2 Anti-Aging Ingredients Your 'Look Younger Products' Must Have

There are so many anti-aging products that have been doing rounds in the market since years. Still the cosmetics industry has new products adding onto this already-vast range of anti-aging products every now and then. How does a poor clueless customer make a choice then? Some choose to go by the popularity of the brand name, while others are carried away by impressive packaging.

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In all probability, there’s one constant you can always rely upon in choosing the right anti-aging product, i.e its ingredients. Without further ado, elaborated below are two of the most essential anti-aging ingredients that you should look for on a product label before buying it:

1.      Antioxidants

Antioxidants are one of the most important anti-aging ingredients that you will finds in any anti-aging product owing to their capability of neutralizing the harmful free radicals that are present in your skin. The free radicals can be blamed on the fact that your skin is exposed to too much sun (which consists of the harmful UVA and UVB rays). Antioxidants are also present in your body from other practices like eating oily food and following an unhealthy lifestyle. So what are the antioxidant ingredients in your anti-aging product?

a.      Vitamin C

Vitamin C happens to be the strongest and most powerful of the antioxidants that are there in your system. The affectivity of the vitamin c antioxidant has 2 parts.

On one hand it takes care of the free radicals and promotes the production of collagen and elastin in your body.  On the other hand Vitamin C, when applied topically, takes care of the wrinkles and other skin aging signs. This it does thanks to the attribute that Vitamin C can fill up lines and wrinkles on your face and make them appear young.

b.      Vitamin E

Vitamin E’s most important activity is to assist Vitamin C in protecting the lower levels of the skin from the damage of the UVA and UVB rays of the sun. Vitamin E carries out this function owing to the fact that it can build a skin barrier for the UVA and UVB rays of the sun which is scientifically known as Stratum Comeum.

2.      Sirtuins

Sirtuins is nothing but a form of cellular protein, which if present in your anti-aging product, will help the new cell generation of your skin. This in turn implies that Sirtuins will take care of the generation of new skin cells which will render a younger looking skin for you. Another gain from the presence of Sirtuins is the fact that it promotes the production of protective antioxidants in the body which is crucial for warding off the threat posed by sun damage and free radicals.

Other important ingredients of your favorite anti-aging products include the likes of sunscreen materials, ceramides, Advanced Gycation End products and many more. It is strongly recommended that you go through the ingredient list of the product that you are about to buy and ensure that these ingredients are present in that anti-aging product. Some skin experts rate these anti-aging ingredients as more important than many reputed brands of anti-aging products.

If you wish to accelerate your process of looking and feeling all youthful again, you might want to think about taking the telomerase supplement. A recent Nobel Prize winning discovery proved that protecting the telomerase enzyme helps in anti-aging.

Hence, this supplement mainly acts as the protective shield of the telomerase enzyme present at the end of the cells in our body, but which unfortunately degrades with age because of the constant cell division in our body. 

(Guest Post by Brenda Lyttle)