Saturday, February 28, 2009

Anti-aging Past, Present, And Future

By Jen Hopkins

Humans, both male and female, have always desired passionately to appear as young as they possibly can, by both natural and artificial means. Therefore, throughout history, humans have utilized many different substances ranging from the disgusting to the scary to fulfill this desire.

The vast majority of these so called treatments did little to prevent wrinkles. In reality, many of these potions caused allergic reactions and sometimes even led to death. However, as human medicinal and chemical knowledge has improved, anti-wrinkle creams have become more effective at treating wrinkles and other signs of aging.

Even with today's advances in science no substance yet known will result in a permanent reduction in the number and severity of wrinkles. That said, some of the modern treatments will temporarily reduce the intensity of facial wrinkles yielding a much more youthful appearance.

Most of todayas creams do their job and make the user appear a little younger in one of two ways. They either remove dead skin to let living skin shine through, or they make skin appear fuller to hide the wrinkles.

Some of the anti-aging products today use several active ingredients to fully utilize both methods. Depending on these ingredients, anti-wrinkle creams can cost from a few dollars a bottle to over $1000 per ounce. Even after extensive research, no solid proof exists showing the more expensive products to be more efficacious.

The main problem with all of these Ant-wrinkle creams is that the wrinkles come back when you stop using the product, sometimes in a very short period . Even an inexpensive creams cost will add up considerably over a length of time.

Anti-aging lotions on the market may suddenly improve if and when new concoctions that pharmaceutical companies are investing cash in to develop reach consumers. Some studies show that the new ingredients are remarkably effective at stopping aging in its tracks.

As humans continue to grow old, they will continue to wish to appear a little younger. In the near future, an anti-aging product may exist that will stop and maybe even reverse the detrimental effects of time on the human body. - 15634

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