Few can disagree that, regardless of your starting point, a well-rounded, high-quality and consistent skin care regime is the most crucial factor in achieving and maintaining the skin of your dreams. Your genes might have predetermined your skin type, but that doesn’t mean that you have to live with skin that is less than flawless.
Admittedly, devising and ultimately slicking to the ideal skin care regime is a pretty tall order. We live in a time when newness is valued above all else, relegating today’s hot property into tomorrow’s old news, often long before you’ve had a chance to get to know what it was all about. The skin care scene has also drastically changed; classics Iike cleansers and toners have been joined by a multitude of products that claim to exfoliate, purify, detoxify, lighten and even amplify. Sometimes a single product professes to do all of these things on its own! Factor in the countless skin care brands crowding department store shelves, all claiming to be the latest and greatest beauty innovation, and it becomes easy to see how such confusion can arise.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Buying mounds of products that don’t deliver on their promises doesn’t have to be an accepted occurrence. Neither should perpetual confusion over what types of products will produce the best results for your specific skin type. The last twenty years have brought about significant advances in the skin care industry and – surprise, surprise – a lot of them actually come through on their claims. Narrowing it all down is a matter of being informed on what it actually works and what is just selling a pipe dream.
If I were to peek in my patients’ medicine cabinets, I’m sure I’d be greeted with enough skin care products to moisturise a small foreign nation. Yet, I know that a lot of women are still searching for that magical product that truly works. (I know this because I hear it constantly in my practice.) While I don’t think there is such a thing as a magic elixir – ageing is inevitable, after all – I do believe that preventing flaws is far easier than fixing them; By this I mean that it’s crucial to select skin care products based on basic enter id, such as ingredients that are proven to improve the skin, properly assessing the condition of your skin, your goals, and what is within the realm of realistic expectations. It you are in your 3Us, maybe it’s time to stop wishing for the skin of a teenager.
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