Wrickle creams? Don't bother

A $1 billion a year industry, based on products that don’t work.

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medicalspaMD
From medspaMD: Top 10 reasons you know you’ve hired an esthetician: http://www.medicalspamd.com/the-blog/2006/11/20/top-10-reasons-you-know-youve-hired-an-aesthetician.html
…you have $30,000 of toner, cleanser, and other stuff that you don’t use.
…the esthetician wants to get rid of all the old stuff that the previous esthetician liked because it doesn’t work and buy another $30,000 of the new stuff that the new esthetician likes that really does work.
…you hear ‘detoxify the skin’ for the millionth time.
…you ask what the hell all these toxins are in the skin and how did they get there and hear the reply, ‘toxins’.
Anonymous
So what can we do to reduce wrinkles then? Is the key diet?
Anonymous
The key is not to grow old.
Bad Penny
I wonder if any of these products actually make things worse. Some of them work by puffing up your skin so wrinkles are “minimized”, but it seems to me that puffing up your skin will stretch it and increase wrinkles and reduce elasticity in the long run.
And then there are the exfoliants. These sand off your top layer of skin cells to expose a younger-looking layer. Seems like rapidly cycling through layers of skin cells will speed up the aging caused by damage to DNA and shortening telomeres.
Obviously I’m not a doctor, but it just seems like common sense that stretching your skin and scraping off layers of skin cells is probably not the best way to prevent aging.
Best advice: don’t smoke, do wear sunscreen, eat vegetables and fruit. Everything else is a scam.
Anonymous
So what can we do to reduce wrinkles then?
There is Renova (or Retin-A and other tretinoin creams, but only Renova is approved by the FDA specifically to reduce the appearance of fine wrinkles) – I am surprised nobody mentioned it. You need doctor’s prescription to get it, but most doctors give it without questions. Of course, it is not covered by any insurance. Creams containing AHA also help a little bit, but Renova is more effective.
Then there is Botox for wrinkles around the eyes and fillers like Restylane for laugh lines. But this is way more expensive.
Anonymous
I deal with aesthetics in my practice. Here are two key suggestions if you want to avoid wrinkles:
1. Don’t smoke. By age 40, most regular smokers have aged their skin by at least ten additional years of life, and not just the lipstick lines.
2. Stay out of the sun, and use a 45 sunblock if you can’t. Tanning does catch up with you later in life, and it isn’t pretty.

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