skin care, skin creamsI’ve know women my age who refuse to use skin care products. They hold the opinion that skin care products do not really do that much to delay the signs of aging and that it is all just a corporate con. Of course there are skin care products that are not very effective. However on the whole I think that skin care products actually work. Some of my female friends and relatives are in their fifties now and I can actually tell which of them have used skin care products and which have not. For instance my mother has used skin care products all her life, but her sister Anna has not. Anna is three years younger than my mother but she looks at least five years older.
I think people get disillusioned with skin care products for two reasons. First of all they expect miraculous results from skin care products, and this is naïve. I do not think that skin care products can make a sixty year old woman look as though she is twenty, but I do think they can make her look great for her age.  Secondly some individuals make the mistake of expecting immediate results. Skin care products work well if you use them consistently your whole life in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle. A woman cannot expect to live an unhealthy lifestyle and abuse her body until the age of 45 then expect to look ten years younger in a week because she suddenly decided to invest in some expensive skin creams. The truth is that if you want beautiful young looking skin then you have to work at it consistently all your life.