Anti-Aging Skin Care Ingredients

At present, anti-aging ingredients that have been clinically verified by multiple centers around the world and can truly be used in daily skin care only have about a dozen types in the three directions of "intercepting free radical damage", "repairing damaged collagen/DNA" and "replenishing the lost matrix of the dermal layer". 90% of the niche and rare anti-aging ingredients that are highly praised on the market have not made it out of the cell experiment stage. Ordinary people do not need to pay the premium.

Last week, I helped my younger sister who had just turned 30 clean up the dressing table. She had half a drawer of anti-aging essences, such as "alpine edelweiss stem cells" and "deep sea macroalgae anti-aging factors." I checked the patent number printed on the bottle. It was just a packaging patent. Half a bottle cost more than 3,000 yuan. After three months of use, the dry lines at the corners of her eyes looked like this, and she was so depressed that she shut up. She was so angry that she died on the same day.

When it comes to serious and useful ingredients, retinol is probably the most out-of-the-box. The number of endorsements from academic circles is higher than that at the skin care product counter. However, the debate about its use in the skin care circle is so loud that it can knock the roof off: the strong medicine school believes that it needs to be concentrated and applied every day. If it does not peel, it will not be effective.； Conservative dermatologists have repeatedly emphasized that a concentration of 0.05%-0.1% is enough for normal healthy skin, and 2-3 times a week is enough for sensitive skin. Two years ago, I didn’t believe in evil. I bought 0.3% industrial-grade A-alcohol essence from overseas. After applying it for three days, my face was swollen like a bee sting. It took half a month for it to heal. Later, I honestly switched to the 0.05% low-concentration version. I persisted for half a year. When I smiled, the dry lines at the corners of my eyes were really faded, and the pores were also much finer. And now the latest research has also slapped the strong drug school in the face: after the concentration of alcohol A exceeds 0.1%, the transdermal rate will not increase, but the irritation will triple. There is no need to chase the higher level.

If you really can’t stand the stinging and peeling effects of alcohol A, there is no need to bear it. Many people will switch to the camp of peptides. However, peptides are more controversial than alcohol A: one group says it is a gentle killer in the anti-aging world. It can be used by sensitive skin without building tolerance. It can directly send signals to cells to produce collagen.； The other group directly exposed that the molecular weight of most peptides exceeds 500 daltons and cannot even penetrate the stratum corneum. If applied, it will be in vain. In fact, both of these statements are correct. Currently, only a few peptides such as acetyl hexapeptide-8 and palmitoyl pentapeptide-4 have sufficient human clinical data support, and they must be added to a concentration of more than 3% to be effective. Those who boast that they have added peptides but the ingredient list is listed behind preservatives are basically just a marketing concept. I have been in trouble before and bought a hexapeptide essence from a certain Internet celebrity brand. 15ml sold for more than 200. I checked the record and found out that the added amount was only 0.01%. After using it for two months, there was no change. Later, I changed to one with a 5% added amount. After using it for more than a month, the wrinkles on my forehead have really faded.

Many people don't want to use A-ol and feel that peptides are slow to take effect, so they choose Bose. This ingredient is quite controversial. Many people say that it is L'Oreal's marketing tax and that it is a gimmick to spend a lot of money on. Some people say that it can improve the wrinkled face more significantly than A-alcohol. Objectively speaking, the mechanism of action of Bose is real - it promotes the synthesis of glycosaminoglycans in the dermal layer, which is equivalent to filling the deflated dermis with "fillers", but the key is to get enough: the anti-aging effect will only be achieved when the concentration is above 10%, and when it is below 5% Basically, it only has a moisturizing effect. For example, L'Oreal's purple iron only has a concentration of 3%, which can only deal with dry lines on the surface. The black bandage has a concentration of 30%. After two months of use, the loose jawline can indeed be tightened, but the price is really painful. Nowadays, many domestic brands have made substitutes for Boseine. The raw materials are the same hydroxypropyltetrahydropyrantriol, and the 30% concentration only costs a few hundred yuan. Many friends around me have used it, and the feedback is not much different from that of black bandages. However, be careful not to buy a product that boasts that it is an anti-aging product with less than 1% added content.

As for those sheep placenta extract, plant stem cells, deep sea anti-aging factors, etc., just listen to them. I worked for an ingredient supplier for half a year before, and many of these "rare ingredients" showed some antioxidant properties in cell experiments at most. They haven't even been tested in human patch tests. Whether they are effective when applied to the face depends entirely on the brand. Two years ago, my mother was tricked by a shopping guide into buying a Sheep Placenta Oral Liquid + Essence set worth more than RMB 10,000. After drinking it for half a year, she gained three kilograms, and the lines on her face were not reduced at all. Later, I replaced her with a low-concentration A-alcohol + 10% concentration Boseine cream, and drank a cup of 1,000 daltons of collagen peptides every day. Now her little sisters who dance in the square are chasing her and asking her if she secretly got the Thermage.

In fact, there is no standard answer to anti-aging. Some people apply A alcohol to achieve full results, some use Bose to see improvements, and some people don’t use any expensive products. If they sleep for 8 hours a day and wear hard sunscreen when going out, their skin will be better than any essence. Don’t be led by marketing, and you don’t need to chase after irritating drugs. Find ingredients that your skin can tolerate and use that really make a difference, which is much more useful than stocking a drawer of sky-high price essences.