How To Select Appropriate Anti-Ageing Skin Care Products?

When we shop for anti-ageing skin care products, it can be a hit or miss experience. The counters and markets are flooding with numerous skin care products, each claiming to be better than the other. This makes it very difficult to choose the right products for your skin. Our expert and professional tips will help you in choosing the right products and shop them with confidence.

1.    Start with the purchase of sunscreen and moisturizer

Skin experts, dermatologists and aesthetic practitioners agree that the most effective anti-ageing products are sunscreen and moisturizer which you should buy. When you use it on daily basis, you will notice the difference. While choosing the sunscreen look for these qualities:

• Broad spectrum sun screen
• SPF 30 or above
• Should be water resistant

Moisturizer helps to hydrate your skin while minimizing fine lines. It is a highly effective ingredient that it forms an essential component of most of anti-ageing products. You can use moisturizer before applying sun screen. There are some sun screens that come with moisturizer, you can choose that as well if it is broad spectrum and SPF 30 or higher. Always apply sun screen before going outdoors and reapply after 2-3 hours.

2.    Keep your focus on your top most ageing skin concern

Give few weeks to sunscreen and moisturizer to work on your skin. Then notice the improvements in your skin. See if there is still any sign of ageing that is bothering you? A single skin care product cannot treat all your ageing skin concerns and if you use more than one product on your skin at the same time it may cause more harm than good to your skin. So it is better to focus on one such as wrinkles, dark spots or uneven skin tone. Then look for skin care product that addresses that concern.

3.    Choose skin product according to your skin type

Know your skin type then buy the product. You anti-ageing skin care products will give optimal results if you choose them according to your skin type. For instance, if you have dry skin then buy moisturizer that is formulated and labelled for ‘dry skin’. If you have oily skin then buy moisturizer and sunscreen labelled ‘for oil skin’. It is important to consider because a same product cannot work on all skin types.

4.    Go through the product labels and buy anti-ageing product that offers following;

• Hypoallergenic (though scientifically it does not imply anything but the skin care product companies use this word to mark products that have low risks of allergy).
• Non-acnegenic or non-comedogenic (not causing acne).
• Contact customer services or consumer hotline ( for asking queries)

5.    Develop realistic expectation from product

Most of the anti-ageing skin care products make exaggerated claims such as look 5 years younger; get rid of signs of ageing in just 1 month etc. which are just too good to be true. Always remember that anti-ageing skin care products can only provide you modest results because they work only superficially. They cannot give the results of a real facelift.

Caution: products marked “Clinically Proven” does not mean that they have undergone extensive clinical trials and research and has been approved by FDA, it only means that they have been given to a bunch of consumers as sample to try.

6.    Do not go after exorbitant price tags

Expensive does not always mean that it will be of good quality and suitable for your anti-ageing concern. There are lots of low priced anti-ageing products that have almost the same ingredients and results as that of any expensive branded product. They can be as effective as any other similar highly expensive skin care product.

By following these tips you can make the right selection of skin care products for your anti-ageing skin care regimen and follow it religiously for at least few months until you see the results.