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Something I’ve noticed, there are only a few prescription wrinkle creams, but they are not good.  I mean with prescription acne treatments, they may be harsh, damage the skin, and otherwise not really be worth it.  But they do have proven mechanisms of action.  In clinical studies they do actually work to reduce wrinkles.  On the other hand, wrinkle creams in general terms don’t work the same way.  I mean prescription acne treatments you couldn’t find most of them on the over the counter market.  In terms of wrinkle creams, you could quite literally find the exact same formula in over the counter form and at a much cheaper price.  They never actually use proven wrinkle fighting ingredients is the funny thing.  They use antioxidants.  Antioxidants are all completely natural, don’t come with side effects generally speaking, and you can find these formulas for a few bucks over the counter.  But they charge hundreds for a prescription, and so often they don’t even use significant quantities of said ingredients.  So frankly speaking, there’s no reason to spend your money there.  You would think that for being prescriptions, they would at least have ingredients like collagen and elastin or something that actually addresses the need of reversing wrinkles.  But they don’t.

I’ve recently heard of them using wine based moisturizers and wine based creams in general for anti aging benefits in skin.  It doesn’t exactly work the way you think it does.  It works to some degree, because with the concentrations used in some cases and the way it is mixed, you can kill off free radicals with the right antioxidants found in red wine.  However, it falls under the same logic of using grapes or grape seed oil.  The difference is that in all reality, the antioxidants found in grapes are actually more significant than those found in red wine.  Plus, with red wine, your skin still has to compete with the alcohol found there to even get to the antioxidants at all. So while I love reservatrol, it isn’t exactly the greatest ingredient when found in a wrinkle cream.  You have to consider all the facts and you have to look at everything you could potentially have, and then you have to consider the whole picture.  In addition, even if it were not that way, reservatrol cannot actually work on its own.  It is only an antioxidant.  So it can’t produce more collagen and elastin and it can’t produce anti wrinkle results in some ways.

Oranges are one of the best known forms of vitamin C or one of the best known sources.  Vitamin C is of course a powerful antioxidant which kills off free radicals that may cause premature aging and otherwise revitalizing the skin, giving it back a certain glow that it may lose over the years or come to lack in general terms.  The first orange tree was planted in Los Angeles in 1841, and since then of course its popularity has largely grown to a greater degree in general.  Since then, we have come to of course know more of the Florida oranges, and it has been associated with a greater immune capacity.  It has also been known for fighting acne to some degree, and there are now entire product lines for the skin including wrinkle care products.  These they claim will get rid of your wrinkles, when realistically as an antioxidant, all vitamin C does is prevent future wrinkles in general terms.  It kills off free radicals, that is quite literally about it.  So just keep in minds its real abilities and moreover its real limitations in general terms.  This will help you to actually take advantage of the benefits of the orange in general terms.

Glycolic acid treatments have to some degree been all the rage in the wrinkle fighting and skincare industry in general including in the acne industry.  It is basically alpha hydroxy acids and beta hydroxy acids in general.  They are naturally found in sugarcane and grapes, and they can be used for acne treatment, exfoliation, and chemical peels in general.  When used over the counter, it usually has about 6-10%, and it’s in a cream or lotion in general terms.  It breaks down substances that bond dead skin cells beneath the top layer of the skin which causes dull skin and contributes to clogged pores in general.  These may then be rinsed away.  However, unfortunately, it is extremely powerful.  At just 10%, it can be neutralized and washed away with water.  However, with a higher concentration, you have to actually use an active neutralizer to follow it with.  Chemical peels use 20%-70%, and you can imagine what a chemical peel does.  This is actually one of the harsher chemical peels known to bleach the skin.  Even in the smaller amounts however, it has been known to cause various side effects.  So all of this is stuff to keep in mind before you actually use glycolic acid.