Wrinkle Control
What is the most effective way to counteract wrinkles?

It appears from a variety of articles that wrinkle control of your skin can be divided into 4 different categories:

1. Reduce your exposure to environmental stresses to the skin. Wind, sun, and harsh work environments where there are destructive chemicals should be avoided. Among these chemicals that can cause wrinkling are: first hand tobacco smoke, chemical processing for industrial plastics and other petrochemicals, chemical processing where a variety of air born chemicals are present, and chlorine in water. Alcohol is a drying agent and drink it should be used sparingly. Wines are better than distilled products.

2. Personal health can also have a direct effect on skin health. Exercise, nutritrion, and rest and relaxation(sleep, meditation, hobbies, sex, laughter and other stress relievers can be valuable).

3. Heredity is always a factor. This can be modified by active personal care habits.

4. Skin care products. There are huge profits to be made from anti-aging products. Because of this, these products go to the top of the list leaving at the bottom the things that will have the fastest and most important effect on skin health. Studies in this area can be biased inorder to sell product. For instance, lipoic acid is being promoted lately. There are two forms of this chemical--the S and R forms. only the R form alone(without the S form) seems to be the best. The actual powder is available and can be made into creams, but commercially these products are very expensive.

Your dermatologist, naturpath, and and your nutritionist can lead you in specific directions. It is valuable to do your reading and ask a variety of professionals for their opinions. The person at the cosmetic counter can be a source of information. Take into this persons sales motivation, and confirm costly recommendations with medical practioners.

Keep in mind all your advisors are only practicing their skills, so more than perspective is useful. Also, what works for one person may or may not work for you.

Like all advice, even this article, take it with a grain of salt and check it out with other sources--even sources that disagree with what you want to believe. When you do this, and decide to give products a try, start by using small amounts and test. Everybody is different. Just because it works on one person and not on you, says nothing about you or your body.