Although we hate to admit it, as time goes by, the basic moisturizing effect of skin care products can no longer meet our needs.

I believe that the most urgent wish of many fairies is to resist aging.

Why does skin age?

It can be simply divided into external factors and internal factors:

We can try to avoid external factors, but internal factors are the inevitable result of age.

Yes, everyone ages.

But what we can do is make wrinkles appear slower.

The ingredients currently added to cosmetics generally achieve anti-aging effects by protecting against ultraviolet rays, antioxidants, stimulating the regeneration of skin collagen, and enhancing cell vitality.

Save the pictures first, then we will talk about them one by one.

Retinol is a vitamin A derivative and a very classic skin care ingredient that has been relatively mature in anti-aging applications. Retinol

It is converted into A acid through endogenous enzymatic reactions on the skin, and A acid is an important hormone-like growth factor that can promote cell reproduction and growth.

However, when the concentration of retinol is too high, it can easily irritate the skin. It is best to do an allergy test before use.

In addition, the safety is still controversial. It is recommended not to use cosmetics containing retinol during pregnancy and lactation.

Vitamin E is the main fat-soluble antioxidant in the human body. It can scavenge free radicals in the body, reduce and repair cell membrane damage, and achieve anti-aging effects.

In addition, vitamin E can also protect vitamin C from oxidation. The two work synergistically to have a better antioxidant effect.

Many people know that vitamin C can whiten skin, but they don’t know that it is actually an “excellent anti-aging player” with a strong ability to scavenge free radicals.

Theoretically, vitamin C can also reconstruct the dermal-epidermal junction and promote the production of collagen fibers.

However, it is still unknown how much VC applied to the skin can enter the dermis.

Studies have found that astaxanthin’s ability to scavenge free radicals is 6,000 times that of vitamin C/1,000 times that of vitamin E.

However, astaxanthin has poor stability and is easily decomposed and loses activity when exposed to light or heat, which is a great challenge to R&D and production technology.

Bought a skin care product that claimed to contain Bose, but didn’t see Bose in the ingredient list?

Hey, don’t rush to settle accounts with the merchant yet.

In fact, the scientific name of Boseine is "hydroxypropyltetrahydropyrantriol", and it is generally listed on the ingredient list.

Bosein focuses on repair and anti-aging. In theory, it can stimulate dermal cells to secrete more collagen and hyaluronic acid.

However, most of the current relevant papers are from the L'Oréal Group, and there are relatively few external studies.

Many people have heard of polypeptide, but it is not a component, but a collective name for various peptides.

Different peptides have different anti-aging mechanisms, such as scavenging free radicals, promoting the proliferation of skin cells, providing nutrients to the skin, promoting skin repair, etc.

Among them, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, which has attracted much attention, is called "smear-type Botox injection".

It reduces muscle contraction by inhibiting the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, thereby reducing the occurrence of dynamic lines and expression lines. Many people like to use it mainly around the eyes and corners of the mouth.

Fullerene has super anti-free radical ability, and unlike VC which sacrifices itself to combine with free radicals, it prevents skin from being oxidized by adsorbing free radicals and can eliminate free radicals many times. .

But it has a characteristic, that is - it is extremely expensive. For fullerene to be effective, the added amount needs to be more than 1%, so some false fullerene products may appear.

If you want to choose products containing fullerenes, you can check whether there are any of the following trademarks on the packaging, which will be relatively safer.

Coenzyme Q10, whose scientific name is ubiquinone, plays an antioxidant role by scavenging free radicals in the body and improving mitochondrial dysfunction.

In addition, some studies have found that coenzyme Q10, vitamin E, and vitamin C all have synergistic antioxidant effects.

When purchasing products, you can check whether coenzyme Q10 and vitamin E/vitamin C are present in the ingredient list.

It’s still the same sentence: The efficacy of skin care products is limited, and it does not have an effect after just one use. It requires long-term persistence.

In addition, if you want to fight aging, sun protection is the first priority. At the same time, you must also pay attention to your daily routine.

There is nothing wrong with these two attitudes, they just pursue different things. Who can say that they are not people who live an active life.

What we want to do is to "protect" the fairies so that you can feel at ease and become beautiful!