Aesthetician Product Raves on Anti-Aging
As an Aesthetician, our main goal is to keep you looking beautiful. Everyone seems to focus on makeup to achieve this, but the main beauty staple is healthy, glowing skin. If the skin is not perfectly exfoliated and hydrated, the makeup will settle into the pores and fine lines. As an artist by heart, I realize that the canvas has to be in its prime condition for a masterpiece to be achieved. My top three anti-aging ingredients/products are the following: Retin-A, antioxidants, and a potent eye cream. My favorite is Retin-A which is by prescription only from your dermatologist (I use Tretinoin 0.05%). They come in different strengths depending on your skin care needs. My belief is that we should all be eating our antioxidants but also applying them topically! My favorite is SkinCeuticals Phloretin CF gel! Using a potent antioxidant topically on the skin is crucial to having glowing, healthy, and protected skin! I think that using a separate anti-aging eye cream around the eye area and any other areas of concern on the face is beneficial in slowing down the aging process. Now, I don't mean just a simple moisturizing eye cream; I mean one that contains potent ingredients.
Let's focus on why I love these three products. As we age, most of our aging is shown due to sun exposure. Sun causes the main pigmentation issues that we complain about i.e., crepiness, sagging, and our deep settled fine lines and wrinkles. My HOLY GRAIL product to help slow down this process is Retin-A! This product is amazing to slough off our unwanted dead skin cells, along with producing collagen production. Sadly, over time our skin cells stop sloughing off as quickly as they did in our early 20's and younger. If you want to help with dull, aging, large pores, acne, scarring, fine lines, and pigmentation talk with your dermatologist about prescription Retin-A. (There are a few contraindications with using Retin-A/Retinol so contact your dermatologist).
Topical antioxidants are another skin care fave! It's a natural melanin suppressor (pigmentation in your skin), natural SPF, and collagen producer. Antioxidants help fight free radicals that cause complete havoc on your skin. We naturally have them but with sun-exposure, smoking, pollution, alcohol, and diet it causes them to completely destroy our healthy skin cells.
With an eye cream, I recommend finding one that contains anti-aging properties. Some examples are retinol, hyaluronic acid, Vitamin C & E, peptides, caffeine, ceramides, & coenzyme Q10 ( this is just a few). If you are still young, and do not need to use anti-aging skin care products just yet, take your moisturizer up to your eye area for added hydration. Our eye area tends to age quicker due to thinner skin, so taking that added step in our skin care is key to looking younger.
Product Use:
Retin-A (p.m. only) pea size on dry/clean skin.
Topical Antioxidant (a.m.) on clean skin. Keep your antioxidant in a dark cabinet away from the sun and tightly closed. You will know that your antioxidant has oxidized once it darkens and has a strange odor. (Best used within 3 to 4 months)
Eye creams (a.m. p.m.) right after cleansed skin (after anti-oxidant and Retin-A, but before moisturizer).
******My skin care rule of thumb when applying product is whatever you want to penetrate more, apply first, and thinnest to thickest when it come to product.
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