, acting more like a pigment-enhanced serum. The magazine says it can target nearly every sign of aging in your skin to help instantly perfect your complexion, including under-eye circles, skin tone discoloration, fine lines and wrinkles.

Clarins One-Step Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser

Begoun says Clarins uses a plant-based exfoliating agent to help slough off dead skin cells and lift away dirt and other impurities. After testing it, she reports that it's "very good." Regular exfoliating is one of the best at-home treatments for wrinkles, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, because it gets rid of surface damaged cells to expose new, non-wrinkled and unblemished skin cells.

Maybelline Dream Mousse Concealer

It's important that your makeup products don't sink into your wrinkles, or else they'll exacerbate your aged look instead of conceal it. When it comes to concealers for such mature skin, Maybelline's concealer is one of the best. It won an "Editors' Pick" award from InStyle magazine. The magazine loved its lightweight texture that smooths over your imperfections to help instantly hide them without settling into fine lines and wrinkles.

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Article reviewed by SaraJ Last updated on: Jul 14, 2010

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