Skin Care Treatments For a Girls

For several generations men have walked away from skin care products made specifically for them.

They might have spent money on a so-called “male” shampoo or under arm deodorant, or splashed on after-shave. But they haven’t bought skin care for men packaged as masculine creams or robust lotions.

I know this because I remember the chuckles around the newsroom I worked in as a reporter in the 1970s when our chief reporter asked me to do a story and model a new product — make-up for men. No one had marketed it before and next day the paper ran a big photo of me in the beautician’s chair looking quite “different” in coloring and lipstick .

Well I lived down the sly jokes, and was not surprised when male make-up didn’t take off as a roaring commercial success. Men were just not ready for that then.

Today make-up still doesn’t sell to men. But skin care for men is a different story.

There’s been a significant change in our society, and the creams that can transform your face and hands — skin care for men in stylish, appropriate tubes and jars — are increasingly making it out of the stores into the bedrooms of men.

And we’re talking about skin care for men. Not the products our wives and girl friends leave on the bathroom counter. Because female skin is totally different and men’s skin and creams have to deal with specific male problems. A woman’s skin is less oily than a man’s, thinner, the pores are smaller, and wrinkles and lines less deep (thank goodness!). They need different creams.

Specific male skin care products have been developed in the last 15 years that make positive, effective skin care for men a real possibility.

The better of these products address the three main causes of aging skin in men: a loss of collagen and elastin, lower levels of hyaluronic acid, and oxidation due to the presence of free radicals.

So as you look around for skin care products use these three factors as benchmarks. If a product doesn’t attack one of these three put it to one side. And if you find one that addresses all three you have struck gold.

There are two ways to address the loss of collagen and elastin, which are proteins that give your skin it’s youthful look when you’re young but start to break down after some years and leave your face looking not-young (or, to put it bluntly, aged).

Most skin care for men products tell you can rub collagen in. This is the first attempt at this problem and its bad science. Because the molecules of this vital youth-giving protein are too big to be pushed through the pores in your male skin.

The best products go to this problem nature’s way — they have ingredients that will stimulate the body itself to start producing collagen and elastin again, and make your skin look younger from the inside out.

I’d recommend this second approach. And a specific newly-developed substance, called CynergyTK” that has proven itself in the lab as a particularly effective way of smoothing wrinkles in male skin.

Boosting hyaluronic acid is another helpful way to make your skin soft and less aged.

A good way to do this is to use a seaweed extract called phytessence wakame. This inhibits a particular enzyme that breaks down the natural hyaluronic acid in your skin. So as the extract blocks the steady breakdown of the acid, your skin will slowly take on a youthfulness again. This is also proven in clinical trials.

Finally, find a product that gets rid of free radicals.

There are lots of them out there. I would recommend CoEnzyme Q10, and a particular kind of Co10 called Nano-Lipobelle H EQ10 because is penetrates deeper than most others into the layers of your skin. Not all the Co10s will do this, so look around the labels. My recommended Co10 will vacuum up free radicals and since they are no longer influencing how your skin looks, it will take on a youthfulness again.

Are you worried that you are getting older and your skin is showing signs of age? You are not alone. Today’s culture places a premium on youth and looking young. Our Hollywood stars and our commercials make us feel any blemish that makes us feel older is a bad one.

In fact, these perceptions are not new ones. The use of anti aging skin care products predates modern times. Make up has been used for centuries to make people look and feel younger. Thousands of years ago the Egyptians used makeup. Other cultures that used makeup included ancient Greeks and Romans, and Europeans during the Renaissance. Anti aging skin care products generally belonged to the rich as impoverished classes could not afford luxury items.

Now, however, such skin care products are marketed toward all classes. Indeed, the intensity with which these products are advertised and marketed – especially towards very young people – is something new. TV commercials, Internet commercials and print ads bombard us with images of the ideal young face.

Of course, it’s not just the face on the cover of the magazine that looks so beautiful, but also how it’s presented. Modern photographic and dark room technology allows for touchups on advertisements that can make people’s skin look better in print than it can possibly look in real life. The result: an almost unattainable goal for young and perfect looking skin. When people see Madonna’s face on the cover of Rolling Stone they are seeing not just a beautiful young face, but the work of makeup artists, camera crews and now digital editing artists.

Even Dove soap’s recent line of commercials promoting the idea that women and young girls accept themselves and their bodies as they are has its problems. Apparently, one of Hollywood’s leading touchup artists was hired to make these supposedly “ordinary” models look just a little bit more extraordinary. Even as women were being invited to log on to a website and share their stories of self acceptance, they were being exposed to images of impossible perfection.

Anti aging skin care products are big business. Dubai, a Middle Eastern country that is now attracting Western business, will soon greet the world’s best anti-aging experts as doctors and professionals meet at the first Dubai Congress on Anti Aging and Aesthetic Medicine which will be held at the Dubai World Trade Center November 7-9, 2008.

The focus of the conference is to bring medical practitioners from America, Europe and Australia to present their latest research and techniques for anti-aging.

Currently the anti aging market is estimated to be worth $97 billion according to the director and organizers of the program. Anti-aging products and surgeries are estimated to have an annual growth rate of almost 9% and are expected to generate sales of $115.5 billion by the year 2010.

Most consumer groups say there is nothing inherently wrong with skincare products designed to help you look and feel younger; rather, just the sheer bombardment of marketing techniques can be harmful. If it makes you feel good to wear products that allow you to feel full of youth , talk with your doctor or dermatologist about the available products. Sometimes just shopping for makeup with a group of friends can be fun. There’s no harm in having a good time. Critics simply worry that people – especially young girls – can become so obsessed with external appearances that they lose sight of psychological health and inner beauty.