Depending on your age, you might think of nighttime face cream as the thick white stuff your mom applies every night before bed. Things have changed, fortunately. The newer night face creams are quickly absorbed by skin cells. They’re not greasy and do a lot more for your skin’s health than that old white stuff ever could.
Interestingly, the average night face cream on the market contains many of the same ingredients your mother used to use. I guess no one told the major cosmetic companies that the time had passed.
The main ingredient in most of their night face creams is Vaseline or some form of it. It’s the same as Vaseline. It’s good for diaper rash, but not so good for the face. Dermatologists believe that it interferes with the natural cell turnover process that normally occurs while we sleep.
The body removes toxins through the pores and builds new cells. The cells combine to create new fibers. If you get enough sleep and focus on good nutrition, your skin won’t develop an aged appearance for many, many years.
Nourishing night face creams become extremely important after the age of 30, because the cell renewal process slows down. With fewer new cells, fewer new collagen and elastin fibers are created. So, we start to look a little older.
By using a night face cream that contains the right ingredients, you can keep that youthful look longer. Oh, you may not look like you’re thirty when you’re eighty, but you can look like you’re forty, well into your sixties. As long as you use the right lotions and avoid the counterproductive ones.
How can nighttime face creams support the cell renewal process and keep it humming? Have you heard of “Cellular Rejuvenation Technology”?
When it comes to the inside of the human body, hormone replacement is key, but those hormones must occur naturally or they increase the risk of various types of cancer. When it comes to the exterior of the human body, amino acid and protein complexes are key.
Most of the clinical research has been done using a complex that has been called “Functional Keratin”. In laboratory studies, the night face cream containing it has been shown to increase the proliferation of new skin cells by up to 160% in just three days.
Three days to a more youthful appearance…can that be true? It might take a month to “see” the results, but if you had participated in the clinical trials, the researchers could have measured them. They saw increased firmness initially that lasted a full 24 hours. After 28 days of use, they saw that the night face creams increased firmness by more than 40%.
So when shopping for a night face cream, look for functional keratin and other vitamin-like ingredients. Give your body the boost it needs to develop “new skin.”